The Belgian SQL Server User Group is teaming up with Microsoft to organize an “Ask The Experts” event. The purpose of this event is to give you, the SQL Server user, an opportunity to ask Microsoft those things which you’ve always wanted to know but never could find on the internet. The questions are currently being gathered [...]
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For the second time this year, the SQL PASS folks are organizing another 24 Hours of PASS, a 24-hour free virtual training event.  Each session takes one hour, so there are 24 presentations in total.  Instead of putting them right after each other, this time they’ve decided to split the event in half: 12 hours [...]
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Yesterday, I gave a talk for DotNed.nl, the Dutch usergroup at the Ordina offices in Nieuwegein. 55 people attended the sold-out talk, I hope you enjoyed it. Any feedback is of course welcome via mail.

The talk, Building an end-to-end Silverlight application consisted out of 10 topics that we often encounter when building LOB applications:

• 1.SketchFlow
• 2.WCF RIA Services
• 3.Data binding & DataGrid
• 4.MVVM
• 5.MEF
• 6.Commanding & behaviors
• 7.Messaging, navigation & dialogs
• 8.Custom controls & third party controls
• 9.OOB
• 10.Printing

The ZIP file below contains the PPTX and the demos (also of the 2 topics we didn’t cover).

Remember that in 2 weeks, on September 14th, I’ll be again in the Netherlands for 2 sessions for SiXin, the Silverlight usergroup. Registration for this event is free and can be done here.

PPTX & demos

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Yesterday, I gave a talk for DotNed.nl, the Dutch usergroup at the Ordina offices in Nieuwegein. 55 people attended the sold-out talk, I hope you enjoyed it. Any feedback is of course welcome via mail.

The talk, Building an end-to-end Silverlight application consisted out of 10 topics that we often encounter when building LOB applications:

• 1.SketchFlow
• 2.WCF RIA Services
• 3.Data binding & DataGrid
• 4.MVVM
• 5.MEF
• 6.Commanding & behaviors
• 7.Messaging, navigation & dialogs
• 8.Custom controls & third party controls
• 9.OOB
• 10.Printing

The ZIP file below contains the PPTX and the demos (also of the 2 topics we didn’t cover).

Remember that in 2 weeks, on September 14th, I’ll be again in the Netherlands for 2 sessions for SiXin, the Silverlight usergroup. Registration for this event is free and can be done here.

PPTX & demos

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With the holidays I haven’t been able to write much.  So I’ll make up for it with this +3000 words article.  If you’re reading this early in the morning, you’d better get a double espresso first In this article I will demonstrate a method that can be used to calculate aggregations over a certain [...]
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hNext week Thursday (August 26th 2010), I’ll be presenting at DotNed.nl. The presentation is titled Building an end-to-end Silverlight 4 application. As the title says, we’ll be looking at some of the common questions (and of course answers) you’ll have when you are faced with the challenge of building a Line-of-Business application from scratch.

Bring your demo hat today, as we’ll be building an end-to-end, real life Silverlight application during this session! Looking at Silverlight today, we easily see that the platform is getting larger and larger, with more frameworks such as MEF being developed on the side. Advanced features such as COM interop and printing make the Silverlight story complete. In this session, we’ll take a look at how we can use all members of the Silverlight family to build an end-to-end application, based on MVVM principles.

 

Registration is free but mandatory and can be done on the DotNed.nl site. And since it’s taking place in the Ordina.NL offices, I won’t be feeling all that strange ;-) (FYI, I work at Ordina.BE!)

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Microsoft just announced that all of us can help deciding which sessions will be delivered at Tech-Ed 2010 Berlin. That's a great way of making sure that the contents is what the public wants!

I've ran through the list and 4 of my proposals made the shortlist (which is good news :)).

• Treasures for the C# developer in Visual Studio 2010
• AJAX Tips and tricks: things you never knew that could be done in ASP.NET Ajax
• Silverlight data access and services not for the faint of heart
• The good, the bad and… well, that’s it: Comparing good and bad practices in Silverlight application development

If you would like me to deliver one of these sessions on the upcoming Tech-Ed, please vote for them at http://europe.msteched.com/sessionpreference . Of course, there are many really other interesting sessions there as well: I'm sure this will be a great conference!

Thanks for voting!

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On the forums I now and then encounter questions regarding images on SSRS reports.  Instead of re-inventing the wheel each time, I decided to write an article about the subject.  So in this article I’ll be discussing and demonstrating several different ways of how images can be put on a report. I’m using SQL Server Reporting [...]
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Lately I’ve been using Visual Studio Team System 2008 Database Edition with the GDR R2 add-on, also known as “The Data Dude”, to compare databases with each other. And during a schema compare I noticed that the dude can be quite stubborn now and then. Here’s an example and an explanation of why, as far as I [...]
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Lately I’ve been using Visual Studio Team System 2008 Database Edition with the GDR R2 add-on, also known as “The Data Dude”, to compare databases with each other. And during a schema compare I noticed that the dude can be quite stubborn now and then. Here’s an example and an explanation of why, as far as I [...]
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