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Yesterday, the Software&Support Group announced a new event that I helped set up for December 2010. It’s a three-day training camp on all things C#. Christian Nagel, Rainer Stropek and myself will try to tell you all we know about the language, as well as lots of best practices surrounding its use. The event will take place December 8-10 2010 in Munich, Germany, in the NH Hotel Neue Messe. There are early-bird prices available until November 5, …


Good news: the locations for both the DXperience Silverlight [LINK REMOVED] and the DXperience ASP.NET [LINK REMOVED] training classes that I have announced for later this year are now fixed. (If you don’t know what DXperience is, but you are a .NET programmer, I suggest you go check out DevExpress’ brilliant component suites here!) I got to say, it was easy to do them both at once, because they’re in the same place:

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Hotel Zuiderduin is a plac …


More good news: for the three DevExpress product training classes [LINK REMOVED] that I announced earlier this month, I have extended the early-bird signup period to August 31 2010. I got several emails from people who thought the period was a bit too short for their liking, seeing how it’s vacation time and their bosses aren’t there and so on… okay, I can see that. And since the dates are only in October, it seemed like a good move to give people more time. In turn — all of you sign up, oka …


2010-07-06

I’m wondering if somebody knows something about this that may help me. I have an iPod that I can hook up to the stereo in my car using a vendor supplied cradle (this is a Land Rover Discovery 3). This allows me to use the iPod itself to select the music I listen to, because the interface on the iPod stays active at all times. In my caravan I have a car stereo installed as well, which has “iPod integration”. Unfortunately the stereo runs pretty hot in the caravan when using it with MP3 CDs, so I …


I have just announced three new classes from my “Business Apps with DevExpress” series — Windows Forms, ASP.NET and Silverlight! You can find all the details here: http://www.oliversturm.com/dxtraining.html Special early-bird pricing for all three classes is available until July 31st, so hurry and sign up!


I’m replying to a post in the DevExpress XPO forum, where the question came up of how to use joins with XPO/LINQ and projection. Unfortunately, the forum system mangled my code snippets, so I thought I’d put the info up here as well.

Emilio Garcia wrote: I trying to create a linq query to retrive some objects, this is the query:

var
listadoSesiones = from u in usuariosjoin s in sesiones on u.ObjId equals
s.UsuarioIdwhere s.Activa == true
orderby s.FechaInicio ascendin ...

I’m thinking of a class for Silverlight components, later this year. It would probably be a two or three day class, covering the process of creating a Silverlight application with the help of the DevExpress components on that platform.

Right now I’m trying to gauge interest in the topic. If you think you might be interested in such a class sometime between October and December 2010, please let me know! I’m also interested in finding out what locations in the world would be most useful to you, …


Another great event on Friday last week: dotnet Cologne. I’d never been there before because the schedule never seemed to fit. It was great fun, lots of people, and I did two talks on FP in C# which went very well. Thank you to everybody who was there! Here are the files for my talks: