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Awesome Resources on WPF and Silverlight with Billy Hollis
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Written by Efren Toscano   
Thursday, 18 June 2009 11:15
This weeks Byte from MSDN and TechZulu is with Billy Hollis.  He brings some great resources on WPF and Silverlight and his list of favorite technical resources, which blogs he reads, and why he's hesitant to tell you about them!

 

About Billy
Billy Hollis authored many of the earliest books on .NET, and has been working with WPF and Silverlight for over three years. He is a regular speaker at conferences such as Tech·Ed, PDC, VSLive, and DevConnections, and his two sessions at Tech·Ed 2009 were both rated in the top twenty sessions for the conference overall. He has a consulting practice in Nashville, TN, focusing on healthcare applications, advanced rule-driven architectures, and advanced user interface prototyping and development. He also offers introductory and advanced training classes on WPF and Silverlight. He is the author of a forthcoming book on WPF.

Stuff Billy recommends you check out this summer:

  • WPF videos
  • Silverlight videos
  • LINQ
  • Azure
  • Jesse Liberty's Silverlight Blog
  • Beatrice Costa on Silverlight and WPF
  • A Whole New Mind by Daniel Pink
  • .NET Rocks TV
  • Developers Intro to XAML – Part 1
  • Developers Intro to XAML – Part 2
  • MSDN Blogs
  • Billy's blog: http://www.dotnetmasters.com/
Make sure to Check out the Bytes by MSDN website to take Billy on the go.

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