Author › Walt Ritscher
Walt Ritscher's enthusiasm for crafting software interfaces blossomed early. Just a few days after discovering how to make pixels move around the screen of a borrowed computer, he was devouring books on the topic of computer graphics and UI design. Now he travels the world speaking at software conferences and teaching a diverse portfolio of programming topics for corporate clients. On the consulting side, he continues to work with customers like Microsoft, HP, Intel, and Intuit, and he enjoys being part of the Wintellect consultant group.He writes for several publications, including CODE Magazine and TechTarget. His current UI obsession revolves around the Silverlight, Surface, and WPF APIs. His blog can be found at blog.wpfwonderland.com. Walt is also a Microsoft MVP, a WPF Disciple, and the author of the free Shazzam WPF Shader utility.
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Get comfortable in Visual Studio, the full-featured app development environment from Microsoft, and learn how to create a variety of projects, from websites to rich Internet applications.
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Lays the groundwork for coding and distributing your very first app for Windows 8.
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Teaches developers how to build a variety of applications in Silverlight, with particular focus on building compelling business applications and delivering premium video and audio content.
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Demonstrates how to develop full-featured applications using Visual Studio 2010.
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Covers additions and enhancements to the Microsoft Silverlight development framework.
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Shows programmers how to create dynamic, interactive, rich Internet applications that run on Silverlight 3.
