My Silverlight talk at Microsoft Innovation Briefing

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This morning I did a Silverlight 2 talk at Microsoft Montreal, during a half-day briefing called Building Compelling Websites on the Microsoft Platform.


That was a 1 hour talk to present Silverlight 2, DeepZoom, Expression Blend and create from scratch a Silverlight 2 application which consume LINQ To SQL data exposed by a WCF service with VS2008.


I would like to thank Paul Laberge for offering me the opportunity to do my very first presentation in english…


Here are the links to the online demos I showed:


DeepZoom:
http://memorabilia.hardrock.com


Performances comparison with DHTML/Flex/SL1.0/SL2:
http://www.bubblemark.com


Free charts controls:
http://www.visifire.com


Medical sample (amazing) application:
http://www.mscui.net/PatientJourneyDemonstrator/


Here is a link to the powerpoint slides I used:


Here is a zip file with the DeepZoom “Bill Gates” demo (hope you liked it!) and the Silverlight 2 + WCF + LINQ app I built live.


You’ll appreciate my funky UI.


For the gentleman who asked the question I couldn’t answer:


Question: “Can you customize the default Loading animation the user get while waiting for a Silverlight application to start ?”


Answer: “Yes! you can find a tutorial in the Quickstarts: http://silverlight.net/QuickStarts/BuildUi/SplashScreen.aspx“