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 ones (eg, Windows Mobile 6, SharePoint for Developers...

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, which gives developers the opportunity to get...

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 Experiences using Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 &...

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 rich functionality that ASP.NET AJAX Extensions provides...

After the free e-books on LINQ, ASP.NET AJAX and Silverlight 1.0 , Microsoft Press is giving away another free e-Book. This time the topic of the newest free e-Book is SQL Server 2008 and it contains excerpts from the upcoming publication "Introducing Microsoft SQL Server 2008" by Peter DeBetta...

We are organizing training sessions exclusively for Microsoft Partners in Belgium on the new features of Visual Studio 2008 . This is on the agenda: IDE and language enhancements What’s new in the IDE of Visual Studio 2008 What’s new in Visual Basic 9.0 and Visual C# 3.0 Using .NET Framework 3.0 and...

Recently we launched a pilot of MSDN Ramp Up , the online learning program to gain and evaluate your .NET development skills with Visual Studio 2005. Jenny, my colleague from Sweden, has created a Facebook group for MSDN Ramp Up that you can join if you are in any way interested in the program. If you...

If you're taking Microsoft Certification exams, you might be interested in the Second Shot offer that Microsoft and Prometric are running. If you take your exam between 15 September 2007 and 31 January 2008 30 June 2008, you can get a free retake on Microsoft IT professional , developer and Dynamics...

September 28 is the last day that you can get the Early Bird discount when registering for TechEd Europe. Just a previous years, the organizers created a promotional video for the conference: If you're interested to get a hi resolution WMV file of this video (for whatever reason, like for example playing...

The Belgian SQL Server User Group is having an event on "Analysis Services" on Thursday 27 September. Presenter will be Nico Verbaenen. Here is the information they sent me on the event: Analysis Services is Microsoft's OLAP solution that is also a part of the SQL Server product pack. With this first...

MSDN Ramp Up is a new online program where people can gain new Microsoft .NET development skills with .NET Framework 2.0. The program offers different guided learning paths for non-Visual Studio 2005 developers, such as: aspiring developers, Java developers, Visual Basic 6.0 developers and...

As a lot of developers still need to learn about application security, I'm very delighted to see that Microsoft Learning still makes available 2 clincs (each take approx. 6 hours to complete) with Microsoft Security Guidance Training for Developers at no cost. If you're a responsible developer, you should...

Speaker Idol is a contest at TechEd Europe where conference attendees can compete to become a speaker during the next TechEd Europe. Last year this contest was won by Belgian speaker, blogger and MVP Bart De Smet . If you want to participate in this year's contest at TechEd Developers , be sure: Record...

Arlindo was the first to write about it (and he allowed me to borrow his post): What is IIS7? A secure, easy to manage server platform for developing and for reliable hosting Web applications. Microsoft Windows Server code name "Longhorn" is the next generation of the Windows server operating system...

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 This course will start with a introduction to...

Walter Stiers from the Academic Relations Team at Microsoft Belgium & Luxembourg is also hosting a specific track for academics (students, teachers, professors) at the Developer & IT Pro Days . Initially this track was exclusively for the academic audience. Since some of topics in that track...

Ron Jacobs , host of the ARCast architecture audio and video interviews , will be in Belgium for the Developer & IT Pro Days on 28 March . This year we also added an architecture track to the conference, and Ron will host 4 pure architecture sessions in this track: Essentials of the Architect...

Microsoft Learning has created new e-learning content on Windows Vista and 2007 Office system for developers. For a limited time, following developer eLearning courses are offered for free: Windows Vista and the .NET Framework 3.0 – Learning Portal for Developers Introduction to Developing with...