Last year we held a Web Cast series for aspiring architects that was attended by over 1200 individuals and covered a number of strategies that can help developers and IT professionals to transition to the architect roles. The Aspiring Architect Series...

The Visual Studio & .NET Framework evangelism team released a revision of the .NET 3.5 Enhancements Training Kit , updated to work with Visual Studio 2008 SP1 & .NET 3.5 SP1 Beta 1 ! The April Preview of the training kit has been downloaded over...

What : Microsoft TechNet Briefing: Security Strategies with Steve Riley Speaker : Steve Riley – Senior Security Strategist – Microsoft Corportation When : May 27 th – full day event Where : Utopolis Mechelen Audience : IT Professionals...

Getting the most out of Microsoft’s adoption programs 13.00 - 13.45 Johan Roosen – ISV Development Platform Advisor, Microsoft Belux Microsoft invests a lot in programs for ISV's, and will continue to do so. However these programs and their...

Tom provided a clear overview of the upcoming Microsoft and community events. MIX essentials 24 April 2008 - Aula Magna, Louvain-La-Neuve MSDN Evening: Developing an integrated e-commerce solution using Visual Studio, SQL Server and Dynamics CRM 6 May...

Once again Katrien managed to convince one of the top speakers from MIX essentials to have small meetings with our ISV partners. For those who attend the MIX essentials and are interested in having a 1:1 meeting or 1:F with Tim Heuer , please send me...

Have you seen Doug Mahugh's blog for the roadmap and downloads? Technorati Tags: Open XML

Developing software is one thing ISV’s are very good at. But are your installation packages as good as your software? On the 4th of June we have a free MSDN Evening that will focus on creating Windows Installer packages. A must see ... Some session...

Our Q&A session with Tim Sneath can be called a success. 22 participants from 11 different partners showed up (as well as some Microsoft attendees). Tim started the session with some demos from MIX that surprised some of the attendees. However the...

For ISV's and/or partners who are working on MOSS2007, there are some great deep dive trainings available from Martin Harwar. You can find all the recorded sessions of his Trainer-Led course here: http://www.english-tiger.com/Training/Default.aspx It...

Today, we've sent out the invitations for our new Innovation & Discovery Day. If you didn't receive one in your mailbox, please contact Fien Keijzer . Soon I will post the abstracts for each session as well. Stay tuned ... The new format of this event...

The format has been finalized: 14h00 - 15h30 : Public session (30' presentation, 60' Q&A), limited (+/- 15) number of attendees 15h30 - 16h15 : Private 1:1 session (Q&A) - slot booked 16h15 - 17h00 : Private 1:1 session (Q&A) - slot reserved...

Technorati Tags: Live Learn how to quickly and easily deploy world class internet services to your users and build compelling web applications using Windows Live. Windows Live Quick Start is a comprehensive resource for partners to learn about business...

I have some great news for ISV's who are: looking at WPF/Silverlight planning to build WPF/Silverlight applications building WPF/Silverlight applications On 09/04/2008, Tim Sneath from MS Corp will visit Belgium and is willing to meet customers, partners...

You can download Windows Vista SP1 via Windows  Update.  For those of you eager to receive the benefits of Windows Vista SP1, you can now do so.  For those of you happy to wait, sit tight because SP1 will start downloading to customers...

I'm setting up a meet-and-greet during lunchtime @ TechDays on Wednesday. All attendees working for an ISV are more than welcome to join us. I will not overload you with yet another presentation. It's just an informal get-together where you can share...

We can offer all ISV C++ developers a unique opportunity during the week of the Launch & TechDays. Ronald Laeremans, Product Unit Manager of the ISV & Native Tools team, will be available to have 1:1 meetings with attendees who are working in...

Unfortunately I couldn't attend the sneak preview of the new building, but it looks promising :o) Gilbert took some nice pictures and posted them on his live space . Here a few teasers: We will move somewhere around the summer. I don't know the...

Yesterday the SMS&P team organized their GM dinner. This event replaced the quarterly Innovation Day. We're proud to say it was a great success! More than 35 ISV executives were attending the dinner without a single "no-show". The dinner's setup is...

The theme of this Forum is about increasing Business and IT Agility with SOA and BPM on the Microsoft platform. Its' held in Mechelen on the 15th of april. Check out Philippe Destoop's blog for more info.

Globalization, specialization, and outsourcing require people to work in more collaborative ways than ever. This trend requires a matching change in the tools that information workers use to gain insight, collaborate, make decisions, and take action....

Hi, Currently I'm attending the TechReady6 seminar in Seattle. You can consider it to be the Microsoft internal version of TechEd if you want. Although we're not yet allowed to blog about the content I must say that there is a lot of new things coming...

Welcome to my new blog. As the new ISV Technical Advisor at Microsoft Belux, I will regularely post topics about subjects that are related to ISV's. Of the many blogs available out there this will become the one that Belgian ISV employees can use as...