September SDDN Meeting: Case study - Building a portal application using Silverlight, Prism and .Net Ria Services

TOPIC: Young Oh – Case study: Building a portal application using Silverlight, Prism and .Net Ria Services
DATE: Wednesday, September 23rd, 6:00pm
VENUE: 43Below. 43 Barrack Street, Perth
COST: Free. All welcome

What can we do with Silverlight? How can it be done? Silverlight can be used to build some serious real world business applications. Combined with Prism and .Net Ria Services it is possible to build what we used to build with WinForm, WPF, and Asp.Net. Silverlight can be used to deliver complex, flexible, intuitive, and powerful application development platforms. In this presentation the experience of building a composite portal application will be discussed. This portal application is not a webpage portal but an application portal. Instead of being restricted to using web parts or portlets full independent applications can be integrated into a portal framework. This can lead to creating a genuine enterprise level portal application framework comprised of relevant real world applications. This presentation will discuss about its concept and architecture and showcase an early stage experimental project which is designed to be integrated with upcoming SharePoint 2010 engine.

Also this month, we have two license give aways. A license for LinqPad, thanks to Joseph Albahari and a license of the newly comercial Silverlight Spy (a MUST if you are doing Silverlight development) thanks to Koen Zwikstra of FirstFloor software.

Look forward to seeing you all there!

Back from TechEd - Gold Coast, Australia

We'll I've just gotten back from TechEd, Australia 2009, and I've pretty much recovered. It was a full on week with loads of sessions, and loads of socialising/Networking.

It was my first TechEd, and I'll definitely doing it again. It's gone on my list of must attends. The cool thing was how many people I already knew, some who I've met at other events and others I hadn't met before other than online.

Now to catch up on some work...