I do these chats a few times a year and they tend to be pretty fun.  Attendees can listen to me talk live via LiveMeeting, and can submit any questions they want to me.  I then answer as many of them as I can in the 90 minutes. 

We’ll probably talk a lot about the new features in VS 2010, .NET 4, Silverlight 4, Windows Phone 7, ASP.NET 4 and ASP.NET MVC 2 this week.

Hope to get a chance to chat with some of you there!

Scott

P.S. In addition to blogging, I am also now using Twitter for quick updates and to share links. Follow me at: twitter.com/scottgu

Hope you all had a great holiday – welcome to 2010!

Last month I did a blog post about some of the presentations I did in Europe and posted the slides+demo files from them.  High-quality videos of the talks I did in Sweden were posted two weeks ago on the Channel9 site, so you can also now watch videos of the talks online as well.  The videos use a nice format where you can watch me talking as well as the screen at the same time.  The code is readable when running in full-screen mode.

Below are links to the different talks along with the slides+sample files:

ASP.NET 4 and VS 2010 Web Development

This 90 minute talk provides a nice introduction to ASP.NET 4 and VS 2010 for Web Development.  It is primarily demo-driven and walks-through a lot of the new features coming with the release. 

The talk starts with a 2 minute introduction of someone introducing me which is in Swedish – but the rest of the talk is of me talking in English.

• Watch the Talk – Part 1
• Watch the Talk – Part 2
• Download the Slides
• Download the Demos
• Read other .NET 4 and VS 2010 blog posts

ASP.NET MVC

This 2 hour talk provides a nice introduction to ASP.NET MVC, and explains it by walking through how to build a simple application with it from scratch.  Along the way it highlights and discusses some of the new features coming in ASP.NET MVC 2. 

• Watch the Talk - Part 1
• Watch the Talk – Part 2
• Download the Slides
• Download the Walkthrough Slides

Silverlight 4

This 60 minute talk recaps the keynote I gave at PDC.  It walks-through the new Silverlight 4 features and capabilities.

• Watch the Talk
• Download the Slides
• Download the Samples

Hope this helps,

Scott

Last month I gave a Silverlight 4 keynote at the PDC conference.  You can watch my keynote online here (my part of the keynote starts at the 53:30 mark in the video).

I showed off a number of fun demos during the keynote that highlighted some of new features coming in Silverlight 4.  Today we posted the samples online (with code) so that you can download and run them locally on your own machines. 

You can download the keynote demos here (source code + VS project file included with each sample).

Keynote Demos

Below are some details about each of the demos now available for download:

PhotoBooth Application

The PhotoBooth application demonstrates some of the fun things you can do with the new WebCam and Microphone support in Silverlight 4.  It allows you to record videos and take photos within the browser – and then optionally apply effects to them (for example: the bulge effect below).  For kicks you can publish a photo of any of the pictures to Twitter

BarCode Scanner

The BarCode Scanner application also uses the new WebCam support in Silverlight 4. It allows you to scan an ISBN barcode from the back of a book, and will then use Amazon web-services to look up details about the book online:

Rich Notepad

The rich notepad application shows off some of the new text editing features in Silverlight 4.  It allows you to edit rich text within the browser, supports Bidi text (including Arabic and Hebrew), supports both left-to-right and right-to-left control layout (RTL is show below – notice how the scroll-bar is on the left hand side of the screen), supports programmatic copy/paste to the system clipboard, custom right-click context menus, printing, and drag/drop of files from the desktop into the browser to edit:

HTML Hosting

The HTML Hosting application shows off using the new Silverlight 4 webbrowser control in an out of browser application (note: you must run the application out of the browser for it to work).  It allows you to use the control both interactively (meaning you can click the HTML within it and run it like an application).  It also allows you to use the hosted HTML as a brush that you can apply to other Silverlight controls. For fun you can click the MSDN.com tab below and you’ll get rick-rolled to YouTube.  You can still use the HTML as a brush and carve it up into a jigsaw – even though the video is still playing (using Flash hosted within the HTML):

Learn More

Keep an eye on Tim Heuer’s blog as well as John Papa’s blog.  They post regularly about Silverlight, and will be doing some blog posts in the near future that cover the above applications in more detail.

Summary

You can download the keynote demos here (source code + VS project file included with each sample).  They work with the public Silverlight 4 Beta + SL4 VS Tools Support.  They provide a nice way to relive the keynote on your own machine, as well as show off the demos to friends. 

Hope this helps,

Scott

P.S. The Facebook application we showed in the keynote will also be available for download in the future.  We are still adding more features to it and polishing it up – I’ll do a blog post about it as soon as it is available.

Below are details on the different cities I’m visiting, and how to register to attend the talks:

• Oslo, Norway - December 1st
• Stockholm, Sweden – December 2nd
• Copenhagen, Denmark – December 3rd
• Brussels, Belgium – December 4th

I’ll also be attending the BizSpark Camp in Paris on December 8th and will be doing a presentation there as well:

• Paris, France – December 8th

Hope to see some of you at once of these events in person!

Scott

P.S. In addition to blogging, I’m also now using Twitter for quick updates and to share links. Follow me at: twitter.com/scottgu

My PDC keynote covered our new Silverlight 4 release and was on Day 2.  You can watch it here (I start at the 1 hour, 2 minute, and 45 second mark).

LIDNUG Online Chat Monday November 23rd

I’ll be doing a free online web chat Monday November 23rd at 11:30am PST where you can ask any questions about anything (including PDC announcements). 

The chat is hosted by the LIDNUG user group.  You can sign up and attend for free here.  The chat will be recorded and I’ll update this post with a link to the recording when it is over.

You can ask questions either through the chat tool – or by posting them to Twitter.  To ask questions via twitter simply post a tweet using this format:

@ScottGu #LidnugLiveQ question goes here

Other PDC Resources

I’ll be doing more blog posts about some of what was announced at PDC this past week.  Below are a few good posts that summarize some of the announcements from my team in the meantime:

• Silverlight 4 Overview
• Silverlight 4 Resources (includes links to all SL4 videos at PDC)
• ASP.NET MVC 2 Beta
• ASP.NET AJAX Library Beta 

Hope this helps,

Scott

P.S. In addition to blogging, I’m also now using Twitter for quick updates and to share links. Follow me at: twitter.com/scottgu (@scottgu is my twitter name)

This Tuesday (August 25th) I’m doing it again from 9am-10:30am (PST – Pacific US time). 

The agenda format is open and anyone can join in.  Basically you type your questions and then you can listen to me online answer as many of them as I can.  Any question is fair game!

Click here to register to join the talk for free.

Hope to chat with some of you soon!

Scott

The first is this evening at a London .NET User Group event.  I’ll be presenting Silverlight 3.  Unfortunately the event is already over-registered – so if you haven’t registered yet you’ll need to catch it the next time I’m in town.

The second talk is tomorrow (Friday) from 1-4pm at the Microsoft facility in Reading and is on ASP.NET MVC.  When we first announced it last week it also over-registered quickly.  Thankfully my hosts were able to get a larger room this week, though, so another 120 spots became available. 

You can register to attend the talk for free until 4pm today if you want to attend.  Hurry, though, as there are only 43 seats left (down from 57 seats when I first started writing this blog post).

Hope to see some of you there,

Scott

Click here to learn more about how to register and attend it.

Hope to chat with you more then,

Scott

I gave a first day MIX keynote again this year, and in it I talked about and announced a bunch of new Microsoft web development products.  These included:

• ASP.NET MVC 1.0 (we shipped the final V1 release during MIX)
• Expression Web 3.0
• Microsoft Web Platform Installer and Windows Web App Gallery
• Silverlight 3 
• Expression Blend 3
• IIS Media Services
• .NET RIA Services

My keynote also included a ton of demos and highlighted a bunch of great customers including: StackOverflow, NetFlix, NBC, Bondi Publishing, and KEXP.

Click here to watch the day one MIX keynote online.  Bill Buxton led off the keynote with a great talk about user experience for 20 minutes – I then talked for an hour and 50 minutes after him.

You can also watch all the breakout sessions from MIX online for free here (Greg Duncan has an easy to navigate list of them here as well).

I’ll be doing more in-depth blog posts in the days ahead on many of the technologies we introduced/announced and all the cool things you can do with them. 

Hope this helps,

Scott

General Session

The slides for my keynote can be downloaded here. 

In the talk I demonstrated how to debug the .NET Framework source code.  You can learn how to set this up with VS 2008 here. 

I also demonstrated building a site using the new ASP.NET Dynamic Data support - which you can learn more about here.  I also demonstrated using the new ASP.NET MVC Framework - which you can learn more about here.

I also showed off the new Hard Rock Memorabilia site built with Silverlight 2.  You can try out the Hard Rock application yourself here.  You can learn more about Silverlight from my links page here.

Building .NET Applications with Silverlight

The slides + demos for Silverlight breakout talk can be downloaded here.

You can learn more about Silverlight from my links page here.  In particular, I recommend reading my tutorial posts here and here.

ASP.NET MVC

The slides + demos for my ASP.NET MVC talk can be downloaded here.

You can learn more about the latest ASP.NET MVC source refresh here.  Stephen Walther also just posted a really good set of slides + demos from his post conference tutorial on ASP.NET MVC here.

Hope this helps,

Scott