Tom's MSDN Belux Corner

Last week Dave Mitchell and Charles Cox from the XNA product team at Microsoft Corp were in Belgium for their XNA Game Studio 2.0 European Tour. We have recorded the sessions, and you can now see them on our MSDN Chopsticks website. MSDN Chopsticks uses...

Many have asked about it, so I'm happy to announce that the registration is open for the next MSDN Evening on 19 December: MSDN Evening: Introducing Application Lifecycle Management with Visual Studio Team System 2008 With Visual Studio 2008, Microsoft...

On 29 November, Dave Michell and Charles Cox visited Belgium as part of the XNA Game Studio European Tour. Here are some pictures, along with some facts. Dave Mitchell and Charles Cox were the 2 Microsoft Corp speakers on the event. Tommy Goffin of BGin...

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...

We've recently published a great case study from the Belgian post office, De Post - La Poste, on their Visual Studio Team System testing scenario where they are using the Visual Studio Team Test Load Agent . "The Belgian Post Office De Post—La Poste ...

Announcing another upcoming event: Combining the strength of Microsoft Office Sharepoint Server with Microsoft CRM Both Microsoft Dynamics CRM and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server are often propagated as Business Application Platforms. And although...

During this MSDN Evening you will get an overview of the language enhancements in Visual Basic 9.0 and Visual C# 3.0, as well as IDE enhancements in Visual Studio 2008. Topics covered include framework multi-targeting (using Visual Studio 2008 to develop...

Only a few seats are left for the XNA Game Studio event on 29 November in Utopolis, Mechelen. Register here . And thanks to Walter , I can share some more details about the event below. Are you interested in learning how to build great video games for...

"One of the greatest innovations in Windows Sharepoint Services v3 and Microsoft Office Sharepoint Server 2007 is the integration with Windows Workflow Foundation, a core component of the .NET Framework 3.0.", according to Serge Luca in the introduction...

Recently 2 Dynamics MVP's ( Eric Wauters a.k.a. as Waldo and Luc Van Dyck ) and 3 Dynamics enthusiasts decided to join forces and start up the Belgian Dynamics Community . The mission of the community is sharing knowledge and experiences on Microsoft...

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...

The Belgian SQL Server User Group is hosting an event on SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services on Thursday November 22nd in Vilvoorde near Brussels. SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services Thursday 22 November by Marc Mertens Reporting Services is Microsoft's...

For a limited time, the Windows Mobile site offers free downloads of Halloween wallpapers and ringtones. Get them at https://www.microsoft.com/windowsmobile/domore/halloween-ringtones.mspx . Technorati tags: Windows Mobile , Microsoft , Halloween , wallpaper...

Announcing our next MSDN Evening on 31st of October on Microsoft Silverlight in Mechelen. If you want to see an example of a website using Silverlight, check out my previous post on the Quiksilver Pro France website . MSDN Evening: Light Up the Web with...

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, ...

Since we have some seats left at the Expression / Designer Event for academics (lectors, students, ...), I'm opening up the registration for other people. This is your chance to meet Surya Vanka , Microsoft's Design and Usability Training Manager. Important...

The MSDN team in the UK created several MSDN Nuggets (online presentations) on Silverlight : Silverlight Streaming : Silverlight Streaming is a hosted service at http://streaming.live.com/ which provides developers and content creators the ability to...

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...

I'm happy to announce that for the first time we'll be organizing MSDN Evenings in Belgium on different Dynamics NAV developer related topics. Here's an overview: MSDN Evening: Microsoft® SQL Server™ Reporting Services and Style Sheets Prepare your...

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...

If you're considering to go to TechEd Europe, this is the last week you can register with the 300 EUR Early Bird discount . Some other things: The TechEd Europe team is blogging from behind the scenes. Already quite a lot of attendees and speakers have...

CodePlex hosts a very handy Windows Vista Battery Saver utility. This utility automatically deactivates certain features of Windows Visa, such as the Aero User Interface and Sidebar, and changes the power plan when switching to battery power. After AC...

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...

VISUG goes Silverlight , with 2 free evening events on this technology. Gill Cleeren is the host of those events; he will cover XAML, Silverlight 1.0, Silverlight 1.1 and Expression Blend. 20 September at the Ordina office in Schelle at 18:00 26 September...

If you regularly read articles on Code Project , you might like the Code Project Browser Add-In for Visual Studio 2005 . It allows you to quickly view and test the samples that are included with the article. As the author indicates, it's much more convenient...