Essential XAML

Session - Building Extensible Rich Internet Applications with the Managed Extensibility Framework by Tomer Shamam

In this great session, Glenn Block and my collegue Ariel Ben Horesh have talked about Managed Extensibility Framework for Silverlight 4 for building customizable applications that can easily be extended by third parties. Whether you are building an extensible data grid, a custom rules engine, a pluggable editor, or a composite application such as a pluggable CRM system, you want to learn about MEF. They explained how to use MEF to decouple applications into more maintainable the application into...

Session – Advanced Topics for Building Large-Scale Applications with Microsoft Silverlight by Tomer Shamam

In this session, John Papa talked about Silverlight application development patterns such as composite applications with Prism, developing using the Model-View-ViewModel (MVVM) pattern, and methods of implementing large, modular, multi-page applications within your team. Also he talked about frameworks created to help assist in rapid development using these patterns without sacrificing good application development patterns. MVVM is a pattern, there is no specific way to do it right. Also with Silverlight...

Session – Building Line of Business Applications With Silverlight 4 by Tomer Shamam

In this nice session David Poll has talked about enhancements to data binding and data validation as well as new support for rich text & printing in the platform that allow you to build compelling LOB user experiences. Everyday we work with data so we usually deal with Interactivity, Entry and Presentation In this talk he explained about features added to SL 4 SL4 in Visual Studio 2010 Data Binding enhancements Data related controls enhancements Input validation Printing a document David shown...