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Microsoft web Development (Silverlight and Rapid Development)

May 7

Thu 7:00 PM

Location: This location is no longer available

Estimated attendance: 24 people attended.
4.0010
Who organized?
Eric Shafer

Jared Bienz and Sara Summers from Microsoft will be giving the presentation this month and it will rock your world. Come learn about the development cycle and platform Microsoft is unleashing. If you were at Houston Techfest two years ago, you just got a taste of the development tools and capabilities of this website development process.

This will be great for hard core developers and laymen alike, as you will learn some of the how and lot of the what can be done and really what the Internet will look like in the near future.

This is one of the most exciting Meetups I think this group has had!!

The entrance to the parking garage is on Del Monte Dr. near the Beltway 8 feeder. Guests will need to sign in at the security desk and I’ll have a stamp to validate their parking so they don’t have to pay when they leave.

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Talk about this Meetup

Posted May 7, 2009 4:36 PM

Sean

I will definitly be there.
Posted May 6, 2009 1:32 PM

Todd Anglin

Sorry- Can't make the rescheduled date. Landed on my birthday and don't think my wife would be too happy if I spent the evening talking Silverlight. :) Have fun.
Posted Apr 28, 2009 12:55 AM

Mark and Gerald

Looking forward to it! It'll be our first meeting too Angela.
Posted Apr 27, 2009 5:07 PM

angela

Jared - your link is correct - I got the same results on Google Maps. http://maps.live.com/?v=2&a......
Posted Apr 20, 2009 11:15 PM

Jared Bienz [MSFT]

EVERYONE: Please be very careful entering this address in your GPS. We have people end up at the wrong location a lot. The office is near Beltway 8 and Westheimer. This is on the mid-west side of town off the beltway. For some reason, some GPS units and maps will take you near the airport. This is not correct. Here's a live map of the correct location: http://maps.live.com/?v=2&a...
Posted Apr 20, 2009 11:15 PM

Jared Bienz [MSFT]

lol! Bring it on Todd. :)
Posted Apr 16, 2009 12:04 AM

Todd Anglin

We'll plug this event at tomorrow's North Houston .NET User Group meeting, too (in The Woodlands). I'll try to come to keep Jared honest. ;) Look forward to meeting this group! -Todd Microsoft MVP Chief Evangelist, Telerik
Posted Apr 8, 2009 7:08 PM

angela

This will be my first meeting. It seems it will be very interesting.
Posted Mar 24, 2009 9:17 AM

Jared Bienz [MSFT]

We can also host this at the Microsoft Houston office if needed. We can fit about 80 to 100 folks.
Posted Mar 11, 2009 2:48 PM

Robert Stewart

Will definately be there. I have offered the HAL-PC facilities for the meeting. We can handle 100+ there easily. Also, for those interested, I do a DB and GUI Design SIG there the 2nd Saturday of each month from 9 am to noon. We are currently doing a WPF and SQL Server application to get our hands on the technology.
Posted Feb 27, 2009 6:05 PM

Michelle

I don't know alot about the Silverlight and Rapid Development but that's why I joined this group to try and keep up with the technology and learn new things.
Posted Feb 27, 2009 11:02 AM

John W. Collins

Eric, Will be glad to pay a portion of expenses. I am out of the way but I have a downs stairs to my house that can be used, it will accommodate up to 50 people, maybe more depending how friendly they are. We can ice cool our own beer. You can look up address 11601 Wincrest Dickinson, Tx Like I said it is out of the way, sure would make my drive shorter. "smile"

Who attended?

24 attendees
- Anil
  
  “ Excellent! I think that Silverlight 3 onward revolutionize user experience on web applications both, in business applications and also rich internet media apps. ”
- Eric Shafer
  
  “ Jared and Sara did a great job. The presentation was well suited to the audience and covered some really cool technology coming down the pipe. I am not sure if the reschedule or the location mix up took their tool, but I was a little disappointed by the turn out. ”
- Robert Stewart
  
  “ Looks like it may be finally ready for prime time with version 3. ”
- DC
  
  “ I wanted so much to attend this one, particularly after the troubles I went through to attend the original one - canceled with few hours notice. Too bad, the notice of this new date reached me while I was already out of town. Is there any chance to give another repeat presentation? ”
- Aaron Eslick
  
  “ It was very interesting and informative. It certainly sparked my interest in blend. ”
- Jess
  
  “ Not a bad meetup got some good information for the future. Sometimes previews are frustrating in that they generate ideas that have to wait for the preview to be released. ”
- Henry Lee
  
  “ Can be more general feature , less technological detail. With the solution on the screen , I really did not see how he changed the object property or the setting which actually not really important. I think we like to see what great feature Silverlight and Satchflow can bring us in wow moment. But overall , I am happy to see how the Blend 3 works and get the idea what it looks like. Thanks for the event. ”
- Ador
- Kimberly
- Sean
- Joe
- Grace D
- Angela Schmeidel Randall
- Karen Vogelsang
- toby
- Phyllis
- Mario Hernandez
- nick B.
- Mauricio Quiroga
- John W. Collins
- Jared Bienz [MSFT]
- Brian Hanby
- TallDavid
- Hanee Hasan
- Michelle
- ERIN RELFORD
- Marcia
- Kenan Branam
- Mark and Gerald
- drhouse
- Adrian Sanchez (+1 guest)
- Reba
- lucas (+2 guests)
- Kat Bush
- Ken Ismert
- Matthew
- Marc Nathan
- Ahmed
- Dave
- Rafael
- Robert Brackenridge
- Larry W.
- Lance Griffith (+1 guest)
- Clarissa
- siva
- Long Duong
- basit
- Pamela
- Erick Figueroa
- Slawomir Rotkiewicz