As you may know I am the co-founder of RunAtServer Consulting , a company based in Montreal, we are specialized in web development with Microsoft technologies such as ASP.NET AJAX and Silverlight. We have launched our new website! www.runatserver.com 9 month after the launch of the first version, we...

This month I was a guest at the Visual Studio Talk Show , a well known french .NET podcast here in Quebec. We talked (in french...) about all the announcements (mainly IE8 and Silverlight) made at MIX this year, so in case you need a recap of this show... Les nouveautés de la conférence MIX 2008: http...

I was quiet on the blog this summer, nice vacations and... professional change as I now run my own business as a freelance in .NET technologies (Montreal area, Qc, Canada). Also late this summer I did a podcast on Silverlight . Unfortunately for most of my readers... it is in french (my mother tongue...

MIX07 conference is now over and I realize that if I should attend only one this year it should have been this one... they made huge announcements : Silverlight 1.0 Beta with Go Live Silverlight 1.1 Alpha (with .NET CLR programming support) Silverlight Streaming Alpha Silverlight tools for Visual Studio...

Hello everybody, This is my first post on this blog so I’ll try to present myself to let you know who I’m ! My name is Thomas LEBRUN and I’m currently a consultant and trainer (MCT) at Winwise in Paris (France). I started to use .NET in 2002, in particular C# language. For my contributions to the french...

Back in march while at the MVP Summit I was thrilled when Scott Guthrie announced the addition of a Silverlight expertise in the Microsoft MVP program . Earlier this week I received an email saying that I am joining this new small group (6 MVPs for now), so I move from ASP.NET MVP to Silverlight MVP...

The very first email of the year in my inbox is still a sweet one, announcing that I’ve got re-awarded Silverlight MVP by Microsoft. This is the 4th year in a row and I am still very honored and excited! In 2009 I had the pleasure to be involved in many community events around Silverlight, as well as...

Hello everyone, Today, I’d like to present you my entry for the MIX 10K Coding Challenge . For those who don’t know this challenge, the rules are really simple. You have to submit an application whose the source code’s size is less than 10 kilobytes. The technologies allowed are Silverlight, HTML5 and...

Hi everyone, I just created a multiplayer turn-based online game and I'm looking for a Silverlight graphist to realize the design of the game itself and of the hosting website (room, room chat, in-game chat...). The game is 90% completed but I cant publish it as is, I need a good graphist for making...

Another wonderful first email of the year… announcing that I’ve just been re-awarded Most Valuable Professional (MVP) by Microsoft for Silverlight . This is my 5th year as an MVP in a row and I am still very honoured and excited! In 2010 I had the pleasure to be involved in many community events around...