MSDN Webcast: geekSpeak: Composite Application Development (Level 200)

Just to follow up on the geek speak MSDN thing from last week on composite application developement and a bit on best almost practices. Here is the MSDN blog post:

http://blogs.msdn.com/geekspeak/archive/2009/08/18/next-geekspeak-august-19-composite-application-development-with-david-kelley.aspx

and links to some of the things that we talked about.

www.HackingSilverlight.net
http://compositewpf.codeplex.com/
http://simon.codeplex.com/
http://wpf.codeplex.com/
http://hackingsilverlight.codeplex.com/
http://crossfader.codeplex.com/
http://www.sparklingclient.com/prism-silverlight/
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/dd943055.aspx
http://blog.galasoft.ch/archive/2009/06/16/mvvm-light-toolkit-silverlight-edition-posted.aspx

and for fun… (more a point that it should be about solving the problem and not the implementation of a design pattern for its own sake)


http://www.drwpf.com/blog/Home/tabid/36/EntryID/27/Default.aspx

MSDN Webcast: geekSpeak: Composite Application Development (Level 200)

Start Date: Wednesday, August 19, 2009 12:00 PM Pacific Time (US & Canada)
Duration: 60 minutes
Audience: developer

In this geekSpeak, Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) David Kelley discusses composite application development in Microsoft Silverlight and Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF). He covers the Silverlight Designer/Developer workflow, tooling, design patterns, anti-practices, and working with distributed teams. Your hosts for this geekSpeak are Glen Gordon and Mithun Dhar.

The geekSpeak webcast series brings you industry experts in a "talk-radio" format hosted by developer evangelists from Microsoft. These experts share their knowledge and experience about a particular developer technology and are ready to answer your questions in real time during the webcast. To ask a question in advance of the live webcast, or for post-show resources, be sure to visit the geekSpeak blog.

Guest Presenter: David Kelley, Senior Software Architect, IdentityMine

David Kelley is a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) for Microsoft Silverlight, and he has been building Web-based, distributed applications for more than ten years. He is a Silverlight user experience architect at IdentityMine, and his passion is building user experiences that are elegant and easy to use. David's career highlights include a Silverlight demonstration with Bill Gates at TechEd 2008, and developing the "Entertainment Tonight" Web site for the Silverlight 1 launch and Emmy Awards. In his spare time, David is the executive officer of the Seattle Designer Developer Interaction Group.


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Silverlight Firestarter - Seattle Sept 17th

Silverlight Firestarter in Seattle will be Sept 17th, with folks like Scottgu, Tim Heuer, Adam Kinney, Justin Angle, Kathy Carper, Karl Shifflett and more. Learn about all things Expression and Silverlightish and stay for pizza and fun. MVP's on hand for live streaming and Q and A

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