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• Live From Redmond – And Responsive To You

  In response to your feedback, a couple minor changes to the schedule… 1. I will enhance the presentation on July 9 on Data binding with the material originally scheduled for July 23 (Data Templates).  2. The presentation on Visual State Manager,... Posted Jul 04 2008, 03:13 PM by Microsoft Weblogs Filed under: Learning Silverlight, Presentations, Webcast

• Green Eggs and Ham Webcast Presentation

  I presented the first of a new series of live web casts today in which a number of resources were mentioned. As promised, here are links to all of them Silverlight.net Getting Started Page Learn Page Silverlight Microblog Scott Guthries’s blog entry on... Posted Jun 25 2008, 03:03 PM by Microsoft Weblogs Filed under: Learning Silverlight, Presentations, Webcast, Recommended Resources, Digging Deeper, Blend For Programmers

• This Ain’t No Ordinary Webcast

  I know flogging your own webcast is bad form, but I’ve been working on this first new webcast for much of the day, and I have to say that if you’re free on Wednesday, you really want to sign up – especially if you attended one of my old webcasts. Just... Posted Jun 23 2008, 11:55 PM by Microsoft Weblogs Filed under: Learning Silverlight, Presentations, Webcast, Blend For Programmers

• New Live Presentation Series – Starts 6/25

  I am pleased to announce a new series, blending Conference-quality presentations delivered through Live Meeting via the Live From Redmond Series. Audience, Goal and Purpose Each presentation will provide a thorough overview of a Silverlight 2 topic with... Posted Jun 18 2008, 08:02 PM by Microsoft Weblogs Filed under: Learning Silverlight, Presentations, Webcast, Digging Deeper, Beta 2

• Boston .NET Users Group Meeting

  Last night I had the opportunity to talk to a packed room at the Boston .NET User’s Group; an incredibly welcoming and most friendly group of some 150,000 screaming fans of all things Microsoft. I promised at the time to provide a few links; including... Posted Jun 12 2008, 06:25 AM by Microsoft Weblogs Filed under: Learning Silverlight, Presentations, silverlight 2.0

• Slides and Code from Presentation in Atlantic City

  I very much enjoyed my double presentation at the Microsoft Health and Life Sciences Conference in Atlantic City,     where I promised, as always, to post my slides and source code. Here are the slides  for the introductory session Here... Posted Apr 25 2008, 03:00 PM by Blogs Filed under: Learning Silverlight, Presentations, silverlight 2.0

• How do you know INotifyPropertyChanged is Working

  Today I had the great enjoyment to make two presentations to the Microsoft Health and Life Sciences Conference here in Atlantic City. While showing DataBinding, I became interested in demonstrating the effects of INotifyPropertyChanged, The basic mechanism... Posted Apr 23 2008, 05:45 PM by Blogs Filed under: Learning Silverlight, Presentations, silverlight 2.0, Data Binding

• Slides and Code from VS Live

  I had the pleasure of making two presentations on Silverlight at VS Live San Francisco this week; Introduction to Silverlight Programming Intermediate Silverlight Programming (As promised, click on each link to download the example code and slides for... Posted Apr 03 2008, 01:16 AM by Blogs Filed under: Learning Silverlight, Presentations, silverlight 2.0

• What I'm Thinking About April

  I've been getting a lot of mail on the lines of "When will we have Beta 2?" or "what is the release date for Silverlight" and since I can't answer those questions, and since I know that folks need to plan, I thought I'd... Posted Mar 24 2008, 10:18 AM by Blogs Filed under: Learning Silverlight, Presentations, silverlight 2.0, Silverlight Geek, Shameless Self-promotion, Feedback, Random Ramblings, Tutorials, How Do I Videos

• Free Silverlight Seminar in Dallas Texas Feb 18, 2008

  Shawn Wildermuth, theADOguy (who should really rename himself the Silverlight guy ) is giving a free seminar at the Microsoft office in Dallas on 2/18. Shawn is a very smart cool guy who knows a lot about a lot, and even more about Silverlight , so this... Posted Feb 06 2008, 09:08 PM by Blogs Filed under: Learning Silverlight, Presentations, silverlight 2.0, Silverlight 1.0, Recommended Resources

• Did You Know That... The Code Behind is Just... Code?

  A very insightful reader sent me email that I'm going to respond to here. To protect his identity let's call him Bob. I'm going to excerpt Bob's email and rephrase a bit so that this becomes a more general discussion. I find that a lot... Posted Feb 03 2008, 01:00 PM by Blogs Filed under: Learning Silverlight, Presentations, JavaScript, Webcast, Silverlight 1.0, Tip of the Day, Feedback

• Setting Expectations

  I've added two slides to just about every presentation I give on programming Silverlight. The first is labeled "What you want me to show you... The second is labeled "What I'm going to show you... Because Silverlight is capable of delivering... Posted Nov 28 2007, 09:58 PM by Blogs Filed under: Learning Silverlight, Presentations

• Fire Starter - All Day Free Event

  On November 29, 2007 Microsoft will be hosting Silverlight 1.0 Fire Starter on the Redmond, Washington campus. This daylong event is free to anyone who wants to learn about designing and developing with Microsoft Silverlight 1.0. This event will be filmed... Posted Nov 16 2007, 03:18 PM by Blogs Filed under: Learning Silverlight, Presentations

• My Standard Presentations

  I've recently received a number of requests for copies of my Silverlight presentations. Here's a confession: every time I give a presentation, I start out with something like these, but I change them because Silverlight is evolving as is my understanding... Posted Nov 15 2007, 01:16 PM by Blogs Filed under: Learning Silverlight, Presentations