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Exploring Silverlight with Mark Smith

Posted by Mark Smith on Jun 19, 2008 07:29 AM

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.NET
Topics
Silverlight ,
Rich Internet Apps
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QCon ,
QCon San Francisco 2007
Summary
In this presentation filmed at QCon, Mark Smith walks through Silverlight 2.0 capabilities. At the time, Microsoft was referring to this version of Silverlight as 1.1 which has been recently revived up to 2.0. Mark discusses migration to version 2.0, the C# code-behind capabilities, support for threads and how to consume web services.

Bio
Mark Smith is an independent consultant, author and trainer for DevelopMentor living in Dallas, Texas. He has designed and built large scale server-side infrastructure for companies like Exxon/Mobile, Fidelity Investments and Verisign. In his spare time he enjoys playing guitar and reading when not playing with his 4 daughters.

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