I’m just back from DevDays where I had a really great time and delivered a 2-part session on;

What’s Coming in Silverlight 3

and another single session on;

Beyond Silverlight with WPF

if you came along to my sessions then thanks very much for doing that and I hope that you enjoyed them and the conference generally – I’ve been twice now and I think it’s one of the best that I’ve been to and so thanks to the organisers for inviting me back there this year and putting on such a great show.

The slides for the talks can be found here  – there weren’t many slides for the Silverlight talks and a few of the slides were borrowed from Scott Guthrie’s talk at MIX09 where he talked about Silverlight Momentum.

In terms of code/demos. My Silverlight talks were really ones where I built up pretty small examples as we went along. What I think I showed was as below ( please remember that these demos were meant to be simple rather than the best example of what the technology can do :-) );

Graphics and Media

• Perspective transforms
• Effects
• Easing animations
• GPU acceleration on video
• GPU acceleration on a piece of UI with bitmap caching
• Writeable bitmap

Expression Blend 3

• I’ve not included any samples here because I just showed some things inside of Blend itself but you might want references to the Expression Blend behaviours sample library

Applications

• Network status
• Binary message encoding with WCF
• Out of browser application
• Merged resource dictionaries
• Element binding
• Dynamic styling
• Cached Extensions
• Save File Dialog
• Local Connection
• Validation
• Data Form and Data Grid
• Navigation Applications

all the Silverlight bits can be found in this zip file.

then for my WPF talk I used Kaxaml and showed a bunch of XAML based snippets;

• “WPF Airlines”
• Logical Pixels
• Tiled image brushes
• Tiled geometry brushes
• Tiled visual brushes
• Path based animations
• 3D Cube with ambient light and spotlights
• 2D on 3D integration
• Documents
• HTML Frame Control
• Ink and Gestures
• Code - Ink and Gesture
• Code - Speech
• Unified document using various pieces
• Binding – static binding
• Binding – ObjectDataProvider to databind enum values
• Binding – ObjectDataProvider to databind a process list
• Binding – XmlDataProvider to databind a twitter RSS feed
• Binding – Multibinding to DateTime.Now
• Triggers – simple trigger on a rectangle
• Triggers – simple trigger to control volume on a video
• Code – Commands in my notepad like example
• Code – Printing using the “WPF Airlines” application
• Code - HTML Interop with WebBrowser
• Code – Windows Forms Interop

All the WPF Demos can be found in this zip file.

Note;

Wherever the XAML files depend on some external item ( like a video or an image ) I’ve tried to put a TODO comment into the XAML

and I might have changed a video to an image here and there just to reduce the size of the download.

Enjoy.