From the Editor -
News and Notes from Developer Evangelist Bruno Terkaly
Volume 13, Number 9 - April 27, 2009
MSDN Events Unleashed: Best of MIX - Free Training in the Heart of Silicon Valley
Time to give you a heads up about training resources that I personally embrace. Are you ready?
First is an upcoming event you cannot miss - June 16, at 1:00 P.M. at the Microsoft Conference
Center (SVC), Microsoft Corporate Campus, Mountain View.
The topics will be the following:
What's New in Silverlight 3?
Are you interested in building business-focused rich Internet applications (RIAs)? Would you like
to take advantage of 3D in the browser, but assume it is too hard? Have you wanted to take a Silverlight
application offline? Then this session is for you. We will explore and illustrate the new features of
Silverlight 3, including the following:
• Support for perspective 3D
• Offline support
• .NET RIA Services which simplifies the traditional n-tier application pattern by bringing together
the ASP.NET and Silverlight platforms
Building Web Applications with Windows Azure
This session will begin with a brief overview of Azure and discuss some of the announcements made at MIX.
We will then illustrate through demo how to build a Windows Azure application from the ground up. We will
illustrate how to consume Azure Table Storage, how to host services, Web pages and Silverlight components,
as well as how to deploy your solution to the cloud.
MVC 1.0 vs. ASP.NET Web Forms
Have you heard about the new ASP.NET MVC framework from Microsoft and wondered what it was all about?
Are you curious whether this replaces ASP.NET Web forms? Well in this session you will learn how to use
the model-view-controller (MVC) pattern to take advantage of your favorite .NET Framework language for
writing business logic in a way that is de-coupled from the views of the data. In addition, we will talk
about the pros and cons of both MVC and Web forms, how to determine the best choice for a specific project,
various techniques and patterns used to build MVC applications vs. Web forms applications, and the
implications for using each approach.
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Other Great and Free Learning Resources
The MIX09 Web site, where Microsoft announced many new products, provides an awesome amount of excellent
resources. I watch these videos quit a bit.
Click here sto learn about all things AJAX. If you want learn what is new with ASP.NET,
click here, which includes how NerdDinner.com is
built, the new MVC framework, and more. Click here
to learn about the new Silverlight 3.0 beta and all those business apps that you can build. Other topics that can be found are Expression Blend, REST, SharePoint, Visual Studio, WCF, Windows 7, WPF, and much more.
Send me an e-mail and let me know what's on your mind. E-mail me at
bterkaly@microsoft.com.
Cheers!
Bruno
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