Tom's MSDN Belux Corner

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...

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...

One of my colleagues in Redmond asked several people, including me, to inform our local market about the following: Microsoft is looking around the globe (including in Belgium and Luxembourg) for inspiring stories of passionate people, developing innovative...

The Belgian-Luxembourg local chapter of OWASP (Open Web Application Security Project) is organizing a local OWASP Day in Brussels on September 6. The theme of the local OWASP Day is "Privacy in the 21st Century". One of the speakers will be Luc Beirens...

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, ...

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...

From latest Windows Mobile newsletter : Develop your developer skills Now every developer can have a private tutor, thanks to the Windows Mobile "How Do I?" video series. Each video runs for about 10 to 20 minutes, includes step-by-step instructions,...

Brecht Kets has published quite some tutorials explaining how to get started with XNA Framework and XNA Game Studio Express : Opening a window Primitives: the basics part 1 Primitives: the basics part 2 Primitives: Introducing the Index...

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...

The name of a folder usually isn't the best place to give a long description about its contents in SharePoint. Folder names should be concise. But sometimes you might want to add a longer description - let's say a comments field - to that folder. Kevin...

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...

The PowerPoint presentations of the sessions delivered at the Belgian Community Day are available for download: Keynote Discovering Software Development Life-Cycle using Visual Studio Team System SharePoint tools Discovering Unified Communications ASP...

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...

Serge Luca , one of Belgium's WF and WCF experts, recently gave a good presentation at the Microsoft Enterprise & Development Summit in Luxembourg. During that presentation he showed how to expose a workflow as a WCF service using Visual Studio 2008...

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...

MSDN Event: Expression Blend & Silverlight Where: Utopolis, Mechelen (Belgium) Date: Tuesday 19 June (13:00 - 16:15) Cost: free Audience: Developers and designers I'm lazy today, find more details and registration at http://www.microsoft.com/belux...

Below you find the invitation for the Microsoft Luxembourg Enterprise & Development Summit 2007. Please note that all sessions (except the keynote) will be delivered in French. The keynote is the only session that will be in English. Microsoft et...

On MSDN for Belgium and Luxembourg , we're announcing the new Microsoft Press Book of the Month for June 2007: "Inside Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007" . This book is written by Belgian MVP and worldwide renowned SharePoint expert, Patrick Tisseghem...

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...

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...

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...