For the last three days I was in Sophia, Bulgaria speaking at Microsoft Days’10. You can’t imagine what a fun I had from all the sessions there! :) My first session was right after the Keynote the first session in the UX Track. The session content was pretty fresh for me, actually this was the first time I delivered this session called “Silverlight 4 Unpackaged” which is all about Silverlight but outside the browser. We started discussing the new SL4 OOB features and how developers can build both online/offline apps with Silverlight while implementing different patterns to sync data through different scenarios. An additional environment discussed was stand-alone CD/DVD interfaces, the new silent installation mode and of course the mobile platform as Silverlight is kind of OOB when it’s on mobile. My second session was about Multitouch both on the Web, Desktop and Surface. We looked at some of the APIs exposed by Win7, the APIs in Silverlight and the main differences between a Surface app and a WPF Multitouch Win7 App.

MSDays Sophia, Bulgaria

At the second day of my visit the fantastic Bulgarian Silverlight MVP Emil Stoychev invited me to host a session at the Sophia University. Actually Emil and Miroslav Miroslavov they are hosting a course included in the official curriculum in the University. They just gave me on of their lessons there. I’m very thankful to both of them for the opportunity. It was awesome! Both the students and the reactions I had from my presentation. Thank you guys!

Sophia University

Finally, let’s talk about Sophia :) I had the change to hang around the city for about just 3 hours but it was enough to notice the history kind of embedded inside the city. Each building I saw was another masterpiece! I was like a Japan tourist (no offense) got crazy taking photos everywhere! Thank you for all the trip and the help guys.

Sofya'da Cumhurbaşkanlığı Binası.

Let me sum up with the “thanks” here :) A huge thanks to everyone from Microsoft Bulgaria for hosting such a great event, a huge thanks to Emil and Miroslav and of course thanks to Coskun Sunali (ASP.NET MVP) helping me discover the most bizarre parts of the city which I can’t talk about on this blog :D