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Presentation: Mark Smith on Exploring Silverlight

Posted by James Vastbinder on Jun 19, 2008 03:56 PM

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.NET
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Silverlight
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WPF

In this presentation filmed at QCon San Francisco, Mark Smith walks developers through Silverlight 2.0 features.  Of note, at the time of this presentation Microsoft was referring to this version of Silverlight as 1.1.  Mark discusses the following:

  • Migration from 1.0
  • C# code-behind capabilities
  • Threading
  • Security
  • Interoperability through web services

Enjoy Mark Smith's presentation, Exploring Silverlight.

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