You can find the slides and source code for my DevWeek 2009 presentations this week here:-

• StyleCop (or How To Start A Fight) (Slides)
• Automating Testing Using Virtual Server 2005 (Slides)
• Automating Testing Using Virtual Server 2005 (Source Code)
• Visual Studio 2008 Tips And Tricks (Slides)
• Internationalizing WPF And Silverlight Applications (Slides)

Yesterday I presented Internationalizing WPF And Silverlight (non-TechEd branded slides here) at TechEd Europe 2008 in Barcelona. I was quite pleased with it and felt it went fairly well. I went straight from the session to the Ask The Experts stand to answer questions about my subject. So I missed the excitement. But fortunately for me Richard Costall took the following photo:-

This is the speakers leader board and it shows how well the sessions are doing at any one moment in time. Sadly this is one of those times when a picture is worth a thousand misleading words. I would love to end the story here but it only lasted a short while and my moment was over:-

And now I'm no longer in the top 10 (there are 210 speakers here and 330 unique breakout or interactive sessions and mine is currently 31st) but I remain chuffed to bits with my 15 seconds of fame. BTW take a look at Bart De Smet and Jeff Wharton on the leader board in third and fourth places in the first picture (at the time the photo was taken). Bart and Jeff are the Speaker Idol Winners for TechEd Europe 2006 and 2007 respectively (Jeff is still fifth place on the board). FWIW Daniel Moth is currently top of the leader board but I'm sure Daniel would be the first to point out that as Rafal Lucawiecki and Anders Hejlsberg are not speaking at TechEd Europe this year it doesn't really count (just kidding, Daniel).

A while ago I blogged about the solution to creating strongly typed resource classes for Silverlight so that the classes had a public constructor to allow them to be loaded by the Silverlight XAML loader. Apologies to the people who downloaded the PublicResourceCodeGenerator and discovered that it worked in Visual Studio 2005 but not in Visual Studio 2008. It is fixed now for Visual Studio 2008. You can download it here.

I?m hoping it will be third time lucky for me as I return to the Coventry chapter of The Next Generation User Group on Monday 8th December 2008 for another outing of the Internationalizing WPF And Silverlight Applications talk. Here?s the abstract again:-

• The .NET Framework has supported internationalization since 1.0 but with each new UI platform comes a new approach and new challenges. Unlike Windows Forms and ASP.NET, WPF does not offer one standard solution to localization. Instead it offers choices. This session shows how to localize WPF applications using standard .resx files and how to localize ?post-build? using LocBaml with and without Resource Dictionaries. In addition you will see how to localize a Silverlight application using .resx files and we will consider issues that are specific to Silverlight. We will evaluate the pros and cons of each approach and arm you with the information required to form a localization strategy for your applications.

On my previous two attempts despite heavy and heavier hints for my fondness for medically disturbing junk food taste sensations the "Faggot And Pea Batch" (a delicacy of Coventry) was not forthcoming. But this time it?s Christmas. Surely it will be this time. And a Merry "Faggot And Pea Batch" Christmas to everyone!

I?m delighted to say that I will be speaking at TechEd Europe again this year and would you believe it I?m speaking on internationalization. No, it?s true. This time it?s the internationalization slant on WPF and Silverlight in:-

• WIN304: Internationalizing WPF And Silverlight Applications
  The .NET Framework has supported internationalization since 1.0 but with each new UI platform comes a new approach and new challenges. Unlike Windows Forms and ASP.NET, WPF does not offer one standard solution to localization. Instead it offers choices. This session shows how to localize WPF applications using standard .resx files and how to localize ?post-build? using LocBaml with and without Resource Dictionaries. In addition you will see how to localize a Silverlight application using .resx files and we will consider issues that are specific to Silverlight. We will evaluate the pros and cons of each approach and arm you with the information required to form a localization strategy for your applications.

Just like previous years I get the much coveted first slot of the day when everyone has had a great night out and are fully refreshed and really ready to receive lots of technical content. This time it?s on Wednesday 12th November 2008 between 9:00am and 10:15am. If you?re feeling fully refreshed and just bursting with eagerness to learn about internationalizing WPF and Silverlight come along!

They said they?d do it before the end of the year and they did. Silverlight 2.0 was released on Tuesday 14th October 2008. To develop for Silverlight 2.0 you will need Visual Studio 2008 SP1 or Visual Web Developer Express. You can get full details of what?s in this release here.