Tuesday Oct 28 , 2008: Alan Cobb
 Silverlight Update: What is it good for today? What's coming in the year ahead?

When:
Oct 28 , 2008 from 6:00 to 8.30 PM
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Where:
UC Davis Extension, Room 200A, Sacramento.
Sutter Square Galleria, 2901 K St., Sacramento, CA 95816
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Speaker:
Alan Cobb

Alan Cobb is an independent consultant specializing in .NET programming in C# for Silverlight and WPF. He has been a consultant since 1985 in using Microsoft systems and languages, doing contract work for clients including Oracle and Microsoft.

Alan has an M.S. in Electronic Engineering, from Calif. State Univ.
Sacramento and a B.S. in Business Administration from U. C. Berkeley (Regent's Scholar, Phi Beta Kappa)

Alan joined the SacDotNet team in 2007. He focuses on events, community and inter-group relations.
Topic:
Silverlight Update: What is it good for today? What's coming in the year ahead?

Silverlight 2 was officially released on October 13, 2008. In this presentation we will review the basics of Silverlight and evaluate its current status.

How does Silverlight compare to plain-HTML, AJAX, Flash/Flex and WPF? What kind of applications is it suited for? Video? Banner ads? Games? Line of business apps? We'll look at some example Silverlight applications, including Microsoft's "Patient Journey" health services demo app. We'll walk though development of a simple Silverlight app using Blend and Visual Studio 2008.

Background: Silverlight is a browser plug-in similar to Flash. It has a rich vector-based graphics system built on top of a subset of the .NET runtime environment, running inside the browser. The UI is specified with declarative markup written in XAML, which has similarities to HTML.
Code-behind can be done in standard JIT-compiled .NET languages like C# and VB.NET. It offers the opportunity for existing .NET developers to write rich web applications similar to Flash and Flex, but using familiar languages, class libraries and development tools.
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