Doug Mahugh , Office 2007 Technical Evangelist, has been digging into the details of the Office Open XML specs and blogs the spec's key concepts for developers. In this post he covers “ Packaging ” of Office 2007 files and how the different parts are...

This week the MSDN Belux team organizes two localized MSDN webcasts. Topic to be covered in both webcasts is: “ Powerful Website Skinning with CSS and ASP.NET 2.0 ”. Microsoft ASP.NET 2.0 provides functionality to enable a variety of customized...

Veerle received a bunch of requests for a proposal. As most of the companies don’t communicate their expectations, she decided to write a very good post on the topic . This way she can better ouline what she expects from her (potential) customers to be...

The teams of Application Platform and MSDN have recently launched a new portal highlighting Windows Server 2003 as a full-featured application server and a central pillar of our overall application platform. The Windows Server 2003 application platform...

Looking back at the Atlas coverage at Mix06 I very much enjoyed the the second day on which I attended two sessions on " Atlas ". In the first session - " Lessons from the trenches - Engineering great AJAX experiences " - Scott Isaacs , architect on...

There are quite a lot of people I talked to the last couple of weeks who wanted to attend Mix06 , but for a variety of reasons weren't able to. This morning before attending the day 1 Mix06 keynotes I was chatting with a couple of people not attending...

After a long journey from Brussels over Atlanta to Las Vegas , and on the day that Team Foundation Server RTM'd , we ( Gerd , Hans & I) finally arrived in The Venetian in Las Vegas. The good thing on traveling for almost 24 hours is that I managed...

When talking to ISVs about moving their applications developed for Windows XP and/or Windows Server 2003 to the Windows Vista platform , the developers immediately start questioning the application compatibility for Windows Vista. This compatibility is...

The Belgian Developer & IT-Pro Days 2006 are only over since a couple of days, and we're already announcing another technical event! On April 3rd the Visual Basic Tour will visit Belgium in Kinepolis, Brussels . Registration is free of charge but...

If you're new to ASP.NET 2.0 development then you might want to check out these super high quality video series on ASP.NET 2.0 – the How Do I video series. It covers many of the common tasks and amazing productivity benefits of the platforms...

With the Belgian Developer & IT-Pro Days 2006 a couple of days behind us, it's time for a write-up of this event. Let's have a look at the stats: 1200 Attendees 20 Partners 7 User Groups 3 Keynotes 53 Sessions 1200 Attendees ...

I already mentioned in this blog post that one of our Belgian community people, Jelle Druyts , wrote an excellent article on "The Command Pattern In Windows Presentation Foundation" . Now big was my surprise to see it referenced as one of the headlines...