Hey guys if you have not heard by now.    We are putting together a Windows Phone 7 event here on Aug 26.   We will be hosting a Firestarter event at the Highland Conference center from 9-4 with a development garage following from 6-9 at New Horizons.    For those not familar with the WP& plateform here is a previos of the WP7 plateform cover by Engadget.  http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/19/windows-phone-7-in-depth-preview/ If you are planning to join us for the Firestarter or the Garage please make sure to register. Firestarter Event http://birminghammobile7day.eventbrite.com/  Garage...

Microsoft and Silverlight Nights are putting together a Windows Phone 7 development conference in Birmingham on Aug 26.    Glen Gordon and Joe Healy from Microsoft will be presenting on Windows Phone 7.   We will have two session the daytime session is a chance to learn about Phone 7 development tools and techniques.   The evening session will be a hands one workshop.     The day session will be from 9-4 at Highland Conference Center and evening session at New Horizons from 6-9.  If you are or know anyone that would be interested in attending...

Come out October 1st, 2009 to Innovation Depot at 6:00 PM for our first official meeting. It will be a night full of fun and excitement as we share Silverlight with Birmingham. We are hoping for a mixture of both Designers and Developers to create an open forum that we can learn to use each others talents. ******** PLEASE RSVP UNDER THE EVENTS PAGE

Todd is speaking at BSDA on Sept 10th, 2009 at 6:30 at New Horizons. Please come out and support him. Out of Browser Experiences with Silverlight 3: With Silverlight 3 developers are no longer tied to the browser.  Silverlight 3 introduces a new feature enabling a Silverlight 3 component to be run from a user’s desktop.  While this is a wonderful new capability, it comes with its own pitfalls. How does it handle when a user is not connected to the internet? How do we get updates installed on the client’s machine? How do we store any work the client...