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Slides and Demos from BigDays 2009 are online!

knom — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 00:22:00 GMT

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-A-Worker"!

You can download the sources at http://www.codeplex.com/BigDays09/!

If you're interested in the slides of my four sessoins, feel free to get them here

WPF Webcast - New Year's resolutions

knom — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 13:34:39 GMT

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 new UI framework
*) What tools, frameworks, .. do we need for WPF?
*) What is XAML, what is it’s syntax.

>> Register now at the Webcast Website

WPF Day in Dublin

knom — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 17:56:00 GMT

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 differences between AJAX, Silverlight, WPF and when to use what.

Next I did a WPF for beginners session, where I showed all the details of XAML, Databinding, Styles, Templates, etc...

Afterwards my colleague Martha Rother from Ireland did a session on Silverlight.

Last but not least I showed how to leverage WPF and Composite WPF Guidance ("Prism") to build business applications.

Overall a really nice event, with around 80 attendees and a lot of interesting ideas and feedback on the Microsoft Client Continuum.

If you're interested in my slides on WPF Introduction and Composite WPF, find them here:

WPF Sessions.zip

Going home from Ireland I took two flights via London.. What a bad choice.. I drove to Dublin Airport at 6:30 am, arriving in Vienna at 5pm :-) Almost half a day of traveling and waiting...

.NET Roadshow - Demo Solution

knom — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 17:07:00 GMT

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, written in ASP.NET, which allows attendees to register and view their events, including a

*) Silverlight Web Control

*) Desktop Client using WPF, for managing the events.

Here some screen shots:

Feel free to have a look at the source code here.

On the road - The .NET Beginners Road Show

knom — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 14:41:31 GMT

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 the schedule is pretty tight, we expect the attendees to know the principles of object oriented programming.

Andreas has produced a series of webcasts, called "Get the basics", which introduce OOP in .NET for those who don't know (so they can also attend).

The videos are 15 minutes each (at a maximum) and are going to be published before the event (obviously :-)).

The roadshow stops in Dornbirn, Innsbruck, Salzburg, Linz, Graz and Wien.

So pretty much everywhere over Austria.

It's going to be a tough week travelling around for us two - as we have events every day and have to move on to the next stop in the evening ;-)

The attendee fee is 85 € for a one day power event full of demos (and food as well *ggg*).

Visit http://www.microsoft.com/austria/msdn/netstartups/ for more informations - and don't forget to register soon, as the venues have only restricted seats available.

BigDays 2008 - Slides and Demos

knom — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 19:32:55 GMT

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

Language Integrated Queries with C# 3.0

Slides
Demos

Silverlight 2.0

Slides
Demos

Windows Presentation Foundation for Line-Of-Business Applications

Slides
Demos

MiX 08 Keynote News - Silverlight, IE 8, ...

knom — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 12:57:42 GMT

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 applications over a variety of devices and the web.

Then the first announcement: We will provide what is called Microsoft SQL Server Data Services. Not to be confused with ADO.NET Data Services (Project "Astoria"), the SQL Server DS is an online storage service based on REST and SOAP webservices, which can be leveraged for your own applications. If you're interested in details see the session recording at visitmix.com, available for download later this week, or see Eugenio Pace's blog on this.

After that, Scott Guthrie, VP of developer division took over and started with an outlook to the future of web development with Microsoft:

One of these is the ASP.NET MVC framework, Dynamic Data Support as well as new AJAX extensions.

The next interesting announcement: The availability of Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1. You can already download it here! More details about new features to come on my blog.

Expression Studio 2 - is available as Beta version, with e.g. a great new Expression Web and Expression Blend for Silverlight 1.

To use Blend with Silverlight 2 a new version Expression Blend 2.5 March CTP is available.

Two other interesting announcements regarding Silverlight:

We are currently building a mobile version of Silverlight for use with Windows Mobile 6 devices. The first CTP will be available in Q2 2008 and...

Together with Nokia, Microsoft will provide versions of Silverlight for the Symbian powered devices Nokia S40 and S60 (no timeframe mentioned there).

So get back for the detailed postings on Silverlight 2 and IE 8.

If you are interested in sessions from mix, go to http://sessions.visitmix.com/

MiX 2008 - I'm coming!!

knom — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 18:43:02 GMT

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 news around MiX 08!

According to my weather sidebar gadget the temperature in Las Vegas will rise up until 22°C - so it's going to be a *hot week*!

Also it's my first time in Las Vegas, so I'm really curious seeing all the places I've only seen in lots of movies.

Advanced Workflow Foundation - MSDN Briefing

knom — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 21:04:59 GMT

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

Feel free to download the slides and play around with the demos!

Slides
Demos

XTOPIA - WPF Workshop Video

knom — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 14:23:47 GMT

The video of my WPF session at the XTOPIA Conference earlier this year is now available online!

So have fun watching the 2h 4' of WPF fundamentals like data binding, styles, templates, XAML, etc...

XNA - TechEd Event Resources

knom — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 03:38:00 GMT

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.

XNA Session @ TechEd Europe

knom — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 13:22:26 GMT

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 this session :-P)

So what are we going to do:

Develop a simple arcade game in less than 75 minutes (because there're some theory slides in it, too).

If you're already have experience with XNA watch out, this is a beginner's session in terms of XNA!

Nevertheless we will dive into the depths of coding, so you need good C#/OOP knowledge!

We'll use 2D drawing and collision detection in an object-oriented game model.

What could be interesting for experienced developers is the architectural concept for using multiple screens with the help of a GameScreenManager we're going to show in the last part of the session!

So see you in Barcelona! - Holá!

WPF Workshop

knom — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 14:35:00 GMT

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 Pattern
Custom Layout Controls (like Grid)
Custom Markup Extensions
WPF - Windows Forms Interoperability

This is a compendium of overall 116 slides, of which I showed only some during the presentation. So there's lots of background information and best practices in it as well.

Have a look at the slides (unfortuantely they're in German) or browser throught the demos!

Have fun!

Vista API Demos with C#

knom — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 19:10:00 GMT

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 - the Topics included:

User Account Control
Windows Error Reporting, Restart & Recovery API
Vista UI Look & Feel
Search
Network List Manager

Here is the presentation as well as the demos!

Presentation (4,55 MB)
Demos (3,82 MB)

Workflow Foundation Basics Slides

knom — Wed, 02 May 2007 00:29:00 GMT

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!