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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

During my “ Business oriented Silverlight 2 application ” talk at DevTeach conference (december 2008) I used Visual Studio 2008 and Expression Blend to build an application that retrieves SQL server data (Beers!) through an Entity Framework model and exposes it to a Silverlight client via a WCF service...