Wpf and Silverlight Deep Dive with Billy Hollis and Barry Gervin

What it's about

Microsoft has a strategy for the future of user interface, and it revolves around WPF (Windows Presentation Foundation) and Silverlight.

While you may have already know something about these new technologies, you may not fully understand the power and implications of these new products. Simply put, WPF and SilverLight make possible a quantum leap in the kind of user interface that you can now deliver to your organization. But in order to create those user interfaces, you must learn many new concepts.

In this special 4-hour “DeepDive” for Developers, you will hear about WPF and SilverLight from two of North America’s best-known and most widely respected Microsoft Regional Directors: Billy Hollis from Nashville, and Barry Gervin from Toronto. In this session they will:

Show you the common programming model and common markup language behind these two products
Review the basic structure of the XAML markup language
Show you important WPF capabilities such as animation, transforms, styling and templates (including examples in XAML and code)
Demonstrate new business applications that have been written in WPF and Silverlight (as well as some of the code behind the user interfaces)
Present a Road Map on how to get started with WPF and Silverlight (while avoiding most of the common pitfalls)

You will leave this Deep Dive session understanding the key components and concepts that underlie WPF and Silverlight. And you will understand what you need to learn to become proficient with these new technologies.

So don’t miss this special Deep Dive event - sponsored by ObjectSharp Consulting and Microsoft Canada on Thursday Oct 2.

What you will learn

The Common Programming Model & Markup Language behind these products
The structure of XAML plus WPF Animations, Transforms, Styling and Templates
Demos of - and the code behind – new business apps built with WPF & Silverlight
A Road Map to getting started with WPF & Silverlight and avoiding common pitfalls