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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 ...

On June 13, 2008 in the Microsoft Reston Technology Center, join AIS, Cynergy and Microsoft for the first Silverlight TechFest. This is a full day event focusing on Silverlight and Expression. We'll build a full application showing key parts of the process both on the UI side with the designer/developer relationship, and on the back end with ...

On Wednesday April 30 at 2:00PM Eastern time, Marc Schweigert from Microsoft will present a webcast on the ASP.NET 3.5 extensions preview. I've known Marc for a long time, and have presented with him on a number of occasions both online and in-person. He's a great speaker and always has jam-packed demos (he slings more code in an hour than just ...

For all of you attending tomorrow's CMAP code camp, here's a sneak peek at what I'll be building in my 10:30 Silverlight 2 and Microsoft Expression session. The session is targeted towards developers, but anyone with an interest in Silverlight or Expression is welcome and encouraged to attend The application has a server piece (the ...

A quick reminder that the CMAP Code Camp is coming up quick! I have a morning session where I'll build out a small Silverlight 2 application using Microsoft Expression Design, Expression Blend, and Visual Studio 2008. Almost all live demo, with only a slide or two at most. I really think you'll enjoy it. Hope to see you there on ...

The Microsoft Health and Life Sciences Evangelism Team have put together a great free event in NJ with Silverlight, SQL Server, Surface, Silverlight Mobile, WPF, AJAX and lots more. April 22 - April 24 2008 Sheraton Atlantic City Convention Center Hotel  Two Miss America Way Atlantic City New Jersey 08401 United States Solutions ...

The webcast recording is now online. To view the recording, register for the livemeeting and then click the view online or download links. Enjoy!