Next Tuesday (July 31) I will be presenting on Silverlight to the PTNUG user group in Greensboro, NC. If you're in the area, come out and say hi!

Looking Into the Light – An Introduction to Silverlight 1.0

Silverlight™ is a new Microsoft® technology for delivering rich, cross-platform interactive experiences for the Web and beyond. Silverlight™ enables the creation of rich, visually stunning and interactive content and applications that run on multiple browsers and operating systems. In this session, learn more about the benefits from a developer perspective and get an introduction to building applications using XAML, JavaScript and Microsoft developer and designer tools.

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A big shout out of congratulations goes out to Scott Hanselman following his recent announcement that he is joining ScottGu's Developer Division team at Microsoft.

I've enjoyed reading Scott's blog and listening to him at conferences for a number of years now, and have always respected his thoughtful insight into Microsoft technology and how it's used. Scott is one of those voices that has always been both balanced fair, and I have not doubt his "Blue Badge" will not change a thing.

I think right now, more important than any single technology is the quality team of people that Microsoft is assembling, smart people that are passionate about what they do, doing what they love to do.

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Tonight at the TRINUG WinFX group meeting I said I would post a link to the files required for .NET 3.0 development.

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/windowsvista/aa904955.aspx

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Forget the iphone, the latest version of Live Search for Mobile is the killer app for mobile phones! This FREE program is the ultimate tool for local searches, you know to find the closest coffee shop, pub, dry cleaners, etc providing both the location and contact information.

It's more than just a text search though, it's mapping capabilities rock! Combining search with Virtual Earth mapping. Paired with a Blue Tooth GPS receiver, the application turns your phone into a turn-by-turn GPS routing solution.

 With direct info on Traffic, Movies, and more - this takes mobile to a whole new level. Great job!

If you have a Windows mobile phone, this is a must have! Check it out.

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Congratulations to new elected INETA Board of Directors Speaker Bureau VP David Walker on his other July 1 title change of MVP Visual Developer - ASP/ASP.NET. 

Great job David!

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In addition to the local .NET fun that takes place at the Triangle .Net User Group, I'm looking to get a group of interested people together on a regular basis to take a somewhat more focused and advanced look into WPF and Silverlight. If you are in the area and working with WPF, Silverlight, Blend, or related topics I would be very interested in hearing from you. I'm especially interested in people coming at the from more of the design side than the typical developer would. If you're interested, please leave a comment or drop me a note. If you have space and would like to host such a meeting, please let me know as well!

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Microsoft to open a new software development center in Vancouver this fall.  

Read the press release here..

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For some Silverlight fun, check out Zero Gravity from Terralever

Endless fun!

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