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Monday, October 22, 2007

New Meeting Place Time for Michigan Interactive Designers

by Don Burnett

We have an exciting meeting coming up for October, we will be doing a group project, with Electric Rain's StandOut.

MID October 2007 Meeting

Thursday October 25, 2007, from 7:00PM to 9:00PM at the Grand Traverse Pie Company Ann Arbor Location

Our next meeting will be held October 25, 2007. Time 7:00pm to 9:00pm at the Grand Traverse Pie Company. There is free parking in the front of the building. We will be discussing the following Topics. They have reserved the entire back room for our meeting space.

  • Electric Rain StandOut Presentation Solution- Creating design kits using Microsoft Expression Blend.
  • WPF in Action with Visual Studio 2008 beta 2 review
  • Usability Testing with TechSmith.com's Morae
  • LINQ and Silverlight, XML
  • ASP.NET, AJAX, & Silverlight
  • Creating a Video Player in WPF and Silverlight

Monthly Happenings

We are at a new location with great WIFI, easy to reach by I-94 Expressway...

Group Project for the Meeting:

Making your own animated presentation template for StandOut, using Expression Blend/WPF..


Requirements:

Bring your Laptop with .NET 3.0 or 3.5 installed
Electric Rain Standout beta 2 (a free download)
Expression Design Trial or Full copy
Expression Blend Trial or Full Copy
PowerPoint 2007 OPTIONAL

There will be a tutorial, followed by an opportunity to create your own template. At the end of the night we will vote as a group on the best three and they will be given a prize. So here's your chance to show everyone your design goodness and learn Standout.

Meeting Location:

Grand Traverse Pie Company

Thursday October 25th, 2007

Meeting Time: 7pm - 9pm

291 N. Zeeb Road

Ann Arbor, MI 48103

734-997-9702

annarbor@gtpie.com

  • 2007 October Meeting
  • Please arrive after 6:00 pm to assure good seating. We have the backroom seating area reserved..
  • Bring your laptop computer to use the free Wi-Fi.
  • Presentations will be available on Windows Vista's Meeting Space
  • Meet and caucus with other Designers and Developers

SEE YOU THERE!

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