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  • Wired
  • WOW

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Building a Microsoft RIA from the Ground Up

Rob Bagby (Microsoft)
8:30am Wednesday, 04/23/2008
Sponsored
 Location: 2018

Come learn how to take advantage of the next generation of Microsoft’s web-centric technologies to develop tomorrow’s applications today. In this demo-driven session, you will learn how the Entity Framework allows you to expose an application-centric view of your data. You will further see how technologies such as ADO.NET Data Services and LINQ allow you to easily surface data to consume data within your RIA. Finally you will learn how Silverlight 2.0 allows you to build a rich user experience.

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Rob Bagby

Microsoft

Rob Bagby is a Developer Evangelist for Microsoft. Rob works with customers, as well as delivers presentations at numerous regional and national conferences, to illustrate how to take advantage of Microsoft’s developer technologies to deliver performant and secure applications faster. Rob bases his discussions on over 10 years of consulting experience, along with a Masters Degree in International Business from Thunderbird. You can read Rob’s blog here.