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Silverlight 2 beta 2 Mega-FAQ
09 June 08 11:55 AM | Laurent Duveau

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...

Filed under: Events, Silverlight, Silverlight 2

My Silverlight talk at Microsoft Innovation Briefing
22 May 08 10:54 PM | Laurent Duveau

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...

Filed under: Montreal, Events, Silverlight, Web Development, Speaking, Microsoft, WCF, Linq

My talk on MIX08 (french)
21 March 08 12:27 AM | Laurent Duveau

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...

Filed under: Montreal, Events, Silverlight, Personal, Speaking

[MIX08] Sessions are available online (non Silverlight users banned)
11 March 08 01:24 AM | Laurent Duveau

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 cut-and-paste)...

Filed under: Events, Silverlight, MIX08

[MIX08] Keynote
06 March 08 03:42 AM | Laurent Duveau

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...

Filed under: Events, Silverlight, Web Development

[MIX08] pre-conference day
04 March 08 05:13 PM | Laurent Duveau

Today march 4 was the MIX08 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...

Filed under: Events, Community News, Silverlight, Expression

MIX08 Countdown Gadget
14 January 08 11:03 PM | Laurent Duveau

"The Next Web Now"... well almost (d-50) Here is a new Countdown sequel... not from me this time! This nice little gadget uses Silverlight! Download the MIX08 Countdown Gadget here .

Filed under: Events, Silverlight, Gadget, Vista

My Code Camp Montreal 2007 presentations
28 October 07 08:26 PM | Laurent Duveau

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...

Filed under: Montreal, Canada, Events, Silverlight, Expression, Speaking

Code Camp Montreal 2007
17 October 07 11:04 PM | Laurent Duveau

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...

Filed under: Montreal, Canada, Events, Community News, Silverlight, Expression, Speaking

Silverlight briefing event in Canada
01 October 07 07:38 PM | Laurent Duveau

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...

Filed under: Montreal, Canada, Events, Community News, Silverlight