Building Fac e bo o k
Applic atio ns with Po pfly,
S ilve rlig ht, and AS P.NET
Dan Fernandez
Lead Product Manager
Non-Professional Tools Team
http://blogs.msdn.com/danielfe/
dan.fernandez@microsoft.com

Two Paths
I write code
I don’t write code*

Our vis io n is to
de mo c ratize de ve lo pme nt

15x larg e r than Pro ’s
17m+ Expre s s do wnloads
107m+
7m+ Pro ’s
No n-Pro ’s

The s um is g re ate r than its parts

Us e rs are the Stars .

Embrac e S e lf Expre s s io n

Ente rtain

I do n’t write c o de *
Free
*
Client-side file hosting
Works with open source AJAX
Frameworks
Better tool support coming
400+ blocks - Facebook, Digg,
Virtual Earth, Flickr, Technorati,
Twitter
Share your app everywhere
<iframes> are supported
You can fully control the code

Demos

I write c o de
Free Tools
Visual Web Developer Express
SQL Server Express
Visual Basic, Visual C#, Visual C++ Express
Free Frameworks
ASP.NET
Facebook Developer Toolkit
Silverlight – Cross-browser, cross-platform plug-in

Fac e book De ve lo pme nt To o lkit

Future
Popfly
Deeper Facebook Profile integration
Better JSON support
Web project upload
Opening up to more users
Facebook data storage support
Silverlight 1.1
.NET Runtime, threading, security, isolated storage,
LINQ, .NET languages (VB, C#, IronRuby, IronPython)
Much richer set of controls

Re s o urc e s
Popfly: www.popfly.com
Visual Studio Express: http://msdn.com/express
Facebook Development Toolkit:
http://www.codeplex.com/FacebookToolkit/Releas
e/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=5387
ASP.NET AJAX Controls:
http://www.asp.net/ajax/ajaxcontroltoolkit/
Silverlight: www.silverlight.net
Scott Guthrie’s blog:
http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu
My blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/danielfe