A couple of weeks ago David Chappell wrote a white paper " Introducing the .NET Framework 3.0 " which is available from MSDN. Today I found another of David's white papers . One on " Understanding Workflow in Windows SharePoint Services and the 2007 Microsoft...

I just noticed that the MSDN Belux & Luxemburg homepage has been redesigned. Wim did a great job on componentizing the different sections of the site. First of all you will notice that our next major event is featured through a banner. Today this...

A couple of months ago while I was attending TechEd US , I created quite a lot of Microsoft Office Excel 2007 documents. I was using beta 1 build 4017.1004 of Microsoft Office Excel 2007 and running Windows Vista beta 2 Build 5384. At that time both beta...

IronPython is the codename for a beta release of the Python programming language for the .NET platform . It supports an interactive interpreter with fully dynamic compilation . It is well integrated with the rest of the framework and makes all .NET libraries...

Last week we made available for download CTP5 for the latest addition to Visual Studio Team System : Visual Studio 2005 Team Edition for Database Professionals . Gert "DataDude" Drapers has posted an exhaustive list of what's new in this release: What...

Arlindo links to a solution or better, a workaround to get RSS Bandit to run properly on Windows Vista beta builds. I've been a long time user of RSS Bandit and was happy with it. But since I switched to Windows Vista I've had quite some problems with...

It's been a couple of weeks since my last blog update on the web development track at Tech·Ed Developers . Last time I published the content for the Tech Ed: Developers pre-conference " ASP.NET, AJAX and You: Introducing Microsoft Atlas ". Once all track...

As a former Microsoft Developer Evangelist, Rudi Larno was a well-known name in the Belgian development community . But since he left Microsoft for heading a development team at Financial Architects we hadn't heard a lot of him. The good news is that...

Richie Costall & Dave McMahon of the NxtGenUG are already preparing for TechEd: Developers . In their fifth show titled "The one with TechEd ..." they are talking about TechEd: Developers, Atlas, Powershell and LINQ. Josh Holmes talks about his presentations...

If you're interested in learning more on the developer opportunities for the soon to be released version of Office than it's definitely worth checking out these screencasts on the 2007 Microsoft Office System: Generating Office Documents using the...

Peter Himschoot , Microsoft Regional Director for Belgium, has written another must-read article on XAML: " Amazing XAML ". Check it out on our local MSDN web site . .NET 3.0, formerly known as WinFx, uses XAML for describing and building object graphs...

In my previous post I pointed to the article " Building Search for Your Web Site with the MSN Search Service ". I the comments on this blog I got some requests for the sample code of this article. The good news is that today an MSN Search API Code Sample...

Love it or hate it, but search is a big thing in software development these days. Think about the upcoming releases of Windows Vista and 2007 Office System where search is built in and is indispensable once you've started using it on a daily basis. ...

On the Visual Studio User Group (VISUG) web site Steven announces that the user group organizes a one-day training on Visual Studio 2005 Team System. Steven, MVP for Visual Studio Team System and joining Microsoft Corp. in a couple of weeks, will deliver...

From the Microsoft download center: Introduction to Visual Studio 2005 Team System Guide . This guide provides an introduction to Visual Studio 2005 Team System focusing on technical information and benefits. For your convenience the document is available...

Yesterday evening I attended the VISUG meeting on the Guidance Automation Toolkit . I - and I think most attendees - very much enjoyed the meeting hosted by Jelle Druyts . Jelle started the meeting by introducing the basic concepts of the Guidance Automation...

While Tom is enjoying his well-deserved holidays I'm happy to announce that we finished the agenda and speakers for the MSDN Event on .NET Framework 3.0 Development . This event will take place in Kinepolis, Brussels on September 25. On this...

In case you looking for some weekend/evening reading and studying, the post from Jeremy D. Miller can help. Over on the CodeBetter.com blogs Jeremy has rehashed his older posts to an excellent "best of" compendium of links and reading for the developer...

Alex Moskalyuk points to the " Ultimate List of Free Windows Software from Microsoft " that Blake Handler has created on his spaces.live.com blog " The Road to Know Where ". The 150 free Windows programs are listed in 9 different categories: Windows XP...

I've been focusing on web development - ASP.NET 2.0 & Atlas - the last couple of weeks. I also had a look at what's available from the Patterns & Practices Team . Apart from some guides and application blocks I stumbled on the software factories...

Patrick points to this article " Microsoft Ships Commerce Server 2007, But Road Map Remains Unclear " and questions the roadmap of Commerce Server and its relation to SharePoint. Excellent question. Since a couple of days Commerce Server 2007 (CS2007...

Since the end of June Jelle Druyts has written an interesting series of posts on the Guidance Automation Toolkit : GAS01: Introduction To The Guidance Automation June 2006 CTP GAS02: Creating A Guidance Package GAS03: Generating A C# Project...

After two weeks of holidays I'm back at work. I really enjoyed the time with my family and being completely disconnected from work and the net. During these two weeks I took the time to do some reading on ASP.NET Atlas . A couple of weeks ago - at TechEd...