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After a long absence, an MSDN event has been scheduled in Utah! "MSDN Events Unleashed: Demystifying WPF, Silverlight 2 and Visual Studio 2008 SP1" is scheduled for Thursday, October 23 from 1:00 - 5:00 at the Microsoft offices in the International Center.

The first 50 people to register will get a free copy of the book "Applications = Code + Markup" by Charles Petzold.

The event overview states:

Today’s applications need to do more than simply work. They need to draw
in the user, and provide a differentiated experience. This means moving beyond
battleship gray forms boxy UIs and simple HTML forms, and providing a positive
user experience. Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) and Silverlight 2
provide powerful capabilities to develop compelling user interfaces, on the
client and in the browser, respectively.

At the heart of
these rich applications is data. There are a growing number of choices of
technologies available to access data, create database abstraction layers and
expose data as services. Visual Studio 2008 (and .NET Framework 3.5) SP1
include the production release of the ADO.NET Entity Framework, ADO.NET Data
Services, as well as some enhancements to the Web Programming model
(REST-Friendly) in WCF.

In this session, Rob Bagby will
examine the core concepts of WPF and Silverlight such as layout panels, data
binding, styles and control templates, and will use them to develop an
application UI from the ground up. Rob will further examine and demystify
the options available to you to expose data to your rich applications.

Register here.