From Channel9, one of the most interesting vids at the moment! C# 4.0: Meet the Design Team What's the C# team up to these days? Who's on the C# 4.0 design team, anyway? With the looming problem of manycore facing developers now and certainly in the near future (to a much great... [More]

On 22th May, the 8th edition of Multi-Mania took place in Kortrijk. For the first time, I was invited there to do a talk on Silverlight 2. The crowd was really interested in what can be done with Silverlight, resulting in quite a lot of questions afterwards. The event itself is mo... [More]

At Mix Essentials in Belgium, I delivered a session on working with Silverlight and data and services. Since the session was very well received and also the way the session was constructed, I decided to create a tutorial from it. This tutorial covers several scenario's for having Silverl... [More]

Today I delivered a session on Mix Essentials in Belgium (Louvain-La-Neuve). The talk was about connecting Silverlight with services and data. Everything went great and every single demo worked as expected. This morning however, I do was a little bit scared when I was trying out my demo's... [More]

On my never ending quest in Silverlight, I came across some very interesting links. Here are some that I really wanted to share with my readers.... RSS databinding explained: Using the Syndication classes in Silverlight, it's easy to parse RSS 2.0 and Atom 1.0 feeds. In this artic... [More]

OK, I apologize, I haven't been blogging whilst the event. And yes, I do have a perfect reason: the event was so great that I didn't have time to blog. So to make up, here's the full scope of the MVP Summit 2008 in Seattle/Redmond! So you've been to Seattle? Yes! I receiv... [More]

Now that TechDays 2008 (formerly known as DevItProdays) here in Belgium are over, it’s time to sit down, relax and look back on an event well-done! November 2007 – March 10th 2008 You may be thinking, what the heck is he going back for ‘till November last year… Well, as you... [More]

The Olympic Games 2008 haven't started yet, but Silverlight is already a winner way back there in China. I just got this from Soma's blog: We have signed an agreement to partner with NBC Universal to build a Silverlight 2.0 based web broadcast of the 2008 Summer Olympic games.  Thi... [More]

If you've never seen Jeff Prosise in real life, you are missing out on a great speaker that has an outspoken opinion on trends in the industry. Last year, I was able to talk with him one-on-one at DevDays in Ghent on the upcoming release of Silverlight (at that point still WPF/E). Today,... [More]

2008 just started, and I already got some great news from Microsoft: I was given the 2008 Microsoft MVP award! I must admit I made a little jump when I saw the mail in my Outlook Web Access this evening. Here's a little piece of the mail I can show you: Dear Gill Cleeren,  Co... [More]

Don't know what to do this Christmas vacation? Tired of eating turkey all day? Maybe checking out these interesting links may be interesting... -Microsoft's new Silverlight Download center: after being in preview the last few weeks, Microsoft set their download center live this week.... [More]

I presented at the Visug Best of TechEd 2007 event last week. It was only a small presentation on the ASP.net Futures releases that are coming, including the Silverlight and the MediaPlayer control. If you want to view these files, click below for the small slidedeck with the demo's. ... [More]

Already downloaded VS 2008 RTM? Great! Doing some Silverlight 1.1 development? Great too! However, the combination of both is not yet possible. At this moment, you can't use the Silverlight 1.1 Tools Alpha for Visual Studio yet with the RTM release. Here's what Scott Guthrie says on th... [More]

Finally, we can present the RTM version of the Visual Studio 2008 RTM Training Kit. This kit is a real goldmine, containing presentations, Hands-On-Labs, demo's... on all topics related to Visual Studio 2008. Now you only have to find about 5 days to complete all that's in here, and you&... [More]