Seattle's Silverlight User Group, in association with Interact and community organzations everywhere are having their next Silverlight meeting on July 7th, 2010 at Building 40/41 caff ( http://www.bing.com/maps/?v=2&where1=Microsoft%20Building%2041%2C%20WA&encType=1 ) at 7pm to 8:30pm.

All the local Microsoftee's and MVP's will be there.

http://www.SeattleSilverlight.net/

Come to the Seattle Silverlight User Group and see the first session of our Summer Series on Windows Phone 7 with Silverlight. With the help of Jaime Rodriquez and other Microsoftee's we will be getting down and dirty with Windows Phone 7 and getting to the meat of real phone 7 development.

This month we are also having an 'Ask The Expert' side session for beginners to help them come up to speed and start developing great Silverlight applications. If your new and want to learn this is the place to be.

Also at 6 pm at the same location will be the organizing committee's meeting and this is open to the public. Please come and help us run the user group.

The Seattle Silverlight user group is sponsoring a Phone 7 Series in conjuction with Microsoft and Jaime Rodriguez starting with the meat of phone 7 developement. Each month this summer along with our Ask the Experts available for beginners we will be having some one form the Phone 7 team or DPE come and present on topics related to windows phone 7.

Hello Everyone;

In the Silverlight World Microsoft is the center of everything, one would think that the user groups in and around Microsoft would be the biggest and most Awesomest in the world. We need your help in figuring out where to go from here. We as a community need YOU! :) if you can make it please come and help give input and ideas and if possible some time to help us get more organized :) and get people excited.

I know alot of your have done a great job doing presentations and in inspiring us and for those I hope only for ideas but the rest of you, we need your help :) We have 2 great Silverlight related user groups in the area, one that meets in Seattle and one that meets on campus, we need help from finishing web design to banner printing etc and speaker organization.

Please fill free to pass this on, the more the better. We'll be meeting in the Hyatt atrium in downtown Bellevue here:

Bellevue Place
10500 NE 8th St.
Bellevue, WA 98004

Monday, June 14, 2010 12:00 PM-1:30 PM

http://www.bing.com/maps/?v=2&where1=10500%20NE%208th%20St%2C%20Bellevue%2C%20WA%2098004-4345&encType=1

we'll eat at the Thai place right there and have a great lunch

If we all contribute a little bit, then no one has to contribute alot and we will be the most Awesomest Community around.

-David

Alas I find my self doing another book review... its not clear to me that I should continue to do that but on this particular book it heads in the right direction. As noted in an earlier post I find the idea of a cook book to be of particular interest and useful in my work with Silverlight. This book has gotten closer then any other to date in building the ideal Silverlight book. Albeit the book does make an attempt to teach Silverlight to some degree but it tends to be more of a reference book, the down side is that there is more in the book about teaching and less about more esoteric topics not connected to data. Certainly though for the professional Silverlight developer this is a great addition to your library.

http://www.packtpub.com/microsoft-silverlight-4-data-and-services-cookbook/book/mid/130510v8s5cu?utm_source=hackingsilverlight.blogspot.com&utm_medium=affiliate&utm_content=blog&utm_campaign=mdb_003316

I normally don't do book reviews here but this book is kind of cool and what I'm looking for. Silverlight 4 Business Application Development, here is a book that is kind of not so much on the UX side but what stands out about this book is the fact that it is more pictures and code then text especially when compared to a regular book. For me in particular this is awesome as Im more into pictures and code samples. Much like a recipe book this kind of thing is right up my ally so I can focus on making the applications User eXperience cool. That being the case I would recommend it. On the downside the book is from a publisher I haven’t not heard up and the technical editors are more well known in the authors but once getting past that its a good resource to have. You can download a sample chapter here:

http://www.HackingSilverlight.net/Downloads/9843_SampleChapter.pdf

and purchase the book on their site:

http://www.packtpub.com/microsoft-silverlight-4-business-application-development-beginners-guide/book/mid/100510ricjw6?utm_source=hackingsilverlight.blogspot.com&utm_medium=affiliate&utm_content=blog&utm_campaign=mdb_003266

some of the samples will also show up the the HackingSilverlight Code Browser:

http://www.hackingsilverlight.net/HackingSilverlightBrowser.html

Seattle's Silverlight User Group, in association with Interact and community organzations everywhere are having their next Silverlight meeting on June 2nd, 2010 at Building 40/41 caff ( http://www.bing.com/maps/?v=2&where1=Microsoft%20Building%2041%2C%20WA&encType=1 ).

All the local Microsoftee's and MVP's will be there.

http://www.SeattleSilverlight.net/

Come to the Seattle Silverlight User Group and listen to world famous Karl Shifflett author of power tools... if you don't know him you should. Karl will be talking about something related to Silverlight ;) check out his blog at: http://karlshifflett.wordpress.com/

Abstract:
There is much buzz around the newest capabilities of Silverlight 4 that position it to be a first class line of business (LOB) application platform.

This session will focus on navigation in out of the browser (OOB) LOB applications. We will examine how to implement non-linear navigation in Silverlight 4 OOB applications.

Hopefully this session will challenge you to explore new thinking and new ways to deliver great user experiences in you SL4 OOB apps.


This month we are also having an 'Ask The Expert' side session for beginners to help them come up to speed and start developing great Silverlight applications. If your new and want to learn this is the place to be.

Also at 6pm at the same location will be the organizing committee's meeting and this is open to the public. Please come and help us run the user group.

Seattle's Silverlight User Group, in association with Interact and community organzations everywhere are having their next Silverlight meeting on May 5th, 2010 at Building 40/41 caff ( http://www.bing.com/maps/?v=2&where1=Microsoft%20Building%2041%2C%20WA&encType=1 ).

All the local Microsoftee's and MVP's will be there.

http://www.SeattleSilverlight.net/

Come to the Seattle Silverlight User Group and listen to Mark Rideout a Program Manager on the Microsoft Silverlight team. Mark will discuss Silverlight text through the versions and highlight what new text features exist in Silverlight 4.

Marks Bio:

Mark Rideout is a Program Manager on the Silverlight Team at Microsoft. Mark is responsible for features around text and text input in addition to input and accessibility features. Mark has worked on multiple Microsoft UI frameworks such as Windows Forms and has been working with the .NET Framework since 1.0. Mark started at Microsoft in 1997, and prior to that, Mark worked as a consultant where he designed and developed business applications

This month we are also having an 'Ask The Expert' side session for beginners to help them come up to speed and start developing great Silverlight applications. If your new and want to learn this is the place to be.

Also at 6pm at the same location will be the organizing committee's meeting and this is open to the public. Please come and help us run the user group.

Seattle's Silverlight User Group, in association with Interact and community organzations everywhere are having their next Silverlight meeting on April 7th, 2010 at Building 40/41 caff ( http://www.bing.com/maps/?v=2&where1=Microsoft%20Building%2041%2C%20WA&encType=1 ).

All the local Microsoftee's and MVP's will be there.

http://www.SeattleSilverlight.net/

Come join Seattle Silverlight User Group when David Kelley (http://www.HackingSilverlight.net ) hosts and open discussion about Windows Phone 7 and building Silverlight applications for Windows phone 7.

This month we are also starting an 'Ask The Expert' side session for beginners to help them come up to speed and start developing great Silverlight applications. If your new and want to learn this is the place to be.

Also at 6pm at the same location will be the organizing committee's meeting and this is open to the public. Please come and help us run the user group.

Seattle's Silverlight User Group, in association with Interact and community organzations everywhere are having their next Silverlight meeting on March 3rd, 2010 at Building 40/41 caff ( http://www.bing.com/maps/?v=2&where1=Microsoft%20Building%2041%2C%20WA&encType=1 ).

All the local Microsoftee's and MVP's will be there.

http://www.SeattleSilverlight.net/

Come join Seattle Silverlight User Group when Ryan Lane (http://www.futile.com/ )talks about building Silverlight Applications in Expression Blend. More information to come shortly.

This month we are also starting an 'Ask The Expert' side session for beginners to help them come up to speed and start developing great Silverlight applications. If your new and want to learn this is the place to be.

Also at 6pm at the same location will be the organizing committee's meeting and this is open to the public. Please come and help us run the user group.

We gotta start having this kind of fun in Seattle:

We've got a great place to hang out, and the Silverlight Hackathon is a go! Meet us downtown at Souk, and we're going to have a great day of working on Silverlight. We've had some great project suggestions, and we'll break down into groups and work on projects that we find fun. Are you new to Silverlight? This is a great chance to get started. We've already had several people offer to help beginners...

read more at

http://www.portlandsilverlight.net/