DevTeach 2007 is over, it was great as I had the chance to hear some very good speakers : Markus Egger, Claudio Lassala, Julia Lerman, Yair Alan Griver, Ted Neward. If you did not attendee, 2 reporters did a live coverage for Universal Thread : http://www.utcoverage.com/DevTeach/2007/ A nice tip from...

Wow, this one is not announced elsewhere than here ... it is not even in the MSDN Canada events page ??? An half-day morning event on Silverlight will take place in 3 cities in Canada during October. For Montreal registration go there , for Vancouver and Toronto links read the original post . "Silverlight...

The second Code Camp Montreal is very soon!!! --> www.codecampmontreal.com What you need to know : it is Saturday October 27th in Montreal it is free! it will be great!! A whole day with 17 sessions in 4 rooms. You can have a look at the sessions list and the speakers list . Note that registration...

MIX08 Keynote was driven by Ray Ozzie, Scott Guthrie and Dean Hachamovitch. Ray Ozzie talked about connected apps and how Microsoft go to the advertising market (explains the Johnny cash theme ?). Scott Guthrie did a talk around 4 points (and also did some juggling!): Web (IE8) Media (Silverlight Adaptive...

Today march 4 was the MIX08 VIP pre conference "Together@MIX". We had sessions and panels on the morning and an afternoon full of fun activities (I chose the Las Vegas Extreme rides!). Here is the speakers and a bit of what they said: Steve Guttman (PM for Expression Web) Expression branding Expression...

Not everything that happens in Vegas stays in Vegas... All sessions/keynotes can be viewed/downloaded at http://sessions.visitmix.com/ . Note that this is a good example of a site using way too much Silverlight (you can't even do a copy/paste), but... seems that MS has a new toy to push ! A non Silverlight...

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...

Here are the slides and demos of both of my french sessions: "Expression softwares" and "Silverlight". Expression session was live only demos, but you'll find the samples I used for Silverlight : - Expression Encoder output - ASP.NET Future <asp:Media> Control - Web Service - OpenFileDialog - Isolated...

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...

There has been some nice announcements here at TechEd Orlando regarding Silverlight 2, detailed here in this Mega Q&A on Silverlight 2 beta 2 : When are the Silverlight 2 Beta 2 bits going to be available? Silverlight 2 Beta 2 was announced during Bill Gates's keynote at TechEd 2008 and bits will...