Nuno Filipe Godinho

Josh Holmes – UX Evangelist @ Microsoft

    Today we had a small “leak” from an unknown source from Microsoft, about TechDays 2010 in Portugal stating that you can already register for techdays 2010 at www.techdays2010.com.

   Every once and a while I go to CodePlex and try to look at some interesting projects that exist in there and this time I was looking for Silverlight related projects, and this was what I’ve found:

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   In order to better understand the way Silverlight and Blend work, we normally need to “take matters in our own hands”, and test it ourselves, and in order to do that we need some tutorials, hands-on-labs, and other tools.

   A lot as been said about “.NET RIA Services” now called “WCF RIA Services”, and much more about this name change, since many people doesn’t look at RIA Services like a real WCF Services with all their power, but that isn’t quite true since WCF RIA Services use the same bases as WCF but just make the work a little bit easier for us in terms of the “plumbing/low level development” part.

Architecture

   Geneva Framework has received a name change and now is called WIF – Windows Identity Foundation, since is the technology that will work with all types of Identity in the Microsoft world.