March 2008 - Posts
Here is version 1 of my countdown Vista gadget for the MIX essentials event on April 24th in Belgium. It's a very simple gadget but since I found one for the MIX08 event in March I also wanted for our own event. Download gadget link to my SkyDrive is
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Coming April 24th we are organizing our first edition of MIX essentials : this is a local 1 day event bringing you the latest information from the MIX08 conference held in Las Vegas early March. Join the conversation and explore how you can create next-generation
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After a full Launch event on the 10th of March and a sold out TechDays event on 12th and 13th of March, some of you were unable to register and participate. The good news is the Visual Studio User Group is planning 6 sessions around the new Visual Studio
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TechDays 2008 are over. Overall feedback was very positive. As this was my first big event since starting at Microsoft I'm really happy with the way it all rolled out: top speakers delivering top sessions. Of course this would not have been possible without
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With Silverlight 2 comes a new file extension for your Silverlight applications: .XAP (pronounced zap). This is a compressed file that uses standard .zip compression algorithm to minimize client download size. .XAP structure As stated the .XAP file is
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We have published the first of a new screencast series on Chopsticks: it's a new idea launched by our Regional Director Grégory Renard . The idea is to have short 10 minute screencasts on several subjects in which you get insight into the subject. The
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With the release of Beta1 for Silverlight 2 you get two new templates in Visual Studio 2008 for creating Silverlight projects in C# or VB. Download links to Microsoft Silverlight Tools Beta 1 for Visual Studio 2008 you will find at numerous places on
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If you could not make it to the MIX event this year you can still follow on a lot of content presented: all session recordings are available online. Lots of them are even online in less than 24 hours. Go to the MIX 08 Sessions site at http://sessions.visitmix.com/
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Steve Ballmer did the keynote at MIX today and he just does it again: after Guy Kawasaki asks him not to do any monkey boy a particpant gets the change to get to the microphone and challenge Steve. I was sitting next to my manager Luc who happened to
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The keynote at MIX08 in Las Vegas this year was really exciting to follow. I was really looking forward to the keynote mainly for Scott Guthrie’s announcements, and was not let down. Check Tim Sneath’s blog to get a “live” overview of what was announced
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