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Jennifer Marsman will walk you through creating a simple Silverlight blog badge which promotes a conference, using Expression Blend.  In Part 1, she shows you how to create an animation to attract attention and create a button to take the user to the conference registration page.  ...

In Part 3 of the "Animation Using Expression Blend" series, Jennifer Marsman creates a spotlight animation that traverses in a slow circle using the Expression Blend tool. 

In Part 2 of the "Animation Using Expression Blend" series, Jennifer Marsman walks through wiring up animations to start based on events using the Expression Blend tool. 

In Part 1 of the "Animation Using Expression Blend" series, Jennifer Marsman walks through creating DoubleAnimations and ColorAnimations using the Expression Blend tool. 

Jennifer Marsman completes the code refactoring by utilizing LINQ to retrieve data.  She demonstrates using LINQ to query against objects, XML, typed datasets, and SQL.  

Jennifer Marsman walks through refactoring C# 2.0 code to use some of the new features available in C# 3.0. 

Jennifer Marsman highlights the different ways we can communicate with services using the Send activity in Windows Workflow.  We'll walk through using the Send activity to call a Request-Reply MEP, a datagram (one-way) MEP, and by using a messaging approach to explicitly model sending and...

Jennifer Marsman walks through duplex messaging, where two workflows communicate with each other.  This is accomplished by explicitly forwarding the callback context to the service and letting it use that to message back to the caller. 

Jennifer Marsman demonstrates how context is exchanged between two parties in a conversation, and how we can obtain the context and explicitly manage it to enable additional clients to participate in the workflow. 

Jennifer Marsman demonstrates using a WPF calculator to call a durable instance of a WCF service, which will store its state within a persistence database, similar to what happens with Workflow.