dotNetWork.org 5th gathering

Date:

28 June 2008,
12:00 – 16:00

Attendance is FREE =)

Speakers

Yasser Makram
Software Architect – Santeon.

Mohamed Samy
Technical Architect, MVP – ITWorx.

Agenda

12:00 – 13:30:
Delivering Rich User Experience Applications using Silverlight 2
by Yasser Makram.

13:30 – 14:00: Coffee Break

14:00 – 15:30:
Patterns and Anti-patterns of SOA
by Mohamed Samy.

15:30 – 16:00: Lunch

Location:

Canadian International College, @ “El-Tagamo3 El-5ames”

Busses will be available at: Nady El-Sekka (11:00 AM – 11:30 AM)
Please be there before 11:30 coz we will leave on time..

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Please don’t hesitate to contact me if you have any further questions..
See u on the gathering

Silverlight + linux = Moonlight

Before speaking , what this mean ? I will speak about the Silverlight .

We can say Silverlight which knew before as WPF (Windows Presentation Foundation) .

It is to develop and to bulid rich Internet applications (RIA) which support graphics , animations or video within the .NET framework , so it is not just a cross platform (like Macromedia Flash ) but also cross browser .

Over the excellent vector graphic that Silverlight supports , Silverlight

supports the display for the high-definition video files …. Microsoft know the heavy of sending high-definition video over the internet and it’s expensive, so Microsoft offers hosting Silverlight media files and applications as an option service to increace the number Silverlight users (free for one year) .

The advantage of Silverlight applications than Macromedia Flash application that the first delivered to a browser as a text-based markup language called XAML So it is very esay to deliver to the broswer , very esay to read by search engines, like Google or altavista , where can read XAML file content ,But Macromedia Flash as all know heavy something to load and land to the browser if the network connection was slow ….the Flash file seem as black block or blind block to search engines (unreadable file) .

Silverlight supports Microsoft’s Common Language Runtime (CLR), so allows the designers and developers to work throw the .NET environment .

Silverlight version 1.0 offers a JavaScript-based programming model ; version 1.1 that are alpha till now , offers a .NET Framework-based programming model — one that includes dynamic languages like Ruby, Python and Pascal in addition to Visual Basic and C#.

Microsoft (with Novell as formal partnership) said Silverlight version for linux will called as Moonlight that will be upport the Firefox, Konqueror, and Opera browsers .This indication (Moonlight ) was by Scott Guthrie in his blog Silverlight 1.0 Released and Silverlight for Linux Announced.

To get news , learn or get started visit :
http://silverlight.net/

Install Silverlight from Microsoft

http://www.microsoft.com/silverlight/install.aspx

Compatible Operating Systems and Browsers

Operating System	Windows Internet Explorer 7	Internet Explorer 6	Firefox 1.5	Firefox 2	Safari
Windows Vista	Yes	-	Yes	Yes	-
Windows XP	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	-
Windows 2000	-	Soon**	Soon**	Soon**	-
Windows Server 2003 (excluding IA-64)	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	-
Mac OS 10.4.8+ (PowerPC)	-	-	Yes*	Yes*	Yes*
Mac OS 10.4.8+ (Intel-based)	-	-	Yes	Yes	Yes

* Silverlight 1.0 Only ; ** Silverlight 1.1 Only

Minimal Requirements

Components	Requirement
Personal Computer running Windows	X86 or x64 500-megahertz (MHz) or higher processor with 128-megabytes (MB) of RAM
Mac OS 10.4.8+ (PowerPC)	PowerPC G4 800-MHz or higher processor with 128-MB of RAM
Mac OS 10.4.8+ (Intel-based)	Intel Core Duo 1.83-gigahertz (GHz) or higher processor with 128-MB of RAM

SilverLight 1.0 and Silverlight 1.1 Alpha

in the name of ALLAH

Microsoft Announced the Release of SilverLight 1.0 and Announced about SilverLight 1.1 Alpha
This is a pre-release version of Silverlight that developers may use for evaluation.

Download both Version 1.0 and 1.1 for MS Windows and Mac OS x from Here,
Download Some Videos from Here
and FAQ From here