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...

I’m having a hard time building a schedule for the PDC . I’m mainly interested in four areas: Cloud Parallel Identity Oslo and they all have overlapping sessions. I guess I’ll have to cook the PDC and Tech-Ed EMEA 2008 Developers schedules together to see if I can cover the most of the subjects.

This year’s PDC is mostly about the cloud . Everyone is talking about the cloud : cloud services, cloud computing, etc. but I’m not sure everyone has the same understanding of what the cloud is. Let’s say it’s a cloudy concept. So, what is this cloud thing, anyway? Let’s take Windows Home Server (WHS...

This year’s PDC is all about the cloud (or cloudy as I call it) and the .NET Framework 4.0. No one at Microsoft has ever told me that Windows Forms are dead (quite the opposite) but looking at the list of sessions for this year’s PDC I can only see WPF . So the question remains: Are Windows Forms dead...

TechDays Canada website is now online! Learn all about this new Canadian event at www.techdays.ca (cities, dates, sessions, …). You can register online, note that this is a paid event: the early bird special is $249.99 (for the 2 day cities), so this is not very expensive and the benefits are huge: just...

It’s not the first time I try but, for one reason or another, this is the first time I will go to the PDC ( Microsoft ’s Professional Developers Conference). According to the site “The PDC is designed for leading-edge developers and software architects. If you’re interested in the future of the Microsoft...

This morning I did a Silverlight 2 talk at Microsoft Montreal, during a half-day briefing called Building Compelling Websites on the Microsoft Platform . That was a 1 hour talk to present Silverlight 2, DeepZoom, Expression Blend and create from scratch a Silverlight 2 application which consume LINQ...

EnergizeIT is a free 1 day Microsoft event designed for IT professionals, developers, designers, and students passionate about technology. This day is dedicated to helping you realize your potential through the use of technology. The event includes 9 tracks on topics such as Green IT, Career, Security...

Earlier this week I participate in the Ask The Expert booth with other Montreal MVPs at the Heroes happen here Microsoft show. I was a bit ill but that was pretty fun and I got lots of questions on: Visual Studio 2008 Expression Silverlight LINQ AJAX And I learnt about the poor support of classic ASP...

Do you know Microsoft codename BAT ? Big Ass Table, sometimes presented as Surface... At the VIP pre-conference a member of Microsoft SUX Team (Surface User Experience...) shown us this hilarious video: Technorati Tags: MIX08 , Canadian MIXers , surface , parody