This post was written by Tom Mertens of Microsoft Belgium & Luxembourg. It's with deep sadness that we inform you that David Boschmans has unexpectedly passed away on 7 August at the age of 32. David was a fantastic colleague and friend, always...

[ Via Michael ] Information Architects Japan Interface & Strategy has created a v2 of the web trend map. It shows the 200 most successful websites on the web, ordered by category, proximity, success, popularity and perspective. Technorati tags: Web...

An & Lien, both members of the Partner Team in Microsoft Belux, intensively worked on re-vamping the partner portal . A snapshot of the major changes: A clear structure which allows to find easily what you are looking for; More content available in...

Here are some interesting links that I found while catching up on blogs: User Experience: Your Britain in pictures: BBC + Microsoft Live Labs Photosynth : The BBC is collaborating with Microsoft Live Labs Photosynth to create three- dimensional representations...

Serge Luca has created a walkthrough on " Exposing a Workflow as a WCF Service in Visual Studio 2008 beta 1 ". In this post he guides the reader step-by-step through the new Send and Receive activities in Visual Studio 2008 beta 1 ( formerly "Orcas")...

A couple of weeks ago I reported that Patrick Tisseghem's book on SharePoint Server 2007 was available in bookstores. Well it looks he just couldn't stop writing! Now two new articles on " Development Tools and Techniques for Working with Code in Windows...

There's an updated version of the Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint 2007 File Formats available. By installing the Compatibility Pack in addition to Microsoft Office 2000, Office XP, or Office 2003, you will be able open...

While still recovering at home after surgery I'm catching up on blogs and mail. I came accross a new connector to connect my Windows Live account with Outlook 2007 (my default email client). So far I've been using Windows Live Mail to read the email of...

Later this week the Belgian Community organizes its first Belgian Community Day . The Belgian community has a very strong reputation internationally with many individuals making their mark in their fields of expertise. Lots of individuals, like yourself...

Using the power of virtualization, you can now quickly evaluate Microsoft and partner solutions through a series of pre-configured Virtual Hard Disks (VHDs). You can download the VHDs and evaluate them for free in your own environment without the need...

Last Thursday designer Celso Gomes ( Channel9 interview and interview ) has launched a new web site with an excellent series of tutorials all of them built in using Expression Blend and Silverlight! Check out http://www.nibblestutorials.net/ and the blog...

Next week June 12 MSDN Belux is organizing the " Enterprise & Development Summit 2007 " in Luxembourg. On the web site you can find all event and session information in French. All sessions will be delivered in French. Here's an overview of the agenda...

Karine , CAML girl & consultant at u2u , and famous for the development of the U2U CAML Query Builder recently found some more time to start blogging. Today she introduced on her blog a new version of her CAML Query Builder which is now a SharePoint...

One of the new Windows Vista security features that might confuse developers is Windows User Account Control (UAC) . In order to help developers develop UAC enabled applications Microsoft has released " Windows Vista UAC Demo Sample Code " This demo sample...

Last Friday the Connected Systems Evangelism team released an update to the DinnerNow.net application. DinnerNow is a fictitious marketplace where customers can order food from local restaurants for delivery to their home or office. This sample application...

Yesterday there were the pre-conferences at TechEd US . But in a couple of hours TechEd US will be officially kicked-off with the opening keynote of Bob Muglia and the breakout sessions. I won't be attending TechEd US this year, but as the track owner...

Towards the end of last year Patrick Tisseghem started writing a book on Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 . Patrick did a great job writing this book while traveling the world and delivering day-in day-out sessions on MOSS2007. The good news is...

Next week, June 5th, Wygwam and its partners organizes Wygday . Wygday's goal is to give the attendees the ability to keep up with the upcoming Microsoft technologies and provide answers to the questions you might have when using these technologies. I...

Forrester Research did a product-based evaluation of 11 leading SCCM solutions across 123 criteria: " The Forrester Wave™: Software Change And Configuration Management, Q2 2007 ". Software change and configuration management (SCCM) solutions permit IT...

From the Microsoft site: The launch of Microsoft Surface marks the beginning of a new technology category and a user-interface revolution. Surface, Microsoft’s first surface computer, provides effortless interaction with digital content through natural...

Welcome to TechEd Developers Bringing you FIVE days instead of FOUR of deep dive technical training, information and community resources focusing on building software solutions with Microsoft development tools for current and soon to release products...

Our last MSDN event is only a couple of days away and we're already looking forward to the next one on ASP.NET AJAX Security . On June 6th Erwin Geirnaert , ZION Security , will deliver the session: " Securing ASP.NET AJAX enabled web applications, lessons...

Next Wednesday May 23rd I'll be speaking at the IT Works seminar " AJAX, Flash, Apollo, Silverlight: how do you build Rich Internet Applications ? ". I'm happy to see that Microsoft Silverlight will be covered at this seminar. The last IT Works seminar...

Next Tuesday - May 22nd - MSDN Belux organizes a seminar in Luxembourg on Building Web Applications Using ASP.NET "Orcas" and Visual Studio Code Name "Orcas" . I've reviewed the slide deck and these are the topics that Patrice & Grégory - the Wygwam...

WindowsClient.net , the community learning resource for Windows Forms and Windows Presentation Foundation is now availabla at http://windowsclient.net/ . This site focuses on all aspects of rich client development on Windows using the .NET Framework....