Laurent Duveau : Canada

My Silverlight session at Microsoft TechDays Canada 2009

pluginbaby — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 21:03:49 GMT

This week I did a presentation at Microsoft TechDays Canada 2009, it was a repro of the session that Jesse Liberty did at TechEd 2009 North America earlier this year: “What’s New in Silverlight 3 ?”

You can grab the slides and watch the video if you have an account:
http://www.msteched.com/online/view.aspx?tid=3f76272d-de51-429f-8a20-86bea29bf136

[And guess who’s doing a “What’s New in Silverlight 4 ?” presentation in Montreal on Monday…?]

A picture of my room:

I showed some slides on Silverlight new features and did 10 demos (Flip 3d, Animation Easing, WritableBitmap, GPU Acceleration, Styling, Element to Element Binding, Data Validation, Navigation API, Out Of Browser, …), one of them was particularly appreciated: the bouncing balls demo, a sample created by Joe Stegman which shows a Silverlight application running in 4 different browser windows, I showed it in IE + Chrome + Firefox:

The balls go from one window to another in a continuous way….!

You can try a live sample (requires popups), and download the source code from here: BouncingBalls.zip

It was nice and then I had fun being the track host for both days!

Technorati Tags: Silverlight,TechDays_ca

Silverlight Tour Halifax

pluginbaby — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 00:08:53 GMT

The Silverlight Tour is visiting Halifax (NS), so get ready to enlighten your RIA app with this top Silverlight 3 training!!

When: November 23-25

Where: Halifax, NS, Canada

Registration: http://www.runatserver.com/SilverlightTraining.aspx

If you are looking for 3 days of intensive Silverlight training this is your chance to learn it from soup to nuts!

For other cities and dates please visit:
http://www.runatserver.com/SilverlightTraining.aspx

Technorati Tags: Silverlight

Silverlight Tour Quebec in December

pluginbaby — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 01:51:19 GMT

The Silverlight Tour is visiting Québec city (Qc) again, so get ready to enlighten your RIA app with this top Silverlight 3 training!!

When: December 14-16

Where: Québec, Qc

Registration (Fr): http://www.runatserver.com/SilverlightTraining.aspx

If you are looking for 3 days of intensive Silverlight training in French this is your chance to learn it from soup to nuts!

For other cities and dates please visit:
http://www.runatserver.com/SilverlightTraining.aspx

Technorati Tags: Silverlight

Silverlight presentation at the Quebec User Group

pluginbaby — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 01:53:22 GMT

Yesterday I did a Silverlight presentation at the Quebec User Group and my goal was to show the new features of Silverlight 3 to help build business app, so this was not quite an intro presentation with no animation and video...

As usual I showed only 3 slides and then built live a ginormous demo from scratch ”ScottGu style” in which I took advantage of Silverlight 3 + .NET RIA Services to manage a beers db with :

Navigation Framework
Style and Theme
Data
- Entity Framework
- .NET RIA Services
- DataGrid + DomainDataSource
  - Custom columns
  - DetailsRow Template
  - Sort
  - Filter
  - Group
  - Pagination
- Activity Control
Export to Excel
OOB mode

And I even had enough time for a QnA session!

Download the Powerpoint content (french)

Download the source code (requires .NET RIA Services)

[french] Montreal User Group special Silverlight event!

pluginbaby — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 19:05:00 GMT

For anyone near Montreal don’t miss this user group special event in less than 30 days:

Click on the image to register.

Please note the event is free for members of the Montreal .NET Community.

I’ll have the pleasure to present on Silverlight 3 and .NET RIA Services, as well as other members of my team at RunAtServer Consulting, not to forget our loving RD…

Should be fun and we will have tons of cool giveaways!

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Silverlight Tour Quebec in September

pluginbaby — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 12:33:00 GMT

The Silverlight Tour is stopping again in Québec, Qc so get ready to enlighten your RIA app with this top Silverlight 3 training.

When: ~~October 14-16~~ September 28-30

Where: Québec, Qc

Registration (Fr): http://www.runatserver.com/SilverlightTraining.aspx

If you are looking for 3 days of intensive Silverlight training in French this is your chance to learn it from soup to nuts!

For other cities/dates please consult:
http://www.runatserver.com/SilverlightTraining.aspx

[edit: date changed to September]

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Silverlight Tour in Quebec (french)

pluginbaby — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 21:22:31 GMT

After Montreal and Vancouver, the Silverlight Tour is coming to Québec city next week!
I’ll do this 3 days of intensive Silverlight 3 training in French, if you are interested act quickly as it is coming fast!!

When: August 12-14

Where: Québec, Qc

Registration (Fr): http://www.runatserver.com/SilverlightTraining.aspx

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Silverlight Tour Vancouver next week!

pluginbaby — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 01:40:16 GMT

2 days left to register for the Silverlight Tour Training in Vancouver!!!

When: July 27-29

Where: Vancouver, Canada

Registration: https://agilitrain.com/Workshop/Outline/Silverlight_Tour_Workshop

The Silverlight Tour is a three-day, soup-to-nuts breakdown of Silverlight. This includes learning the ins and outs of XAML, hosting in the browser, the tools and using Silverlight with the server. The class utilizes Silverlight 3 as well as the latest toolset from Microsoft (including Visual Studio 2008, Expression Blend 3, Expression Design 3, DeepZoom).

If you are interested, act now!!

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Microsoft TechDays Canada 2009

pluginbaby — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 01:14:28 GMT

Save the date: Microsoft TechDays Canada will have its second edition in 2009 and is coming back to Montreal on December 2, 3.

For others cities/dates go to: www.techdays.ca

Silverlight Tour coming to Vancouver in July

pluginbaby — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 03:19:35 GMT

The Silverlight Tour is coming to Vancouver, Canada in July and has been updated with Silverlight 3 content!!

When: July 20-22

Where: Vancouver, Canada

Registration: http://www.runatserver.com/SilverlightTraining.aspx

If you are looking for 3 days of intensive Silverlight training in Vancouver area this is your chance to learn it from soup to nuts!

For other cities/dates in Canada please consult:
http://www.runatserver.com/SilverlightTraining.aspx

Technorati Tags: Silverlight Training,Silverlight Tour

Get ready for Code Camp Montreal

pluginbaby — Tue, 12 May 2009 01:51:10 GMT

Code Camp Montreal will take place on Saturday, May 30th 2009.
It is free but you need to sign up on the website: www.codecampmontreal.com
If you are not registered yet, hurry up!

This year again I’ll be giving 2 sessions (in french):

Business application with Silverlight 3 and .NET RIA Services
Silverlight 3 and SEO

Full Session list:
http://www.codecampmontreal.com/Agenda.ashx

See you there!

My talk on MIX09 (french)

pluginbaby — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 03:13:10 GMT

As last year, I was invited at the Visual Studio Talk Show, a Quebec .NET podcast, to talk (in french...) about all the announcements (mainly Silverlight 3) made at MIX this year, so in case you need a recap...

Les nouveautés de la conférence MIX 2009:
http://www.visualstudiotalkshow.com/Archives/095-25mars2009-LaurentDuv.html

Technorati Tags: MIX09,Silverlight 3,podcast

Silverlight Tour in Quebec city

pluginbaby — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 19:05:00 GMT

For the first time the Silverlight Tour is coming to Québec city!
I’ll do this 3 days intensive Silverlight training in French so if you are interested act quickly as it is coming fast!!

When: April 01-03

Where: Québec, Qc

Registration (Fr): http://www.runatserver.com/SilverlightTraining.aspx

Technorati Tags: Silverlight Training

Silverlight Showcase entry

pluginbaby — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 17:17:25 GMT

Our Silverlight DeepZoom Wishes Card is featured in the official Silverlight Showcase, how cool is that!

http://silverlight.net/Showcase/ (Geography filter: Canada)

We sent it to our clients/partners/friends for the New Year 2009.

We first built it with Deep Zoom Composer, then added some animation in Expression Blend, and finally the “Silverlight not installed” custom experience in Visual Studio 2008.
I may talk about the “making of” later on this blog.

DevTeach Vancouver 50% coupon (June 8-12,2009)

pluginbaby — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 08:43:49 GMT

DevTeach has a private rebate code that will give you 50% off the regular price of DevTeach/SQLTeach conference in Vancouver (June 8-12, 2009). You will not find this code on the DevTeach or SQLTeach website. Plus, this code can only be used 30 times and expires on February 10th. So if you decide yourself quickly you can get a very good deal!!

Rebate Code: DEVT50OFFVAN

> www.devteach.com

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