Light Up Your Silverlight Skills with the Global Silverlight Firestarter!
After you enjoy PDC10 , continue the experience with the Silverlight Firestarter!
What is the Silverlight Firestarter?
- An Event: A one day, global, live streamed and on demand event keynoted by Scott Guthrie
- Training: New self-paced labs and walk through videos
- Interactive: Got questions? Get your answers! Watch live and ask the Silverlight product team questions during the event.
- Why Silverlight? Silverlight is Microsoft’s strategic development platform for building interactive applications across desktop, phone, and the browser.
Something for Everyone
- Just starting out with Silverlight? Watch our On-Ramp sessions and work on hands on labs to get you started.
- Already Building business applications? Watch the event live and learn how to create compelling business applications with Silverlight.
- Got questions? Engage with the Silverlight product team live or in person with our interactive chat.
| When | Register | How Much? |
| December 2, 2010 8am to 5pm PT | Register Online, Now! | Nothing! This is a free event |
After the live event keep fueling the fire!
Dive deeper with additional hands on labs and videos that build on the live session content, accelerating you ahead of the crowd.
- Watch the entire event on demand!
- Plus, new self-paced labs and walk through videos
- On Ramp Labs (100 level)
- Hands on labs specifically focused on helping new developers get up to speed quickly on Silverlight
- Do you know WinForms? HTML? ASP.NET? Want to learn Silverlight? We have a lab for you!
- Building Better Business Apps (200-300 level)
- Hands on labs focused on taking advantage of Silverlight to build real world business applications
- Apply Data Strategies, Patterns, Out of Browser, RIA Services, and much more using Silverlight
- Turnabout is fair play! Watch a video of our experts doing the labs themselves.
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F I R E S T A R T E R L I V E A G E N D A
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8:00 am
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Silverlight Firestarter Keynote
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Scott Guthrie
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9:00 am
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Building Compelling Apps with WCF Using REST and LINQ for Silverlight and WP7
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Jesse Liberty / Yavor Georgiev
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10:00 am
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15 minute break
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10:15 am
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Building Feature Rich Business Apps Today with RIA Services
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Dan Wahlin
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11:15 am
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MVVM: Why and How? Tips and Patterns using MVVM and Service Patterns with Silverlight and WP7
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John Papa
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12:15 pm
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Lunch break
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1:00 pm
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Silverlight Today and Tomorrow (Special Guest Panel)
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Panel
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1:30 pm
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Building Real World Silverlight Apps
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Tim Heuer
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2:30 pm
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15 minute break
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2:45 pm
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Tune Your Application: Profiling and Performance Tips
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Mike Cook & Jossef Goldberg
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3:45 pm
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Killer Performance Tips for Silverlight Windows Phone 7
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Jaime Rodriguez
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5:00 pm
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After Party!
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*** Sessions are subject to change
Follow @john_papa and watch Silverlight TV for updates on the Silverlight Firestarter