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• MSDN Developer Conference (MDC) – Washington DC

  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... Posted Nov 17 2008, 07:59 PM by Community Blogs Filed under: Silverlight, .NET, Silverlight Business Applications, Events

• TechDays DC This Week - AJAX, Silverlight, REST, WCF, MVC and More

  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... Posted Oct 27 2008, 03:21 AM by Community Blogs Filed under: Silverlight, .NET, Events

• MSDN geekSpeak October 22 : Silverlight and Facebook

  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... Posted Oct 17 2008, 12:47 PM by Community Blogs Filed under: Silverlight, .NET, Events, MSDN geekSpeak

• MSDN geekSpeak : Building Facebook Applications with Silverlight 2

  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... Posted Sep 29 2008, 03:58 PM by Community Blogs Filed under: Silverlight, .NET, Events, Andrew Duthie

• Upcoming Silverlight Webcasts and Live Events

  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... Posted Sep 19 2008, 12:21 PM by Community Blogs Filed under: Silverlight, .NET, Events, Facebook, Webcasts

• Silverlight TechFest Recorded Sessions

  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... Posted Sep 17 2008, 10:46 AM by Community Blogs Filed under: Silverlight, .NET, Events, Dr Z

• Visual Studio 2008 and Silverlight 2 Beta 2 - Supported Versions

  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... Posted Jun 16 2008, 10:04 AM by Community Blogs Filed under: Silverlight, .NET, Events

• Silverlight TechFest on Friday - WCF, Astoria and More!

  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... Posted Jun 11 2008, 05:00 PM by Community Blogs Filed under: Silverlight, .NET, Events, Dr Z

• Frank LaVigne on Silverlight/WPF Design for Developers

  Fello AIS er 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... Posted Jun 03 2008, 08:27 PM by Community Blogs Filed under: Silverlight, .NET, Events

• MSDN geekSpeak On Wednesday May 28 - Connecting Silverlight 2

  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... Posted May 23 2008, 07:15 PM by Community Blogs Filed under: Silverlight, .NET, Events, WCF

• Silverlight 2 TechFest Coming to Reston - Learn Cool Stuff and Win an XBOX 360

  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... Posted May 09 2008, 10:31 PM by Community Blogs Filed under: Silverlight, Events, Expression Design, Expression Blend, Dr Z

• Overview of Microsoft ASP.NET 3.5 Extensions Preview (Marc Schweigert Webcast)

  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... Posted Apr 25 2008, 11:51 PM by Community Blogs Filed under: Silverlight, AJAX, .NET, Events, Microsoft DPE

• Silverlight Chat Application for CMAP Code Camp

  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... Posted Apr 11 2008, 07:10 PM by Community Blogs Filed under: Silverlight, .NET, Events, Expression, Expression Design

• CMAP Code Camp Next Week

  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... Posted Apr 05 2008, 11:59 PM by Community Blogs Filed under: Silverlight, .NET, Events, Expression

• HLS DevCon

  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... Posted Apr 02 2008, 03:42 PM by Community Blogs Filed under: Silverlight, WPF, AJAX, .NET, Silverlight Business Applications, Events, SOA, Silverlight Mobile