ObjectSharp is offering a 4 day intensive Silverlight 3 hands on course. You’ll start with a soup-to-nuts breakdown of Silverlight that includes learning the ins and outs of XAML, hosting in the browser, Expression Blend and using Silverlight on the server. Content is divided into three distinct areas: Design, Development and the Server-Side. The structure is a mix of didactic lessons, demonstrations and hands-on labs. This variety of learning techniques will ensure that all students become proficient in the technology quickly and in an exciting way.
Designers and Developers.
Note: We've had questions from Designers who are unsure whether this course is suitable for them. The following comments will be helpful.
The course itself is aimed almost entirely at XAML. It presumes little or no knowledge about XAML/WPF/Silverlight and starts from the beginning and goes all the way through to being able to create a solid user interface, including the integration of data. As a result of this focus, there is almost no code at all in the course. I won’t say that there is none, because there are instances where some simple code is used to, for example, trigger an animation. As well, sections that deal with communication between the Silverlight application and a Web server in order to retrieve data include some coding. But the code is rudimentary and should be easily understood, especially if you already know the JavaScript syntax.
So by the time the course is over, you should have a very good understanding of what WPF and Silverlight are capable of. As I mentioned, there are some sections that you, as a designer, might not find useful in your day to day work. But I believe that the majority of the course content will apply quite specifically to the design work that you do.
Each student can expect to leave with not only code that they wrote in class but with the demonstrations created by the course author. This allows students to refresh their knowledge when they actually apply it in real-world scenarios. Students will receive a copy of the lecture materials and hands on labs.