Updated Events Calendar

RESTARTED SCHEDULE For FALL/WINTER  2008

September 2008

(Date: 10/09/2008 Time: 7:30-9:00pm Location: University of Michigan School of Architecture)

• Fall Kickoff Meeting Presentations
• Blend and Expression Encoder for IAB format Advertising
• Creating TouchScreen User Controls in Expression Blend
• HP Touchsmart PC Demo of FrogDesign TouchUI done with WPF.

Coffee and Coding Meeting is the following Saturday from 10am- 2pm at Grand Traverse Pie Company (meeting room)

October 2008 - RESCHEDULED

(Date: 10/25/2008 Time: 11:30-2:00pm Location: Grand Traverse Pie Company Ann Arbor Location, http://www.gtpie.com I-94 and Zeeb Road Exit Near McDonalds and the BP Station)

• Fall RIA Spectacular
• Creating and porting enterprise applications in Windows, Web, and Mobile Platforms (WPF, Silverlight, Windows Mobile and iPhone) using re-usable custom control technology in XAML.
• Moving from Photoshop to Expression Design (making the bitmap leap to vector for reusability).

November 2008

(Date: 11/20/2008 Time: 7:30-9:00pm Location: University of Michigan School of Architecture)

Coffee and Coding Meeting the following Saturday from 10am- 2pm at Grand Traverse Pie Company (meeting room)

• DirectX Month- Free3D visualization Solutions for WPF and Silverlight
• Microsoft/Caligari TrueSpace Realtime 3D Modeling with WPF Pixel Shader technology demonstration.
• Exporting DirectX Scenes and objects to WPF 3.5 Service Pack 1’s new Direct X integration.
• Exporting models directly into WPF 3D.
• Creating a GPU shader using Nvidia FX Composer and importing it and using it in WPF 3.5 Sp1 for exciting special effects and transitions not possible until WPF 3.5 SP1..
• Exporting your TrueSpace Timelines and animation paths to WPF 3D.
• Exporting to Virtual Earth and recombining for a client application in WPF
• Recording real time TrueSpace 3D output to a video file for use in Silverlight.

Coffee and Coding Meeting the following Saturday from 10am- 2pm at Grand Traverse Pie Company (meeting room)

December 2008

(Date: 12/18/2008 Time: 7:30-9:00pm Location: University of Michigan School of Architecture)

• WPF Typography
• Progress made with the SCE starter kit.
• Embedding custom fonts and glyphs in your Application with Microsoft Blend
• Visual State management with Blend 2.5
• From Final Cut to Silverlight Video solutions from Flip4Mac (a Microsoft partner solution)
• Morae 2- Techsmith’s great Usability Testing Solution

Coffee and Coding Meeting the following Saturday from 10am- 2pm at Grand Traverse Pie Company (meeting room)

Map:

University of Michigan School of Architecture and Urban Planning, 2000 Bonisteel Blvd, Ann Arbor Michigan
Parking Free in rear entrance of building by the push pin..