This document summarizes a presentation about Silverlight and DevCamps. It introduces Silverlight as a technology for building rich internet applications similar to Flash. It discusses the history and versions of Silverlight, competing technologies, and proposes forming a local user group to continue sharing knowledge about Silverlight.

1. Keynote Presentation November 3 rd , 2007 Frank La Vigne [email_address] Applied Information Sciences

2. What’s a Dev Camp? DevCamp is a BarCamp for developers Not a Code Camp, per se BarCamps are ad-hoc gatherings For people to share and learn in an open environment Technically speaking, an agenda-less “unconference”

3. Schedule

4. Sponsors Platinum Sponsors

5. Sponsors (Cont’d) Gold Sponsors

6. House Rules No Smoking Clean Up After Yourself We are all guests of Microsoft & let’s be good guests Evaluation Forms, Evaluation Forms, Evaluation Forms!

7. Dev Camp: Day of Learning DevCamps are 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

8. If Developers Ruled the World What would the World be like if Software Developers ran it? With Apologies to the Graphic Designers in the Room

9. Debugging Would Be Prime Time Drama

10. Developers Would Be in Action Films

11. Bad Code Would Be Entertaining

12. Silverlight Would’ve Come Out in the 80s

13. What is Silverlight? Formerly known as WPF/E Similar to WPF Uses XAML Vector based graphics Runs on Window, Mac and Linux Will run on Windows Mobile in future Version 1.0 is released Version 1.1 is in Alpha

14. Versions of Silverlight 1.0 Uses Javascript for interactivity Supports High Def Streaming 1.1 Uses .NET for interactivity Has a scaled down CLR Called AG CLR (AG = Silver) Supports High Def Streaming

15. Javascript Gets No Respect Many enterprise & component developers are waiting until version 1.1 ships to develop content for Silverlight. However, this is missing the opportunity Silverlight presents.

16. The Competition Rich Internet Applications (RIA) have been around for a while. For past ten years, Flash has dominated the market Adobe Flex is an IDE built on top of Flash with J2EE & JSP Sun recently introduced JavaFX

17. Silverlight State of the Union A Tour of Some Interesting Silverlight Web Sites

18. Silverlight User Group (SLUG) Would there be enough interest in the DC Metro Area for a Silverlight User Group? Please answer the question on the evaluation forms

19. Keep the Conversation Going Keep an eye on this URL http://www.silverlightdevcamp.com Twitter http://twitter.com/SilverlightDC Facebook Silverlight DevCamp DC Group http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=6060616406 Tagging The magic word is SilverlightDevCampDC . Slides Look for slide decks on www.slideshare.net

20. Learning the Basics of Silverlight