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]

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]

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]

After the first real controlset for Silverlight, Sapphire by ComponentOne, was released earlier today, I started by reading the quickstart guide (one has to start somewhere, isn't it). I created a first demo application (actually, it was not even a demo application for that matter), usin... [More]

After the 2 succesfull sessions for Visug, MSDN Belux is organizing an MSDN evening on Silverlight in Mechelen. The session will take place at Utopolis on October 31st (yes, indeed on Halloween, hence the orange ;-) ). In this session, Gill Cleeren will guide you through all the aspects... [More]

Here's a trick to a question I have heard a few times already: how to perform easy navigation in Silverlight 1.1? This problem can be partially solved using hidden panels: you click on a button, Panel1 is hidden and Panel2 becomes visible. This is a trick that is often done in ASP.net too. ... [More]

Yesterday, another CTP of Blend 2, THE tool for create Silverlight and Windows Presentation Foundation applications, was released. This time, it's the September Preview. Here's a list of what was added/changed: -VS2008 beta 2 full support -Creation of Controls from existing object... [More]

Appearantly, Halo 3 is a big game. Forgive me if this is the understatement of the year. But appearantly, it's big. What I find more interesting, is the Halo 3 game guide that was made in Silverlight. It's a real nice showcase of all that can be done in Silverlight. And to think that ... [More]

Last week, I gave the first delivery of my Silverlight presentation for Visug (Visual Studio Usergroup Belgium). It was a success: not one demo went wrong, and we had over 60 guests. I'll be doing a next session this week, again for Visug. A third redelivery will be done later. For ... [More]

I'll be doing a session on Silverlight next month, on September 20th for Visug, the Belgian Visual Studio User Group. In this session, I'll give an overview of XAML too, so that if you've got no knowledge, you'll still be able to follow the entire session. This event will ta... [More]