My Silverlight talk at Microsoft Innovation Briefing
This morning I did a Silverlight 2 talk at Microsoft Montreal, during a half-day briefing called Building Compelling Websites on the Microsoft Platform.
That was a 1 hour talk to present Silverlight 2, DeepZoom, Expression Blend and create from scratch a Silverlight 2 application which consume LINQ To SQL data exposed by a WCF service with VS2008.
I would like to thank Paul Laberge for offering me the opportunity to do my very first presentation in english...
Here are the links to the online demos I showed:
DeepZoom:
http://memorabilia.hardrock.com
Performances comparison with DHTML/Flex/SL1.0/SL2:
http://www.bubblemark.com
Free charts controls:
http://www.visifire.com
Medical sample (amazing) application:
http://www.mscui.net/PatientJourneyDemonstrator/
Here is a link to the powerpoint slides I used:
Here is a zip file with the DeepZoom "Bill Gates" demo (hope you liked it!) and the Silverlight 2 + WCF + LINQ app I built live.
You'll appreciate my funky UI.
For the gentleman who asked the question I couldn't answer:
Question: "Can you customize the default Loading animation the user get while waiting for a Silverlight application to start ?"
Answer: "Yes! you can find a tutorial in the Quickstarts: http://silverlight.net/QuickStarts/BuildUi/SplashScreen.aspx"