My Silverlight sessions at TechDays Montreal were a great success and generated so many questions like “Is ASP.NET dead ?”, “What about Silverlight vs WPF XBAP ?” or “Would you recommend Silverlight for line of business application ?” that we decided to create a FAQ and it was published on the Canadian...

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...

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...

Hey there is a great new Microsoft Canadian conference coming!! It is called TechDays and will cross Canada between October and January! Good news it will come to Montréal and I am glad to be involved… Details will be on www.techdays.ca soon. As you see TechDays will hit Montréal on November 6/7, Save...

In just a couple of weeks I'll be in Durban, South Africa presenting three sessions at Tech Ed . These are the sessions: WEB304: Introduction to MVC Web Development Day: Monday, 04 August 2008, 09:15 - 10:30 Location: Session Room 07 One of the benefits of using a MVC methodology is that it helps enforce...

I am back from 10 days spent in Florida, where I was a trainer at Microsoft TechEd 2008 Orlando.   I had the chance to be selected as an instructor for the Hands On Labs (HOL) to train on technologies such as Silverlight, ASP.NET 3.5, ASP.NET MVC, VB9, C#3, ADO.NET Data Services, LINQ, Entity Framework...

Yesterday I was invited by W3Quebec to do a Silverlight presentation . I was asked to introduce Silverlight and then talk about these specific topics: Accessibility SEO Standard compliance Comparison with AJAX/Flash/Flex/... My slides are available both in English and French , feel free to reuse/modify...

Here is a link to download the content I used for my quick talk at EnergizeIT Toronto ("Pimp my IDE" aka customize Visual Studio 2008): The blog post I showed: http://www.hanselman.com/blog/VisualStudioProgrammerThemesGallery.aspx You can also check this one: http://idehotornot.ning.com/  ...

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...