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Presented by Jamie Cool, Microsoft Corporation

Yes -- his name really is Jamie Cool.  I think Jamie did the best presentation of the day (so far) on developing business applications with Silverlight, and then a good taste of Silverlight futures.  It's hard to say how much of the futures we saw were really Silverlight futures and how much was ADO.NET Entity Framework futures.  All the same, this is what he demonstrated.

Right in front of our eyes, Jamie put together a slick Silverlight 2 HR application that featured:

1. 2-way data binding with XAML binding expressions
2. Custom business logic extensions for ADO.NET entity framework that would make framework designers cry.
3. New "DetailsView" control for Silverlight.
4. Security trimming and authentication using something like a LoginView.
5. Easy to use and easy to deploy service model courtesy of ADO.NET Entity Framework.
6. On-the-fly validation in the business layer implemented with ease (through decoration or your own declarative programming)

I know this post is really short, mostly because I was too busy lifting my jaw off the ground to keep blogging.  I can't believe we're seeing Silverlight futures so close after version 2 final release (2 weeks ago).  Really amazing stuff.  No commitment on delivery yet, but I wouldn't think we'd hear that so soon after v2 release.  Look for more posts on this blog.

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