Mix 09: Building Microsoft Silverlight Controls

Thank you to everyone to who came to my talk at Mix09! 

I’m always a bit nervous having talks on the last day of a conference. (After all, you work really hard to pull a session together – and it can kinda be a bummer talking to mostly empty chairs.)  But my room was full, and the audience’s vibe felt great from stage.  :)

If you missed the session, you can watch the video here:

Also, as promised, here are links to…

  • Sample source code
  • Deck

    The final WishExplorer demo uses Wishpot’s 3rd party web service

    Wishpot is a great site for wishlisting – it’s aimed at avoiding “random” (note quotations) presents on your birthday and holidays. :)   Anyways, in order to compile & run the demo locally, you’ll need to request a developer key from them here.

    Also, here’s a link to two other demos, if you’d link to click around them:

    A few callouts:

    • Thank you to Wishpot’s CTO Tom Lianza and  Senior Designer John Hildenbiddle for all their help on the backend and visuals for the demos.
    • Dave – your radial panel rocked it.  Thanks!

    Any feedback you have on the session content or presentation is appreciated – I’m always trying to be a better speaker.  :)

    p.s.  I’ve posted an update to my SnippetManager – it now automatically copies the snippets to the clipboard.

  • 9 Responses to “Mix 09: Building Microsoft Silverlight Controls”


    • I loved this years talk, you added new insight from last years talk. I am also happy that there is a Silverlight Friendly webservice out there that we can use to write our own control

    • Karen, great job on your presentation. The new features in SL3 for maintaining resources will be a BIG help to me. And your coverage of the error handling for controls was one of my highlights from MIX. Thanks for posting the sample code so quickly.

    • This was one of the best presentations at Mix 09. Thank you!

    • Great talk, watched online from here in Italy.
      Lot of things to learn from, keep up the good work on Silverlight!
      Thank you

    • Bummed I wasn’t able to come to MIX and miss all of the Silverlight goodness. Enjoyed the video.

    • Great talk :-)
      The best one at Mix09 this year.
      And thank you for posting the source code samples!
      Keep up the good work on Sl3 :-)

    • The talk was fabulous! I have some photo-evidence for the overloaded room… You can check them out on flickr, if you like.
      Picture1: http://tinyurl.com/c6pkk3
      Picture2: http://tinyurl.com/dc47hy

      Thanks for the source code; I’m incredibly excited about the new features in SL3 and Blend3 Beta and start experimenting this week.

    • Great talk and thank you. :)

    • First of all thank you for posting sample source code. I have download the sample source code but i am not able to get animations on Data validation on RatingTextBox in Wish Details Demo. Instead I am getting exceptions on cs file. Can you please help me run the demo with animations? Thank you once again.

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