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I want to thank the great web developers that came to my session, and I hope that seeing how to build a small web app using VS2008 and FW3.5 capabilities, gave you the urge to download it and play with it a little yourself.

The session was slideless, but the you can download a preview of the subjects and features discussed.

If you want to try it yourself, you can download the code and database files and scripts .

(The rar file also contains a "Readme" file with installation instructions)

I hope that you'll enjoy it, and I'll be glad to know if you have any comments.

A lot have been said about the Developers Academy II, and how this event is important for developers that wants to stay updated with the current Technology.

I also know that many people won't be able to come to this event, because they couldn't register on time, and I hope that I'll find some way to update all of you from this blog.

To all of the attendants of the conference, I invite you in this blogish way :-) to come and see my session :

"Building a Complete Web Application using the New ASP.Net" (DEV317) it's going to take place in the "Galil" Room (The big room on the entrance floor) on 14:45.

On this session I'll go through building a web application with VS2008 and .NET FW3.5 . This session is slideless... It means that it's a pure 75 minutes of code and examples. (well... "hello" slide and a "goodbye" slide doesn't count :-)..)

The general content of the lecture will be on Microsoft site, before the conference, and a lot more of course on this blog after the conference.

I believe that everyone who is dealing with Web development and even everyone that is interested in Web development will benefit from this session, and I hope to see you all there.

One last thing... Because I think (and Microsoft too, of course) that Web development is so important, and that people that are working in this incredible world needs to see each other and get updated on a regular basis, I'm going to lead a new User Group in Microsoft.

The group will be called Web Developers Group and I'll talk more about it in the following posts, and on the conference itself.

Hoping to see you all in the conference, or at least, in a few months, on Tech-Ed Eilat...

After asked so many questions about Silverlight (SL) lately (lot of them from the Ask The Experts booth in Tech-Ed Europe), I thought about clearing some staff about it, that I think is necessary.

For now SL is on version 1.0 (I call it BronzeLight comparing to 1.1), that is the only legit version that is out there, so if you want to develop and get on production with your product, you better learn how script your way with JavaScript and through SL 1.0.

If you look further ahead... there will be SL 1.1, and 1.2 and so on... but 1.1 is still an alpha version and you can't go public with it, so all the XAML features and "WPF like" programming is not there...YET.

Also the programming model for SL except the XAML is Webish, not WPF, it's only resemble to WPF in some manners, but it definitely have nothing to do with WPF, and WPF Web application and SL are different things.

WPF browser Application (XBAP) is the way to host WPF application in a browser and it requires an installation of FW 3.0 on the client machine.

SL on the contrary requires only ~4MB and it's a plug-in in the Browser.

So for now what can you do with all this information? first, if you want to program for desktop you are looking for WPF where you can have a full featured desktop abilities, if you want to deploy it through the Web, go to XBAP, and if you want to be cross browser and work everywhere dive into SL.

For SL, you can enjoy and play with the great things offered by 1.1, but for production go and learn 1.0 (BTW, you won't regret it, since it will be a knowledge you'll use also on the next versions, communicating in client code).

If you are new to SL you can read some great posts on that on this blog site for example : Yosi Taguri, Justin-Joseph-Angel and more...

So when "GoldLight" be available... that's a whole different question... :-)

A busy year and it seems that I was really short in time to write any blog entries, this is why this entry is exactly in a year difference from the previous one. anyway, I plan to write more often, and I hope it will help you all understand my line of thoughts.

Yes, this one is also after Tech-Ed Barcelona… this time after the 2007 conference. On this conference I was working most of the time, proctoring on HOL (Hands On Labs) on 16 different topics from FrameWork 3.5 space, including WPF, WCF, WF, CardSpace, Some of labs where dealing with the DinnerNow project which put all of these technologies together. (Although this project seems being forced to use all these technologies…). Another "mission" that I took on myself was to answer people questions on the ATE (Ask The Experts) booth on the subject of SilverLight. The public interest on this subject and the kind of questions asked, gave a good perspective on what the public thinks about this technology and how it react. About my thoughts on SilverLight I'll write on my next blog entry.

Beside working, I had a great time meeting other MCTs like me (Microsoft Certified Trainers) from all over the world for an MCT dinner that took place on Port Olympic (more than 40 people), and you can get the hang of it here :

It was very interesting to talk about the different material that every education center teaches with, and how advanced every country is, in terms of learning new staff. It appears of course that Israel is very advanced on those terms.

And although I'm not a big football (soccer) fan, it was great going big time and see a champion league game with Alon Fliess and Yochay, drink a 0% beer(this is what they are selling... and it taste like... well... I'll try to stay politically correct) and see approximately 120,000 people going mad :-)

The lectures where great, Alon Fliess lecture about media center was very good and he introduced the application, the MCML language (which I really don't like and wish it was just XAML), and generally the way which the developer can use to build applications into the Media Center.

I also really enjoyed Yochay lecture about Speech Recognition. Yochay amazed the audience with Speech enable applications and the Speech Server. I believe that soon enough we're going to see more voice recognition and Text To Speech application around us.

So what's this blog going to be all about ? it's going to about new technologies, new concepts and about how it all plays together.

Stay tuned...