Tom's MSDN Belux Corner

Ronald Laeremans, Group Program Manager for Visual C++, will host a free MSDN Evening on Visual C++ "Orcas" in Mechelen (Belgium) on 9 May. I'm very happy that Ronald is willing to give this presentation as not many people know as much about Visual C...

Last Wednesday, during the MSDN Evening on XNA Game Studio Express , speaker Brecht Kets gave an overview of community resources available for XNA game developers. One of the resources that he recommended for starters was the XNA Tutorial at the community...

TheServerSide.NET features 2 podcasts (10 minutes and 14 minutes) with Brad Abrams on " Patterns for successful ASP.NET AJAX Development ". From the website: TheServerSide.NET recently spoke with Microsoft's Brad Abrams to find out what he is seeing in...

Bart De Smet wrote a hands-on tutorial that explains quite in-depth how one can build a custom data provider that is LINQ enabled using IQueryable. When completing Bart's "IQueryable Tales" tutorial, you'll have created a simple LDAP data provider that...

From the website : MEDC 2007 Europe will be a concentrated 2 day deep-dive of technical training dedicated to mobile and embedded technologies. This annual event is tailored for developers, IT professionals, and business professionals who are looking...

Yves Hanoulle recently showed me a booklet called "Developer Highway Code" that he received in the UK. The booklet covers security best practices for software developers. Paul Maher, the author of the booklet, informed me that it is also freely available...

Quote from "The Region" website : "Welcome to The Region, global hub for the 140 software architects, developers, trainers and other professionals selected by Microsoft as Regional Directors. The first thing to know is that, while we’re officially recognized...

With the recent release of Enterprise Library 3 , the new Policy Injection Application Block is introduced. Tom Hollander writes " (the Policy Injection Application Block) provides a powerful approach for separating cross-cutting concerns from business...

The Belgian SQL Server User Group is having a meeting on 19 April on replication with SQL Server Mobile Edition . The meeting will take place in Asse-Zellik. From their website: With the use of mobile devices becoming more and more mainstream, it...

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...

During his session at the Belgian Developer & IT Pro Days 2007 , Bart De Smet announced that he'll join the WPF team at Microsoft HQ in Redmond,WA . After Thomas Delrue, Jonathan "Peli" De Halleux and Steven Wilssens, Bart is now the 4th person from...

Bob Beauchemin will host a chalk talk session exclusively for SQLUG.be members during the Developer & IT Pro Days conference in Belgium . Bob has a bit more information on his blog too: " A bonus talk for Belgian SQL Server user group next week "...

After a full day of meetings, you are happy to return to your desk and your so familiar chair... But then you find out that some of your colleagues have more time available than you to fool around. Introducing my MSDN chair: Thanks for this piece...

After the recognition of Patrick Tisseghem as 11th Most Influential Flemish Blog Personality, B.V.L.G. has now published the other most influential blog personalities (following links go to a post written in Dutch: ranking 1-5 , 6-10 , 11-15 , 16-20 ...

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...

Some people of the Belgian blogger community, led by Bruno Peeters , awarded Patrick Tisseghem as the 11th most influential Flemish blog personality in Belgium . For those that don't understand Flemish , here is my quick translation of the text about...

Together with a few of my worldwide collleagues, I'm currently at the Developer Audience Marketing Strategic Planning Summit in Redmond. Today during lunch I had an interesting talk with Brian Hsi of the community team at Microsoft Corp. Amongst other...

Serge Luca wrote following article for MSDN Belux : Dynamically Start and Kill a Workflow with Windows Workflow Foundation The Windows Workflow Foundation is a programming model, a run-time engine, and a set of tools for building workflow functionality...

Pascal Van Hecke just sent me Kris Gielen's blog on Office tips and tricks . Kris didn't post a lot yet, but his current posts look promising. Let's hope he keeps it up. Here are a few of his first posts: Office Quickie: Minimize the Ribbon Reason...

The 15% Early Bird discount for the Developer & IT Pro Days in Belgium ends tomorrow, on 28 February. If you didn't register yet, here are some reasons why I believe you should register: Jeff Prosise is a top speaker (both his presentation skills...

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...

Since 2 weeks we're running a satisfaction survey on the MSDN Belgium & Luxembourg website. Purpose of this survey is to determine what is good about the site and what should be improved. This survey is executed at couple of MSDN websites of European...

Developer & IT Pro Days is the main conference in Belgium for developers and IT pro's that are interested in learning about current and near future products and technologies. Some of this year's highlights: Pre-conference on 27 March with Wintellect...

After several months without a manager, our team has a new DPE Lead since 1 February: Luc Van De Velde . Luc has already a proven track record within Microsoft, having worked in the Microsoft Services department (MCS in that time) and as manager of partner...

As part of the Windows Vista and Office 2007 Launch in Belgium, a big part of the Microsoft Belgium employees will hit the streets today to assist our resellers with giving demonstrations of Windows Vista and Office 2007. Chances are that you'll bump...