Tom's MSDN Belux Corner

Maybe you've seen the notebook with Windows SideShow at Developer & IT Pro Days in Belgium last month. If not (or you don't know what it is), MSDN Library explains the Windows SideShow platform as follows: The Microsoft Windows SideShow Platform is...

Available for download since one week: the first public Visual Studio Express "Orcas" CTP . Here are a few blog posts from the resp. product teams : Dan Fernandez collects has a few questions for developers and requests their feedback. Amanda Silver from...

A new hands-on training has been announced on MSDN Belgium & Luxembourg : How To Develop With Open XML – A Technical Deep Dive Date: 22 and 23 May 2007 from 9:00 till 17:00 Location: Business Faculty, Neder-Over-Heembeek (Belgium) Price: free of charge...

A few weeks ago, I posted my wrap-up about Developer & IT Pro Days 2007 with a few photos of the event. Yesterday I uploaded a set of 325 photos on the conference . All photo's that are published in that album were taken by Ine Dehandschutter , our...

Recently Nucleus Research published a ROI case study for Microsoft Visual Studio Team System at KBC Bank (Belgium) . This is the top outcome of their research: ROI: 89% Payback period: 1.12 year More details, such as the financial analysis, average total...

Ronald Laeremans, Group Program Manager for Visual C++, will host a free MSDN Evening on Visual C++ "Orcas" in Mechelen (Belgium) on 9 May. I'm very happy that Ronald is willing to give this presentation as not many people know as much about Visual C...

Last Wednesday, during the MSDN Evening on XNA Game Studio Express , speaker Brecht Kets gave an overview of community resources available for XNA game developers. One of the resources that he recommended for starters was the XNA Tutorial at the community...

TheServerSide.NET features 2 podcasts (10 minutes and 14 minutes) with Brad Abrams on " Patterns for successful ASP.NET AJAX Development ". From the website: TheServerSide.NET recently spoke with Microsoft's Brad Abrams to find out what he is seeing in...

Bart De Smet wrote a hands-on tutorial that explains quite in-depth how one can build a custom data provider that is LINQ enabled using IQueryable. When completing Bart's "IQueryable Tales" tutorial, you'll have created a simple LDAP data provider that...

From the website : MEDC 2007 Europe will be a concentrated 2 day deep-dive of technical training dedicated to mobile and embedded technologies. This annual event is tailored for developers, IT professionals, and business professionals who are looking...

Yves Hanoulle recently showed me a booklet called "Developer Highway Code" that he received in the UK. The booklet covers security best practices for software developers. Paul Maher, the author of the booklet, informed me that it is also freely available...

Quote from "The Region" website : "Welcome to The Region, global hub for the 140 software architects, developers, trainers and other professionals selected by Microsoft as Regional Directors. The first thing to know is that, while we’re officially recognized...

With the recent release of Enterprise Library 3 , the new Policy Injection Application Block is introduced. Tom Hollander writes " (the Policy Injection Application Block) provides a powerful approach for separating cross-cutting concerns from business...

The Belgian SQL Server User Group is having a meeting on 19 April on replication with SQL Server Mobile Edition . The meeting will take place in Asse-Zellik. From their website: With the use of mobile devices becoming more and more mainstream, it...

Last week, from 27 till 29 March, we had our annual Developer & IT Pro Days conference. According to the attendee feedback and the attending partners, it was the best one ever. The ratings that were given are truly amazing. Here are a few general...