The first Melbourne SDDN meeting for 2011 is scheduled for April. It is now focused on all thingsXAML (Silverlight, WP7, WPF). The meetings have been scheduled to be the last Thursday of each month, being hosted by Microsoft in their Melbourne offices.

Come along this month as we have a talk on extending Expression Blend, and one on updates to the Windows Phone 7 platform.

Date: Thursday April 28th

Time: 5:30 for pizza. 6pm presentations start

Address: Microsoft Theatre

Level 5, 4 Freshwater Place 
Southbank
Melbourne, Victoria 3004
Australia 

Extending Expression Blend (Cristian Prieto)

Maybe not many developers know it but the whole expression suite from Microsoft support a very rich extension model. From simple HTML extensions and addins for Expression Web to the amazingly rich model in Expression Blend (including support for behaviours, designer extensions, and more!). We will do a review and demo the many extension points in the Microsoft Expression suite of applications, letting developers embrace and extend them creating a rich environment for designers and UX specialists.

Windows Phone 7 future (Chris Walshie)

There have been a lot of announcement recently at Microsoft MIX11. Chris will cover what some of the improvements are that are coming in the next update to the Windows Phone 7 platform (Mango). 

Some of these new features can be seen on summary websites such as http://www.wpcentral.com/wp7-keynote-summarised