What does Windows add to the Web 2.0 world? Can you reach and grow your audience with Windows applications? What are the best programming models to use for building innovative Windows applications? How does HTML 5 fit into a Windows world? What is the best way to build multi-channel applications that span PC, web, phone and television? A guest panel will discuss these questions and others while sharing their perspectives based on real-world experience of creating Windows client applications.

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SketchFlow is the prototyping environment in Expression Blend. See how to use SketchFlow to collaboratively design, evolve, explore and review user experiences and interactive content.

Stephen Walther from the ASP.NET Team joins James Senior to discuss an announcement: Microsoft is about to make the first contributions to the jQuery open source project! In the past 6 months, we’ve been busy working on three features: Templating, Data-Linking and Globalization. This video show demos of the contributions in action and how/when they will be available for developers to use.

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You can do a lot with a Silverlight 3 out-of-browser application – so what more do you need? Maybe file system access, the ability to host HTML content, the ability to customize the application chrome, greater control over the out-of-browser window, notifications, access to local components and the ability to playback rights protected media? If so, then this is the session for you to come find out about the new Silverlight 4 out-of -browser features and see some of the amazing things you can do with those features.

This session looks at the importance of right-brained thinking in UI design and suggest strategies for left-brain-tending developers to learn to tap into right-brain skills. It’s a truism in our industry that many developers just can’t design user interfaces. Why not? Because most developers are classic left-brain thinkers. They are skilled at procedural logic and deductive logic, and they hone their left-brain capabilities every day by writing code. However, user interface design, particularly in the era of advanced UI technologies such as Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) and Microsoft Silverlight, requires …