You like working with Silverlight, .NET and Visual Studio, but then everybody is talking about HTML5. Why? What’s that thing? This video explains what HTML5, CSS3 and ECMAScript 5 are through the lens of a XAML and C# developer. You will learn to use the best of both worlds to build your next beautiful applications.

This Silverlight screencast shows you how to save your walking routes to disk and how to improve your application design using Expression Blend.

Steve Sanderson delivers KnockoutJS in this lightening talk. Learn how the Knockout library builds on advanced jQuery and JavaScript techniques to make even the most complex data-filled HTML forms a breeze. We’ll see jQuery, jQuery templating, JSON and live data banding applied to the MVVM pattern with Knockout, combined with ASP.NET to produce results that need to be seen to believed.

JQuery turned the world on its ear. Do we still write JavaScript or do we just write jQuery? Damian will answer that question with new JavaScript techniques and AJAX as well as some jQuery plugin surprises up his sleeve. What are the best libraries and practices for using jQuery and JavaScript with ASP.NET? How should balanced applications be designed to make the best use of the power of the server and the power of the client?

Download slides and videos in other formats

ReactiveUI is a M-V-VM framework like MVVM Light or Caliburn.Micro, that is deeply integrated with the Reactive Extensions for .NET. This allows you to write code in your ViewModel that is far more elegant and terse when expressing complex stateful interactions, as well as much simpler handling of async operations.