Johan Van Hoye (member of BESUG) and two friends has participated the Summer Silverlight Coding Competition organized by CompenentArt. To get through the first round they need community points which can be earned by voting. The only thing you have to do is creating an account at ComponentArt and vote for their project. You can vote until the 23th of October.
So please vote for their project and support the Belgian Silverlight community!
BESUG organized a workshop on Silverlight 3.0 yesterday at the buildings of Boulevart in Schelle. First of all, I like to thank the people of Boulevart for the nice welcome and all the catering they provided!! You can check out the pictures at http://www.flickr.com/photos/boulevart/sets/72157622332029860
For the workshop, I’ve created a Silverlight Twitter client which shows some new features of Silverlight 3.0. This application uses a WCF service which communicates with Twitter. The following Silverlight 3.0 features are used in this application:
You can download the source code here.
What’s it all about?
ReMix brings the best of MIX09 in Las Vegas to Belgium: it bring us international speakers presenting on the best of MIX09, as well as local cases, with a story focus on User Experience (UX). Since last year’s first MIX event in Belgium there have been enormous advances in the web and RIA space at Microsoft. This is your chance to get a closer look at the new stuff as well as deepen your current skills.
Did you hear about UX@Vitra in June this year? This event will bring what you asked for: more in-depth sessions focused around RIA and web design and development.
At REMIX09 you can:
Who should attend?
REMIX draws together web developers, creatives, information architects, visual designers, UX professionals, and digital marketers who all SHARE AN INTEREST ON WHAT IS COMING NEXT ON THE WEB.
The countdown for the release of the new Belgian Silverlight User Group [BESUG] website has started. The new website should be up and running tomorrow 24th july at 6pm. Check it out at http://www.besug.be
This website uses some new Silverlight 3.0 features like pixel effects, deeplinking, perspective 3D and validators.
The beta of Silverlight 3.0 was unveiled at Mix in March this year and has a lot of new interesting features. BESUG organizes a workshop to introduce you to these features. The workshop will take place at the Boulevart buildings in Schelle at the 10th of September and endures two hours (from 19h till 21h).
During this workshop we will build a small Silverlight application, showing some of the new concepts like out of browser, animation easing, deeplinking, pixel effects, importing Photoshop files and perspective 3D.
You need to bring your own laptop with the following installed:
You can download all these tools from http://silverlight.net/getstarted/silverlight3. Be sure to subscribe fast at http://www.besug.be because places are limited to 30 people. This event is free of charge and is organized in cooperation with Boulevart. Hope to see you there!
As I promised in my session at Community Day, you can download some of the demo’s I’ve showed here. Other things about Community Day:
Thanks to everyone who attended this session!
Besug organises a new session in May. The objective of this session is to focus on the advantages of using Silverlight in Sharepoint and build a real-life application in 2 hours.
The session will be presented by Karine Bosch. She started her career as a Sharepoint Developer with the release of Sharepoint 2003 and developed her CAML Query Builder (a tool that allows to create dynamic CAML queries using a Windows user interface). After the release of Sharepoint 2007 beta, Karine participated in a couple of projects for Microsoft Redmond. One of the projects was the Silverlight Blueprint for Sharepoint. This project contains some samples on how you can integrate Silverlight with Sharepoint. At this moment, Karine works as a freelancer for the Ted Pattisson Group (USA) and Andrew Connell.
The session will take place on the 14th of May at the Microsoft buildings in Zaventem and is totally free of charge. The sessions start at 19u and ends at 21u. Places are limited, so be sure to register at http://www.besug.be
Microsoft organizes the TechDays this year on March 11 and 12 at Metropolis Antwerp. There is a track for developers, IT professionals and architects. The developers track contains some interesting Silverlight sessions:
All the further information is available at the techdays website.
BESUG will also attend the TechDays with a booth in the expo area. Be sure to pass by and to hear all about our plans for the summer and autumn of 2009. I hope to see you there.
The Belgian Silverlight User Group organises a workshop today. In the workshop we will create a small Silverlight application about the Belgian elections in 2007. The application will show the results from certain committees. This data is shown in a datagrid and in two charts. The application also has a deep zoom sections that dynamically positions images and can make a selection.
You can download the complete source code + the manual ( 21 pages !!! ) here. This rar file also contains the database and the database for the WCF services. The only thing you have to do is change the connectionstring in the web.config file.
On January 15th, BESUG organizes his second event. This time it will be a hands-on workshop with a New Year’s drink afterwards.
In this workshop, we will build a small Silverlight 2.0 application that shows some nice stuff you can do with Silverlight 2.0 and give some tips & tricks. You don’t have to be a Silverlight geek for this workshop, but an understanding of C# and XAML is recommended.
This event is totally free of charge and is organized with the cooperation of Multimediacollege and Plugmedia.
Visit http://www.besug.be to register for this event.
