Minnesota Developers Conference, Silverlight Track

Tuesday, September 9, 2008 is the Minnesota Developers Conference, do you have your ticket yet?  If you don't - you can actually save 22% by being a procrastinator. (Sold Out!  whoo hooo) 

I have a late afternoon session, and the topic is one near and dear to my heart, that is Search Engine Optimization for Silverlight Applications.   I'm going to talk about some aspects of Search Engine Optimization, (SEO) effected by the addition of Silverlight controls to your web application.  I’ll show in source code how I solve the following problems:  
1. how to create your Silverlight and html based menus from a single source. And why I use that method to optimize for search engine index-ability.
2. how to switch from one Silverlight control to another programmatically while keeping all controls for the application in a single project. 
3. simplified server communications ( RESTful )  and incorporating these into MVC app
4. I’ll show you how to maintain browser history while switching out your Silverlight controls in the same web page.
And lastly we’ll discuss some of the problems I've encountered while working on my Silverlight applications so that if you should come across them as well you will be forewarned.