Finally, we can present the RTM version of the Visual Studio 2008 RTM Training Kit. This kit is a real goldmine, containing presentations, Hands-On-Labs, demo's... on all topics related to Visual Studio 2008. Now you only have to find about 5 days to complete all that's in here, and you&... [More]

Yes, it's here, the eagle has landed! Visual Studio 2008 has RTM'ed! If you're an MSDN subscriber, you can start your download engines, it's a whopping 3921 MB large file for the entire Team Suite. If you haven't used the Beta 2 version, you can download the whitepaper h... [More]

I have not upgraded my Visual Studio 2008 to RTM yet, but here's a good guide on how to uninstall and upgrade without running into problems: http://www.ekampf.com/blog/2007/11/19/UninstallingPreviousVersionsOfVisualStudio2008.aspx

After the first real controlset for Silverlight, Sapphire by ComponentOne, was released earlier today, I started by reading the quickstart guide (one has to start somewhere, isn't it). I created a first demo application (actually, it was not even a demo application for that matter), usin... [More]

After the 2 succesfull sessions for Visug, MSDN Belux is organizing an MSDN evening on Silverlight in Mechelen. The session will take place at Utopolis on October 31st (yes, indeed on Halloween, hence the orange ;-) ). In this session, Gill Cleeren will guide you through all the aspects... [More]

Here's a trick to a question I have heard a few times already: how to perform easy navigation in Silverlight 1.1? This problem can be partially solved using hidden panels: you click on a button, Panel1 is hidden and Panel2 becomes visible. This is a trick that is often done in ASP.net too. ... [More]

Yesterday, another CTP of Blend 2, THE tool for create Silverlight and Windows Presentation Foundation applications, was released. This time, it's the September Preview. Here's a list of what was added/changed: -VS2008 beta 2 full support -Creation of Controls from existing object... [More]

-ASP.net Ajax Control Toolkit 10920 released: a new version of the Control Toolkit was released today. Like always, you can download the bits here on CodePlex. A nice write-up on the changes can be found here. -Silverlight tutorials: on www.designwithsilverlight.com, there's a list of ... [More]

Appearantly, Halo 3 is a big game. Forgive me if this is the understatement of the year. But appearantly, it's big. What I find more interesting, is the Halo 3 game guide that was made in Silverlight. It's a real nice showcase of all that can be done in Silverlight. And to think that ... [More]

Last week, I gave the first delivery of my Silverlight presentation for Visug (Visual Studio Usergroup Belgium). It was a success: not one demo went wrong, and we had over 60 guests. I'll be doing a next session this week, again for Visug. A third redelivery will be done later. For ... [More]

We did our first Silverlight event at the Ordina offices (my company) in Schelle.Here are the pictures of me presenting, demo'ing and hoping that nothing goes wrong ! Pictures taken by Paul Hermans.

Because of all the work I had to finish in the past month, I haven't been able to do anymore posts... I hope to have some more spare time in the coming weeks to start writing some new articles for CodeFlakes!  

I'll be doing a session on Silverlight next month, on September 20th for Visug, the Belgian Visual Studio User Group. In this session, I'll give an overview of XAML too, so that if you've got no knowledge, you'll still be able to follow the entire session. This event will ta... [More]

In this first real Silverlight article on my new blog (on which you are at the moment...), I'll be explaining how you can let Silverlight interact with the DOM (Document Object Model) of the page on which it resides. I'll be doing the demo's with the latest build of Visual Studio 2008,... [More]

As weird as it may sound, a Windows Update actually broke the default installation of DotNetNuke. The error occurs when you try to open the default editor page by clicking on any HTML module on the "Edit page" item. You'll receive the following error: "The Runat attribute must h... [More]