The Los Angeles Silverlight Usergroup (LASLUG) is TONIGHT! May 25, 2011 7pm PST

Hello All!

Tonight is the LA Silverlight Usergroup Meeting!  You can attend this meeting in-person or, for the very first time, ONLINE via our custom UStream Page: http://tinyurl.com/3fmgfgv

In order to participate you must go to http://laslug.com to register as a member for FREE!

There will be prizes given away but you MUST have a RAFFLE Ticket!  These will be given away at the door when you attend in person but if you are planning on watching ONLINE (Yes, Online Attendees can win prizes too!) you can email LASLUGTicket@gmail.com and your ticket number will be emailed back to you.  This is WORTH doing because we have OVER $12,000 in PRIZES to give away*

And, our crack staff over here at LASLUG even made a special Windows Phone 7 Application to make choosing the winners, easy, fast and random (application screeenshot shown below).    Our online meetings are brought to you by our great sponsors Infragistics and Reg Gate Software and others such as ComponentOne, Telerik, Apress, WP7 Dev Podcast, O’Reilly, Jeff Levy Show, UXSynergy, Syncfusion, Silverlight Show, Nowcom, Pluarlsight, VIBlend, Safari Books Online, Microsoft and others.

So, if you live within a 100 mile radius of Los Angeles then we hope to see you in-person tonight and if you live outside of a 100 mile radius then we hope to see you Online athttp://tinyurl.com/3fmgfgv (remember to be eligible to win prizes online you must live outside a 100 mile radius of Los Angeles), where you can watch us through multiple camera angles, see speacial video spots and even interact with us via the chat module on the page – Provided by UStream!

Oh, also, try and be there early if you are showing up in person because we have cool SWAG BAGS filled with little goodies (key chains, Flash drives, stress balls, tee-shirts, etc.).  But we fall short of the 45 RSVP’d members and when we run out you are out of LUCK!  So come early!

See you there!  Victor Gaudioso

* Online attendees who win physical prizes such as books are responsible for all shipping costs.

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New Silverlight Video Tutorial (10 minute): How to create a fake Winow Control that can be dragged, Expended and Collapsed

Hello All!

In Silveilght 4 there is no WindowControl..that is a Control that looks like a traditioanl Windows window. So, I made my own version, a Window control that can be dragged around, expanded and collapsed.  In this video I show how to do it with two simple Grids, one for Collapsed and one for Expand. I then use the Visual State Manager (VSM) to make it collaspe and expand.  Further I use the MouseDragElementBehavior Behavior to make both the collapsed and expanded windows draggable, just like a real window!  You can see the functioning demo on this Silverilght page:  http://tinyurl.com/456xsno

Working Demo: http://tinyurl.com/456xsno
Video: http://tinyurl.com/3jocf5c
Source: http://tinyurl.com/3fc3cb2

IMPORTANT: If you watch the video you will wee that after I drag, expand and collapse the window a few times I get a JavaScript error marked by an exclaimation point in the bottom left of the browser window.  Shawn Wildermuth speculates that it is because the Behavior get’s confused about who its parent object is.  The way I fixed it was to wrap the Expanded grid into another Grid and put the MouseDrageElementBehavior on the parent Grid. I don’t show how to do this in the video but it is in my source code (ie., the source code has no JavaScript errorrs).

Enjoy! Victor

PS: We have been growing the Los Angeles Silverilght Group (LASLUG – www.laslug.com) like crazy…for instance we gave away $2500 in gifts in our April meeting…in our next meeting we will be giving away over $12,000 in prizes all FREE to our members; we do not even charge for the Raffle tickets! So join us for pizza, refreshments, great presentations (Morten Neilsen and Josh Kales in May), plenty of Swag from our sponsors and all things Silverlight!

PSS: Our new prizes have been made possible from our new sponsors, Syncfusion, ComponentOne, Manning Books, O’Reilly Books, Nowcom, Telerik, the Windows Phone Dev Podcast, Jeff Levy (the Digital Doctor on KFWB 980 am – Sundays from 5-6pm) where I host a segment called “The Silverlight Corner” bi-monthly. 

To stay abreast of everything going on with LASLUG and get prizes you don’t need to live in the LA area..we often hold online prize give-aways and online meetings and soon all of our meetings will be streaming live.  So, if you live in Los Angeles or  Baton Rouge, LA you can be a LASLUG member by simply signing up for free at www.laslug.com

Victor!

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The Los Angeles Silverlight Usergroup (LASLUG) is Growing by Leaps & Bounds – State of the Usergroup

Hello LASLUGers!

Today we had an occurrence that sets us apart as a premier .NET Usergroup;  today we hit the BIG TIME: Telerik has signed on to become a proud sponsor  of the Los Angeles Silverlight Usergroup.  In their own words, Telerik’s Emily Parker writes “(we) provide 1 Telerik Ultimate Collection valued at $1999/month. This license is our largest bundle so it includes tons of software – check them out here: www.telerik.com/purchase. I know you said other’s do two licenses/month but this license is a  huge bundle which always goes over well.  We send a demo CD with the license codes on them so your winners can just walk away with this and they are all set!“  

 Are they awesome or what? 

 Mission Statement:

To provide the local Los Aneles .NET community (with an emphasis on Silverlight & WPF) with the finest speakers that the planent has to offer.  Further, we pledge not to ever charge any of our members any money for this service.  While most other usergroups are free to attend they tend to charge for the raffles whereby they give away prizes.  We not only offer free gourmet pizza, beer, softdrinks and deserts we offer free prizes.  It is our goal to provide every member in attendence with a free prize be it a small prize such as a DevExpress tee-shirt, or a Microsoft Flash drive to something more significant such as an Apress book on how to do game programing for Windows Phone 7 to something very expensive such as Telerik’s Ultimate Silverlight Software Collection (a $1999.00 value).  Further, we promise to update our venues to make it easier for some members to attend one month and then easier for other members to attend another month.  We also feel this keep the group fresh and reduces the chance of them becoming bored with LASLUG meetings.  Finally, we have commited to our sponsors to help them add to their customer base by touting the positive aspects of their products and by encouraging our members to use their decision-making power at their places of employment to employ these books and tools if they enjoy the products we give to them as prizes. We also promise our sponsors high-visibility on our website (www.laslug.com) as well as in our meetings.

So Wed May 25th is the tentative date for our next LASLUG meeting and the first meeting we will be giving away Software from:

1. Telerik (one copy of Ultimate Collection – Value: $1999.00);

2. DevExpress (two copies of Silverlight Controls for Silverlight – Value: $799.99 (times two));

3. Syncfusion (two copies of Essential Studio Enterprise Edition – Value: $1,995.00 (times two));

4. VIBlend (VIBlend WPF Controls package – Value: $349.000), (VIBlend Silverlight Controls package – Value: $499.00).

  

We will also be giving away books:

1. Apress - Four titles to be determined – Approximate Value: $50.00 (times four));

2. FreindsOfEd-  One title, two copies - Expression Blend 4 with Silverlight – Value: $49.00 (times two));

3. Safari Books Online (10 day free trial and 20% off with purchase of a year subscription).

 

We will also have swag from:

1. Mircosoft

2. DevExpress

3. Syncfusion

4. Telerik

5. VIBlend

6. Nowcom

 

This comes out to a total of $9,283.  So by the time the meeting takes place I expect the prizes to be valued at well over $10,000.

 

And this is just as of right now…we are currently in talks with O’reilly, Manning, Anheuser-Busch, New Belgium Brewers and a few others.

 

So look for email blasts from me and the management team with regards to new sponsorship and meeting details.  Once you get the meeting announcement please secure your spot ASAP as space is limited and I think that will all of these new prizes, swag, gourmet pizza and beer the meeting is going to fill up fast! 

Visit www.laslug.com to join today!

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Video of my two day Sharing in the Light Silverilght/Blend/Visual Studio Course in Dallas

hello All, as you probably know I held a two day training course in Dallas dubbed Sharing in the Light. During this course I taught 80-some students all about Silverlight, Blend, and Visual Studio. A friend and fellow MVP Shawn Weisfeld (@shawnweisfeld) recorded both my screen and me on stage for the entire two days. He was kind enough to post the entire two days worth of videos here: http://live.ineta.org/Presentation/Speaker/88

I have embded the first video here for your convenience:

You can also download all of the source code for all of the projects I showed how to build here:

http://www.windowspresentationfoundation.com/Tutorials/SharingInTheLight/SharingInLightSourceCode.zip

I’d like to give a special thanks to Teresa Burger (@t_burger) for organizing the whole event.

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  Arnost Katolicky, doc. 
  February 28th, 2011 on 11:45 pm

  I found on the web only 35 pages from the Victors latest book about BLEND 4. Unfortunatelly I could not get the full book to write a detailed review of the book for my weblog http://expression-studio-aka.akamonitor.cz. I like very much the approach and the style how the content is explayned. Step by step, with clever screenshots, etc. I am sure that the quality of the “rest”of the book is perfect as well. I must recommend the book for professionals and for all who – like me – are interested innew software. doc. Arnost Katolicky, Czech Republic, http://www.akamonitor.cz, doc.akavakamonitor.cz.
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  Victor 
  March 8th, 2011 on 9:27 pm

  Hello Arnost, if you would like to pay for shipping I will send you a complimentary copy of my latest book. Victor
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  Maryellen Maderios 
  February 8th, 2012 on 3:25 pm

  I hardly comment, however i did a few searching and wound up here Video of my two day Sharing in the Light Silverilght/Blend/Visual Studio Course in Dallas Victor Gaudioso's Silverlight Blog. And I actually do have 2 questions for you if you tend not to mind. Is it just me or does it give the impression like some of these remarks appear like they are coming from brain dead folks?  And, if you are posting at additional online social sites, I’d like to follow everything fresh you have to post. Could you make a list of every one of all your communal pages like your linkedin profile, Facebook page or twitter feed?

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Windows Phone 7 Developer Launch: Jump Start your Mobile Development – I will be holding Session 3!

 UPDATE: The event was AWESOME and my session went off without a hitch and people said they loved it! Watch Video here!

Hello All,

I am sure you have heard that Microsoft is releasing a new mobile phone operating system called Windows Phone 7.  Well, did you know that if you know how to develop in Silverlightusing Blend and Visual Studio then you already know how to develop Windows Phone 7Applications?  Well you do and Microsoft is holding a few awesome events to show you how.  And I will be presenting at one of those sessions!

I will be holding Session 3: Supercharge Your Windows Phone 7 Apps with Microsoft Silverlight at the Sept. 29-30 (FYI: my session is on the 29th) event in Orange County, CA!  In this session I am going to show how to build Windows Phone 7 applications with Silverlight.  More specifically I will show the following:

1. The Blend Integrated Development Environment: Panels, the Toolbar, Design v Animation views, the Timeline, built-in controls such as the ListBox and Button controls, Content controls such as the Grid and Canvas and much more;

2. How to take everything you have learned and build a WP7 application with a custom, reusable UserControl.

If you would like to attend this totally FREE and awesome two-day event in Orange County, CA you can do so here:

http://tinyurl.com/2clldsd

There are also Windows Phone 7 Launch Events in Mountain View and San Francisco; to read about and register for them, go here: http://tinyurl.com/2f56uos

Thanks and I hope to see you there!

Victor

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Speaking at RIAPalooza in Chicago

by Victor on Jul.26, 2010

Hello All!

This weekend (7.23.10) I was invited to speak at RIAPalooza, a one-day conference dedicated to building Rich Internet Applications (RIAs). During my presentation I showed how to build Silverlight applications without writing any code whatsoever. In doing so I introduced and showed off Silverlight Behaviors. I then used the Farseer Physics Engine to build a very simple version of Asteroids complete with simulated physics, a ship that could move and rotate using the arrow keys and a few asteroids that when hit would destroy your ship. I then showed how to build the Slide to Unlock control that is used on many smartphones these days. This was especially cool because I had a touch screen laptop running touch-enabled Windows 7.

After my presentation I then participated in a speaker panel that was addressing questions, topics, etc proposed by the audience. We talked about some very cool subjects including HTML5 vs Plugins.

A very good time was had by all and I look forward to returnining next year for RIAPalooza 4. If you missed this year I suggest you make plans to attend next year as it was an enlightening experience. Also, I suggest you do as I did and stay the entire weekend and visit Chicago as it is a wonderful city. I also suggest that you take in two restaurants, Gibbson’s Steakhouse and then Joe’s Steak and Seafood Stone Crab House. Both had simply amazing food and an atmosphere that was crazy-fun! During the day make sure and checkout the Navy Pier for boat rides, shopping, and a stain glass museum to die for.

Getting back to RIAPalooza, you can view my presentation by clicking the link below:

Video Now Available

I will be posting the Source code for the two sample Silverlight applications I developed on stage in about 3 hours.

Victor

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  Eric
  August 6th, 2010 on 7:42 pm
  

  That is an awesome shirt, but you should train your guns a little bit more so that they bulge out of your sleeves a little bit better! 
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  Kareem
  September 25th, 2010 on 9:39 pm
  

  Hi Victor,

  I am currently reading your Foundation Expression Blend 4 book.

  This video is just 5 minutes. Can you post the full presentation?

  Thank you for your clear explanations.

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