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Thanks to everyone who came out last night, there were a lot of good question.  I was pleased to claim victory over Chicago traffic.

Yes, we did go to Fogo de Chao afterwards.  I’ve been invited back to hit some more advanced MVVM topics or perhaps a “MEF and Silverlight” show.

I had a touch screen laptop so I started my presentation with the Multi Touch Silverlight Puzzle demo, wow effect guaranteed!

Thanks to everyone who attended my sessions at DevConnections Las Vegas. I had a great time meeting new people, discussing business problems and solutions and interacting. Here’s the code and slides for the sessions.  For those that came to the full-day Silverlight workshop I’ve included the slides that didn’t get printed plus a ton of code to help you get started with various Silverlight topics.

I had a great time at the DevConnections conference in Las Vegas this year where Visual Studio 2010 and Silverlight 4 were launched. While at the conference I had the opportunity to give a full-day Silverlight workshop as well as 4 different talks and met a lot of people developing applications in Silverlight. I also had a chance to appear on a live broadcast of Channel 9 with John Papa, Ward Bell and Shawn Wildermuth, record a video with Rick Strahl covering jQuery versus Silverlight and record a few podcasts on Silverlight and ASP.NET MVC 2.

I’m not currently planning on making it easy to install my XamlPadSample binaries. I’d prefer to share the code, and see existing XAML Tools improve, and new ones develop where interesting. My team wants to help by providing XAML API infrastructure and samples to enable more productive uses of XAML.

Out of the box features:

• Syntax highlighting
• Syntax validation
• Syntax auto completion
• Crash recovery
• Undo/Redo
• Insertion of break points
• Basic keyboard shortcuts

1. The problem

Download source code.

Have you ever wondered why the XAML parser recognizes the full palette of 141 colors (by name), but the Silverlight Colors class does not support the same full range of color names, for example, as WPF? I haven’t even noted that until the last week. In Silverlight in the XAML markup you can access all colors by name:

 Unfortunately, this not valid if you try the same operation in the code behind file:

If you check in MSDN you will see that the Colors class allows you to access only 16 colors.