Schedule for the Redmond WPF for LOB & Windows 7 and .NET 4 Event

Jaime Rodriguez, myself, Cider Team Members along with some key WPF Team members are very excited about the upcoming WPF for LOB, MVVM, Windows 7 and .NET 4 event.  We are only a week away.

Schedule

Each day runs from 8:30am – 5:30pm. Doors open at 8:00am.

• Wednesday, 28 April 2010 (breakfast & lunch provided)
  • Lap Around WPF
  • WPF Architecture
  • XAML
  • Layout
  • Element Trees
  • Resources
  • Dependency Properties
  • Routed Events
  • Controls, Templates and Styles
  • Threading Model
• Thursday, 29 April 2010 (breakfast, lunch & dinner provided)
  • Data Binding
  • Commands
  • Intro to MVVM
  • Tips from the MVVM Trenches
  • Data Validation in MVVM
  • Modal Dialogs, Error Handling, Logging
  • Views, Navigation and Transitions
  • Integration & Unit Testing in MVVM
  • Thinking in WPF…
  • Optional Special Event: Thursday, 5:30pm, Dinner with the Cider Team  (see details below)
• Friday, 30 April 2010 (breakfast & lunch provided)
  • Lap Around WPF 4.0
  • Blend 4.0
  • Visual Studio 2010 WPF & Silverlight Designer
  • Multi-Touch Deep Dive
  • Shell & Taskbar
  • Surface Control Toolkit
  • Graphics & Text Improvements
  • Understanding the Client Profile
  • Controls & Data Improvements
  • Q & A
• Saturday, 1 May 2010
  • Pair programming, applying the last 3 days at your pace with your code.  Experts on-hand to assist you as you spread your wings with WPF & MVVM.
  • You’ll need to bring your own laptop for this evolution.

Dinner with the Cider Team (Thursday)

Based on your own experience and this training course, you probably have a feel for what the Visual Studio 2010 WPF and Silverlight Designer tooling can do to help you build your applications.

The team that built that designer would love to get the chance to spend some time with you to get a feel for the kinds of development problems you’re facing with your WPF and Silverlight projects, and understand the sort of capabilities that you’d like to see in future versions of Visual Studio.

Come and share a delicious hot BBQ dinner from premier local outlet “Dixies” (vegetarian and Kosher options will be available on request), speak your mind and hear our plans, and take your opportunity to help us choose wisely when we pick the features we build.

A Few Seats Still Open

We had a few folks give up their seats so registration is still open.

Date		Event	Location	Registration Links
4/28–4/29		WPF for LOB	Microsoft Redmond Campus, Building 20	WPF for LOB Registration
4/30		Windows 7 and .NET 4	Microsoft Redmond Campus, Building 20	Windows 7 and .NET 4 Registration
5/1		Pair Programming	TBD – announced during training	None required

Close

We are looking forward to spending this quality time together with you.  I’ve been working hard on completely new demonstration applications for this event.

Have a great day,

Just a grain of sand on the worlds beaches.

Visual Studio 2010 XAML Editor IntelliSense Presenter Extension v2

I have updated the blog post and XAML Editor IntelliSense Presenter to v2.

New Features

• Added hot key toggling for namespace filter (ALT + ,) and narrowing filter (ALT + .)
• White listed x: when narrowing filter is enabled to ensure that it’s always listed
• Corrected the double clicking of the presenter to not select when the scroll bar is double clicked.
• Publishing the presenter from the Visual Studio Gallery.  (I removed the code and presenter from my Sky Drive)

Upgrade Installation

If you have a previous version of the XAML IntelliSense Presenter, use the Visual Studio Extensions Manager and uninstall the previous version.

The use the Visual Studio Gallery to install the new version.

This step won’t be required in the future.

Links

Read the updated and detailed blog post on the XAML Editor IntelliSense Presenter.

Get XAML Editor IntelliSense Presenter from the Visual Studio Gallery

Enjoy this XAML Editor extension.

Have a great day,

Just a grain of sand on the worlds beaches.