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 No Smoking
 Clean Up After Yourself
 We are all guests of Microsoft
 Let’s be good guests
 Evaluation Forms, Evaluation Forms,
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FireStarter: Day of Learning
 Free and run by
volunteers
 Speakers are giving
freely of their time
 Some speakers are
presenting for the
first time today
 Remember, this is a
community event
 Please silence all
cell phones

Twitter Mania!
Event
 @SILVERLIGHTDC
 #SLFSDC
Speakers
 @Tableteer
 @Pete_Brown
 @DevHammer
 @DSaxman
 @joelcochran

Social Media Explained?

Goals

What is Silverlight?
 Uses XAML
 XML description of CLR objects
 Vector based graphics
 Runs on Window, Mac and Linux
 Silverlight Mobile coming
 Version 2 is released
 Version 3 is currently in Beta
 RTM in July!

How Did We Get Here?

Evolution of UX –Text Based UI
• User Experience
• Usability – Low
• Flexibility – Low
• Engagement – None
• Performance – Excellent
• Development Experience
• Reasonable skill set
• Clunky editors and
debuggers early on
• No Choice
• Deployment Experience
• Easy
Era: Mainframe to DOS

Evolution of UX – Desktop GUI
• User Experience
• Usability – High
• Flexibility – High
• Engagement – Medium
• Performance – Very Good
• Development Experience
• Good
tools, platforms, languages
• Generally needed only two
languages: VB/C# and SQL
• Deployment Experience
• Very Difficult at first
• Easier with .NET
Era: Windows 3.1 to

Evolution of UX – Web Based
UI
• User Experience
• Usability – Medium/Low
• Flexibility – Medium
• Engagement – High
• Performance – Poor-Good
• Development Experience
• High Effort, High Cost
• Cross Browser Problems
• Multiple Languages:
VB/C#, JavaScript, xml, xsl,
SQL, HTML, CSS
• Debugging Difficult
•Deployment Experience
• Easy
Era: Internet era to Present

Evolution of UX – RIA
• User Experience
• Usability – High
• Flexibility – TBD
• Engagement – High
• Performance – Good to
Excellent
• Development Experience
• Good
tools, platforms, languages
• Generally need only:
VB/C#, XAML and SQL
•Deployment Experience
• Easy, via browser
• Silverlight
• Click-once for WPF
Era: Flash v1 to Present

This is an Interface

This is an Experience

Good Experience is Good
Business

The 3 R’s of Client
Development

Reach: The Web
 Widest possible reach
 From text only devices to desktops;
from laptops to mobile phones;
the web works just about anywhere
 Platform/Browser Independent*
*Write once, test everywhere in every
conceivable combination.
 Hard to debug
 Easy to Deploy
 User experience varies

Rich: Windows Client
Application
 Richest experience possible
 Response time is instantaneous
 WPF applications can leverage
hardware acceleration for some truly
engaging user experiences
 Easy to Debug
 Narrow focus
 Deployment concerns

RIA: Silverlight Applications
 Happy Medium of Reach and Rich
 Response time is instantaneous
 Runs on Windows, Mac and Linux
 Easy to Debug
 Wide focus
 Easy deployment
 Enables great user experiences

RIA in Depth
• RIA brings the best of desktop and
client/server applications to the best of web
applications
 Web deployment
 Enhanced user experience
• Microsoft RIA (WPF and Silverlight)
 One skillset, language, and toolset, from the
database to the services and sites, through to the
client, in the browser or on the desktop
○ soon, add phone and mobile devices to the list

One Markup Language to Rule Them All

We’ll Give You the Matches

You Start the Fire