At MIX07, Anand Iyer’s (Microsoft Developer Evangelist) interviewed both myself and Elisa Johnson (Microsoft Program Manager on the Data Programmability team about the conference. Except for me having trouble remembering the new name of WPF/E (Silverlight), it was a lot of fun. Elisa talks about upcoming projects out of her group, and I talk about the MVP program and a little about our upcoming code camp (end of October, Silicon Valley California).
The Podcast:
http://channel9.msdn.com/Showpost.aspx?postid=306463
Introduction
Silverlight, is the new name for WPF/E which was formally introduced at the MIX07 conference in Las Vegas a couple weeks ago. Basically, it’s a stripped down version of full WPF Xaml that works on the web by installing a custom plug-in in them most popular browsers in a similar way to how flash works. The great thing about this technology is that it works cross platform. Mac’s, Linux, etc. The other major announcement at MIX07 was that it supports programming in .NET. This means that Silverlight applications can be developed in c#, my favorite programming language. I’m not that great a JavaScript so this is great news for me because I want to be able to build highly interactive applications, and so far, with asp.net and little JavaScript, this has been very limiting for me personally. (more…)
Yesterday (May 8th 2007) I did a presentation at VSLive in Orlando Florida on Gadgets. Specifically Vista Sidebar Gadgets. On stage, I build a complete Sidebar Gadget from scratch that displays information for our upcoming Silicon Valley Code Camp. Actually, the site still refers to last year, but the web service interface has been updated to show the new date which likely will be October 27th, 2007.
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