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Gill Cleeren: is a software architect for Ordina Belgium. At Ordina, he does lead development for large web applications and is very active in the Competance Center on Software Factories. He specializes in ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, Silverlight and WPF and has a passion for new technologies, alpha's and beta's. He leads together with a few other collegues the Belgian Visual Studio User Group or Visug where he also regularly speaks. He's also a speaker on the Belgian launch of Visual Studio. In 2008, Gill was elected MVP for ASP.NET.
Visual Studio 12 Aug 2010

VS 2010 Patch Released for Growing Find and Replace Window

Gill Cleeren writes "...we’ve just hit the most reported bug on Connect. The Find and Replace window grows 16 pixels every time you use it. Take a look below at what happens when doing CTRL-SHIFT-F several times in a row!" Read post »
Visual Studio 12 Apr 2010

VS2010 Has a Knock Your Socks Off Feature for Navigate to Functionality

Gill Cleeren writes "...Very often, you need to navigate to a class while coding...Visual Studio 2010 has THE ultimate feature for this...What you do, is..." Read post »
Silverlight 07 Apr 2010

Slides and Demos on Building Data Driven Apps Fast with RIA Services and Silverlight

Gill Cleeren writes "...Silverlight 4 Tour de Force with a little WPF 4 sauce on top... [and] Building Data-Driven applications FAST with RIA services and Silverlight..." Read post »
Benelux

Gill Cleeren

Software Architect Ordina Tienen, Vlaams-Brabant, BE Send email to Gill Gill's blog  »
08 Sep 2010 Visug event: Shave the matrix & Testing: The Good, the bad and the ugly Visug presents 2 sessions on one evening: -Shave the matrix Recently Microsoft unleashed the power of their WebMatrix tool towards the world to get people started with web development. This session will give you a taste of what can be done with it and also sheds light upon the syntax of Razor, the new viewengine which will also become a major player in MVC 3 land. -Testing: The Good, the bad and the ugly Testing: The Good, the bad and the ugly Come and meet me in this session to discuss the good, the bad and the ugly forms of testing. Learn how to identify the smells in test code and how you can refactor your tests to be more effective, more trustworthy and more maintainable. We'll go through a list of test design principles to adhere when writing tests to get the best result out of them. Let's try to improve the safety net your tests already provide today!
13 Sep 2010 Silverlight 4 course (4 day) A 4 day Silverlight 4 course will be given to the developers at the steel company Arcelor Mittal Belgium.
14 Sep 2010 Session delivery: Databinding in Silverlight 4 Deep Dive Building enterprise applications with Silverlight almost begs for rich data binding features. While Silverlight 2 already had an extended set of features available to enable data binding, Silverlight 3 and 4 add on these and extend the databinding platform. In this webinar, we’ll start with a complete overview of the data binding features Silverlight 4 has to offer. We’ll take a look at how data binding is the enabler for applying the MVVM (ViewModel) pattern and commanding as well. Finally, we’ll open Blend and see its support for data binding, including the use of design-time data.
Technical Expertise .NET Development, .NET Framework, Application Lifecycle Management, ASP .NET, User Interface, Visual Studio .NET, XML Web Services
Years of Experience 5
Certifications MCP, METRO-C, METRO-T
Awards MVP ASP.NET/Visual Web Developer MCP ASP.NET
Vertical Industries Served Customer Relationship Management, Sales and Inventory, Human Resources and Payroll