For all those who attended my sessions "The Buzzword Puzzle: Web technology integration" at Microsoft DevDays 2009 or anyone else who is interested the resources and screencast are available for download below.

The blurb for the presentation goes as follows: "We often see various web technologies shown off in isolation as they come out but never really see them operating together to form a complete solution. This presentation will introduce the ease with which various Microsoft technologies integrate including Silverlight 2, AJAX, WCF, jQuery and more!"

Please send me any questions you may have about the talk. Hope that you enjoyed it!

The Buzzword Puzzle – Web technology integration – ScreenCast
The Buzzword Puzzle – Web technology integration – Slides
The Buzzword Puzzle – Web technology integration – Demo

This morning I gave a presentation for the Microsoft Devs4Devs event entitled “The Buzzword Puzzle: Web technology integration” where I demonstrated the integration of various technologies including the following:

• SQL 2008
• LINQ
• WCF
• AJAX
• jQuery
• Silverlight 2
• WPF

If you are interested in some more detail here are the slides and project files:
Sildes.zip (327.72 kb)
Project.zip (61.35 kb)

Some useful links include:
MS SQL: http://www.microsoft.com/SQL
jQuery: http://jquery.com/
AJAX: http://ajax.asp.net/
WCF vs ASMX: http://fuchangmiao.blogspot.com/2008/09/wcf-vs-asmx.html

If you were present for the talk I hope that you found it interesting. Send me a mail (via contact link) if you have any questions or comment.

Note:
To open this demo you will require the Silverlight 2 SDK and a copy of the Northwind Database.

Silverlight 2 RC0 has just been released with some new features including:

• New Controls (Password Box, Progress Bar, Combo Box)
• New Control Skins
• New Graphics Rendering methods for crisper lines and fewer artefacts
• Various API updates

Read more about this release at: ScottGu's Blog
Download the new release here

I have just gotten back from doing a presentation for SA Developer entitled “Silverlight 2: A developer's perspective” and thought to post the demo project and slides for all those interested. So here they are:

Sildes (540.60 kb)
Project Files (171.14 kb)

To be able to run these you will need to install the Silverlight SDK which you can get hold of here.

Life is quite busy at the moment so I hope to post a proper blog entry with the details of this talk early October but if I forget please bug me about it.

Some links that may help you get going with Silverlight 2 are:

http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2008/02/22/first-look-at-silverlight-2.aspx
http://mtaulty.com/CommunityServer/blogs/mike_taultys_blog/archive/2008/03/27/10290.aspx
http://www.silverlight.net

Hope you find this useful. Drop me a line with any questions you may have.