If you missed yesterday's event at the Wells Fargo Center in downtown Phoenix, you missed a great event. I know those events cost money and the soft drinks and swag isn't free either, so a big Thank You from me to all involved... that includes the time volunteered by the presenters in addition to the funding by Microsoft and Interface Technical Training who gave away discount coupons to everyone and one lucky winner got a free class!
Tim Heuer gave a great Silverlight 3 presentation highlighting some of the fun new things and demonstrating the new Navigation framework and then quickly popped some data into a grid and added paging, showing how that was all working using Fiddler, and then demonstrated the Details panel and validation. Along the way he discussed lots of other fun things like a logon control that's coming. I don't see a specific download on Tim's site for this, but he just blogged about an update to .NET RIA Services, and the samples there will probably come close. I'd also highly suggest Corrina Black's MIX presentation, where she builds out a business app using the Navigation template and has a ton of good info.
Next Rob Bagby gave an awesome intro to Azure and what all that means for us in terms of scalability, redundancy, and all the server stuffola that you don't have to know to keep your site humming through a heavy load period. Rob has all his material up on his blog and he has provided a great tutorial for getting up to speed on Azure.
Dan Wahlin then stepped up and gave a cool MVC presentation... not so much an overview as a "why would I want to" and "what does it involve" sort of presentation. Very nice for someone that has no experience with MVC. Dan already had all his material on his site yesterday morning, so it's there now :)
Once again thanks to everyone, and I was glad to see the turnout. Hopefully that tells the sponsors that people want to see this sort of event!
I sure hope everyone has signed up for the Scott Guthrie event next Tuesday... oh yeah... it's that close! I'll see you there!
posted @ Tuesday, May 19, 2009 10:52 AM