Monday - Silverlight 2.0

I am in Barcelona for TechEd. The keynote is planned for the afternoon, no sessions until after the keynote so my morning will be spent at the self-paced labs. I had planned to do some labs about multithreading in Visual Studio but it looks like they've gone from the schedule! Nevermind, I just did a lab on Silverlight Foundations lab (WUX11-HOL) Notes from the lab: • Silverlight projects produce xap files, wich are just zip files that contain dlls and a manifest. • When you create a Silverlight project in Visual Studio, it generates a new ASP.NET project by default to host the silverlight control. • Layout: VS contains some sort of read-only designer to preview the results of changes to the XAML file. Editing the layout WYSIWYG-style is done in Expression Blend. • Blend much more powerful than Winforms editor: add rectangles, ellipses, bezier curves, clever resize/skew commands... Apparently you can switch back and forth from Blend to Visual Studio using the same solution/project files. • Expression Design is used to build vector graphics that produce a XAML file. I'm considering Silverlight to build business apps so I also started the Communications and Data with Microsoft Silverlight 2.0 (WUX14-HOL)