MVVM is a very important pattern used in Silverlight, WPF and Windows Phone 7 applications. This video shows you with a lot of code samples how to build complex interactive applications using proven best practices and powerful tools.

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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 …

In this episode we are going to take a look at how we can use the take our in-browser Silverlight application and allow it to run Out of Browser (OOB). We will take a look at how we can let Silverlight perform the lifting as well as how we can provide coding to create the OOB application.
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