MVP Summit -- and a Lesson from Chief Seattle
" Day and night cannot dwell together." -- Chief Seattle The MVP Summit in Redmond / Seattle this year is proving to be valuable, at least to me. I've been focusing mostly on the tracks around Silverlight and where it's going, and it appears to me that this product is going to evolve quickly into a killer platform that will be capable of producing enterprise - level browser based applications that do video, high-powered vector graphics /animation, and data access including ws* SOAP, REST, HTTP, TCP and even UDP transports, LINQ, and can handle cross - domain calls with the appropriate security xml files in place. DataBinding is done, and there's more coming which will show up in the next Beta coming -- well -- let's just say "sometime soon". But the best lesson was one we learned in real life at Maggiano's in Little Italy in Bellvue , in a building hosting a Microsoft office and where the language groups dinner was held for all the VB.NET...