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My Windows Phone 7 presentation in Montreal
Last week I presented a session as part of the Microsoft Windows Phone 7 Developers Briefing in Montreal. I was with another RunAtServer team member: Louis-Philippe Pinsonneault, who presented the “Phone Games with XNA” part. -
The definite guide to Notification Window in Silverlight 4
Note: This article was first published in Web Central Station, but code format has problem there, so I republish here.
When this article was written the latest version of Silverlight was Silverlight 4.
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My presentations at the Montreal .NET Community
On Monday I did two presentations at the Montreal .NET Community. -
Activate internet tethering on Samsung Focus with Rogers Canada
Disclaimer: All this works today (tested on several phones), but might not work tomorrow…
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Silverlight 5 preview!
A preview of Silverlight 5 has just been presented at the Silverlight Firestarter event!!
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Programmatic access to Windows Phone FM tuner
Windows Phone 7 has the FMRadio class (Microsoft.Devices.Radio namespace) that is ready to use:
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Last Silverlight Training of the year! [Montreal]
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Local Silverlight Firestarter in Montreal (free event)
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My LightSwitch session at TechDays Montreal
Today I did a presentation on Visual Studio LightSwitch at TechDays Montreal.
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My Windows Phone app in the Marketplace
My first WP7 app is available on the Marketplace: Morse Code Flash Light.
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Windows Phone 7 Developers Briefing in Montreal
Join us at the Microsoft Windows Phone 7 Briefing for Developers!
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The Future of Silverlight
I already mentioned this event here, but if you are interested in the future of Silverlight you MUST watch the keynote of the Silverlight FireStarter event! (Live streaming on December 2) -
Control a Silverlight Media player in IE9 from Windows 7 taskbar
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Speaking at TechDays Canada 2010
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Silverlight Firestarter event in December
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Speaker Idol in Montreal, October 25
The Montreal .NET Community will host a new Speaker Idol competition this year.
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IE9: integrate your website in Windows 7
As you know Internet Explorer 9 is now available in beta and you can download it here:
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Silverlight Tour Montreal in October (french)
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[Book review] Advanced MVVM
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Silverlight Development Best Practices at the Montreal User Group
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Windows Phone 7 in Montreal
A Microsoft Canada event: Windows Phone 7 Night in Montreal (featuring a developer device!)
5:30 – 8:30 p.m. at the Microsoft Montreal office (2000 Ave McGill College, Suite 450, Montreal) -
Silverlight how-to: Inherit from an Implicit Style
Since Silverlight 4 you can use Implicit Styles:
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Silverlight Tour Montreal in September (french)
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Learning WCF RIA Services
In my quest to learn WCF RIA Services I read a lot of articles and I thought I could share the most useful and highest quality links I found.
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[Cool Tool] Assembly minifier tool
If you are using Silverlight controls from the Telerik suite, you’re going to love this.
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Jesse Liberty at the Montreal User Group, take 3
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Expression Blend 4 available and training resources
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Silverlight Tour in Montreal this summer
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Dynamically apply and change Theme with the Silverlight Toolkit
This tutorial shows you how to Theme your Silverlight app and allow the user to switch Theme dynamically.
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WCF RIA Services feedback
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Silverlight Security
Here are some interesting links about Silverlight security (I learnt a lot from the first document): -
My talk at the Launch of the Vancouver Silverlight User Group
Last week I did a presentation for the Launch of the new Vancouver Silverlight User Group (http://vanslug.net). I had a touch screen laptop so I started my presentation with the Multi Touch Silverlight Puzzle demo, wow effect guaranteed!
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Vancouver Silverlight User Group
While in Vancouver for my Silverlight training in early May, I will give a free Silverlight presentation during the launch of the new Silverlight User Group. This event is co-hosted by VanSPUG (SharePoint) and VanSLUG (Sliverlight). -
My talk on MIX10 (french)
This week
I was invited at the Visual Studio Talk Show, a french .NET podcast, to talk about all the announcements (mainly Silverlight 4 RC, Windows Phone 7, IE9, …) made at MIX this year, so in case you need a recap... -
Silverlight on Windows Phone
This was a great announcement last week at MIX10: the programming model for the upcoming Windows Phone 7 is Silverlight!
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Win a free pass for Silverlight Tour in Vancouver, D-10!!
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My MIX10 recap at the Montreal User Group
I’ve just done a session at the Montreal .NET User Group to share what I learnt at MIX10. -
What’s new in Silverlight 4 RC?
I am here in Las Vegas for MIX10 where Scott Guthrie announced today the release of Silverlight 4 RC and the Visual Studio 2010 tools. You can now install VS2010 RC!!!
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My Silverlight 4 talk at ConFoo Montreal
Wednesday I did a Silverlight 4 talk at ConFoo (www.confoo.ca) very good conference in Montreal!
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After the Olympics… the Silverlight Tour in Vancouver!
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Jesse Liberty at the Montreal User Group, take 2
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Silverlight 4 Training in Montreal (in english) in March
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My Silverlight presentation at the PHP Quebec User Group
Yesterday I did a Silverlight presentation at the PHP Quebec User Group in Montreal. -
Silverlight 4 Training in Montreal in January
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[Book review] Essential Silverlight 3
I recently finished reading “Essential Silverlight 3” book from Ashraf Michail (Addison-Wesley). This book provides an incredible level of details on the UI part (graphics, animation, effects, text, media) of Silverlight. “Under the Hood” sections present very (too?) deep information of the Silverlight UI architecture that you won’t find in other books. -
Microsoft Silverlight MVP += 1
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 taking part in worldwide conference like TechEd America, MIX Las Vegas and the MVP Summit in Redmond.