Events

Microsoft are celebrating a number of product launches and innovations during TechDays: a week of technology and social events. Black Marble is joining in with a Northern event exploring how you can get the most from the latest technology releases including Visual Studio 2010 and SilverLight4 and explore how Microsoft’s platform and tools bring together the clients, servers and services needed to build rich engaging applications.

Fresh from Mix10 in Las Vegas, Black Marble is bringing all the key news and highlights from the Microsoft Web Conference. Now in its fifth year, the MIX conference is a gathering of designers and developers who are building the world’s most innovative web sites. From sessions on UX, design and development and covering technologies such as SilverLight, Expression and Windows Phone, Black Marble will bring you everything you need to know.

Plus Black Marble welcomes Jesse Liberty, Silverlight Geek, and Developer Community Program Manager for Microsoft (US).

Building A Highly Extensible, Decoupled Silverlight Open Source Application with MEF and RIA Services using Lean, Test Driven Development, An International Team of Volunteer Programmers, and lots of Advil. (level 300)

This talk will use the Silverlight HyperVideo Platform open-source project on CodePlex as a case study in building highly extensible Silverlight applications. Among the topics we will focus on are:

New features in Silverlight 4 and how they made life easier

The Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF) added to Silverlight 4

WCF RIA Services for connection to a back-end db

Handling inter-module communication when the requirements are that modules cannot assume which other modules will be created, there can be no dependencies on order-of creation and unanticipated modules must be able to communicate with existing modules.

Using Markers, Injected Markers and polling to trigger events while viewing a video.

A Quick introduction to Lean, TDD and Kanban

Speaker Bio:

Jesse Liberty, is a Developer Community Program Manager for Microsoft (US). Lately he has been focused on Component-based, Test-Driven, Cross-platform line-of-business application development, and has led the development of the open source Silverlight HyperVideo Platform.

Liberty is the author of over two dozen books, and his blog is a required resource for Silverlight programmers. His twenty years of programming experience include stints as a Distinguished Software Engineer at AT&T; Vice President of Human-Computer Interaction at Citibank and Software Architect at PBS/Learning Link.

During the morning there is a session on Visual Studio 2010. Along with Black Marble, Microsoft’s own Matt Nunn will also be speaking!