Tom's MSDN Belux Corner

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...

This short session will show you how Visual Studio 2008 dataset improvements makes building enterprise applications easier . It was recorded by our Belgian Regional Director Peter Himschoot . Technorati Tags: MSDN Belux , community , RD , Regional Director...

This video provides an introduction for Visual Basic developers to LINQ . The language integrated query framework for .NET is a set of language extensions for Visual Basic and C# and a unified programming model that extends the .NET Framework to offer...

Microsoft Learning provides a collection of 3 eLearning clinics on different components of .NET Framework 3.5. Each clinic takes about 2 hours to complete. The collection is available for free for a limited time only. Online learning: Developing Rich...

For a limited time, Microsoft Learning offers a free subscription to the eLearning clinic " Developing Enhanced Web Experiences with Microsoft® ASP.NET AJAX Extensions ". From the website: In this 2-hour clinic you will learn about the...