Tom's MSDN Belux Corner

It must be holiday season at Microsoft Press too. They have just released an e-book on Visual Studio 2008 technologies and are giving it away for free. The e-book includes excerpts from three recent book releases and provides a wealth of information and...

Last Thursday, Scott Guthrie visited Belgium for the first time. Throughout the day, he had several meetings with customers, partners, MVP's and the developer VIP's and a journalist. In the afternoon he gave 2 talks for the Belgian Visual Studio User...

This morning I received the shocking news that David Boschmans, a fantastic colleague and friend, has passed away last night. David and I got to know each other in the Belgian developer community about 5 years ago. Three years ago he joined Microsoft...

Gamers amongst you might have already noticed it: there are Visual Studio ads appearing in several games. With the Defy All Challenges campaign, we're informing developers how the Visual Studio development environment helps them to defy their challenges...

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...

Microsoft Regional Director for Belgium Peter Himschoot recorded a Chopsticks video explaining how to use the code snippets in Visual Studio 2008 . Playtime: 14 minutes. Visual Studio Code Snippets - Chopsticks Noodle Code Snippets allow you to enter...

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...

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...

There's one thing that everyone agrees on about Bart De Smet : he is not the regular nine-to-five developer. During his daily-blogging-mission in September, he wrote a few posts on how to create barcodes on the fly in C# (without requiring 3rd party software...

During a 30 minutes Chopsticks video, Bart De Smet guides you through the most important languages enhancements you'll find in Visual Studio 2008 . Technorati Tags: microsoft , msdn belux , visual studio 2008 , C# , csharp , community , chopsticks

Last June, our colleagues in The Netherlands organized their ReMix conference, a local smaller brother of the big MIX07 event in Las Vegas . They recorded the presentations of their ReMix in Amsterdam and made them available on msdn's Showtime . Here...

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...

In a series of 15 posts, Bart De Smet explores several of the new features in Visual Basic 9 . These are the different posts with the topics he discusses: Implicitly Typed Local Variables Extension Methods Object Initializers Anonymous types Lambda Expressions...

Last month, Quiksilver Europe launched their new website for the Quiksilver Pro France. This new website was developed in close collaboration between Microsoft and Quiksilver . It's using brand new, state of the art technologies such as Silverlight, ...

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, ...

Bart De Smet created a 20 minutes Chopsticks video " Essential LINQ to Objects ", where he explains the basics of creating a custom implementation of Standard Query Operators . Technorati Tags: microsoft , msdn belux , visual studio 2008 , LINQ...

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...

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...

On Thursday February 1st, Scott Guthrie will come to Belgium for the first time. I'm pretty happy with this, as Scott is one of the co-creators of ASP.NET, he's an excellent speaker, and very knowledgeable. We've taken this opportunity to have him talk...

The latest Windows Mobile newsletter has a few links with new (free-of-charge) goodies for your Windows Mobile devices: Super Sudoku game Free ringtones (4 packs already) Free wallpapers Free themes Photo Contacts v3.0 (free trial for...

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...

Bart De Smet has continued his work on the LINQ to SharePoint project. From the website: The LINQ to SharePoint project provides a custom query provider for LINQ that allows to query SharePoint lists using familiar LINQ syntax. LINQ stands for Language...

Quite exciting times again at Microsoft Belgium. As part of the Belgian Windows Vista, Office 2007 and Windows Live OneCare launch tomorrow, we'll stream the gig of Praga Khan in Second Life . This was achieved for a big part by one of the newest Developer...

Bart De Smet explores the IE7 RSS platform using C# in an article series on his blog: Exploring the IE7 RSS platform in C# - Part 1 Exploring the IE7 RSS platform in C# - Part 2 Exploring the IE7 RSS platform in C# - Part 3 He discusses obvious...

The Microsoft patterns & practices team is already active for quite some time. In that time, they've released a lot of valuable information, libraries and "software factories", such as the Enterprise Library , Composite UI Application Block , Upgrading...