Thanks!

• MVVM (Model-View-ViewModel) – Allows for a separation of concerns in a Silverlight application and promotes testability
• Repository – Abstracts away the back end data source (database in most cases) and promotes testability
• Pipeline – promotes readability, extensibility and maintainability of code
• Service Agent – Abstracts away complexity of services.  Can hide things like asynchronous calls, protocol-specifics like HTTP or SOAP details, etc.

Another cool thing about the session is that we start off designing the application with SketchFlow.  If you haven’t seen this great addition to Expression Blend, come check it out.  It allows you build interactive prototypes in short order.  Also, just for fun, we throw in some gratuitous animations in the Silverlight app as we go along.  This session will be about 1.5 hours.  The next 2 sessions will discuss the developer-focused features of IE8 and Windows 7.

The abstracts for all 3 sessions are as follows:

Windows 7 for Developers

Windows 7 is almost here! With it are numerous improvements and new features to take advantage of in your applications. Watch and learn as we demonstrate how to utilize the new taskbar, multi-touch support, search, libraries, and more.

IE8 for Developers

IE8 makes your web better… faster, safer and easier.  This is true for developers too.  In this session, we will illustrate how developers can take advantage of some new technologies in IE8 such as accelerators to enhance a user’s web experience.  We will also illustrate the built-in developer tools in IE8 and how to take advantage of them.  These tools include a powerful CSS tool, script debugging and a script profiler.

Building Business Applications with Silverlight 3

Silverlight 3 has launched.  In this session, we will illustrate how you can build powerful line of business (LOB) applications with Silverlight 3 and Expression Blend 3.  We will begin with illustrating how you can build powerful prototypes with SketchFlow in Blend 3.  We will then implement a LOB application, illustrating some design patterns such as the Repository and Model View ViewModel (MVVM) along the way.

Here are the registration links (including Boulder)

I plan on delivering these events in Salt Lake City and Phoenix in October or November.

Hope to see you there…

What’s New in Silverlight 3?

Are you interested in building business-focused Rich Internet Applications (RIAs)?  Would you like to take advantage of 3D in the browser, but assume it is too hard?  Have you wanted to take a Silverlight application offline?  Then this session is for you.  We will explore and illustrate the new features of Silverlight 3, including the following:

· Support for perspective 3D

· Offline Support

· .NET RIA Services which simplifies the traditional n-tier application pattern by bringing together the ASP.NET and Silverlight platforms

Building Web Applications with Windows Azure

This session will begin with a brief overview of Azure and discuss some of the announcements made at MIX.  We will then illustrate through demo how to build a Windows Azure application from the ground up.  We will illustrate how to consume Azure Table Storage, how to host services, web pages and Silverlight components, as well as how to deploy your solution to the cloud.

MVC 1.0 vs ASP.Net Webforms

Have you heard about the new ASP.NET MVC  framework from Microsoft and wondered what it was all about? Are you curious whether this replaces ASP.Net WebForms?  Well in this session you will learn how to use the model-view-controller (MVC) pattern to take advantage of your favorite .NET Framework language for writing business logic in a way that is de-coupled from the views of the data.  In addition, we will talk about the pros and cons of both MVC and Web Forms, how to determine the best choice for a specific project, various techniques and patterns used to build MVC applications vs. Web Forms applications, and the implications for using each approach.

Hope to see you there!