Well Scott Hanselman has delivered his session at PDC NET Framework: Overview and Applications for Babies. And from the tweet streams it looks like he had a full room and fantastic feedback.
As Scott indicated in his earlier blog post he covers a lot of content in a short space of time so I would suggest watching the recorded video of his session TL49 (once it becomes available at http://channel9.msdn.com in the next 24 hours) that is now online from Channel9 or download the WMV file directly for offline viewing.
As an overview Scott’s presentation included different variants of his original WPF full framework BabySmash application expanded to use different platforms & technologies i.e.
- BabySmash Surface PC Demo.
- BabySmash WPF application using MEF.
- ADO.Net Data Service.
- Windows Mobile Running Silverlight 2 BabySmash.
- ASP.Net Charting.
- ASP.NET MVC Charting.
- BabySmash running under Silverlight 2 in the Browser.
- Silverlight 2 Charting.
Scott ended the presentation by sending the address to the Silverlight version out to twitter users. As users hit the keys, the results were sent to the ADO.Net Data Service which then displayed the live results using a Silverlight Chart and Microsoft Virtual earth.
This is where my involvement started. Scott decided to use initial port of BabySmash to Silverlight that I created in his PDC presentation, to deliver on the MMO (Massively Multiplayer Online) request for BabySmash.
So the BabySmash Silverlight MMO PDC version was born so to speak. Now that Scott has publically demonstrated the Silverlight version, I will continue adding blog posts to my existing BabySmash series. In the new posts I will discuss further details of the Silverlight version of BabySmash and the Silverlight Reporting that Scott and I collaborated upon to create the final result for the presentation.