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Techdays 2009 Belgium slides and demos
Gill Cleeren     .net | Efficiency | Slide decks | TechDays     March 12, 2009    

From March 10 - 12, TechDays 2009 Belgium took place, for the first time in Metropolis Antwerp.

I've delivered quite some sessions, including part of the keynote. A lot of people asked me to share the slides as well as the demos, so here are all the items you need to complete your knowledge on both databinding in WPF as well as skinning controls in Silverlight.

WPF Databinding Deep Dive
Databinding always sounds a bit intimidating. It’s the concept of attaching objects to a user interface and letting the technology take care of what to display where. WPF has a lot of capabilities in store to make databinding really easy and to help you build data-driven applications a lot faster. In this session, we’ll tackle everything that databinding offers us, from the fundamentals concepts to the advanced topics. With a lot of demos woven into the session, you’ll walk away with the knowledge you need to more efficiently use WPF.
Slide deck - Demos

Under the hood in Silverlight's controls skinning framework
While Silverlight offers us a lot of controls to build business applications, you might feel the urge to change them even more to suffice the needs of your application. A round button perhaps? Or a non-rectangular textbox? It’s all possible with the Silverlight skinning framework. In this session, you’ll see how to overhaul the look of your controls as well as create your own from scratch.
Slide deck - Demos

I hope you enjoyed the sessions, any feedback is welcome.

  Posted on: Thursday, March 12, 2009 3:24:10 PM (Romance Standard Time, UTC+01:00)   |   Comments [6]
         
Friday, March 13, 2009 1:55:42 PM (Romance Standard Time, UTC+01:00)
Hi,

I have to say I found your session on databinding very poor. There was no deep dive at all. I am a newbie to WPF (1 month experience) and I just learned two things (filtering and sorting on collections). All the more advanced demo's were skipped.

This session would have been good two years ago, or as a level 100 session, but definitely not higher.

And maybe ask Peter Himschoot for a better example on explaining a dependency property. His example on the RIA day last year was much more clear, and it was all new to me at the time...

Koen
Tuesday, March 17, 2009 9:18:33 PM (Romance Standard Time, UTC+01:00)
Maybe for experienced users, but for me it was a very interesting session. And in fact the most important thing for enterprise application is the databinding and after the session I immediatly began a WPF application. So to convince developpers to go to wpf it was for me a success!!!
Jordens Christophe
Wednesday, March 18, 2009 12:17:24 AM (Romance Standard Time, UTC+01:00)
Dear Koen,

I'm sorry that your expectations weren't met with the session. All other comments that I got were good. I think the main problem is a misunderstanding from your side regarding session levels. Here's a small overview from Microsoft.com. As you can see, a level 100 session like you mention requires no knowledge of the technology.
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To ensure that participants get the most out of each Support WebCast, the technical level of the presentation has been included. Classification has been done in accordance with the classic undergraduate class model and the description of each level is listed below.

100 level: Is an introduction to the topic or overview. The 100-level Support WebCast assumes little or no expertise with the topic being covered.

200 level: Assumes 100-level knowledge and a fairly complete understanding of the features. The 200-level Support WebCasts may discuss case studies that cover a breadth of common scenarios or explain how to use more advanced features.

300 level: Assumes 200-level knowledge and an in-depth understanding of product features in a real-world environment. The 300-level Support WebCasts may go into unusual case studies that illustrate specific aspects of the product that are key to improving performance or interoperability.

400 level: Assumes the deepest level of technical knowledge we expect a customer to have. The 400-level Support WebCasts are essentially expert-to-expert sessions. The content provides the means for customers to push products to maximum performance, achieve the broadest possible interoperability, and create applications using even the most advanced features.
Gill Cleeren
Thursday, March 19, 2009 6:17:33 PM (Romance Standard Time, UTC+01:00)
Is there also a DVD with all the techdays sessions available?
Maarten Engelen
Thursday, March 19, 2009 9:07:51 PM (Romance Standard Time, UTC+01:00)
Yes, but it's not ready yet :)
gill cleeren
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