I am very happy to release a set of 8 websites dedicated to trainings on the latest Microsoft Technologies, all grouped in one portal: www.tourtrainings.com
Right now you can explore:
We expect to progressively provide more and more content delivered by technical experts in a city near you. Stay tuned!
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Sweet first email of the year… announcing that I’ve just been re-awarded Most Valuable Professional (MVP) by Microsoft for Silverlight. This is my 6th year in a row as an MVP so I am very grateful!
2011 was awesome! This is the year I became Microsoft Regional Director (RD) (on April 1st…).
I also did lots of community events, speaking at Microsoft conferences and user groups on Silverlight, Windows Phone, LightSwitch and HTML5. I am still sharing on Twitter @LaurentDuveau.
The big surprise I mentioned 1 year ago was our alliance with Wygwam. Then we launched 2 products: SmartUse and IAS!
2012 also promise to be intense for my team, starting with exciting projects on Windows 8 and XBOX Kinect!
Content of this blog tend to be less frequent, and less technical, which reflect my career path, I am now evolving in much more management than coding.
Good news is I intend to travel much less in 2012 as a second baby is on its way for February. No MVP Summit, no MIX, …
Happy New Year!
Here at RunAtServer, waiting for Windows 8 we have built our Metrofied Wishes Card!
http://www.runatserver.com/voeux/2012/wishes.htm
www.runatserver.com / Web, Mobile and Touch Solutions / Follow us on Twitter and LinkedIn!
Still a few seats available for the next Silverlight Tour stop in Montreal, come and learn top Silverlight content from local experts!!!
What: Silverlight training When: November 21-24 (4 days) Where: Montreal, Qc Registration/info Also note that we offer a free license of Telerik's RadControls for Silverlight to every attendee ($999 value)!!
For more information on RadControls, visit:
http://www.telerik.com/products/silverlight.aspx.
Here are the slides we used for the “Back from BUILD” presentation at DevTeach Ottawa 2011 with Colin Melia (@colinizer).
We talked about:
1. The Windows 8 experience
2. What’s new in Silverlight 5
3. WinRT – the new cross-language Windows client platform
4. Building a Metro Style app with XAML
5. Building portable libraries for cross-platform apps
I think attendees appreciated that we let them play with the new Windows 8 tablet…
Here are the slides we used for the “Silverlight 5 and HTML 5” presentation at DevTeach Ottawa 2011 with Frédéric Harper (@fharper):
Download the demos:
(requires Silverlight 5 RC)
This time, I refrain myself from doing this kind of jokes:
This week in Ottawa, I did a full day workshop on Silverlight, as a pre-conference of the DevTeach Canadian event.
I showed how to build from scratch a business application, from the Db to the UI, covering these topics:
- Entity Framework
- WCF RIA Services
- DataBinding
- Sécurity (users and roles)
- Validation
- MVVM and Command
- OOB
- Animations, Styles and ControlTemplate in Blend
- Silverlight Spy tool (www.silverlightspy.com)
Get my slides
Get the code
The app I built is from the MS hands-on-labs, you can get all the word doc and vs files there:
http://www.silverlight.net/learn/overview/silverlight-4-training-course
If you are interested to learn more on Silverlight don’t forget the Silverlight Tour Training, a four-day course on Silverlight 5 with VS2010 and Blend.
Note: I love my phone, this post is a way to describe my (short) experience with the latest version of the Windows Phone OS (Mango), read that as my feedback to get a better product.
The Good
- First, the update process was excellent this time! Microsoft learnt a lot from NoDo it seems… good job!
- Twitter and LinkedIn integration in People hub!
- I can now “Snooze for x minutes” for calendar reminder… huge gain for me! I must admit I use my calendar as a tasks reminder (a better way to do this?)
- Nice little fix: in silent mode, the camera makes no more sound… back to spy mode ;-)
- Save location in Bing Maps (favorites), this basic feature was curiously absent from the previous version (only tiles, but I don’t need 25 more tiles on my home screen, thanks).
- Email threading view (Hello modern UX… I have this in GMail since 2004…)
- I managed to get WiFi sharing from the phone (Good!), but with an awful trick (very bad!)
- Bing maps local search! I can now search for “pizza” and not getting direction to Italy (I’m in Canada)
- A lot more nice little additions here and there…
The Bad
- No more direct access to the “folder” button in my inbox. This really bugs me. I use folders in my inbox, lots of them. Before Mango I had a “folders” button at the bottom of the screen. It is no more there in Mango (replaced by a search button), and you have to open the appBar to access it, 2 taps instead of one, for something you do all day long.. this is not a win.
- Bing Maps for navigation: turn by turn indications is nice, but still not a real GPS replacement. The default maps app is still a bad GPS, period. (No auto correction, live speed, current speed limit, 3d view, ...)
- No Silverlight or Flash in the browser :-(…. come on this is lame!
The Ugly
- Search (physical) button: Well… what to say about the infamous Search button.. I call it the SUX button. Totally useless now with Mango. Before that we had the search button used for Contacts, Emails, Marketplace, ... and Bing Maps for everything else (Impossible to use this button for your app) which leads to inconsistency, and user afraid of clicking on the dammit button and get ousted to Bing.. the UX was just a bad failure. Now with Mango the phone search button is only for Bing, no searches on apps, no contextual search. Useless, but at least it is consistent now…
- Monstruous trick to get WiFi sharing to work (see here for details). Seriously, tethering and Wi-Fi sharing should be built-in the product.
Anyhow I like Mango, and can already see potential improvements that should be added for an upcoming update…
The first 15 people to register for the DevTeach Ottawa Silverlight pre-conference on November 2 will get a free license of Telerik's RadControls for Silverlight ($999 value)!!
For more information on RadControls, you can visit their website at http://www.telerik.com/products/silverlight.aspx.
ALSO, each pre-con participant will get an exclusive 50% rebate on the Silverlight Tour training (995$ value)!!
The Silverlight Tour is a four-day, soup-to-nuts breakdown of Silverlight 4 (already have Silverlight 5 exclusive content). This includes learning the ins and outs of XAML, hosting in the browser, the tools and using Silverlight on the server.
More info:
http://www.runatserver.com/SilverlightTraining.aspx
So don’t wait more and register now!
Still a few seats available for the next Silverlight Tour stop in Montreal, come and learn top Silverlight content from local experts!!!
>> This course will be taught in French * <<
What: Silverlight training (fr) When: October 25-28 (4 days) Where: Montreal, Qc Registration/info Also note that we offer a free license of Telerik's RadControls for Silverlight to every attendee ($999 value)!!
For more information on RadControls, visit:
http://www.telerik.com/products/silverlight.aspx.
* We do english class as well… check our website!
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