April 2007 - Posts
Today highlighted on the MSDN homepage : PackageThis! Created by the MSDN development team, PackageThis! allows you to choose documentation sets from the MSDN Library to save as HXS or CHM format files. Simply select nodes in the MSDN Library Tree View
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Tim Sneath posted the first end-to-end reference sample on his blog. The Family.Show application - developed by Vertigo Software - is a genealogy explorer that allows you to create or import a family tree and explore, annotate or save it to XPS. A couple
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Yesterday I decided to run the Windows Vista Cleanup tool, which enables you to clear your disk of unnecessary files. Main reason was that I was running out of space on my C:\ partition. So I only selected my C:\ drive to be cleaned up. After selecting
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In this episode of the the .NET Show Matt Gibbs , prinicpal development manager, and Brad Abrams , group program manager, join the .NET Show to discuss and demonstrate the new ASP.NETAJAX Extensions , which enables you to quickly create Web pages that
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On May 9th MSDN Belux organizes its next MSDN Evening . This time we have the pleasure to welcome a Belgian guy who has been working for Microsoft in Redmond for a while and who recently, officially took the position of Visual C++ Principal Product Unit
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Yesterday Phillip Vandervoort was introduced as new GM for Microsoft Belux. Read the official press release here (Dutch) or here (French). It took a while but by mid-June Microsoft Belux will be officially managed by Phillip Vandervoort. Looking at his
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Michael Schwarz has an excellent post up on his blog on the Rich Media Platform Comparison . Michael compares 2 a set of features of the Microsoft platforms Silverlight and .NET , versus the Adobe's Flash / Flex platform. Check his blog for an overview
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Microsoft VP (Soma) Somasegar announced today on his blog the availability of Visual Studio Code Name "Orcas" Beta 1 Team Suite . This is the first official beta that is put out in public. Some CTP releases have been made available in the past. The .iso
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For all the IW enthusiasts: the next BIWUG meeting is scheduled for Thursday April 26 th and will be held @Getronics premises (Genèvestraat 10 – 1140 Evere). The meeting has 2 main themes: Records Management with MOSS 2007 and Business Intelligence with
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Next Tuesday - April 24 - our Belgian ISV team is organizing an Innovation Day on the next generation of our development platform. A extract from the invite: A top-class development platform is not only a set of excellent development tools, it’s also
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A lot of things happening in the .NET world these days. While going through my unread RSS Feeds I summarize some interesting links: Expression Tools for Developers now on MSDN [Via Soma & ScottGu ] After MIX07, there's TechEd US. Frank created a sidebar
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After the Belgian Developer & IT Pro Days 2007 it took me a couple of days to get back to my PC. But it was worth the recovery time :-)! Microsoft has been using Wow a lot lately, but for this I'd like to use it once more: WOW! Below a summary of
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