So, with Silverlight’s main conference of interest over, what did you make of MIX11? Sure, Silverlight was pretty poorly mentioned in the two keynotes as HTML5, Internet Explorer 10 and Windows Phone 7 stole much of the limelight, BUT there was still plenty of breakout sessions that featured Silverlight 4 and beyond.
If you weren’t lucky enough to go, don’t despair! All the sessions were recorded and are available for download or streaming at your own leisure [http://live.visitmix.com/mix11]. Quite a few downloaded videos have made it onto my Windows Phone 7 handset to make my train journeys a bit more productive!
Back here in the UK, the tech.days.2011 week is fast approaching (23rd-27th May for London). This week of events is definitely worth a visit, with a strong line up of speakers and interesting subjects in the realms of Mobile, Client, Cloud, Web, Desktop and Server (so the slogan says!). You don’t have to attend all the days, in fact registration is for a day-at-a-time and for a particular stream. Again, don’t think you’ve missed out by not going in person, many of the sessions will be recorded.
Both these two events have something in common with the speaker at the May Silverlight UK User Group… Mike Taulty. Mike paired up with John Papa at MIX11 to host the pre-conference Silverlight BootCamp. Mike is also speaking at the forthcoming tech.days.2011 on Silverlight, which means that he’ll have some pretty relevant things to say about Silverlight 5 (beta). So, I’m very pleased to confirm the following agenda:
WOW. Due to unprecedented demand this event is full!
There is a rapidly growing waiting list, so you can still register an interest. For those that got in early, please be considerate and tell us if you can't make it so that we can reallocate a seat in advance. Thanks.
| Date: | Wednesday 18th May 2011 |
| Time: | Registration @ 18:15, Kick off @18:30 – please don't be late! Till about 20:30 |
| Where: | EMC Consulting
Notcutt House, 36 Southwark Bridge Road, London, SE1 9EU. |
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Registration is required, so please register by sending us an email. |
| Registered attendees will be notified with any final details by Monday 16th May. |
AGENDA
Registration @18:00
Welcome/Kick off @ 18:30
Silverlight 5 – the beta and beyond
with Mike Taulty from Microsoft
[about 60-80mins]
The Silverlight 5 beta was released just last month at the MIX 11 conference in Las Vegas and makes significant advances in various areas like graphics, media, data and in the application model allowing new scenarios that are either impossible or difficult today in Silverlight 4. In this session we’ll take a look at what’s present in the beta, poke around in some demos to figure out how things work and we’ll also talk about features that are not in the beta but will be coming before release later this year.
Inside PivotViewer v2 – a update
with Chris Arnold from PhotoPivot
[about 20mins]
In this short talk I'll be looking at the new Data Binding features of PivotViewer v2. We'll see how to transition your old data bound lists to a more richer control and introduce some new Collection classes. We'll also take a quick look at how CustomActions have grown up in this version.
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About Mike Taulty |
 | Mike Taulty works in the Developer and Platform Group at Microsoft in the UK where he has spent the past few years helping developers understand and get the best from the Microsoft platform. Prior to this, Mike spent 3 years with Microsoft Consulting Services as a consultant on developer technologies. Before joining Microsoft, Mike spent the previous 9 years working as a software developer for a number of enterprises, consultancies and software vendors working with a variety of operating system, client, communication and server technologies. |
| Blog: mtaulty.com | Twitter: @mtaulty | LinkedIn Profile |
About Chris Arnold |
 | Chris Arnold is a parallel entrepreneur, lean startup fanatic and full-stack engineer. He is the founder or co-founder of a number of startups that all utilise PivotViewer. Prior to this Chris was the CTO of a Financial Services Software Company. On discovering Live Labs Pivot he wrote http://tweetpivot.com and pitched the concept at BizSpark Summit 2010. He is now using PivotViewer as a cornerstone in creating successful, high-growth businesses. |
| Blog: goodcoffeegoodcode.blogspot.com | Twitter: @GoodCoffeeCode | AboutMe Profile |
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Please register and I hope to see you there!
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