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The premise behind this session is the idea of separation of UI designers and developers. The UI people don't know how to code business rules. But the UI people need to be able to 'try out' the user interface and easily make changes. This is the designer/developer separation that is in the Web space, only in this case, it's for Windows Forms ...

I have to give credit to Nikhil Kothari. He just ran a session the way that I like to see sessions run. As I read the title and abstract for the session, I was expecting not much in the way of new information. I actually attended the session mostly because it was the only one in this time slot that might be of interest. Nikhil started out with ...

I'm sitting through the first part of the Building RIA using Silverlight 2 session. The starting point is some of the new, but quite fundamental elements of Silverlight 2 First off, the schedule of releases at the moment are: Beta 1 = today, with a non-commercial go-live license Beta 2 = Q208, including a commercial go-live license Silverlight ...

Silverlight 2 beta includes Multi-language support - VB, C#, Iron Ruby, Iron Python WPF UI, including data binding Networking stack - REST, SOAP, WS-*, sockets. And cross-domain stuff is supported Integrated Data Support - LINQ, and the ability to cache data across browser sessions High performance Small download, fast install - 4.3 MB ...

Silverlight is a major part of the Olympics 2008 Site 2200 hours of live streaming coverage over 22 days. This, plus the 1100 hours of content on the 5 NBC broadcast networds, will be made available as Video On Demand. Also, through Silverlight, you will be able to see live streamed coverage of all 34 sports. As part of the live coverage, you ...

Silverlight 2 Beta 1 is available for download after the keynote Changes include enhancements for media. Sorry, but this section includes terms that don't mean that much to me. High Def? I thought he was a rapper. ;) But let me make some notes Adaptive Streaming - The Silverlight client can adaptively determine the bandwidth between the client ...

First off, let me comment on the dearth of posts for the last few months. As always, it has to do with my workload. I have been working heads down on a major project for client for about six months. On top of that, my evenings are spent co-authoring the Training Kit for the WCF exam. The result is that I don't have a lot of time left for ...