Join our next webcast! 15th of July 2008
Developers.ie invites all our members to attend our regular webcast.
We think that during your coffee break is the right time to attend a short talk on various subjects, starting with Silverlight this month.
Our speaker in July is Tim Heuer, Silverlight Program Manager for Microsoft. 
Tim will broadcast from Arizona!
In this webcast, Silverlight and Data, we'll discuss the various ways Silverlight can consume and produce data and what are some best practices around each of those methods.
Whether it is RSS, SOAP, REST, XML, binary, Silverlight can read it but there may be some things you want to know in advance. Explore the data side of Silverlight to make your applications dynamic and interactive with your business information!
This will be broadcast live on Thuesday 15th of July at 15:00 GMT (Dublin time!)
All the connection details to the show will be sent to you a few days prior to the start of the webcast.
This event is free but you need to register by clicking here >>
The first .Net Coffee Break Show has arrived in Ireland and we will have another go with Martha Rotter Thursday 26 at 15:00 GMT.
Check www.developers.ie for the free registration.
However now I am trying to gather a line of speakers for our monthly show. Good news, you don't have to travel! And you don't need to speak or be Irish (your english has to be good anyway ;-)
As long as you have a laptop and a headset with a microphone, you have everything we need for our show. We are looking for experts on any .Net topic, like WCF, Linq, SQL, etc...
Contact me through this blog or at webmaster at developers.ie for more details.
Starting this month,
Developers.ie invite all of his members to attend to a regular webcast.
We think that a coffee break is the right time to attend a short talk on various subjects, starting with Silverlight this month.
Our speaker in June is
Martha Rotter, Microsoft Ireland.
In this 15-minute webcast, you'll learn some of the fundamentals of Silverlight applications. We'll start by covering the basic techniques needed for most Silverlight applications including building and debugging in Visual Studio 2008. We'll also talk about how to work with the UI objects and how to handle user input to your application.
Next we'll talk about the basic use of the new Panel elements in Silverlight 2. You'll learn how to use more advanced layout controls like Grid and StackPanel to create more complex layouts for your Silverlight applications.
This will be broadcasted live
Wednesday 25th of June at 11 AM GMT.
This event is free but you need to
register by clicking here >>
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