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Jan 16, 2009 - Save the date! I’ll be speaking at the Washington DC stop of the MSDN Developer Conference on January 16, 2009. The topic is Building Business-Focused Applications Using Silverlight 2 Building Business-Focused Applications Using Silverlight 2 What if you could develop your solutions with the ease pioneered by Microsoft ...

For those of you not going to the PDC, be sure to join us at TechDays at the Sheraton National Hotel in  in Arlington, VA next week. This is a pretty big event with lots of great content. Oct. 28th – WebDev Fundamentals – Moving Beyond ASP.NET Topic 1: Introduction to ASP.NET AJAX Topic 2: Introduction to Silverlight 2 Topic 3: ...

Be sure to join me, Glen Gordon and Andrew Duthie on October 22 for our MSDN geekSpeak. We’ll be covering building facebook applications using Silverlight 2. Title:  MSDN Webcast: geekSpeak: Silverlight and Facebook with Pete Brown (Level 200) Presenter:  Pete Brown Webcast Length:  60 minutes Date/Time:  ...

The registration link for the MSDN geekSpeak I’ll be doing with Glen Gordon and Andrew Duthie is now up. Register for the event here. The event is 12:00 Pacific (3:00pm eastern) time on Wednesday October 22, 2008. I’ll be covering how to build Facebook applications using Silverlight and ASP.NET. Expect some great discussion from your hosts ...

Here are some of the talks I’ll be doing in the next month and a half or so. Wednesday October 22 MSDN geekSpeak webcast : Building Facebook applications with Silverlight 2 . We’ll cover some of the challenges and some tips and tidbits for building applications for Facebook platform. Join me, Glen Gordon and Andrew Duthie for this ...

Other events got in the way, so I never did get a chance to blog this last month. Dr Z. from Microsoft posted the recordings from the joint Silverlight TechFest session we did right after the release of Silverlight 2 Beta 2 back in June. The Silverlight TechFest was a full-day event at the Microsoft Reston MTC focusing entirely on Silverlight ...

In response to a question at last Friday's Silverlight TechFest event, I said that I believed Beta 2 was supported even on Visual Studio Express. I was incorrect. XNA supports Visual Studio Express (and I had been reading about XNA the night before), but Silverlight requires at least Visual Studio Standard. Standard is pretty reasonably priced at ...

At the Silverlight TechFest on Friday, I'll cover the following topics in my afternoon session on Connecting Silverlight: Silverlight 2 Beta 2 Networking Overview WCF Sockets and/or WCF Duplex Communications ADO.NET Data Services (Astoria) and how I used it and the ADO.NET Entity Framework I'll also cover background info like ...

Fello AISer and Silverlight/WPF guru Frank LaVigne will be doing a great webcast tomorrow (Wednesday) at noon eastern time. He's going to help demystify basic Silverlight/WPF UI design, and the Expression tools, for developers. This will be much more than just a tools walkthrough - you'll get some practical advice on designing applications. If ...

I'm really looking forward to next week's geekSpeak with Andrew Duthie and Glen Gordon. In that show, I'll be talking about (and showing code, of course) different ways to connect Silverlight 2 applications to the outside world (WCF, REST, Sockets etc.) Date: May 28, 2008 Time: 3:00pm eastern, noon pacific time Glen runs a really unique ...