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Los Angeles Silverlight Usergroup Meeting: Presenting Windows Phone 7 – Event-In-a-Box – June 16, 2010

 Hello All!

The June 16th Los Angeles Silvelright Usergroup meeting is going to be a very special one.  Not only will one of the foremost experts in the world, Jason Cook, present on Behaviors but yours truly will present on Windows Phone 7!

Microsoft has sent me a special materials dubbed Event-In-a-Box.  This special promotional material includes a pre-defined training regime as well as some pretty cool stuff to give away!  There will be free shirts, mobile cases, USB drives and Window-Clings!

Make sure and join the LA Silverlight Usergroup if you have not done so already and attend our June 16th meeting!  You can join and get meeting details at www.laslug.com

See you there!

New Speaking Event: Microsoft Book Signing/Silverlight 4 Presentation

Hello All!

On Saturday June 19th, 2010 from 7:00 to 9:00 pm (PST) I will be signing copies of my latest book Foundation Blend 3 with Silverlight and presenting/demoing the new features of Silverlight 4 at the Microsoft Store in Mission Viejo, California! 

Join me as I show how to use the new Webcam and COM APIs, show how to build Out-Of-Browser (OOB) Silverlight applications and talk about Sketchflow Prototyping with Silverlight.

There will be plenty of prizes and give-aways from our sponsors.  Microsoft will be giving away copies of the Expression Blend Suite, Apress will be giving away some of its most popular book titles based on .NET technologies and finally DevExpress will be giving away copies of its popular Silverlight Tools.

Join us for an evening of book signing, food and drinks, presentations and everything Silverlight!  attendance is free but RSVP as space is limited. 

See you there!

Just some of the free give-aways from DevExpress:

Just some of the free give-away prizes from DevExpress.

 Sponsored By:

 

My June and July 2010 Speaking Schedule

Hello All,

As always I like to keep you all informed of where/when you can come and see me present on Silverlight.  So, here is my current speaking schedule for the months of June and July 2010.  Please note that some of these dates are tentative and subject to change.  If they are tentative I will mention it.  Thank You and I Hope to see some of you at these events.  Be sure to come up and say hello if you do come!

Sat. June 19, 2010: Book signing/Silverlight 4 presentation – The Microsoft Store – Mission Viejo, CA: 
This event is sponsored by Microsoft, Apress and DevExpress and held at the Microsoft store in Mission Viejo, CA.  There will be food and lots of free stuff.  DevExpress will be giving away free copies of their very popular Silverlight Controls like the AgDataGrid SuiteApress, will of course be giving away books on Silverlight, WPF and .NET development.   I am sure there will also be free copies of my last book, Foundation Blend 3 with Silverlight and possibly even advance copies of my next book Foundation Blend 4 with Silverlight 4.  I will also be signing books and then doing a presentation right on stage.  Will be showing off some new features of Silverlight 4 including but not limited to the Webcam and COM Interop APIs!

Sat. June 26: SoCal Code Camp – San Diego, CA
SoCal Code Camp is a place for developers to come and learn from their peers.  I will be speaking on new Features of Silverlight 4, but this time with an emphasis on building Out Of Browser applications.  Join me as I build right on stage an OOB Chromless application with Elevated trust.  I am going to show you how to build the TutorialCam that I use on all of my free Silverlight video tutorials.

Friday July 23 – RIAPaloosa 3 – Chicago at the Illinos Technology Association:
RIAPALOOZA is a community-driven, non-profit, day-long event for professionals who design, develop, customize, maintain and maximize business value using rich platforms like Flash, Silverlight and HTML5.  Join me as I present on Building RIAs without writing code with Silverlight 4 (session link coming soon).  During this session I am going to show how to build Silverlight games using the Farsser Physics Library.  More specifically, I am going to show how to build the popular 80′s game Asteroids all without writing a single line of code!

 Wed. June 16 – Los Angeles Silverlight Usergroup – June Meeting
The Los Angeles Silverlight usergroup is a group created by myself and Jason Campbell so that interaction designers and developers can come together to learn about Silverlight, Expression and creating rich internet applications.  Join us for some free food, free prizes and some great presentations. I say that because Yours Truly is going to present at this meeting and show how to develop Windows 7 Mobile applications using Silverlight!  For this event Microsoft has sent me some Win7 Mobile swag that you’ll just love to have and I will love to be giving away!

Learn Flash ActionScript for Free

My pal R Blank of the Rich Media Institute is trying to get people into Flash so he is holding a couple of Flash courses, FREE!  Wow! If you ever wanted to learn Flash this is your chance.  I will speak with R and maybe offer a similar Free course in Silverlight.  Stay tuned for that but in the meantime check the date and times for the Free Flash courses:

Free through February 28th
Introduction to ActionScript Development with FDT
http://www.richmediainstitute.com/catalog.php?item=70
30 minute introduction to the world’s most powerful ActionScript editor with Alan Klement
Free through February 15th
Comprehensive ActionScript 3
http://www.richmediainstitute.com/catalog.php?item=72
Over 9 hours of AS3 training with R Blank

You can email R directly at — r at richmediainstitute dot com

Good luck with your new career as a Flash developer!

Victor

Join me at the Super Happy Dev House Event Jan. 16, Mountainview CA

Hello All,

The Super Happy Dev House is: 

 ”The premier monthly hackathon event that combines serious and not-so-serious productivity with a fun and exciting party atmosphere.

 SuperHappyDevHouse is a non-exclusive event intended for creative and curious people interested in technology. We’re about knowledge sharing, technology exploration, and ad-hoc collaboration. Come to have fun, build things, learn things, and meet new people. It’s called hacker culture, and we’re here to encourage it.”

I will be presenting on the new features of Silverlight 4! Click HERE to find out more!

See you there!

The Los Angeles Silverlight Usergroup December Meeting was Awesome

Hello All,

We had a great LASLUG meeting on the 18th of December.  Tim Mustain, CTO of SpeakTECH showed us a Silverlight solution for digital Daileys (dailies are a film print, video tape, or now digital format of the footage shot during the day of production) that they built for one of the major movie studios.  Not only did Tim show us how it worked from a user’s perspective but he was kind enough to delve into the actual code!  I am pretty sure that everyone there, including myself learned a thing or two if not much more than that.  I myself probably learned about 5 new things about Silverlight that I hadn’t known prior to Tim’s talk.  That is a pretty tall order for someone who has written books on the subject.

I then proceeded to show off some cool new features of Silverlight 4.  On stage I created the following Silverlight apps:

1) I created a Webcam application using the new Webcam API.  Source Code: http://tinyurl.com/ybdo2s3

2. I created an Out Of the Browser (OOB) application with Elevated Trust using the COM Interop API that started up an instance of MSFT Word and created a new Document that contained the text that we typed into the TextBox in the Silverlight application. Source Code: http://tinyurl.com/yd9gu2b

3. I then created an app using the new DROP API that allowed you to drop and image from your hard drive onto the app that the app would then display. Source Code: http://tinyurl.com/y9l36td

Unfortunately I forgot to record Tim’s presentation and I am kicking myself for that.  But I did remember to record my presentation (I swear it was a mistake!)

You can see my presentation here: http://tinyurl.com/ydmcxek

You can download the source code for the projects I created during my presentation from the URLs above next to the description of the apps.

Thanks to everyone for coming and to Jason Campbell of MSFT for providing the space, the gourmet pizza and getting Tim from SpeakTECH to present!

My Silverlight 4 Presentation at LA C# Usergroup in Manhatten Beach, CA (12.01.09)

Hello All!

The LA C# Usergroup in Manhattan Beach was kind enough to invite me to present on Silverlight 4 last night and it went very well.  The members were very into everything .NET and very interested to hear what Silverlight had to offer.  As always I talked about Silverlight and then proceeded to code some cool samples for them right on stage. 

I made three applications while presenting: a SL4 Drop application, a simple physics enabled Asteroids game, and a Webcam application.  I also recorded the entire two hour session.  So, below you can download the source code for the demos I made, view the running demos and even watch the presentation.

Enjoy and thank you very much LA C# Usergroup, I had a BLAST!

Presentation Video | 1st half: http://tw0.us/5Kz

Presentation Video | 2nd half: http://tw0.us/5fG

Webcam App:
Project Source Code: http://tw0.us/5JA
Running Application:  http://tw0.us/5Ky

  
DropDemo Source Code: http://tw0.us/5JB

Asteroids:
Project Source Code: http://tw0.us/5JC
Running Application: http://tw0.us/5Kx

Blog Page for LA C# Presentation:

My Blog: www.victorgaudioso.wordpress.com
Blog of all of my Video Tutorials: http://tw0.us/4cV

Come to the Los Angeles Silverlight User Group Kick Off Event!

Hello Everyone!

If you are in the Los Angeles area and are a Silverlight or WPF developer then you need to come to our kick off event!  If you are someone who is just wanting to learn Silverlight then this event is for you too! 

Rick Barraza and I will both be presenting.  There will be food, discussion, demos, prizes and raffles.  Make sure and register today at www.laslug.com

See You There!

My Speaking Schedule from Oct. to Dec. 2009

Greetings All!

Below is a list of Silverlight Presenation engagements I have booked for Oct., Nov., and Dec. 2009.  If you are in Southern California I urge you to stop by and check it out; I am going to show off some awesome features of Silverlight and Blend.

First Event: LA Silverlight User Group:

Date: Oct. 28, 2009

Time: 700pm – 900pm

Address:
Microsoft LA    
333 South Grand Ave, Suite 3300
Los Angeles, CA 90071

Presenters:
Victor Gaudioso
Rick Barraza

My Presentation:
1. Working with Sample Data in Blend 3:
     a. Blend 3′s Data panel;
     b. Creating Sample Data in Blend;
          A. Showing Sample Data in a ListBox using List Mode;
          B. Editing the ListBox DataTemplate to change the way the Sample Data is displayed;
          C. Showing Sample Data in a TextBlock using Details Mode;
          D. Importing XML and creating a Data Source;
     c. Creating a Data Object in Visual Studio;
     d. Creating an Observable Collection of Data Objects in Visual Studio;
     e. Creating a DataSource from the Observable Collection in Blend;
     f. Binding the DataSource to a ListBox in Blend

Second Event: LA Dot Net, the Premiere Los Angeles .NET Developers Group

Date: Nov. 2, 2009

Time: 700pm – 900pm

Address: UCLA

Presenters: Victor Gaudioso

My Presentation: To Be Determined (TBD)

Third Event: LA C# (www.lacsharp.org)

Date: Dec. 1, 2009

Address:
Manhattan Beach

Time: 600 pm – 8:30 pm

Presenters: Victor Gaudioso

My Presentation: TBD

Fourth Event: SocalDotNet (www.socaldotnet.org) 

Date: Dec. 2, 2009

Time: 600 – 8:30 pm

Address: Buena Park

Presenters: Victor Gaudioso

My Presentation: TBD

For more information email me at wpfauthor at gmail dot com.

Victor

Click HERE for my Bio

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