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July 2007
July 31, 2007
Silverlight Talks in SL and RL
Amanda Silver, Lead Program Manager for Visual Basic (and 50 Cent fan) is giving a talk in Second Life, Tuesday, July 31, 4 p.m. Pacific Time (which is also Second Life Time). The talk is being held on Visual Studio Island (Here's the SLURL). Amanda will be speaking in the Visual Studio Theater. Come early to get a good view -- the theater only seats about 60 avatars.
If you miss today's talk, Brad Abrams, GPM for the UI Framework and Services team is giving a talk on the Island on August 30, at 3:00 p.m. Brad will be discussing ASP.NET AJAX and Silverlight. If you're new to Second Life and want more info before signing up, check out www.visualstudioisland.com. Also if it's dark out when you get to the island, you can always Crtl-Shift-Y to force the sun to noon. For more online Silverlight training check out Dr. Dobb's Sparkleball tutorial.
As for Real Life training, Tim Sneath has posted a healthy list of Silverlight and WPF training courses happening in RL all around the globe. The courses are being held throughout August and September by Microsoft partners, including Wintellect, Dunn Training, Developmentor, and others.
Posted by John Dorsey at 05:07 PM Permalink
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July 23, 2007
IronRuby Pre-Alpha released
Microsoft's John Lam announced the 0.1 Pre-Alpha release of Iron Ruby at the OSCON 2007.
IronRuby is an .NET implementation of the Ruby programming language and is licensed under the Microsoft Permissive License (Ms-PL), which allows users to view, modify, and redistribute the source code for either commercial or non-commercial purposes. JOhn also announced that they're inviting any interested parties to contribute source to the IronRuby libraries (although not to the compiler proper just yet).
Posted by John Dorsey at 06:26 PM Permalink
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July 11, 2007
You've accepted XAML into your Heart!
For all the true XAML believers, Debreuil Digital Works has created The Converted, a SWF to XAML conversion tool. The Converted processes swf files containing vector-based animations and sound, converting them into XAML code. Note that it does not process ActionScript events or embedded video. The full program is $249.00 and a "watermark" trial version is available too.
Of course, there is also the SWF2XAML tool that Mike Swanson created last year, but Mike's converter does not support audio export. Mike also created an Illustrator to XAML converter.
Posted by John Dorsey at 12:34 AM Permalink
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