These days I'm travelling around austria with our biggest developer & IT Pro event Big>Days 2009! This year's theme was "packen wir's an" - translated "let's get to work"! Accompanying the theme we built a multi-tier application with .NET 3.5 and Silverlight called "Rent...

I’ve a lot of New Year’s resolutions for 2009 :-) One of them is to blog more often (we’ll see how this works..) another is to do a series of webcasts around WPF . We’re starting with our first WPF webcast on Friday, January 9th at 10am with an overview over WPF and XAML. Topics we’ll cover: *) Why a...

Last week I was in Dublin doing two sessions on WPF for Microsoft Ireland. They did a "Client-UI Day", where they featured WPF and Silverlight. The first session was given by the Irish Developer Evangelist Ronan Geraghty , who did an introduction to the Microsoft Client Platform, showing the...

The demo solution from our .NET Beginners Roadshow is no ready for download for attendees and all others. The scenario is event management. The solution consists of 4 parts: *) Data Access layer using ADO.NET Entity Framework *) Business Logic Service hosted as a WCF service. *) Web Site...

From September 16th to 25th I'll be on the road with the .NET Beginners Road Show together with my colleague Mario . Our goal is to target newcomers to .NET and show them, how to implement a simple solution over the three tiers. Target audience are VB6 guys, as well as Java, C++ or Delphi people. As...

Here are the slides and demos of my four sessions at the Austrian Launch Tour "Big>Days 2008". Sorry for the delay.. I've been in a hurry during the last days.. So following the high demand, here they are :-) Visual Studio 2008 Slides WCF, WPF Demo Language Integrated Queries with C# 3.0 Slides Demos...

Wednesday March 5th, Venetian Hotel, Las Vegas. Endless crowds are trying to get into the keynote room of MiX. The first speaker is Ray Ozzie. As chief software architect of Microsoft, he talks about the overall strategy of Microsoft, providing a platform for consumer media applications as well as business...

Hurrah! This year I'm allowed to attend MiX conference in Las Vegas! And I'm really excited! I'm sure it will be a week of interesting sessions about Silverlight, Expression and other Web / UX Dev. topics! You can also expect some interesting announcements around these topics.. :-) So stay tuned to the...

This week I had a session about advanced topics of Windows Workflow Foundation. Some features I covered were Workflow Execution Internals External Services & Communication Activity Execution Context Persistence Workflow States Fault Handling Transactions Tracking Advanced Authoring Dynamic Updates...

The video of my WPF session at the XTOPIA Conference earlier this year is now available online! Session Video Session Slides & Demos So have fun watching the 2h 4' of WPF fundamentals like data binding, styles, templates, XAML, etc...

Thanks to everyone who attended our session earlier this morning! As promised you'll find the source code of the game attached to this post! Get the slides here if you haven't already done this! greetz, max.

On Tuesday I'll be doing a session about the XNA Framework at TechEd Europe together with my colleague Andreas Schabus. TLA314 Microsoft XNA Studio Express - Developing 2D-Games for Windows and Xbox 360 at 9am in Room 123. Huh.. That's gonna be an early morning.. (for YOU, as you should really attend...

Here are the slides and demos to my workshop on Windows Presentation Foundation. You'll find information and demos attached for the following topics: XAML Basics Dependency Objects & Routed Events Layout Panels Controls Styles, Templates & Resources Data Binding Command...

Last week I was "On-Tour" at local Usergroups in Vorarlberg (Dornbirn) and Tyrol (Innsbruck). I did one of my last presentations of Windows Vista Development! (Meaning NOT .NET 3.0, but unmanaged APIs, like those already posted on my blog). Thanks for everyone, who joined me! For everyone else...

Last month I did a basic session on Windows Workflow Foundation at the Global Knowledge .NET Takeoff event! Here are the slides, for everyone, who is interested!

Yesterday was the final spurt of our Big>Days 2007 Roadshow! One day of sessions in Vienna's "Austria Convention Center"! At the same time as our conference, there were official exams for financial inspectors - which resulted in a funny incident: As I left the session-room, after having tested my...

Last week I’ve been doing a lot of research for my Vista-development session at our local Big>Days conference. When speaking about “Vista development” you can split up the possibilities into two parts: Either managed APIs or unmanaged. Yes :-) although Vista is the first operating system released...

Unfortunately there is a size limit on each posting for uploads.. So here are the slides of the second session (Disconnected Applications with SQL Server 2005 Mobile Edition). Please come back for recordings :-)

Yesterday I was hosting an MSDN Briefing in Vienna. MSDN Briefings are monthly events targetting software developers. The topics, which are adressed cover currently released technologies. This time the title was "Under the hoods of Windows Mobile 5 + Offline Applications with SQL Server Mobile Edition...