Silverlight Design Days – Free Blend Training on Tour
Check them out!
- Jan 29 – Mountain View, CA, US
- Feb 9 – Irvine, CA, US
- Mar 15 – break for MIX10
- Mar 24 – London, UK
- May 7 – Chicago, IL, US
- May 11 – New York, NY, US
- May 14 – Boston, MA, US
- May 26 – Austin, TX, US
A Silverlight Design Day is opportunity to learn about Silverlight and Expression Blend from a design and interface developer perspective.
The first half of the day will start out with a short poll, asking these three questions:
- How many of you write code?
- What technologies do you use today?
- Is there anything specific you want to cover?
The tools and the platform will then be introduced by accomplishing designer tasks based on the earlier poll as much as possible.
The second half of the day will be your opportunity to get your hands on Blend and Silverlight. PCs will be available already configured to run through tutorials, made especially with designer and UI tasks in mind.
SWAG and giveaways will be saved till the end of the day, for those hardy souls that can make it all the way through.
Where and When:
The events will be held in training centers with pre-configured PCs available. Feel free to request during the second half of the day, help configuring your own laptop. Once the Event Schedule (shown above) is complete we should end up with an even number of US and non-US locations.
Cost:
This event is free of charge. However, attendees are responsible for booking and paying for their own travel and accommodation. Both breakfast and lunch will be provided.
Registration:
You register by click next to the location you wish to attend in the Event Schedule above. Registration is handled via the MSDN events site, so be sure to have your LiveID credentials ready.
Online Training:
Sounds like a great idea but you can’t wait? Here are a few online sources to get you started:
- Project Rosetta – Blend Tutorials and a Flash to Silverlight Guide
- Kirupa.com – Blend and Silverlight Tutorials
- Expression Blend blog – Blend Tutorials
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Looking for a Tampa FL date on this one….
please not Miami, Ft Lauderdale or Orlando
they can have one also but I am in Tampa!
Come to Tampa!
Adam: come to Phoenix!
Come to Phoenix!!!
hmm, maybe that’s not polite enough…
Will you please come to Phoenix?
…perhaps that wasn’t direct enough…
You get your boss on the phone right now and tell him that you absolutely HAVE to come to Phoenix, and that there’s no way around it, and that if you don’t the world as we know it will come to and end. Please.
There, that should do it. 🙂
Ditto!
Philadelphia?
Looking forward in Pune (India)!
Please come to Paris, France !
“J’aime Silverlight” 🙂
Cool! When do you expect to come to Copenhagen, Denmark? 🙂
Awesome!!! How about coming to Dallas?
Thank you all for the great suggestions! I will let you know if an event will be showing up in your area.
Is Montreal Quebec on your agenda?
my mp3 collection,
I’d love to see a Philadelphia date.
Baltimore! (this thread sounds like a Huey Lewis song)
Adam, are the links broken or just getting hammered? Hitting the Austin link gives me a 404 and the Chicago link seems stuck in loading limbo.
Thanks!
Oops, yes the Austin date is changing so I’ve removed the link. Chicago should be working just fine though.
Come to Atlanta.. please. I will introduce you to some fine ladies when you do…
Hey Adam, please come to Washington DC!
Sacramento, San Francisco, Reno or even Las Vegas please.
Hello Adam,
I recently attended your presentation of “Silverlight Design Days” in NY. Unfortunately I had to leave early due to a production problem at work.
I was wondering if you had posted the presentation & code from that days event.
Thanks,
Henry
Hi Henry, the material from the event will be posted to the .toolbox site very soon:
http://www.microsoft.com/design/toolbox/
Hi
I’m using silverlight but I’m not really writting code. I’m kind of “cutting and pasting”