When: Tuesday 16th October 2007, doors open 6:00pm, meeting starts 6:30pm

Where: UWE (Unniversity of the West of England), Frenchay, Bristol (see FAQ for directions and a map) - Room 2q48 (in Q block)

What: An Overview Of Windows Presentation Foundation and An Overview Of SilverLight

Who: Oliver Sturm, MVP, Technical Evangelist and Lead Program Manager for Developer Express

Why: Because Windows Forms are yesterday's technology and WPF is undeniable in class and potential. And because SilverLight gives you some of the power of WPF in a web application and co-exists with regular web technologies in regular web pages.

How do I sign up for this meeting: Send an email to meetings at dotnetdevnet.com and quote your user name and the October meeting

Abstract:

An Overview Of WPF - the end of Windows Forms?

Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) is an important pillar of Microsoft's new and upcoming development platform. It's available today as part of .NET 3, but its importance will grow considerably with the release of Orcas drawing closer. Other tools like Expression Blend complete the picture, providing functionality but at the same time adding complexity to the development environment. This session shows what the framework contains and how to use it in your applications, as well as shedding some light on Microsoft's ideas of software development tomorrow.

An Overview Of SilverLight

Silverlight (previously WPF/E) is a browser plugin with capabilities similar to Flash. Or maybe it's a next generation runtime environment for thin (or even fat) client applications? Then again, maybe it's going to make Java applets obsolete, and you might have heard somebody say it will bring Linux developers over to .NET while allowing them to use obscure programming languages like Python or Ruby. If you are wondering whether any or all of these myths can be true, this session is for you, as it shows how to use Silverlight and explains the integration with existing tools and technologies.

About Oliver:

Oliver Sturm is an experienced software architect, developer, trainer and author, with a strong background in a lot of diverse fields like system and framework architecture and design, process modeling and user interface design. He is a C# MVP and he works for Developer Express as a Technical Evangelist and Lead Program Manager for the Frameworks Division.
http://www.sturmnet.org/blog