Michael Eaton

Validus Solutions, LLC

Owner/Consultant

Coldwater, Michigan

  • Silverlight 101: Write Your First Silverlight Application

    Are you wondering where Silverlight fits in to your development toolkit? Haveyou seen Silverlight introductions that do nothing but show you how to createspinning ghosts and gradient fills? Are you ready to for an introduction toSilverlight that focuses on real-world usage? This session will include anoverview of XAML, containers and commonly used controls found in Silverlight.This talk expects no knowledge of Silverlight or XAML.

    Level: 100

    Speaker: Michael Eaton

    Topics: Silverlight

  • Top 10 Tips for Moving from Winforms to WPF

    Moving to WPF from Winforms can be a daunting task, even for the most experienced developers. WPF is an extremely powerful and flexible framework,but almost averything you've come to understand about developing windows applications has changed. While the learning curve can be steep, the changes are absolutely worth the effort. This session will help reduce the learning curveby addressing the top 10 pain points developers new to WPF experience.

    Level: 100

    Speaker: Michael Eaton

    Topics: WPF