From the SharePoint experts blog : Download the 'Web Analytics with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007' whitepaper (in XPS format) The freely downloadable 72-page whitepaper has the following major chapters: Analytics Objectives and...

MSDN Subscriptions are an excellent solution people needing a full development platform (including development tools, client applications, servers, etc…). As an active MSDN Subscriber, you can take advantage of special offers from Microsoft or other companies...

MSDN Ramp Up is a free online learning program for developers. They’ve just launched three new ASP.NET tracks: “Web Development with ASP.NET”, “Move from ASP to ASP.NET”, and “Move from PHP to ASP.NET”. These tracks, along with the other currently offered...

Just got an update from the TechEd team about changes for TechEd 2009 Europe. The format will be a combined event again for both Developers and IT Professional in only one week, just like a few years ago. The conference will take place from 9 till 13...

The Microsoft TechDays 2009 conference in Belgium was held from 10 till 12 March. A little more than 1.650 unique individuals came to Antwerp to attend one of 83 different sessions. Want to see how it looked like? Here are some pictures of TechDays...

After the first part , MSDN Ramp Up just published the second part of the SharePoint learning track . From the website: As a developer, would you like to learn more about Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS)? MOSS is based on Microsoft Windows...

An analyst report from Cascade Insights covers the Security Development Lifecycle applied at Microsoft . From the website: This article is the fifth in the "SDL series" – a set of 8 articles investigating the Microsoft Security Development Lifecycle...

MSDN Ramp Up has a new free learning track on SharePoint . This information comes from the website: As a developer, would you like to learn more about Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS)? MOSS is based on Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services...

Currently already more than 200 Belgians and Luxembourgers have registered for TechEd Developers in Barcelona from 10 to 14 November. The certification group of Microsoft Learning just sent us a notice on their onsite testing offer that I want to share...

This week is Visual Studio Team System 2010 week on Channel 9 ! Brian Keller and friends will have 20 videos going live this week featuring interviews with the Visual Studio Team System product team including several screencast demonstrations of the latest...

Patrick Tisseghem passed away on Wednesday 3 September 2008 in Goteborg (Sweden). Here is a copy of the official announcement on the U2U website : It’s hard to believe and understand. I want to express my deepest sympathy to his family and his co-workers...

Microsoft Office Labs have just released pptPlex, a new add-in for PowerPoint that enables a new way of navigating through a presentation. Instead of the traditional transition effects of PowerPoint, pptPlex allows a user to zoom in and out of slides...

A few weeks ago we released Dynamics AX 2009 . Great news for Dynamics AX developers: they can now leverage Team Foundation Server for Version Control. Here is a preview video that was created before the final release on the version control features in...

After the post on LINQ and Architectures , this time co-author Marco Russo of “ Programming Microsoft LINQ ” shares information on deferred loading in LINQ to SQL. The deferred loading of data in LINQ to SQL can operates at two granularity levels: the...

Bart De Smet is back with a new sample of a LINQ query provider, this time targeting Windows Installer databases , or more commonly named MSI’s. (If you want to learn more about MSI’s, you can also watch the recording of “ Building setup packages with...

Fellow Microsoft employee Christof Claessens explains i a MSDN Chopsticks video how you can create your own Windows Live Messenger agent in 30 minutes . Although I didn’t try it myself yet, it looks like something to explore during a rainy weekend… ...

Paulo Pialorsi is co-author of the book “ Introducing Microsoft LINQ ”, which is downloadable for free (please note that this book has been written for LINQ beta 1, thus some syntax is obsolete now). However, the Programming Microsoft LINQ book is updated...

Nikola Mihaylov has an interesting blog on Silverlight, but also maintains a website containing nice stuff: Nokola . Warning: checking out the games on his website, may cause loosing precious time. Nikola must be a very nice guy, as he is also providing...

In a previous post I wrote about Microsoft's European Development Centers . There are several videos on their International Tech Jobs blog that might give you some insights on what they do in those Microsoft development centers and how they are tackling...

In previous posts, I sometimes mentioned Belgians working at Microsoft in Redmond. But did you know that we also have development centers in Europe ? There are teams in: Denmark - Microsoft Development Center Copenhagen with primary products Microsoft...

Last Friday we announced the public release of Microsoft Source Analysis for C# . This tool was originally only used by Microsoft's development teams internally (known as StyleCop) to enfore a common set of best practices for layout, readability, maintainability...

Nikolai Tillman and Peli de Halleux announced the first public release of Pex (under Microsoft Research license ). From the website: Pex (Program EXploration) is an intelligent assistant to the programmer. From a parameterized unit test, it automatically...

Steve Ballmer - CEO of Microsoft Corporation - closed the Belgian Mix Essentials conference with a keynote on Microsoft's vision on the evolving web and world . At the end of the keynote, Steve answered questions from the audience during an open Q&A...

Katrien invited James Lau and Jean-Marc Prieur from the Visual Studio Ecosystem team at Microsoft. During an internal presentation at the office, they talked about Visual Studio Gallery , a recently launched website where developers can find a  lot...

Learn how to use Microsoft Visual Studio and Expression Blend to create Silverlight 2 applications , how to create UI using XAML markup and code and how to customize the user experience to create unique experiences for your users. This session is presented...