Web Hosting Roadshow slides and all the links
It was great fun presenting the Web Platform overview to the folks over at the Microsoft Web Hosting Roadshow this Tuesday 9th of December. I know a lot of you were PHP developers so I hope it was a useful overview of the Microsoft technologies. Scroll down to the post if you want to download the slides. The slides and information for the other sessions are available on www.microsoft-web.net.
To start I would like to highlight some of the resources regarding PHP integration:
I also want to point out some of the resources I mentioned during the presentation:
Development tools
- Visual Studio Express versions
- Expression Web – trial version here
- Expression Blend – trial version here
To design your Silverlight 2 applications you will need to download and apply SP1 to Expression Blend. Download here.
Technologies
- ASP.NET
- ASP.NET Ajax
- Silverlight – get started with the needed tools and the learning videos on this site
- Windows Live services
- Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF)
The Silverlight demos
And here are the slides for download: