Our next Toronto SharePoint Usergroup Meeting will take place next Wednesday, November 19, 2008. This month’s speaker, Sean Hopen (New Toronto Group), will give a tour of the development process with Silverlight and an overview of developing web parts for use in SharePoint. There will be a discussion...

Here is the Silverlight 2 project I build for my “Mastering your Silverlight Samurai Skills” 2 parts talk I did at TechDays Canada 2008 . Powerpoint material will come later. Usefull links Silverlight controls: Silverlight 2 Controls Demo page Silverlight 2 Toolkit Silverlight 2 Charts 3rd party Silverlight...

[via Guy Barrette ] Looks like there will be plenty of Silverlight content at DevTeach Montreal this year:   Building Silverlight Controls David J Kelley - SLV467 Designed primarily for Developers. This technical presentation walks through a number of senerios for building Silverlight Controls including...

Today we confirmed that Saturday, January 24th is the date of the 2nd Annual Toronto SharePoint Camp! For a second year, I'd like to thank Manulife Financial Corporation for generously providing the facilities that not only make this event possible, but also keep it free to all attendees. TorontoSharePoint...

Para quem não pode ir até o PDC, logo após cada sessão a Microsoft está liberando gratuitamente online os vídeos das sessões, podendo assistir online ou fazer o download dos vídeos! O link para as sessões é: https://sessions.microsoftpdc.com/ see ya o/

TechDays is the Microsoft largest technical education conference series for IT Professionals and Developers in Canada. I will be presenting 2 sessions in the Web Development track at Montreal (November 6-7): Mastering Your Silverlight Samurai Skills (Part 1 of 2) “Silverlight provides a powerful platform...

Today I was at the session WCF 4.0 Building WCF Service with WF in .NET 4.0 Many new and very interesting features are being built into WCF & WF 4.0. Nowadays in WF it's kind of challenging to make a choice between synchronous and a-synchronous: Synchronous = Simple to author and maintain performs...

From the session Architecting Cloud Services at the PDC 2008 . Not only which design consideration you might want to take, there's also a lot of more in-depth information about how Windows Azure works is designed. Yesterday I blogged about the announcement of Windows Azure , and the insight of Azure...

While being at the PDC 2008 , a got a first approach on Oslo. In short Oslo is a large modelling environment which has connections to almost every aspect of .NET development. This seems kind of radical and it probably is. The whole of it still has to be processed in my brains (Which is now running double...

Together with my colleague Michel Heijman I was at the keynote speech of the PDC 2008 . I've to admit the name has been kept very well a secret, of course you could expect that Microsoft would  do far more with BizTalk Services / Workflow Services. So what is Windows Azure ? Windows Azure is the...