Microsoft Silverlight: Light Up the Web
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MSDN Webcast: An Introduction to Silverlight (Level 100)This webcast is a quick introduction to Microsoft Silverlight. In this session, we explain what Silverlight is, describe how it works, and explore what it is used for. We also give an overview of the designer and developer workflow in Silverlight. Presenter Brad Abrams, Principal Group Program Manager, Microsoft Corporation Brad Abrams was a founding member of both the common language runtime (CLR) and the Microsoft .NET Framework teams at Microsoft Corporation. Brad is currently the group program manager for the Microsoft UI Framework and Services team, which is responsible for delivering the developer platform that spans both clients and Web-based applications, in addition to the common services that are available to all applications. Specific technologies owned by this team include Microsoft ASP.NET and ASP.NET AJAX, parts of Microsoft Silverlight, and Windows Forms. Brad has been designing parts of the .NET Framework since 1998, when he started his framework design career building the Base Class Library (BCL) that ships as a core part of the .NET Framework. Brad was also the lead editor on the Common Language Specification (CLS), the .NET Framework design guidelines, and the libraries in the ECMA\ISO Common Language Infrastructure (CLI) standard. Brad has been deeply involved with the .NET Framework and the Windows Vista operating system efforts from their beginning.
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