Since version 8 of MSN Messenger it's possible to write add-ins with .NET for MSN/ Windows Live Messenger . I'm convinced that when the programming models behind this will be mature enough this will open big opportunities for reaching out to all of your...

Yesterday we had Cyra Richardson - Lead Program Manager on the Internet Explorer team - in Belgium for a few customer visits and an MSDN Evening session on what's new in IE7 for developers. During the customer visits that I participated in, she focused...

In November a lot of techies will be in Barcelona attending TechEd ( Developers or IT Forum ). At these events attendees get deep technical training, information and community resources to build software solutions with Microsoft development tools, plan...

Haven't had a lot of time to blog lately due to a busy schedule. With this a quick overview ... Last week I participated in an internal summit on the evolution of the web in Switzerland. Tom Raftery - well known blogger - presented his view how things...

Next Tuesday - September 19th (not September 21st as initially announced) - the BeLux Information Worker User Group (BIWUG) organises its first meeting after the summer holidays. The main topic to be discussed during the meeting is Records Management...

Since yesterday the MSDN Event on .NET Framework 3.0 Development - scheduled for September 25 - is sold out ! Yes, that's 13 days before the start of the event and without any direct marketing actions taken to promote the event. We announced the event...

A couple of days after our - almost sold out - MSDN Event on .NET Framework 3.0 , we are organizing an MSDN Evening on Internet Explorer 7.0 . IE is now in RC1 release and there a lot of things to tell about; especially for developers . The session titled...

After the naming game for ASP.NET "Atlas" that was started a couple of weeks ago by Steven Smith , today the official naming and roadmap for ASP.NET "Atlas" has been announced. Scott Guthrie posted the official naming and roadmap for ASP.NET Atlas on...

Next Thursday - September 14 - the Belgian SQL Server User Group organizes its second evening session. One of Microsoft MCS top SQL Server consultants Dirk Gubbels will cover "Advanced monitoring and tuning techniques in SQL Server 2005". "SQL 2005...

This week Jim Hugunin , lead architect on the CLR-team for IronPython, announced the release of IronPython 1.0 . IronPython is a new implementation of the Python programming language running on .NET. It supports an interactive console with fully dynamic...

Updated versions of the MSF Process Guidance templates are available from the Microsoft Download Center : MSF for Agile Software Development Process Guidance MSF for Agile Software Development is a scenario-driven, context-based, agile software...

If you're looking for the exact build number of Windows Vista you can find it by running "winver". You can also look in the registry at this key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\BuildLabEx. Tag: Windows Vista

Come and join members from the Visual Studio Team System product group to discuss features available in Visual Studio Architect , Developer and Tester editions and Team Foundation Server . There will be experts on hand to answer all your questions! Join...