Las Vegas MIX’ing at Microsoft together with BESUG

• Posted by kevin derudder on February 3, 2010
• 80 comments

MIX 2010 must be one of the best events Microsoft organizes for web folks. Since not everyone can make it to Las Vegas for this we at Microsoft Belgium together with the Belgian Silverlight User Group have a solution for you. We will organize a live keynote streaming on a big screen in a cool Vegas style. Expect a live intervention from some Belgians at MIX and cool prizes to be won.

What’s on the agenda:

16h30 – Welcome
17h00 – 19h00 – Live keynote streamed from Las Vegas – don’t miss the announcements
19h00 – Break
19h30 – Live feed to some Belgians at MIX…
20h00 – American style light dinner
21h00 – Poker evening, prize draw

So hope to invite you all, please subscribe on following link

K.

Besug new years drink

• Posted by kevin derudder on December 31, 2009
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For those who forgot it, tonight Frederik and I invite for our Silverlight user group new years drink. Please check the besug site for more details.

There will be some silverlight, geek or normal talking with a glass of beer, wine or whatever you like, which is totally for free.

K.

Using XML with VB.NET 9.0

• Posted by kevin derudder on November 25, 2009
• 156 comments

Today, during a Live session @ Microsoft,  I talked about how you can use VB.NET 9.0 XML Literals to parse, create XML documents.
As promised, I’ve uploaded the demo’s and the slides to my skydrive, which you can find here. Note that the session was in dutch, but the demos were in english

In my mail merge demo, I used the Open XML Format SDK which you can download from here and the Xml to Schema tool that can be downloaded from here

Multiple Silverlight controls in 1 XAP

• Posted by kevin derudder on November 4, 2009
• 164 comments

Basically, when you are creating a website with 2 Silverlight contols, you need to have 2 xap files in your ClientBin folder. It would be better if you could have 1 xap file but you decide which usercontrol you want to see.

A solution could be using InitParams in the object tag in your HTML file:

in the app.xaml you write following code:

K.

Silverlight 4 is beta

• Posted by kevin derudder on November 2, 2009
• 105 comments

Woohoow, again a new great time to be a silverlight developer. Silverlight 4 beta has been announced on PDC 2009 this week. Have a look at the keynote from the moment you have time, click here

To get started with Silverlight 4, go and see the get started page on the silverlight site: http://silverlight.net/getstarted/silverlight-4-beta/. On this site you’ll find:

• All the tools needed to get started
• tutorials and hands on labs
• Video’s

So get your hands dirty and dive into this exiting world of client development

K

.NET Ria services

• Posted by Kevin DeRudder on September 29, 2009
• 85 comments

Don’t forget the .net ria services on thursday. see http://www.besug.be.

In this session, you will get an impression of what RIA Services are and how you can use them together with a Silverlight 3 application. A variety of topics will be covered by Kevin Dockx.

See you on thursday ….

MSDN event: Firestarter

• Posted by Kevin DeRudder on September 14, 2009
• 105 comments

For those who wants to be ahead of the game, but do not have time to see events, msdn firestarter is the solution to your problem.

This site offers you free webcasts talking about Microsoft technologies such as:

•   ASP.NET MVC
•   Silverlight
•   Windows 7
•   …

So when you have time, and next week it is going to rain ( no excuses allowed ), take some time to look at the presentations delivered by Scott Guthrie, Tim Heuer, Brad Abrams and many more

K

Arturo Toledo @ BESUG

• Posted by Kevin DeRudder on September 12, 2009
• 101 comments

Yesterday we had our session with Arturo Toledo. It was great, nice topics and a good speaker (thank you very much Arturo) who took time to answer questions from the audience.

Arturo talked about Sketchflow, Behaviors and Controls in Silverlight and Blend 3. He did this so passionate that I even started to go deeper in Sketchflow, especially the ability to sketch animations. Even the Flash audience who attended the session were convinced and they were asking where they could download Expression Blend.

Arturo is going to deliver the session again on Remix, so if you don’t know what to do today, hurry up to Brussels.

Further I want to thank these days for organizing the event and the catering (delicious) and Microsoft for the talk.

K.

Arturo Toledo visits BESUG

• Posted by Kevin DeRudder on August 9, 2009
• 82 comments

ReMix – See the light

• Posted by Kevin DeRudder on August 7, 2009
• 80 comments