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I just got back from South Africa and I am happy to report that the .NET Developer community is very strong there.    User's Group Meetings in in Johannesburg and Cape Town User group meeting in Johannesburg  - thanks for setting this up Craig Nicholson ..  I had a great time showing off Silverlight 2.  We had lot of fun talking about Silverlight wit these slides and demo that I did.  I also showed HardRock DeepZoom , the video wall and HSN.TV User group meeting in Cape Town - Thanks to Hilton Giesenow for setting this up.  This time I did a drill down into the ASP.NET MVC framework.  The response was excellent!   Thanks folks for your questions and interest!  Here is the slides...

I am very excited that Joe Stagner and I will be heading to South Africa the week of June 23rd.   While we are there, we will have a chance to interact with the very passionate .NET community in both Johannesburg and Cape Town.  The South Africa Mix Essentials is an excellent chance to have a conversation about the next generation of web and designer technologies.   I hope you can make it! Same great content, two venues:  Johannesburg 24 June 2008 ( Register ) Cape Town 26 June 2008 ( Register )   I'll be giving some very cool web technology talks while I am there including: - Silverlight 2 (beta2!) Developer overview where I will talk about our general al goals for Silverlight in the RIA space and walk...

We recently finished the post product work required to get enhanced videos posted.  The videos not only include slides\demos, but also include a separate video stream of the speaker  so you get a deeper experience.   Mix08 Session Overview: Building Great AJAX Applications from Scratch Using ASP.NET 3.5 and Visual Studio 2008 [ Watch this video ] Unfortunately, this videos are not available for download, so you have to watch them on line.. Enjoy this and the rest of the sessions at http://sessions.visitmix.com/ Read More...

As you likely heard, we have released the source code for all of the Silverlight controls as well as almost 2,000 of our own unit tests.  Included with in this is a jewel... A unit testing framework for Silverlight.  It is very powerful to have this feature so early in the develop of a new platform such as this. Shawn Burke has a nice post walking you through the source code and test suite .    Jeff Wilcox has a post detailing the Unit Testing framework he built for Silverlight 2 .    I'd love to hear what you think... Have you looked around in the source and test code base yet?  Have you tried out the unit testing framework?  any thoughts\feedback?   thanks and enjoy! Read More...

At Mix08, the Silverlight 2 Poster was a hot item given out in many of the session.   If you didn't get yours or if you couldn't make it, you can feel free to download and print your own! [ JPG version 5.8MB] [ PNG version 6.5MB]  [ TIF Version 19.9 MB] Also, note that Joe did a very cool DeepZoom version.  Read More...

At Mix08 , several people asked me about the possibility of creating a single source base for both WPF and Silverlight.  The scenario folks had in mind was to provide a reach solution with Silverlight that hits *ALL* possible users while also offering a really rich solutions for some users on full WPF (.NET Framework 3.0 or 3.5).  This is a clear benefit of the Microsoft Ux platform.. We have worked hard to get a smooth continuum between WPF and Silverlight... Basically if it works in Silverlight you should be pretty sure it will work on WPF.  I was chatting David Anson (one of the developers of the Silverlight 2 controls) and he mentioned that the shipping versions of ListBox and ScrollViewer were written this way!  ...

If you watched the Mix keynote , I am sure you saw the very cool Silverlight Momentum video that shows off a lot of the cool apps we have already seen in Silverlight.  In case you missed it, here it is: [ Mobile ] [ Progressive download ] [ streaming ] [ 4M CBR ] [ 720p ] [ 640x360 ] Read More...

The great folks here running Mix have done a excellent job getting the videos for the Mix session up already!  Check them out at :  http://sessions.visitmix.com/     Check out my session on Building an Ajax Application from scratch ..   It was an all demo, no slides sort of talk , so it really stands out in the listing ;-) Read More...

I just  ran into Ted Glaza from Ajax Control toolkit and Silverlight Controls fame and he is getting some of the control developers together (3rd parties, Microsoft as well as in house) to talk about building controls for WPF and Silverlight.  We will have some folks there are are building the current set of controls that ship in the box for Silverlight and WPF from and I hope some folks from Telerik, ComponentOne, and Infragistics.  Ted tells me we will meet up in a few tables in the center of the dining room here at Mix tomorrow (Friday) at during the lunch break. Anyone is welcome be there if you can! Read More...

I am really looking forward to my Mix08 session this year... It is going to be fun to building an Ajax application from scratch on stage with VS2008 and ASP.NET 3.5. Here is a play-by-play if you want to follow along and help keep me in line... This Mix08 folks should have the video up tomorrow... I will link to it when it is up. Everything I will show can be done with the free-and-always free Visual Web Developer Express edition of VS... Go grab it and play along! Download the completed sample or just the starter files to play along at home. Part I: CSS and HTML Designer I started a brand new project and selected .NET Framework 2.0 as the target runtime. This allows me use VS2008, but target servers that have not been upgraded to .NET Framework...