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Hi All, I was building the Virtual PC that will be used in the “Wordpress on Windows Install Challenge” next Saturday on the Dutch Wordcamp event when I had to figure out if I could get this working. My setup is a single laptop running Windows 7 native...

The WinPHP Competition registration will close end of business on Friday April 17th want to go to Vegas register NOW! On the March 23 we announced the WinPHP Challenge the competition for PH P programmer to create the app they always wanted to write and...

Hi All, For those of participants in the WinPHP challenge that are looking at Windows Server 2008 for the first time and haven’t looked at Windows for I write this article to make a flying start coding. The Server that Leaseweb has sponsored are...

Hi all, It almost looks like we coordinate things at Microsoft. While we are running the WinPHP Challenge in Europe with the Dutch PHP Conference and Leaseweb massive PHP on Windows content is being published by my friends in the US. The PHP on Windows...

Hi All, To win a Mix Essentials Europe ticket you need to find the words to a sentence. Once you know what the sentence is you must mail it to winamixeuroeticket@live.com the first 5 people to send the right answer get a ticket worth 445 euro which gives...

This is a repost of a post of my blog on the Dutch Microsoft Blog page. Since I moved my blog to the msdn domain they will delete my blog sooner or later and there are some posts I like to keep. Hi All, This is once again a posting in English. Yesterday...

Hi all, Ik heb mijn blog verhuisd naar blogs.msdn.com/bramveen. Ik zal voorlopig nog crossposten maar op den duur verhuis ik voorgoed naar blogs.msdn.com. Om dit blog te blijven volgen moet je de RSS feed veranderen naar feeds.feedburner.com...

Hi All, I’m using a lot of twitter lately and was looking for a nice twitter client in WPF which I found in Witty Twitter . The only feature that was missing was automatically converting a URL to tinyurl. I downloaded the source of wittytwitter to see...

Hi all, Of course everyone has been extremely busy installing Windows 7 on all their test machines and not so test machines. During all this hard work we might have overlooked the fact that yesterday also Windows Server 2008 R2 beta 1 got released. Everyone...

Hi All, There are some free e-books I’d like you point out. This 15MB E-Book is over 400 pages long, so it is quite comprehensive. It covers all current Microsoft Virtualization technologies  even the newest, such as the Microsoft Enterprise Desktop...

Hi All, In the last couple of days a lot of Azure materials are released. First big kudos to David Aiken for building a brilliant training kit which can be downloaded here . I’m half way now and this is by far the best training kit I did in ages. No crashes...

Microsoft, Ibuildings and Leaseweb are proud to announce the European WinPHP Challenge . Build your next Open Source project on IIS7/PHP and win prizes. First prize is airfare, hotel and a ticket to MIX10 in Las Vegas, NV-US! Come help us celebrate...

Microsoft, Ibuildings and Leaseweb are proud to announce the European WinPHP Challenge . The registration for the WinPHP challenge will be extended until Friday. We need a bit more time to get all the things in place. We’ll kick of the competition by...

Hi All, I’m very proud to say I’ll be speaking at DevDays 2009. For the first time this year DevDays will have non MS technologies. We’ve created a very cool track for PHP. Pierre Joye will be talking to the work the PHP community has done to make...

Hi All, Ever since PDC I’ve been asked to redeliver a lot of content that was presented there. I’ve noticed that I’ve been using a lot of content that was presented at PDC as all the presentations are available on demand and even better they also offer...

Hi All, You need a place to store your photo’s, video’s, dll’s (PDC keynote visitors ;-). Check out skydrive.live.com login with your live ID (no provisioning required).   It has been upgraded to 25GB. Thanks Bram

Hi All, I’ve been looking for a good and free control panel for Windows Server for a while now and I think I’ve finally found it. Dotnet panel has an Express version which is deal for managing your dedicated server. There is no maximum domains that can...

This is also a post from my old blog which I have to migrate as it will be deactivated next friday. (BTW why isn’t twitterfeed crossposting my blog to twitter). Hi All, I’ve downloaded the Azure SDK from Azure.com http://www.microsoft.com/azure/register...

Hi All, Those of you who follow me on Twitter might have noticed I’ve been working towards PICNIC09 on 23-25 September. For the first time Microsoft is a premium sponsor of this event and we’ll be showing some really cool stuff. As PICNIC is not...

Hi All, With the WinPHP challenge in its second week I think all participants have created their PHP Dev/Test environment. Now @juokaz asked me how to deploy bits to a Windows Server 2008 machine. To do this we’ll use the Web Deployment tool we’ll also...

Hi All, Thanks to Nitasha we learned that it is possible to create a custom WebPlatformInstaller feed she describes it in her post: Is there a way to get WebPI to install Products in an offline way? This is not really a supported scenario but...

Hi All, Today we've launched a site that tries to helps you get rid of the traffic from IE6 by advising them to upgrade. The people that are still running IE6 probably need a little help in upgrading (or they would have done so already) so we encourage...