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Topic: DotNetNuke, presented by Patrick Santry (Sogeti USA Corp.)
DotNetNuke is a Versatile open source web application framework ideal for creating, deploying and managing interactive web, intranet and extranet sites.

Patrick Santry was an original core team member and o ...

Are you ready for the next step in web development. Microsoft released Silverlight (still the beta release), but we're seeing some great examples of this technology. A serious contender to Flash (actually not even in the same class), but you can now work hand in hand with designers and put your code behind some really sharp looking applications. Controls can be rendered in vector format in either 2D and some simulated 3D (real 3D support is coming though). The idea is this plug-in is cross-browser and has a small install (about 1MB).

Be sure to check out the samples on the Silverlight site to see how XAML is really ready to go. Just think of the possibilities having a high fidelity interface and being able to put some AJAX and .NET code behind it all.

http://www.microsoft.com/silverlight/