Tom's MSDN Belux Corner

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...

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...

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...

This short session will show you how Visual Studio 2008 dataset improvements makes building enterprise applications easier . It was recorded by our Belgian Regional Director Peter Himschoot . Technorati Tags: MSDN Belux , community , RD , Regional Director...

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...

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...

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...

"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...

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...

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...

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...

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 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...

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...

From the SharePoint experts blog : Download the 'Web Analytics with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007' whitepaper (in XPS format) The freely downloadable 72-page whitepaper has the following major chapters: Analytics Objectives and...

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...

DasBlog 1.9 was recently released by Omar Shahine and Scott Hanselman . Several features have been improved and a lot of new ones have been added. One of the new features ("multi-user/blogger support") was added by a Belgian developer: Christoph De Baene...

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...

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...

After the post on LINQ and Architectures , this time co-author Marco Russo of “ Programming Microsoft LINQ ” shares information on deferred loading in LINQ to SQL. The deferred loading of data in LINQ to SQL can operates at two granularity levels: the...

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...

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...

Steven Van de Craen 's latest article was published on MSDN Belgium & Luxembourg . Customizing the Content Query Web Part XSL The Content Query Web Part can be used to display a dynamic view of content from your site on a web page. This article...

Microsoft Office Labs have just released pptPlex, a new add-in for PowerPoint that enables a new way of navigating through a presentation. Instead of the traditional transition effects of PowerPoint, pptPlex allows a user to zoom in and out of slides...

Fellow Microsoft employee Christof Claessens explains i a MSDN Chopsticks video how you can create your own Windows Live Messenger agent in 30 minutes . Although I didn’t try it myself yet, it looks like something to explore during a rainy weekend… ...