Portland Silverlight User Group 10 Aug 2010

On 10 Aug 2010, Adam Kinney and I will be presenting at the Portland Silverlight User Group.

As you know I work on the WPF & Silverlight Designer in Visual Studio as part of the Expression Team.

This session will provide guidance for writing applications that are toolable.  Many folks use the term, Blendable.

Do you use MEF, IoC or Service Locator to resolve dependencies?  Do you use M-V-VM or code-behind click handlers? Do you use sample data?  No problem. 

We’ll show you how to have a successful design-time experience with the Visual Studio and Expression Blend tools.

Session Abstract

Building toolable Silverlight applications that enable the designer developer workflow Warning: We won’t be 20 seconds into this session before mashing the gas pedal to the floor. After looking at the XAML tools Blend & Cider, we’ll dive deep into toolable application design. Toolable applications not only enhance the initial development experience but also provide benefits to long term application maintenance. An additional benefit is the enabling of the designer developer workflow. See the two roles played out in the presentation as they collaborate without clobbering each other.

Wanting to properly represent the WPF & Silverlight Designer, I’ll be sporting a nice XAML blue do. 

Just look for the guy with a red Hawaiian shirt with blue hair.

See you in Portland!

Just a grain of sand on the worlds beaches.