Silverlight UK User Group organiser, Mark Mann from EMC Consulting provides the introduction to the 10th meeting on 1st December 2009 at the EMC Consulting London office.
10. News: Hectic conference season! Microsoft SharePoint Conference 2009 19th – 22nd October Las Vegas Microsoft PDC09 16th – 19th November Los Angeles Microsoft Tech·Ed Europe 2009 9th – 13th November Berlin
15. News: Internet Explorer 9 SharePoint 2010 Windows Azure Office 2010 SQL Azure Database Project 2010 Codename “Dallas” Visio 2010 Bing Maps Exchange Server 2010 PinPoint Pivot Visual Studio 2010 .NET 4 WPF 4 IIS Streaming
16. News: Silverlight 3 Dock Panel Control Skinning Wrap Panel RAW A/V Pipeline Element to Element Data Binding Out Of Browser Text Rendering & Fonts AAC Audio Enhanced Deep Zoom Hardware Acceleration Custom Easing Merged Resource Dictionaries Text Animation Perspective 3D 1080p HD Data Validation Local Fonts SEO Pixel Shader Effects Deep Linking Compressed Fonts H.264 Video DRM Local Data HD Smooth Streaming Local Connection Data Forms Cached Composition Themed Application Support ViewBox Start Menu Bitmap Caching 60+ Controls Connectivity Detection Animation Effects Bitmap API High Contrast Binary XML Desktop Shortcut MultiselectListbox File Save Listbox
17. News: Silverlight 4 Mouse Wheel Rich Text Right Click Clipboard Access Printing Commanding and MVVM Bidi & RTL Implicit Styles More Controls Drag/Drop HTML interop Share Assemblies Across SL and .NET4 VS2010 integration WCF RIA Services WCF improvements Data Binding Improvements UDP Multicast Support MEF Support REST Enhancements
19. Keep learning: PDC Videos - www.microsoftpdc.com/Videos Microsoft PressPass - www.microsoft.com/presspass/events/pdc Scott Gu - weblogs.asp.net/ScottGu Not@PDC - notatpdc.com The Official Silverlight site - silverlight.net The Expression site - seethelight.com Channel 9 - channel9.msdn.com/tags/Silverlight MSDN - msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee656762(VS.95).aspx Tim Heuer - timheuer.com/blog Mike Taulty’s Rough Notes - mtaulty.com Adam Kinney - adamkinney.wordpress.com