My publisher is looking for new authors, so this might be the ideal time :-)  Have a look at the following:   Packt Publishing, the publisher of computer related books, plans to expand its range of Silverlight books and is currently inviting inquiries from people who fancy writing a Silv... [More]

Gill Cleeren, with whom I wrote this book, posted a blog update with some reviews.  And I’m pleased to say: they’re good, very good even! :-)  Here are some excerpts:   Richard Costall’s review:   Microsoft Silverlight 4 Data and Services Cookbook is a great publication, a... [More]

Thanks to everyone who attended my session on MVVM at BESUG yesterday (and thanks for the nice comments ;-))!  As promised, you can find the slidedeck and code here.   Included: Powerpoint slides, completed solution and DB Backup.    What you need to run this: Visual Studio ... [More]

Just a quick reminder: Maarten Balliauw and I will be speaking at Techdays 2010 in Portugal this Thursday (that is, if our flight isn’t cancelled due to the ash cloud).    We’ll be doing one session together: PHP + Silverlight, on how to get those two techs working together.  Maart... [More]

The MIX2010 conference has ended, most of the attendees are back home and are looking back at an eventful conference – and Vegas is a pretty nice location :-)  In case you missed it, here are some of the more interesting links (disclaimer: personal selection :)) to have a look at:   V... [More]

The most important conference for .NET (web) developers of the year is coming up: MIX10, again in Las Vegas this year, from March 15th to 17th.   This is the first year I’m going, and I’m really looking forward to it (staying at the Mandalay Bay Hotel, as most of the attendees :-)).  I’m... [More]

As some of you might know, a new RC has just been released for VS2010 – it’s supposed to be much more stable and faster than the second beta.  However, as of now, there’s no Silverlight 4 support, we’ll have to wait for a new release of the Silverlight assemblies.  Which means those of you... [More]

Hi there!  After long consideration, I decided to move away from my old blogger blog, buy a domain, ASP .NET webhosting, and start using BlogEngine .NET for a new, updated blog.  Which is what you are looking at right now ;-)   Why BlogEngine .NET?  Well, mainly because I’ve he... [More]

A few weeks ago, the new VS2010 beta was released, including a long-awaited upgrade of WPF, which enables features like the Visual State Manager for WPF.  Next to that, a beta of Silverlight 4 was released at PDC last week, which – amongst others – enables SL Out of Browser to run i... [More]

A while ago, my company decided to launch a new marketing campaign, showing of some of the things we’ve done in the past.  To accompany this campaign, we decided to design a showcase site.  This showcase site shows of a whole lot of customer cases, technology flyers, solutions sheets... [More]