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The Minnesota SilverLight/WPF User Group organizes exciting new
seminars.
The seminars that have the "sign up" symbol next to it have been
completely scheduled and you can feel free to register for these seminars.
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| Pizzas
and sodas are provided at each seminar, courtesy of Microsoft. We also
raffle-off books and other prizes.
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7/15/2008.
12 pm - 2 pm
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Web Analytics and SEO for Silverlight Applications |
Presenter:
Bobbi Perrault
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In this session we'll cover best practices for optimizing your website to preserve analytics tracking data. We'll cover how to use XSLT to send web site xaml file contents to both the Silverlight object and html for search engines to index. We'll cover how to maintain page counts and track user interaction with your site. There will be some talk of generic SEO considerations which will apply to any website.
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Bobbi Perreault is a senior technologist with over 14 years of programming experience with over 7 years in MS technologies. Not only does she have over 7 years of Internet eCommerce Systems experience, but she has significant server infrastructure and security re-design experience as well. Bobbi is a SilverLight and RIA enthusiast and spends all her waking hours learning and experimenting with these technologies.
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6/17/2008.
12 pm - 2 pm
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Silverlight 2.0 allows you to kiss Javascript goodbye |
| Presenter:
Doug Nelson
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When most people think of Silverlight, the thoughts and discussions are all about rich media, WPF support, Flash replacements. While all of this is certainly a significant part of Silverlight, there is also a very rich backend sub system, programmed in the .Net language of your choice and running on the client browser. This provides a headless side to Silverlight that traditional applications can incorporate to greatly minimize the amount javascript coding required for a rich UI experience. This presentation will focus on Silverlight HTML integration, network sockets support and isolated storage support. Finally, nothing but .Net from the bowels of the enterprise to web client interface.
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Doug is a Practice Partner with ILM. He provides expert application development services for a growing number of clients with a primary focus on solving complex business problems. These applications developed are based on a Sql Server backend database with a web based front-end. He has been doing web development since 1996, transitioning from CGI applications to classic ASP and on to ASP.Net. In addition to the web development, these applications also support WinForms and Pocket PCs. He has extensive experience implementing truly distributed applications involving windows services, message queueing and web services.
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5/20/2008.
12 pm - 2 pm
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Building Rich Internet Applications Using SilverLight 2.0. |
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Jerry Sevier
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Take a walk through one of Microsoft's most exciting product offerings yet. Silverlight provides the foundation for not only Rich Internet Applications (RIAs), but also for distributed compatibility never before seen from a Microsoft platform. We'll walk through the capabilities of the software as well as the Expression Suite of tools used to develop graphically rich applications. We will discuss the capabilities of Silverlight 1..0 as well as delve into what is coming with version 2.0.
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Jerry is a Principal Consultant with ILM. He possesses over 14 years of diverse Information Technology (IT) experience in application architecture, development, and technical leadership. Additionally, Jerry is a technologist who keeps his skills sets up to date with new technologies including Commerce Server, SharePoint and MS CMS.
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