As announced earlier Steven Wilssens isn't able to make it to Dev & IT-Pro Days 2007 . Given that the cancellation was very short notice I wasn't able to find a speaker with practical experience in this and who could deliver a session on how Microsoft...

This morning the first meerkats came out of the bag! We kicked off the Belgian Developer & IT-Pro Days 2007 in Gent with two pre-conferences: The Microsoft Web Story: ASP.NET 2.0, ASP.NET AJAX, and WPF/E Microsoft Virtualization: Today and Tomorrow...

The McKinsey Quarterly conducted a survey in January 2007 on " How businesses are using Web 2.0 ". The respondents to the survey say that Web 2.0 technologies are strategic and that they plan to increase these investments. Web 2.0 is in this survey defined...

About a year ago at our Dev & IT-Pro Days 2006 Steven Wilssens delivered a session on advanced version control and branching strategies with Team Foundation Server . Despite Steven was announced as a speaker this year , he just notified me that -...

The first MSDN Evening Microsoft Belux is organizing will take place April 18 and will Introduce Microsoft XNA Express . Microsoft XNA represents a major milestone in the field of game development, bringing game creators a unified platform and the safety...

The Unwrapped for Financial Services Webcast Series is back! Sessions will be both technical and strategic in nature, covering the newest Microsoft solutions for Capital Markets, Retail Banking and Insurance firms. Microsoft Product Mangers and Industry...

Earlier this week version 1.2 or the February 2007 Community Technology Preview of the Guidance Automation Extensions (GAX) and the Guidance Automation Toolkit (GAT) was released to the web. The Guidance Automation Extensions (GAX) enable you to run guidance...

During Developer & IT-Pro Days 2007 one of our Belgian SharePoint Services MVP's and active BIWUG members - Joris Poelmans - will be delivering the session "DEV312 Working with browser-enabled InfoPath forms and workflows in MOSS 2007 ". Joris plans...

I came across this post from Mark Seemann " Service Locator 2 Released ". This post caught my attention as it was a while ago that I thought of it. The "service locator" mainly reminds me to the period I was still working as a consultant. Being a technical...

The Panel is the place to collect showcases of new user experiences and provide insights on how they were implemented. WPF applications and Windows Live gadgets are featured. Each featured project provides the applications as well as the source code and...

The full developer conference session list for Developer & IT-Pro Days 2007 is now available. Below you can find all the developer-oriented sessions, session level and the speakers listed. In the Web Development Pre-Conference Jeff Prosise will...

The answer is quick and easy: build more reliable and robust applications (using the Windows Server "Longhorn" features). Jason Olson , Technical Evangelist at Microsoft, has started a series of screencasts " Developer, Meet Server " covering the various...

Next Tuesday, March 13th, we have an MSDN Event in Luxembourg on " Understanding Workflow in Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 ". The Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) which debuts with version 3.0 of the .NET...

I haven't provided an update yet on this weeks progress for our Developer & IT-Pro Days 2007 . Since the end of the early-bird last week the registrations keep coming in. The pre-conferences are a success. In the latest status update I've seen on...

Scott Guthrie debuts in Red vs Blue! In this Red vs. Blue episode, the concept of ASP.NET AJAX is introduced and Scott Guthrie becomes part of the battle! Check it out at Channel9 . In addition, a slick, lightweight video player was developed in “ WPF...

For the community members Belgium, interested in XAML or Web Content Management - and not overflowed by Dev & IT-Pro Days 2007 work - there are two of our Belgian INETA user groups that organize an event this week: Wednesday March 7th 2007 The .NET...

I'm happy to welcome two new Belgian technology bloggers to the blogosphere! Both are actively using the new Microsoft productivity and collaboration platform: Microsoft 2007 Office system . Kevin DeRudder is a u2u colleague of Jan Tielens , focusing...

Serge Luca - who recently decided to make a move from Guidance to u2u - wrote an article on starting and killing a workflow with the Windows Workflow Foundation . This was published earlier today on www.msdn.be . Here's the summary of the article: The...

Yesterday I listed ASP.NET AJAX as one of the technologies discussed. During my talk I mentioned that IntelliSense support for JavaScript and ASP.NET AJAX programming would be available in Visual Studio "Orcas". Meanwhile I downloaded the March CTP of...

This afternoon I did a workshop on Microsoft's Web Platform & Tools for LBi . I think it went really well, despite the amount of topics the cover and the time constraints. I started to discuss the importance of building better online experiences and...