Presentation: "Silverlight and the Dynamic Language Runtime (DLR)"

Session: Web 2.0

Time: Monday 10:20 - 11:05

Location: Bayside 201

Abstract: We start with a brief tour of Silverlight, a cross-browser cross-platform and cross-device plug-in that delivers a rich interactive experience for the web. After that, we take a peek under the hood, and learn how languages like Python, Ruby and Visual Basic integrate together within Silverlight to provide a rich, scriptable web programming experience. This unprecedented level of cross-language and cross-platform integration is possible since all of these languages are implemented on top of the new Dynamic Language Runtime (DLR).
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Joel Pobar

Joel Pobar Joel Pobar is a compiler and languages geek who recently relocated to the sunny Gold Coast in Australia. He was previously a Program Manager on the Microsoft Common Language Runtime (CLR) team where he worked on late-bound dynamic CLR features and API's, the Shared Source CLI (Rotor) program, Generics and Dynamic languages. He is active in the .NET community, spending his spare time writing blog entries, articles for his favourite publication (MSDN magazine), and regularly speaks at Microsoft technology conferences.