Coming to Central Florida .NET User Group in November

I just firmed up another stop on my Fall/Winter INETA event tour … I will be presenting to the Central Florida .NET User Group in Lakeland Florida on November 19, 2008. I’ll be in Naples Florida the day before, then I make the drive up to Lakeland about 2+ hours north. Not a bad drive.

As always, you can check out my full schedule of future and past events on my events page.

The topic I will be presenting to the Central Florida .NET User Group is Data Services with Silverlight 2. If you are in the area, please stop by and say hi! . Here is a synopsis of the session.

Silverlight enables developers to use their .NET and XAML skills to develop Rich Internet Applications and to build data driven Silverlight applications that communicate with multi-tier architectures. This session will show how to build Silverlight 2 applications using XAML based data binding techniques, notifications, and consume REST services. Examples will show how to use LINQ to XML to manage XML content from HTTP Responses, how to use WCF to talk to various middle tier services including custom entity models and the Entity Framework, and interact with 3^rd party RESTful services from Silverlight 2.