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

·         Fall Kickoff Meeting Presentations

o   Blend and Expression Encoder for IAB format Advertising

o   SEO for Silverlight Video

o   Visio based Silverlight Prototyping and Planning (Creating Silverlight Symbol Set for Custom Controls with Microsoft Visio)

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

§  October 2008 (Date: 10/25/2008 Time: 11:30am-2:00pm Location: Grand Traverse Pie Company Ann Arbor (I-94 and Zeeb Road exit near the BP station and McDonalds)

·         Fall RIA Spectacular

o   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.

o   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

o   Microsoft/Caligari TrueSpace Realtime 3D Modeling with 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

o   Progress made with the SCE starter kit.

o   Embedding custom fonts and glyphs in your Application with Microsoft Blend

o   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)