<ChristophDotNet

Following Jesse’s and Pete’s excellent posts on porting Silverlight2 apps from Beta 2 to the final release bits I thought I add just a little more information.

One of my customers was interested in some of the cool features of the Mobile Client Software Factory, but they wanted to develop on Visual Studio 2008. The original version from p&p wasn’t updated to VS 2008, but Glenn Block has a post that describes how to get MSCF to run in VS 2008.

Apple is the new Microsoft? Right ... they sneak Safari and MobileMe onto my system - without me asking. That's the kind of stuff Microsoft got in trouble for back in the mid 90s. Isn't it?

If you've seen my "interactive deck" from TechEd or the some recent Bill Gates demos then or the cool TouchWall demo for example, both showed the concept of a single canvas that you explore during a presentation instead of flipping from one slide to the next.

As promised at my TechEd 2008 chalk talk Innovation 101: Tips & Tricks for Architects & Developers to Drive Innovation, here's a slightly evolved version of my interactive deck. I had thought that a talk on innovation should innovate on the presentation tools and technique and here's what came out.

Here’s my ONE slide for tomorrow’s talk:

Innovation is a key strategy to win with customers for several of the companies I work with. It’s a quite a successful strategy for technology and non-technology companies alike. Think of Microsoft, Google, Yahoo, Apple, Amazon, Travelocity or even Frito-Lay, Pepsi, P&G, etc. Their thought leadership translates directly to market share and successful growth.

I'm trying to do my apps in any type of XAML these days since I finally think I "got it". I wish I could claim that I will break free from the limitations of HTML and my new found liberty will result in fantastic looking apps -- but in reality, I still lack the design skills to come up with something that looks really cool.