First of all, it’s been a long time since I’ve blogged here. I’ve been busy at work and it was hard to find some spare time. But I’ll try to post more frequently. Especially because this week hopefully we will have a new version of Silverlight 2 to play with. Lots of interesting topics.

Today I’ve attended the inaugural meeting at the recently formed Toronto Silverlight User Group. This is a great initiative and by the number of people who attended it, there’s confirmationg that there is a lot of interest and momentum. There was a lot of good questions and nice presentations.

Nice thing about the User Group is that it was not only developers who attended but designers too. It’s really interesting to see designers and developers working together using Blend and Visual Studio. I think there’s great potential there. In my opinion, designers are responsible for the UI logic (skinning, controls, visuals, animations, etc) while developers should be responsible only for business logic and data logic. I know that this separation of roles gets fuzzy sometimes but if a company can actually enforce that then really nice solutions can be created.

Next posts will probably be about Silverlight 2 Beta 2 (B2). Something that really caught my attention is that will have Linq to JSON built-in. That will be really useful. Hopefully they will also fix the problem to reference web services in Visual Studio and generate the proxy classes. That will help a lot with the MOSS and Silverlight integration.

Keep posted….

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