Laurent Duveau : Events

Samedi.NET special Silverlight event in Montreal

pluginbaby — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 20:02:14 GMT

The Montreal .NET Community organized a full-day Silverlight workshop last Saturday.

The topic of the day was: “Build a business application with Silverlight 3”.

We were 5 speakers presenting many sessions (all code, no slide) to show different tools and technologies:

Visual Studio 2008 SP1
Expression Blend 3
Expression Designer 3
.NET RIA Services
WCF and LINQ

The event went pretty well, what amazed me the most is the fact that we got more than 160 attendees!!!

So we could feel the excitement for Silverlight growing more and more, and I answered to so many questions both during my presentations and at the end of the day!!!

To change from Northwind we used a simple Db with beers (thanks Andy):

I did 2 talks:

.NET RIA Services
Silverlight and SEO

Here is what I showed during my first talk:

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

The download below adds more:

Edit, Delete (with confirm) beer with the new DataForm control.
Insert new beer in a ChildWindow
Beer details page
Out Of Browser mode (OOB)

For more on .NET RIA Services and how you can add it in your existing architecture, have a look at this incredible list of posts:
http://blogs.msdn.com/brada/archive/2009/08/02/business-apps-example-for-silverlight-3-rtm-and-net-ria-services-july-update-summary.aspx

I’ll write more on my second talk (SEO) in another blog post.

Download source code

Also check the post of my co-worker Louis-Philippe, he has lots of pictures of the event.

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!

Technorati Tags: Silverlight

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]

echnorati Tags: Silverlight

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

My Silverlight presentations at Code Camp Montreal

pluginbaby — Sun, 31 May 2009 23:38:19 GMT

Yesterday I gave 2 Silverlight presentations at the Montreal Code Camp 2009.

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

In this session I showed how Silverlight 3 new features and controls helps you build real business oriented app, and how you can take advantage of .NET RIA Services to simplifies 3-tier application pattern by bringing together the ASP.NET and Silverlight platforms. The RIA Services provides a pattern to write application logic that runs on the mid-tier and controls access to data for queries, changes and custom operations. It also provides end-to-end support for common tasks such as data validation, authentication and roles by integrating with Silverlight components on the client and ASP.NET on the mid-tier.

Download my slides (french):

My demos were taken from 2 sessions I saw at TechEd 2009: WUX303 and WUX308 by Scott Morrison, so you can find the files on his blog:
http://blogs.msdn.com/scmorris/archive/2009/05/17/tech-ed-2009-demo-files.aspx

2. Silverlight and SEO

After briefly explained the problem with RIA and SEO, I did 3 demos in Visual Studio 2008 to show different way to make your Silverlight app SEO friendly. The last demo was the Silverlight Store, a very efficient and easy way to do SEO-enable your Silverlight site using Silverlight 3, ASP.NET 3.5 and .NET RIA Services (More details by the author itself).

Download my slides (french) and demos:

Technorati Tags: Silverlight,.NET RIA Services

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!

Microsoft Expert at TechEd in the Azure Track

pluginbaby — Thu, 07 May 2009 01:05:22 GMT

I have been selected as a Microsoft Expert for the Azure Track at TechEd North America 2009.
Not Silverlight? Anyway, LA, here I come!

My Silverlight talk at Montreal .NET User Group

pluginbaby — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 12:31:00 GMT

This week I gave a Silverlight presentation at the Montreal .NET Community (www.dotnetmontreal.com).

Very few slides and lots of code, I built live from scratch a Silverlight business oriented application with Visual Studio 2008 and Expression Blend, here is what I demoed:

Entity Framework over a SQL Server db (beers!)
LINQ
WCF service + asynchronous call on the Silverlight 2 client + best practice
Design and Animation with Blend + a few tips (tab key to collapse windows, properties search)
Tips to prevent an animation from running twice
DataGrid templating (custom columns, custom selected row view)
DataBinding
Isolated Storage cache [Learn more]
Custom alternative “no Silverlight installed” version as well a as a way to simulate a user without Silverlight in IE. I finally build a nice working version of the page with data for the user without forcing him to install Silverlight. [Learn more]
Quickly talked about some of the new features coming with Silverlight 3 (currently beta)

Silverlight experience:	Alternative ASP.NET version:

Lot’s of content! I wanted to show a bit of Silverlight 3 but that was too much.

You can download my code (*) here:

As well as the slides (french):

(*) The download include the asynchronous Database update as users edit the DataGrid.

For those of you who are interested to hear about Silverlight 3 don’t worry you still have plenty of events coming!

Montreal Code Camp in may
Forum des architectes in may
Our Silverlight Tour training
More to come…

MIX09: ScottGu crazy keynote intro!!!

pluginbaby — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 01:12:00 GMT

You have to watch this, direct answer to the red polo buzz…

Note the subtle "No Flash, no Flash!"...

MIX10 announced - save the date

pluginbaby — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 22:51:13 GMT

MIX will come back in 2010, same city but different venue…

MIX10:
Mandalay Bay Hotel and Casino, 15-17 March 2010.

Silverlight 3 new business app features

pluginbaby — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 19:25:00 GMT

This has just been announced at MIX09 keynote, Silverlight 3 is available in beta and comes with new features very much business application oriented (as well as media and graphics improvements). Concerning application development improvements Silverlight 3 adds:

Navigation Framework
Deep links, SEO, browser history integration
DataGrid grouping, pagination
DomainDataSource (object data source on the client)
Element-to-Element Binding
Validators error template
New controls: DataForm (DetailsView like), DataPager
Multi-tier REST data support
Authentication

With such new features, Silverlight 3 enable developers to build real LOB application, and what’s amazing is that Silverlight 3 is 40KB smaller than v2!

Silverlight 3 is now (march 2009) in public beta (but no go-live) so you can try all this right now!

[Fun] ScottGu Red Polo petition

pluginbaby — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 18:00:07 GMT

ScottGu always wear his classic Red Polo at the Mix Keynotes.
> Proof: http://images.google.com/images?q=scott%20gu%20mix
Like any tradition, if you think that MIX conference wouldn’t be MIX without it… sign the petition:

http://www.petitiononline.com/RedShirt/petition.html

Silverlight Tour featured at the MVP Summit 2009

pluginbaby — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 02:20:00 GMT

That was just before the Keynote in the big room!

The MVP Summit was also a great opportunity to meet community experts.

3 Silverlight geeks:
- Shawn Wildermuth (Silverlight Tour across USA)
- David Silverlight (What a name!)
- Laurent Duveau (Silverlight Tour in Canada and France)

Speaking of the Silverlight Tour we now take care of the training across Canada, so stay tuned for new dates in Vancouver, Ottawa, Toronto, Halifax…