Introduction With Expression Blend 3, you can create websites and applications based on Silverlight 3, and desktop applications based on Windows Presentation Foundation 3.5 with Service Pack 1 (SP1). Expression Blend 3 provides new support for prototyping, interactivity through behaviors, special Silverlight 3 functionality, and on-the-fly sample data generation. Using Expression Blend 3, designers can make applications that are easy and fun to use. Prototyping Introducing SketchFlow With S... [More]

The Microsoft Oslo platform is a new model driven development paradigm. Developers can model their applications using the new M language. M allows you to define a structure for your data as well as represent it in graph based values. Representing values in the M language is very similar to JSON, which will allow you to represent your data in name/value pairs. Here is an example of M values in action: People { { Id=>1, Name=>"Steve", Age=>36}, { Id=>2, Name=>&... [More]

The Microsoft Oslo platform is a new model driven development paradigm. Developers can model their applications using the new M language and store their M code on disk or move their M to the repository in order to share their models and metadata with the rest of their organization.  As applications evolve, their models evolve. Developers will now have new versions of their M code. The Telerik Oslo Comparison and Migration Tool allows developers using “May CTP” to compare two M source code ... [More]

In that Gathering Bishoy & Mosa will discuss Entity Framework and how it will affects the software development productivity, and why that is not just another O/RM provided by Microsoft Date: Saturday, July 18, 2009 Time: 11:30am - 2:30pm Location: DEL VENTO Cafe Street: Abbas El-Akkad , Cairo

http://silverlight.net/GetStarted/ http://silverlight.net/GetStarted/overview.aspx Release notes (how to move from SL2 to SL3) http://download.microsoft.com/download/9/5/E/95E973B3-17C1-459B-AA1B-20827B867D15/Silverlight%203%20Release%20Notes.htm SL3 Tools for VS2008 http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=9442b0f2-7465-417a-88f3-5e7b5409e9dd&displaylang=en Lets light the web.