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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="http://blogs.msdn.com/utility/FeedStylesheets/rss.xsl" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"><channel><title>David Boschmans Weblog : 2007 Office system</title><link>http://blogs.msdn.com/davbosch/archive/tags/2007+Office+system/default.aspx</link><description>Tags: 2007 Office system</description><dc:language>en</dc:language><generator>CommunityServer 2.1 SP1 (Build: 61025.2)</generator><item><title>Link dump: User Experience, Web Platform, Office System and more</title><link>http://blogs.msdn.com/davbosch/archive/2007/06/29/link-dump-user-experience-web-platform-office-system-and-more.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 29 Jun 2007 17:47:36 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:3604170</guid><dc:creator>David Boschmans</dc:creator><slash:comments>1</slash:comments><comments>http://blogs.msdn.com/davbosch/comments/3604170.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://blogs.msdn.com/davbosch/commentrss.aspx?PostID=3604170</wfw:commentRss><wfw:comment>http://blogs.msdn.com/davbosch/rsscomments.aspx?PostID=3604170</wfw:comment><description>&lt;p&gt;Here are some interesting&amp;nbsp;links that I found while catching up on blogs: &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;User Experience:&lt;/p&gt; &lt;ul&gt; &lt;li&gt;&lt;a title="Your Britain in pictures" href="http://labs.live.com/photosynth/bbc/" target="_blank" rel="tag"&gt;Your Britain in pictures: BBC + Microsoft Live Labs Photosynth&lt;/a&gt;: The BBC is collaborating with Microsoft Live Labs Photosynth to create three- dimensional representations of some of the most dramatic buildings in Britain by combining hundreds of different photographs. Sit back and enjoy a virtual tour of some of Britain's most striking buildings.  &lt;li&gt;&lt;a title="Bart De Smet" href="http://community.bartdesmet.net/blogs/bart/archive/2007/06/13/microsoft-virtual-earth-in-belgium-quot-de-gentse-feesten-quot-from-a-bird-s-eye-view-and-much-more.aspx" target="_blank" rel="tag"&gt;Bart&lt;/a&gt; has a list of Microsoft Virtual Earth updates for Belgium  &lt;li&gt;&lt;a title="Rebuilding Microsoft Outlook with WPF" href="http://www.microsoft.com/switzerland/msdn/de/events/hol/wpf.mspx" target="_blank" rel="tag"&gt;Rebuilding Microsoft Outlook with WPF&lt;/a&gt;: This Hands-On Lab will take you to the next level of Windows user interface development. Through the power of WPF (.NET 3.0, Blend and Visual Studio 2005) you will be able to build a replica of the Outlook 2007 UI in a couple of hours.  &lt;li&gt;2x &lt;a title="Brad Abrams" href="http://blogs.msdn.com/brada/" target="_blank" rel="tag"&gt;Brad Abrams&lt;/a&gt;: a) &lt;a title="Introducing Acropolis on .NET Rocks! #248" href="http://www.intellectualhedonism.com/2007/06/21/NETRocks248IntroducingAcropolis.aspx" target="_blank" rel="tag"&gt;Introducing Acropolis on .NET Rocks! #248&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;and b) &lt;a title="Brad on Silverlight" href="http://www.podleaders.com/brad-abrams-silverlight-program-manager-podcast" target="_blank" rel="tag"&gt;Brad on Silverlight&lt;/a&gt; in &lt;a title="Tom's" href="http://www.tomrafteryit.net/" target="_blank" rel="tag"&gt;Tom's&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a title="PodLeaders podcast" href="http://www.podleaders.com/" target="_blank" rel="tag"&gt;PodLeaders podcast&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;li&gt;Lynda.com are now offering free &lt;a title="Expression" href="http://www.microsoft.com/expression/" target="_blank" rel="tag"&gt;Expression&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;training which can be&amp;nbsp;downloaded without a login [&lt;a title="Via Ed Dunhill" href="http://blogs.msdn.com/edunhill/archive/2007/06/28/free-microsoft-expression-training.aspx" target="_blank" rel="tag"&gt;Via Ed Dunhill&lt;/a&gt;]:  &lt;ul&gt; &lt;li&gt;&lt;a title="Getting Started with Expression Design" href="http://movielibrary.lynda.com/html/modPage.asp?ID=339" target="_blank" rel="tag"&gt;Getting Started with Expression Design&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;a title="Getting Started with Expression Blend" href="http://movielibrary.lynda.com/html/modPage.asp?ID=384" target="_blank" rel="tag"&gt;Getting Started with Expression Blend&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;a title="Expression Web Essential Training" href="http://movielibrary.lynda.com/html/modPage.asp?ID=301" target="_blank" rel="tag"&gt;Expression Web Essential Training&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt; &lt;p&gt;Web Platform&lt;/p&gt; &lt;ul&gt; &lt;li&gt;&lt;a title="Silverlight tutorials" href="http://www.wynapse.com/Silverlight_Tutorials.aspx" target="_blank" rel="tag"&gt;Silverlight with JavaScript tutorials&lt;/a&gt; from &lt;a title="wynapse.com" href="http://www.wynapse.com/" target="_blank" rel="tag"&gt;wynapse.com&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;a title="Silverlight With Java Script Tutorial 01" href="http://www.wynapse.com/Silverlight/Tutor/Silverlight_With_Java_Script_Tutorial_01.aspx" target="_blank" rel="tag"&gt;01&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a title="Silverlight With Java Script Tutorial 02" href="http://www.wynapse.com/Silverlight/Tutor/Silverlight_With_Java_Script_Tutorial_02.aspx" target="_blank" rel="tag"&gt;02&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a title="Silverlight With Java Script Tutorial 03" href="http://www.wynapse.com/Silverlight/Tutor/Silverlight_With_Java_Script_Tutorial_03.aspx" target="_blank" rel="tag"&gt;03&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a title="Silverlight With Java Script Tutorial 04" href="http://www.wynapse.com/Silverlight/Tutor/Silverlight_With_Java_Script_Tutorial_04.aspx" target="_blank" rel="tag"&gt;04&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a title="Silverlight With Java Script Tutorial 05" href="http://www.wynapse.com/Silverlight/Tutor/Silverlight_With_Java_Script_Tutorial_05.aspx" target="_blank" rel="tag"&gt;05&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a title="Silverlight With Java Script Tutorial 06" href="http://www.wynapse.com/Silverlight/Tutor/Silverlight_With_Java_Script_Tutorial_06.aspx" target="_blank" rel="tag"&gt;06&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;a title="Introducing the Pageflow Sample" href="http://blogs.msdn.com/mwinkle/archive/2007/06/07/introducing-the-pageflow-sample.aspx" target="_blank" rel="tag"&gt;A sample for Controlling Page Flow with Workflow Foundation&lt;/a&gt; from &lt;a title="Matthew Winkler" href="http://blogs.msdn.com/mwinkle" target="_blank" rel="tag"&gt;Matthew Winkler&lt;/a&gt;.  &lt;li&gt;&lt;a title="New ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit Release" href="http://www.codeplex.com/AtlasControlToolkit/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=1813" target="_blank" rel="tag"&gt;New ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit Release&lt;/a&gt; [via &lt;a title="ScottGu" href="http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2007/06/08/new-asp-net-ajax-control-toolkit-release.aspx" target="_blank" rel="tag"&gt;ScottGu&lt;/a&gt;] &lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt; &lt;p&gt;Office System&lt;/p&gt; &lt;ul&gt; &lt;li&gt;&lt;a title="Maarten" href="http://blogs.balliauw.be/blogs/maarten/" target="_blank" rel="tag"&gt;Maarten&lt;/a&gt; has a &lt;a title="compilation of OpenXML News" href="http://blogs.balliauw.be/blogs/maarten/archive/2007/06/10/openxml-news-overview.aspx" target="_blank" rel="tag"&gt;compilation of OpenXML News&lt;/a&gt;. Also,&amp;nbsp;a good read to stay up to date with the latest developments in the OpenXML space.  &lt;li&gt;Productivity from Microsoft at Work:  &lt;ul&gt; &lt;li&gt;&lt;a title="Audiocast: Top 10 tips for Microsoft Office Excel 2007" href="http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=6151001" target="_blank" rel="tag"&gt;Audiocast: Top 10 tips for Microsoft Office Excel 2007&lt;/a&gt; - Be more productive when working on spreadsheets by using tips in this 60-minute podcast.  &lt;li&gt;&lt;a title="Audiocast: Top 10 tips for Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007" href="http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=6151002" target="_blank" rel="tag"&gt;Audiocast: Top 10 tips for Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007&lt;/a&gt; - Create better presentations by using tips in this 60-minute podcast.  &lt;li&gt;&lt;a title="Audiocast: Top 10 tips for Microsoft Office Outlook 2007" href="http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=6151003" target="_blank" rel="tag"&gt;Audiocast: Top 10 tips for Microsoft Office Outlook 2007&lt;/a&gt; - Get tips on how to better manage your e-mail in this 60-minute podcast.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt; &lt;li&gt;&lt;a title="Microsoft SDK for Open XML Formats" href="http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=AD0B72FB-4A1D-4C52-BDB5-7DD7E816D046&amp;amp;displaylang=en" target="_blank" rel="tag"&gt;Microsoft SDK for Open XML Formats&lt;/a&gt;: strongly typed part classes for use with Open XML documents&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt; &lt;p&gt;Security&lt;/p&gt; &lt;ul&gt; &lt;li&gt;&lt;a title="Windows Vista - 6 Month Vulnerability Report" href="http://blogs.csoonline.com/windows_vista_6_month_vulnerability_report" target="_blank" rel="tag"&gt;Windows Vista - 6 Month Vulnerability Report&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt; &lt;p&gt;Windows Server&lt;/p&gt; &lt;ul&gt; &lt;li&gt;&lt;a title="Windows Home Server goes RC" href="http://blogs.technet.com/homeserver/archive/2007/06/12/release-candidate-goes-live.aspx" target="_blank" rel="tag"&gt;Windows Home Server goes RC&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;- Sign up via&amp;nbsp;&lt;a title="Microsoft Connect" href="http://connect.microsoft.com/WindowsHomeServer" target="_blank" rel="tag"&gt;Microsoft Connect&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;a title="Windows Server 2008" href="http://blogs.msdn.com/hied_northeast/archive/2007/06/28/windows-server-2008.aspx" target="_blank" rel="tag"&gt;Windows Server 2008&lt;/a&gt;: some general information &amp;amp; webcasts and a set of links for developers&amp;nbsp;&amp;amp;&amp;nbsp;it pro's&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt; &lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;Sample App&lt;/p&gt; &lt;ul&gt; &lt;li&gt;&lt;a title=".NET StockTrader Sample Application" href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/stocktrader/" target="_blank" rel="tag"&gt;.NET StockTrader Sample Application&lt;/a&gt;: An End-to-End Sample Application Illustrating Windows Communication Foundation and .NET Enterprise Technologies&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt; &lt;div class="wlWriterSmartContent" id="0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:b4b41f9f-0d88-4285-9cb7-dcb827f2d713" contenteditable="false" style="padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-top: 0px"&gt;Technorati tags: &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tags/User%20Experience" rel="tag"&gt;User Experience&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Expression" rel="tag"&gt;Expression&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tags/WPF" rel="tag"&gt;WPF&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Acropolis" rel="tag"&gt;Acropolis&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Silverlight" rel="tag"&gt;Silverlight&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tags/ASP.NET" rel="tag"&gt;ASP.NET&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tags/ASP.NET%20AJAX" rel="tag"&gt;ASP.NET AJAX&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Office" rel="tag"&gt;Office&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Open%20XML" rel="tag"&gt;Open XML&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Security" rel="tag"&gt;Security&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Windows%20Server%202008" rel="tag"&gt;Windows Server 2008&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=3604170" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description><category domain="http://blogs.msdn.com/davbosch/archive/tags/Windows+Vista/default.aspx">Windows Vista</category><category domain="http://blogs.msdn.com/davbosch/archive/tags/2007+Office+system/default.aspx">2007 Office system</category><category domain="http://blogs.msdn.com/davbosch/archive/tags/ISV+Community/default.aspx">ISV Community</category><category domain="http://blogs.msdn.com/davbosch/archive/tags/ASP.NET/default.aspx">ASP.NET</category><category domain="http://blogs.msdn.com/davbosch/archive/tags/Developer+Community/default.aspx">Developer Community</category><category domain="http://blogs.msdn.com/davbosch/archive/tags/Web+Development/default.aspx">Web Development</category><category domain="http://blogs.msdn.com/davbosch/archive/tags/Microsoft+AJAX/default.aspx">Microsoft AJAX</category><category domain="http://blogs.msdn.com/davbosch/archive/tags/WPF/default.aspx">WPF</category><category domain="http://blogs.msdn.com/davbosch/archive/tags/Silverlight/default.aspx">Silverlight</category></item><item><title>Developing for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0: 2 new articles</title><link>http://blogs.msdn.com/davbosch/archive/2007/06/28/developing-for-windows-sharepoint-services-3-0-2-new-articles.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 28 Jun 2007 23:08:46 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:3589589</guid><dc:creator>David Boschmans</dc:creator><slash:comments>1</slash:comments><comments>http://blogs.msdn.com/davbosch/comments/3589589.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://blogs.msdn.com/davbosch/commentrss.aspx?PostID=3589589</wfw:commentRss><wfw:comment>http://blogs.msdn.com/davbosch/rsscomments.aspx?PostID=3589589</wfw:comment><description>&lt;p&gt;A couple of weeks ago I reported that &lt;a title="Patrick Tisseghem's book" href="http://blogs.msdn.com/davbosch/archive/2007/05/31/i-started-reading-inside-microsoft-office-sharepoint-server-2007.aspx" target="_blank" rel="tag"&gt;Patrick Tisseghem's book&lt;/a&gt; on SharePoint Server&amp;nbsp;2007 was available in bookstores. Well it looks he just couldn't stop writing! Now two new articles on "&lt;a title="Development Tools and Techniques for Working with Code in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0" href="http://www.u2u.info/Blogs/Patrick/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=1746" target="_blank" rel="tag"&gt;Development Tools and Techniques for Working with Code in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0&lt;/a&gt;"&amp;nbsp;are available on &lt;a title="MSDN" href="http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/default.aspx" target="_blank" rel="tag"&gt;MSDN&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;ul&gt; &lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Part 1: &lt;a href="http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb530302.aspx"&gt;http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb530302.aspx&lt;/em&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt; &lt;blockquote&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Summary: Learn the skills you need to develop for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0, about the differences from traditional ASP.NET development, about the required development environment, and the steps to build a Windows SharePoint Services solution with Visual Studio 2005 Extensions for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt; &lt;ul&gt; &lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Part 2: &lt;a href="http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb530301.aspx"&gt;http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb530301.aspx&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt; &lt;blockquote&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Summary: Explore Windows SharePoint Services solutions, solution architecture, and techniques for creating, deploying, maintaining, and upgrading Windows SharePoint Services solutions.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt; &lt;p&gt;This first article provides insight into the skills you need to develop for Windows SharePoint Services, the differences from traditional ASP.NET development, the development environment that is required, and the steps you must take to build a Windows SharePoint Services solution with Visual Studio 2005 Extensions for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0. The second part of the article explores the concept of Windows SharePoint Services solutions, addressing the architecture of a solution, and the techniques for creating, deploying, maintaining, and upgrading Windows SharePoint Services solutions. This article also includes walkthroughs that show the different approaches developers and administrators can take. &lt;/p&gt; &lt;div class="wlWriterSmartContent" id="0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:997cc68a-ca5a-4da6-995e-58b81bc49d55" contenteditable="false" style="padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-top: 0px"&gt;Technorati tags: &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Windows%20SharePoint%20Services%203.0" rel="tag"&gt;Windows SharePoint Services 3.0&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=3589589" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description><category domain="http://blogs.msdn.com/davbosch/archive/tags/2007+Office+system/default.aspx">2007 Office system</category><category domain="http://blogs.msdn.com/davbosch/archive/tags/ISV+Community/default.aspx">ISV Community</category><category domain="http://blogs.msdn.com/davbosch/archive/tags/Developer+Community/default.aspx">Developer Community</category></item><item><title>June Update for the Office Compatibility Pack</title><link>http://blogs.msdn.com/davbosch/archive/2007/06/28/june-update-for-the-office-compatibility-pack.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 28 Jun 2007 11:45:42 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:3579591</guid><dc:creator>David Boschmans</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>http://blogs.msdn.com/davbosch/comments/3579591.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://blogs.msdn.com/davbosch/commentrss.aspx?PostID=3579591</wfw:commentRss><wfw:comment>http://blogs.msdn.com/davbosch/rsscomments.aspx?PostID=3579591</wfw:comment><description>&lt;p&gt;There's an updated version of the &lt;a title="Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint 2007 File Formats" href="http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=941B3470-3AE9-4AEE-8F43-C6BB74CD1466&amp;amp;displaylang=en" target="_blank" rel="tag"&gt;Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint 2007 File Formats&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;available. By installing the Compatibility Pack in addition to Microsoft Office 2000, Office XP, or Office 2003, you will be able open, edit, and save files using the &lt;a href="http://support.microsoft.com/kb/924074"&gt;file formats new to Word, Excel, and PowerPoint 2007&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;This update of the &lt;a title="Office Compatibility Pack" href="http://support.microsoft.com/kb/924074" target="_blank" rel="tag"&gt;Office Compatibility Pack&lt;/a&gt; include the fixes that were provided in the file format updates for Word 2007 and the existing &lt;a title="Office Compatibility Pack in May" href="http://support.microsoft.com/kb/924074" target="_blank" rel="tag"&gt;Office Compatibility Pack in May&lt;/a&gt;. This KB "&lt;a title="Issues that are fixed in the update to the Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint 2007 File Formats" href="http://support.microsoft.com/kb/936695/en-us" target="_blank" rel="tag"&gt;Issues that are fixed in the update to the Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint 2007 File Formats&lt;/a&gt;" lists the changes. &lt;p&gt;The link for the download on Microsoft Download Center has not changed: &lt;a title="http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=941b3470-3ae9-4aee-8f43-c6bb74cd1466&amp;amp;displaylang=en" href="http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=941b3470-3ae9-4aee-8f43-c6bb74cd1466&amp;amp;displaylang=en" target="_blank" rel="tag"&gt;http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=941b3470-3ae9-4aee-8f43-c6bb74cd1466&amp;amp;displaylang=en&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;div class="wlWriterSmartContent" id="0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:a82e6ae9-a320-49a5-837d-4060b880c417" contenteditable="false" style="padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-top: 0px"&gt;Technorati tags: &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Microsoft%20Office%20Compatibility%20Pack" rel="tag"&gt;Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Office%20File%20Formats" rel="tag"&gt;Office File Formats&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=3579591" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description><category domain="http://blogs.msdn.com/davbosch/archive/tags/2007+Office+system/default.aspx">2007 Office system</category><category domain="http://blogs.msdn.com/davbosch/archive/tags/ISV+Community/default.aspx">ISV Community</category><category domain="http://blogs.msdn.com/davbosch/archive/tags/Developer+Community/default.aspx">Developer Community</category></item><item><title>Outlook Connector joins Outlook 2007 and Windows Live Hotmail</title><link>http://blogs.msdn.com/davbosch/archive/2007/06/27/outlook-connector-joins-outlook-2007-and-windows-live-hotmail.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 27 Jun 2007 18:44:23 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:3566703</guid><dc:creator>David Boschmans</dc:creator><slash:comments>2</slash:comments><comments>http://blogs.msdn.com/davbosch/comments/3566703.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://blogs.msdn.com/davbosch/commentrss.aspx?PostID=3566703</wfw:commentRss><wfw:comment>http://blogs.msdn.com/davbosch/rsscomments.aspx?PostID=3566703</wfw:comment><description>&lt;p&gt;While still recovering at home after surgery I'm catching up on blogs and mail. I came accross &lt;a title="a new connector" href="http://thinkabdul.com/2007/06/12/download-free-hotmailmsn-outlook-connector-beta-for-outlook-2007windows-vista-also-synchronize-calendar-tasks-and-notes-with-windows-live-hotmail/" target="_blank" rel="tag"&gt;a new connector&lt;/a&gt; to connect my Windows Live account with Outlook 2007 (my default email client). So far I've been using &lt;a title="Windows Live Mail" href="http://get.live.com/en-us/betas/maildesktop_betas" target="_blank" rel="tag"&gt;Windows Live Mail&lt;/a&gt; to read the email&amp;nbsp;of my &lt;a title="WIndows Live Hotmail" href="http://get.live.com/mail/overview" target="_blank" rel="tag"&gt;WIndows Live Hotmail&lt;/a&gt; account. Today I decided to install the &lt;a title="Outlook Connector" href="http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=7aad7e6a-931e-438a-950c-5e9ea66322d4&amp;amp;displaylang=en" target="_blank" rel="tag"&gt;Outlook Connector&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a title="Microsoft Office Outlook Connector" href="http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=7aad7e6a-931e-438a-950c-5e9ea66322d4&amp;amp;displaylang=en" target="_blank" rel="tag"&gt;Microsoft Office Outlook Connector&lt;/a&gt;: With &lt;a title="Microsoft Office Outlook Connector Beta" href="http://blogs.msdn.com/outlook/archive/2007/06/15/microsoft-office-outlook-connector-beta-released.aspx" target="_blank" rel="tag"&gt;Microsoft Office Outlook Connector Beta&lt;/a&gt;, you can use Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 or Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 to access and manage your Microsoft Windows Live Hotmail or Microsoft Office Live Mail accounts, including e-mail messages and contacts for free! Calendar, tasks and notes can also be accessed and managed in Outlook for accounts with a paid subscription. And the Outlook Team is now &lt;a title="blogging" href="http://blogs.msdn.com/outlook/default.aspx" target="_blank" rel="tag"&gt;blogging&lt;/a&gt;!&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Here's a quick walkthrough on installing the Microsoft Office Outlook Connector on&amp;nbsp;top of Microsoft Office Outlook &lt;strong&gt;2007.&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;Run (as administrator) the OutlookConnector.exe that can be downloaded from &lt;a title="here" href="http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=7aad7e6a-931e-438a-950c-5e9ea66322d4&amp;amp;displaylang=en" target="_blank" rel="tag"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;and follow the screen shots below.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Accept the License Terms:&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;img style="border-top-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px" height="486" alt="image" src="http://blogs.msdn.com/blogfiles/davbosch/WindowsLiveWriter/9427da86e737_D44C/image_4.png" width="778" border="0"&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Fill out your customer information and make sure Microsoft Outlook 2007 (in this case) is not running; the "&lt;em&gt;outlook.exe&lt;/em&gt;" process should not appear in the processes list of the WIndows Task Manager.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/blogfiles/davbosch/WindowsLiveWriter/9427da86e737_D44C/image_9.png" atomicselection="true"&gt;&lt;img style="border-top-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px" height="392" alt="image" src="http://blogs.msdn.com/blogfiles/davbosch/WindowsLiveWriter/9427da86e737_D44C/image_thumb_7.png" width="514" border="0"&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Complete the installation wizard and your done!&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/blogfiles/davbosch/WindowsLiveWriter/9427da86e737_D44C/image_12.png" atomicselection="true"&gt;&lt;img style="border-top-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px" height="392" alt="image" src="http://blogs.msdn.com/blogfiles/davbosch/WindowsLiveWriter/9427da86e737_D44C/image_thumb_10.png" width="514" border="0"&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;The next time when starting up Microsoft Outlook 2007 a new "Microsoft Office Outlook Connector" screen (see below)&amp;nbsp;will popup. Fill out your e-mail address &amp;amp; password and fill out the name you want to appear in the receiver's inbox.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/blogfiles/davbosch/WindowsLiveWriter/9427da86e737_D44C/image_14.png" atomicselection="true"&gt;&lt;img style="border-top-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px" height="410" alt="image" src="http://blogs.msdn.com/blogfiles/davbosch/WindowsLiveWriter/9427da86e737_D44C/image_thumb_12.png" width="478" border="0"&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;blockquote&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Filling out the Name field like this results in this when sending a mail:&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/blogfiles/davbosch/WindowsLiveWriter/9427da86e737_D44C/image_19.png" atomicselection="true"&gt;&lt;img style="border-top-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px" height="41" alt="image" src="http://blogs.msdn.com/blogfiles/davbosch/WindowsLiveWriter/9427da86e737_D44C/image_thumb_17.png" width="382" border="0"&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt; &lt;p&gt;After hitting the "OK" button a new account was added to Microsoft Outlook 2007. Restart Outlook. (Note: Clicking OK on this dialog does &lt;strong&gt;&lt;u&gt;NOT&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; automatically closes Outlook).&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/blogfiles/davbosch/WindowsLiveWriter/9427da86e737_D44C/image_15.png" atomicselection="true"&gt;&lt;img style="border-top-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px" height="169" alt="image" src="http://blogs.msdn.com/blogfiles/davbosch/WindowsLiveWriter/9427da86e737_D44C/image_thumb_13.png" width="482" border="0"&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;After restarting Outlook 2007 the new created account is being synched into Outlook. &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/blogfiles/davbosch/WindowsLiveWriter/9427da86e737_D44C/image_16.png" atomicselection="true"&gt;&lt;img style="border-top-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px" height="64" alt="image" src="http://blogs.msdn.com/blogfiles/davbosch/WindowsLiveWriter/9427da86e737_D44C/image_thumb_14.png" width="375" border="0"&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;You can see the details of your Windows Live Hotmail account popping up in the status bar (you can move the toolbar around) of Microsoft Office Outlook 2007.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/blogfiles/davbosch/WindowsLiveWriter/9427da86e737_D44C/image_17.png" atomicselection="true"&gt;&lt;img style="border-top-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px" height="206" alt="image" src="http://blogs.msdn.com/blogfiles/davbosch/WindowsLiveWriter/9427da86e737_D44C/image_thumb_15.png" width="270" border="0"&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;The mailbox shows up in the Mail Folders area through which you can access e-mail messages and contacts for free.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/blogfiles/davbosch/WindowsLiveWriter/9427da86e737_D44C/image_18.png" atomicselection="true"&gt;&lt;img style="border-top-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px" height="145" alt="image" src="http://blogs.msdn.com/blogfiles/davbosch/WindowsLiveWriter/9427da86e737_D44C/image_thumb_16.png" width="243" border="0"&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Access to your contacts:&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/blogfiles/davbosch/WindowsLiveWriter/9427da86e737_D44C/image_20.png" atomicselection="true"&gt;&lt;img style="border-top-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px" height="82" alt="image" src="http://blogs.msdn.com/blogfiles/davbosch/WindowsLiveWriter/9427da86e737_D44C/image_thumb_18.png" width="284" border="0"&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;blockquote&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;"Calendar, tasks and notes can also be accessed and managed in Outlook for accounts with a paid subscription."&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt; &lt;p&gt;While the Outlook Connector is free, it only synchronizes Mail and Contacts at no charge. For &lt;strong&gt;Calendar synchronization&lt;/strong&gt;, a premium subscription is required. You can still use the Outlook Connector calendar in Outlook, however appointments and meetings won't synchronize to the Hotmail calendar. You can upgrade your account to a Premium Subscription service via&amp;nbsp;a) &lt;a title="MSN Premium" href="http://join.msn.com/premium/overview" target="_blank" rel="tag"&gt;MSN Premium&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;or b) &lt;a title="Office Live Essentials/Premium" href="http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/officelive/default.aspx" target="_blank" rel="tag"&gt;Office Live Essentials/Premium&lt;/a&gt;.  &lt;p&gt;In this case I already own a MSN Premium account (or a full version of Windows Live Hotmail) and can access&amp;nbsp;synchronize my tasks and notes.  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/blogfiles/davbosch/WindowsLiveWriter/9427da86e737_D44C/image_21.png" atomicselection="true"&gt;&lt;img style="border-top-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px" height="113" alt="image" src="http://blogs.msdn.com/blogfiles/davbosch/WindowsLiveWriter/9427da86e737_D44C/image_thumb_19.png" width="283" border="0"&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;In can also access&amp;nbsp;the calendar of my Windows Live Hotmail account in Outlook 2007 and book meetings. When sharing your calendar with someone else there's a full approval workflow triggered that lets you choose to "Show all of your appointment details" or "Only when you are free or busy".&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/blogfiles/davbosch/WindowsLiveWriter/9427da86e737_D44C/image_22.png" atomicselection="true"&gt;&lt;img style="border-top-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px" height="72" alt="image" src="http://blogs.msdn.com/blogfiles/davbosch/WindowsLiveWriter/9427da86e737_D44C/image_thumb_20.png" width="285" border="0"&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;I now have all my Windows Live Hotmail data stored in an &lt;a title=".OST file" href="http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook/HP052422611033.aspx" target="_blank" rel="tag"&gt;.OST file&lt;/a&gt;. This file is by default located in "C:\Users\&lt;em&gt;username&lt;/em&gt;\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Outlook" when using Windows Vista. This offline folder keeps a local copy of my mailbox on my computer.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;The big advantage is that I can use all my favorite Outlook 2007 features like search (you can include the .ost file in the index!), categories, category search folders, color coding, quick click flags&amp;nbsp;and the to do bar, etc &amp;nbsp;on my&amp;nbsp;Hotmail mailbox items. I also have shared my agenda with my wife's Windows Live account agenda . No need anymore to have a weekly/daily sync meeting. I will keep it installed and assess how I'll be using this. I've been pretty happy so far with Windows Live Mail so it's still uncertain if I spend enough time in my Hotmail mailbox to use the Outlook 2007 features. Also, I already have quite overloaded e-mail box setup in Outlook 2007 as primary account. Additionally I do read all my RSS feeds (700+) from within Outlook. This works very good but I fear that the amounts of data to be loaded everytime I start Outlook will slow down my machine. In the end installing a productivity tool like the Outlook Connector shouldn't negatively impact my productivity ...&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Despite it's still in beta it's worth giving a try. I installed the English version but it's also available in other languages. I also installed it on my wife's laptop. She's very happy with this as she was using Outlook for her "school" email (Exchange based) and the web client for her Hotmail account. Now she has access to all her data from one place: Outlook 2007. &lt;br&gt;On the download page is also a link to the "Microsoft Office Outlook Connector 12.0 Beta FAQ" which contains some more tips &amp;amp; tricks.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;div class="wlWriterSmartContent" id="0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:3a85918a-5449-4901-a6e9-667a019f7191" contenteditable="false" style="padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-top: 0px"&gt;Technorati tags: &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Microsoft%20Office%20Outlook%20Connector" rel="tag"&gt;Microsoft Office Outlook Connector&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Windows%20Live%20Hotmail" rel="tag"&gt;Windows Live Hotmail&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Windows%20Live%20Mail" rel="tag"&gt;Windows Live Mail&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tags/MSN%20Premium" rel="tag"&gt;MSN Premium&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Outlook%202007" rel="tag"&gt;Outlook 2007&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=3566703" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description><category domain="http://blogs.msdn.com/davbosch/archive/tags/2007+Office+system/default.aspx">2007 Office system</category><category domain="http://blogs.msdn.com/davbosch/archive/tags/Developer+Community/default.aspx">Developer Community</category></item><item><title>New downloads: Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 VHD and Microsoft Office 2007 Professional VHD</title><link>http://blogs.msdn.com/davbosch/archive/2007/06/25/new-downloads-microsoft-office-sharepoint-server-2007-vhd-and-microsoft-office-2007-professional-vhd.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 25 Jun 2007 19:09:43 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:3522184</guid><dc:creator>David Boschmans</dc:creator><slash:comments>2</slash:comments><comments>http://blogs.msdn.com/davbosch/comments/3522184.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://blogs.msdn.com/davbosch/commentrss.aspx?PostID=3522184</wfw:commentRss><wfw:comment>http://blogs.msdn.com/davbosch/rsscomments.aspx?PostID=3522184</wfw:comment><description>&lt;p&gt;Using the power of virtualization, you can now quickly evaluate Microsoft and partner solutions through a series of pre-configured Virtual Hard Disks (VHDs). You can download the VHDs and evaluate them for free in your own environment without the need for dedicated servers or complex installations. Check out the VHDs from "&lt;a title="Run IT on a Virtual Hard Disk" href="http://www.microsoft.com/technet/try/vhd/default.mspx" target="_blank" rel="tag"&gt;Run IT on a Virtual Hard Disk&lt;/a&gt;".  &lt;p&gt;Since last week 2 new Microsoft Office VHDs are available for download. The details can be found below:  &lt;ul&gt; &lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 VHD&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt; &lt;blockquote&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;Brief Description&lt;br&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;This download comes as a pre-configured VHD. This download enables you evaluate Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Overview&lt;br&gt;&lt;/b&gt;The Microsoft VHD Test Drive Program provides customers with an enhanced server-based software evaluation experience that’s faster, better supported and more flexible. You can now access the entire catalog of pre-configured Microsoft and partner products and solutions in the VHD format and start evaluating and testing today from &lt;a title="http://www.microsoft.com/vhd" href="http://www.microsoft.com/vhd" target="_blank" rel="tag"&gt;www.microsoft.com/vhd&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;br&gt;This download enables you evaluate Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 is an integrated suite of server capabilities that can help improve organizational effectiveness by providing comprehensive content management and enterprise search, accelerating shared business processes, and facilitating information-sharing across boundaries for better business insight. Office SharePoint Server 2007 supports all intranet, extranet, and Web applications across an enterprise within one integrated platform, instead of relying on separate fragmented systems. Additionally, this collaboration and content management server provides IT professionals and developers with the platform and tools they need for server administration, application extensibility, and interoperability. &lt;br&gt;This fully functional pre-configured VHD provides you a trial software will automatically expire after 30 days. &lt;br&gt;This is a preconfigured virtual machine contained within the Virtual Hard Disk (VHD) format. Virtual Server 2005 R2 is required to run this VHD. Please refer to the system requirements section for more details.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a title="http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=67f93dcb-ada8-4db5-a47b-df17e14b2c74&amp;amp;DisplayLang=en" href="http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=67f93dcb-ada8-4db5-a47b-df17e14b2c74&amp;amp;DisplayLang=en" target="_blank" rel="tag"&gt;http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=67f93dcb-ada8-4db5-a47b-df17e14b2c74&amp;amp;DisplayLang=en&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt; &lt;ul&gt; &lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Microsoft Office 2007 Professional VHD&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt; &lt;blockquote&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;Brief Description&lt;br&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;Test Drive two new Microsoft platforms, Windows Vista Enterprise and Office 2007 Professional, and experience how they work better together.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Overview&lt;br&gt;&lt;/b&gt;This VHD contains both the 30 day edition of Windows Vista Enterprise Edition and an evaluation of Office 2007 Professional which includes Publisher, Excel, Outlook, Outlook, PowerPoint, Access, and Word. See how with these new platforms can simplify how people work together, find information and improve business insight, help protect and manage content, and reduce IT costs and improve security. Test drive today to experience how Windows Vista and Office 2007 work better together!&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a title="http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=f9956176-cf66-478b-b20d-b9b92dd0dbfa&amp;amp;DisplayLang=en" href="http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=f9956176-cf66-478b-b20d-b9b92dd0dbfa&amp;amp;DisplayLang=en" target="_blank" rel="tag"&gt;http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=f9956176-cf66-478b-b20d-b9b92dd0dbfa&amp;amp;DisplayLang=en&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt; &lt;div class="wlWriterSmartContent" id="0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:a082a8ff-9205-4273-999d-8a6e237ee2ae" contenteditable="false" style="padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-top: 0px"&gt;Technorati tags: &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tags/VHD" rel="tag"&gt;VHD&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Microsoft%20Office%20ShareP%c3%b6int%20Server%202007" rel="tag"&gt;Microsoft Office ShareP&amp;#246;int Server 2007&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Microsoft%20Office%202007%20Professional" rel="tag"&gt;Microsoft Office 2007 Professional&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=3522184" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description><category domain="http://blogs.msdn.com/davbosch/archive/tags/2007+Office+system/default.aspx">2007 Office system</category></item><item><title>Karine introduces a new release of the u2u CAML Query Builder</title><link>http://blogs.msdn.com/davbosch/archive/2007/06/05/karine-introduces-a-new-release-of-the-u2u-caml-query-builder.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 05 Jun 2007 11:22:29 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:3094011</guid><dc:creator>David Boschmans</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>http://blogs.msdn.com/davbosch/comments/3094011.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://blogs.msdn.com/davbosch/commentrss.aspx?PostID=3094011</wfw:commentRss><wfw:comment>http://blogs.msdn.com/davbosch/rsscomments.aspx?PostID=3094011</wfw:comment><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a title="Karine Bosch" href="http://www.u2u.info/Blogs/karine/default.aspx" target="_blank" rel="tag"&gt;Karine&lt;/a&gt;,&amp;nbsp;CAML girl &amp;amp; consultant at &lt;a title="u2u" href="http://www.u2u.be/" target="_blank" rel="tag"&gt;u2u&lt;/a&gt;, and famous for the development of the &lt;a title="U2U CAML Query Builder" href="http://www.u2u.info/Blogs/karine/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=3" target="_blank" rel="tag"&gt;U2U CAML Query Builder&lt;/a&gt; recently found some more time to start blogging. &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Today she introduced on &lt;a title="her blog" href="http://www.u2u.info/Blogs/karine" target="_blank" rel="tag"&gt;her blog&lt;/a&gt; a new version of&amp;nbsp;her &lt;a title="CAML Query Builder" href="http://www.u2u.info/Blogs/karine/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=3" target="_blank" rel="tag"&gt;CAML Query Builder&lt;/a&gt; which is&amp;nbsp;now a SharePoint 2007 Feature&amp;nbsp;instead of a Windows application. In her post "&lt;a title="U2U CAML Query Builder revisited" href="http://www.u2u.info/Blogs/karine/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=3" target="_blank" rel="tag"&gt;U2U CAML Query Builder revisited&lt;/a&gt;" she guides us through the installation and use of the feature that let you build &lt;a title="CAML" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collaborative_Application_Markup_Language" target="_blank" rel="tag"&gt;CAML&lt;/a&gt; Queries without the need to know the internals of&amp;nbsp;the &lt;b&gt;C&lt;/b&gt;ollaborative &lt;b&gt;A&lt;/b&gt;pplication &lt;b&gt;M&lt;/b&gt;arkup &lt;b&gt;L&lt;/b&gt;anguage.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Welcome to the blogosphere Karine and keep the posts coming. And oh, Karine is blogging on the u2u blog center which is set up using SharePoint (of course!). The RSS feed to subscribe to is &lt;a title="here" href="http://www.u2u.info/Blogs/karine/_layouts/listfeed.aspx?List={D35935E0-8C0E-4176-A7E8-2EE90B3C8E5A}" target="_blank" rel="tag"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;!&lt;/p&gt; &lt;div class="wlWriterSmartContent" id="0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:91e48f07-4408-4bad-a935-bb857b9ad78f" contenteditable="false" style="padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-top: 0px"&gt;Technorati tags: &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tags/SharePoint" rel="tag"&gt;SharePoint&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tags/CAML" rel="tag"&gt;CAML&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tags/CAML%20Query%20Builder" rel="tag"&gt;CAML Query Builder&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=3094011" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description><category domain="http://blogs.msdn.com/davbosch/archive/tags/2007+Office+system/default.aspx">2007 Office system</category><category domain="http://blogs.msdn.com/davbosch/archive/tags/ISV+Community/default.aspx">ISV Community</category><category domain="http://blogs.msdn.com/davbosch/archive/tags/Developer+Community/default.aspx">Developer Community</category></item><item><title>I started reading "Inside Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007"!</title><link>http://blogs.msdn.com/davbosch/archive/2007/05/31/i-started-reading-inside-microsoft-office-sharepoint-server-2007.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 31 May 2007 22:27:22 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:3011888</guid><dc:creator>David Boschmans</dc:creator><slash:comments>1</slash:comments><comments>http://blogs.msdn.com/davbosch/comments/3011888.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://blogs.msdn.com/davbosch/commentrss.aspx?PostID=3011888</wfw:commentRss><wfw:comment>http://blogs.msdn.com/davbosch/rsscomments.aspx?PostID=3011888</wfw:comment><description>&lt;p&gt;Towards the end of last year &lt;a title="Patrick Tisseghem" href="http://blog.u2u.info/DottextWeb/patrick/" target="_blank" rel="tag"&gt;Patrick Tisseghem&lt;/a&gt; started writing a book on &lt;a title="Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007" href="http://www.microsoft.com/MSPress/books/10472.aspx" target="_blank" rel="tag"&gt;Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007&lt;/a&gt;. Patrick did a great job writing this book while traveling the world and delivering day-in day-out sessions on MOSS2007. The good news is that since last week &lt;a title="the book is out" href="http://www.u2u.info/Blogs/Patrick/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=1734" target="_blank" rel="tag"&gt;the book is out&lt;/a&gt;!&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;I &lt;a title="pre-ordered the book" href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0735623686/sr=1-1/qid=1156801743/ref=sr_1_1/104-6313703-3867159?ie=UTF8&amp;amp;s=books" target="_blank" rel="tag"&gt;pre-ordered the book&lt;/a&gt; two months ago and today I recieved my copy. While I haven't had the time to dive into the book, it is&amp;nbsp;cool to see that&amp;nbsp;one of our Belgian SharePoint experts and MVPs wrote an MS Press book on MOSS 2007. Now I only need to find the time to start reading; but the plan is to free up some time every night to do so ...&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=6882210"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px 20px 5px 0px" height="210" alt="Book of the month June" src="http://www.microsoft.com/belux/msdn/images/banners/bookofthemonth_200706.jpg" width="477" align="left" border="0"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;For the &lt;a title="Belgian MSDN community" href="http://www.microsoft.com/belux/msdn/nl/default.mspx" target="_blank" rel="tag"&gt;Belgian MSDN community&lt;/a&gt; we now made this book "&lt;a title="the book of the month" href="http://www.microsoft.com/belux/msdn/nl/training/bookofthemonth200706.mspx" target="_blank" rel="tag"&gt;the book of the month&lt;/a&gt;".&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;During June, you can &lt;/em&gt;&lt;a href="http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=6882283"&gt;&lt;em&gt;get a 40% discount on the Book of the Month&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;em&gt; at selected resellers. The Book of the Month for June 2007 is "Inside Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007", written by Patrick Tisseghem. &lt;br&gt;Learn how to build enterprise content management solutions with deep, architectural insights from an expert.&lt;/em&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;  &lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;  &lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;  &lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;  &lt;p&gt;The voucher that you can acquire at MSDN Connection for the book of the month can be redeemed at these bookstores:  &lt;ul&gt; &lt;li&gt;Het Computerwinkeltje - &lt;a href="http://www.hcw.be"&gt;www.hcw.be&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;li&gt;Boek &amp;amp; Soft - &lt;a href="http://www.boekensoft.com"&gt;www.boekensoft.com&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;li&gt;Librairie Agora - &lt;a href="http://agora-louvain.libris-agora.com"&gt;agora-louvain.libris-agora.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt; &lt;p&gt;Book details:&lt;/p&gt; &lt;li&gt;Paperback: 352 pages  &lt;li&gt;Publisher: Microsoft Press (May 16, 2007)  &lt;li&gt;Language: English  &lt;li&gt;ISBN-10: 0735623686  &lt;li&gt;ISBN-13: 978-0735623682  &lt;p&gt;&lt;img height="1" src="http://www.microsoft.com/mspress/images/1pxt.gif" width="1" border="0"&gt;Congratulations Patrick with this achievement! Up to the next one ... on &lt;a title="OBA" href="http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/office/aa905528.aspx" target="_blank" rel="tag"&gt;OBA&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;div class="wlWriterSmartContent" id="0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:6d26074f-b773-4c97-bfc5-14b247853e2a" contenteditable="false" style="padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-top: 0px"&gt;Technorati tags: &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Inside%20Microsoft%20Office%20SharePoint%20Server%202007" rel="tag"&gt;Inside Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Patrick%20Tisseghem" rel="tag"&gt;Patrick Tisseghem&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tags/book" rel="tag"&gt;book&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;img height="1" src="http://www.microsoft.com/mspress/images/1pxt.gif" width="162" border="0"&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=3011888" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description><category domain="http://blogs.msdn.com/davbosch/archive/tags/2007+Office+system/default.aspx">2007 Office system</category><category domain="http://blogs.msdn.com/davbosch/archive/tags/ISV+Community/default.aspx">ISV Community</category><category domain="http://blogs.msdn.com/davbosch/archive/tags/Developer+Community/default.aspx">Developer Community</category></item><item><title>BIWUG event on Records Management and BI with MOSS 2007</title><link>http://blogs.msdn.com/davbosch/archive/2007/04/17/biwug-event-on-records-management-and-bi-with-moss-2007.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 17 Apr 2007 22:24:48 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:2165657</guid><dc:creator>David Boschmans</dc:creator><slash:comments>2</slash:comments><comments>http://blogs.msdn.com/davbosch/comments/2165657.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://blogs.msdn.com/davbosch/commentrss.aspx?PostID=2165657</wfw:commentRss><wfw:comment>http://blogs.msdn.com/davbosch/rsscomments.aspx?PostID=2165657</wfw:comment><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;For all the IW enthusiasts: the next &lt;a title="BIWUG" href="http://www.biwug.be/" target="_blank" rel="tag"&gt;BIWUG&lt;/a&gt; meeting&amp;nbsp; is scheduled for &lt;b&gt;Thursday April 26&lt;sup&gt;th&lt;/sup&gt; &lt;/b&gt;and will be held&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;@Getronics premises (Genèvestraat 10 – 1140 Evere).&lt;b&gt;&lt;/b&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;/b&gt; &lt;p&gt;The meeting has 2 main themes: &lt;strong&gt;Records Management with MOSS 2007&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;Business Intelligence with MOSS 2007&lt;/strong&gt;.  &lt;p&gt;The more detailed agenda is as follows:  &lt;blockquote&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;u&gt;18u30 – 18u35&lt;/u&gt;: Welcome and Introduction  &lt;p&gt;&lt;u&gt;18u35 – 19u20&lt;/u&gt;: Records Management with MOSS 2007  &lt;p&gt;&lt;u&gt;19u20 – 20u05&lt;/u&gt;: Extending the Policies en Records Management framework in MOSS 2007  &lt;p&gt;&lt;u&gt;20u05 – 20u20&lt;/u&gt;: Break  &lt;p&gt;&lt;u&gt;20u20 – 21u&lt;/u&gt;: Business Intelligence with MOSS 2007&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt; &lt;p&gt;Please use the link “&lt;a title="Register for the next event" href="http://biwug.be.sharepoint3.hostbasket.com/Lists/Register%20for%20the%20next%20event/AllItems.aspx" target="_blank" rel="tag"&gt;Register for the next event&lt;/a&gt;” under the “List” section on the BIWUG site to register for this meeting.  &lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;This time we also have 3 Microsoft Certification Exam Vouchers to give away for the first 3 people to register :-)&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;div class="wlWriterSmartContent" id="0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:2484f2ac-360a-4143-960e-c665b0112d11" contenteditable="false" style="padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-top: 0px"&gt;Technorati tags: &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tags/BIWUG" rel="tag"&gt;BIWUG&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tags/MOSS%202007" rel="tag"&gt;MOSS 2007&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Records%20Management" rel="tag"&gt;Records Management&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Business%20Intelligence" rel="tag"&gt;Business Intelligence&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=2165657" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description><category domain="http://blogs.msdn.com/davbosch/archive/tags/2007+Office+system/default.aspx">2007 Office system</category><category domain="http://blogs.msdn.com/davbosch/archive/tags/SQL+Server+2005/default.aspx">SQL Server 2005</category><category domain="http://blogs.msdn.com/davbosch/archive/tags/Developer+Community/default.aspx">Developer Community</category></item><item><title>MSDN Event Luxembourg on Workflow in SharePoint Services and Server</title><link>http://blogs.msdn.com/davbosch/archive/2007/03/10/msdn-event-luxembourg-on-workflow-in-sharepoint-services-and-server.aspx</link><pubDate>Sat, 10 Mar 2007 23:47:24 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:1855208</guid><dc:creator>David Boschmans</dc:creator><slash:comments>1</slash:comments><comments>http://blogs.msdn.com/davbosch/comments/1855208.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://blogs.msdn.com/davbosch/commentrss.aspx?PostID=1855208</wfw:commentRss><wfw:comment>http://blogs.msdn.com/davbosch/rsscomments.aspx?PostID=1855208</wfw:comment><description>&lt;p&gt;Next Tuesday, March 13th, we have an &lt;a title="MSDN Event in Luxembourg" href="http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032332102&amp;amp;Culture=en-US" target="_blank" rel="tag"&gt;MSDN Event in Luxembourg&lt;/a&gt; on "&lt;strong&gt;Understanding Workflow in Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007&lt;/strong&gt;". &lt;/p&gt; &lt;blockquote&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) which debuts with version 3.0 of the .NET Framework introduces a core set of workflow plumbing and a productivity-oriented development paradigm to the Windows platform. WSS 3.0 builds on top of WF by adding in extra workflow dimensions for managing the document lifecycle and integrating humans into the workflow process. This event quickly covers the underlying workflow architecture of .NET Framework 3.0 and WSS 3.0 and then dives into demonstrations of building custom WSS workflows with Visual Studio 2005. You will see how to build, deploy, test and debug custom workflows for WSS sites with the Visual Studio 2005. Along the way you will also see how to use InfoPath 2007 to create and integrate forms into custom workflows created with Visual Studio 2005.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt; &lt;p&gt;This MSDN seminar will be hosted by &lt;a title="Serge Luca" href="http://sergeluca.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!E8A06D5F2F585013!639.entry" target="_blank" rel="tag"&gt;Serge Luca&lt;/a&gt;, who recently published &lt;a title="this Workflow-article" href="http://blogs.msdn.com/davbosch/archive/2007/03/05/dynamically-start-and-kill-a-workflow-with-windows-workflow-foundation.aspx" target="_blank" rel="tag"&gt;this Workflow-article&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;In the morning the session will be delivered in French and in the afternoon in English.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;ul&gt; &lt;li&gt;&lt;a title="Register Online" href="http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032332102&amp;amp;Culture=en-US" target="_blank" rel="tag"&gt;Register Online&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;for the &lt;strong&gt;French&lt;/strong&gt; session.  &lt;li&gt;&lt;a title="Register Online" href="http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032332103&amp;amp;Culture=en-US" target="_blank" rel="tag"&gt;Register Online&lt;/a&gt; for the &lt;strong&gt;English&lt;/strong&gt; session.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt; &lt;p&gt;More practical details of the MSDN event can be found below:&lt;/p&gt; &lt;blockquote&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;When?&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;br&gt;Tuesday, March 13, 2007 9:30 AM - Tuesday, March 13, 2007 12:30 PM (French session) - Welcome Time: 9:00 AM&lt;br&gt;Tuesday, March 13, 2007 1:30 PM - Tuesday, March 13, 2007 4:30 PM Paris (English session) - Welcome Time: 1:00 PM&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Where?&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Microsoft Luxembourg&lt;br&gt;Zoning industriel "Cloche d'Or" &lt;br&gt;NCI Office - Laccolith 20, rue Eugène Ruppert Luxembourg 2453&lt;br&gt;Luxembourg&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Product(s):&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;.NET, SharePoint Portal Server, Visual Studio and Windows Workflow Foundation.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Audience(s):&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;Developer&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt; &lt;div class="wlWriterSmartContent" id="0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:bbe13c5e-eef2-4be1-a282-609061f937ab" contenteditable="false" style="padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-top: 0px"&gt;Technorati tags: &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tags/MSDN%20Event%20Luxembourg" rel="tag"&gt;MSDN Event Luxembourg&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;, 2007 Office system&lt;img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=1855208" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description><category domain="http://blogs.msdn.com/davbosch/archive/tags/2007+Office+system/default.aspx">2007 Office system</category><category domain="http://blogs.msdn.com/davbosch/archive/tags/ISV+Community/default.aspx">ISV Community</category><category domain="http://blogs.msdn.com/davbosch/archive/tags/Developer+Community/default.aspx">Developer Community</category></item><item><title>XAML and Web Content Management discussed at User Group Meetings</title><link>http://blogs.msdn.com/davbosch/archive/2007/03/05/xaml-and-web-content-management-discussed-at-user-group-meetings.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 06 Mar 2007 01:21:25 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:1812563</guid><dc:creator>David Boschmans</dc:creator><slash:comments>1</slash:comments><comments>http://blogs.msdn.com/davbosch/comments/1812563.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://blogs.msdn.com/davbosch/commentrss.aspx?PostID=1812563</wfw:commentRss><wfw:comment>http://blogs.msdn.com/davbosch/rsscomments.aspx?PostID=1812563</wfw:comment><description>&lt;p&gt;For the community members Belgium, interested in XAML or Web Content Management - and not overflowed by &lt;a title="Dev &amp;amp; IT-Pro Days 2007" href="http://www.microsoft.com/belux/devitprodays/" target="_blank" rel="tag"&gt;Dev &amp;amp; IT-Pro Days 2007&lt;/a&gt; work -&amp;nbsp;there are two of our &lt;a title="Belgian INETA user groups" href="http://europe.ineta.org/UserGroups/Browse/tabid/166/Default.aspx" target="_blank" rel="tag"&gt;Belgian INETA user groups&lt;/a&gt; that organize an event this week:&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;u&gt;Wednesday March 7th 2007&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;The &lt;a title=".NET User Group Brugge ACCB.NET" href="http://accbnet.ccat.be/" target="_blank" rel="tag"&gt;.NET User Group Brugge &lt;strong&gt;ACCB.NET&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;organizes a meeting on &lt;a title="XAML" href="http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms752059.aspx" target="_blank" rel="tag"&gt;XAML&lt;/a&gt;, the Extensible Application Markup Language that is used to define objects and their properties, relationships and interactions. More details can be found &lt;a title="here" href="http://accbnet.ccat.be/datum.htm" target="_blank" rel="tag"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;and here's &lt;a title="the road description" href="http://accbnet.ccat.be/plaats.htm" target="_blank" rel="tag"&gt;the road description&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;u&gt;Thursday March 8th 2007&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a title="The Belgian Information Worker User Group BIWUG" href="http://www.biwug.be/" target="_blank" rel="tag"&gt;The Belgian Information Worker User Group &lt;strong&gt;BIWUG&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;discusses &lt;a title="Web Content Management with MOSS 2007" href="http://biwug.be.sharepoint3.hostbasket.com/Lists/BIWUG%20events/DispForm.aspx?ID=9" target="_blank" rel="tag"&gt;Web Content Management with MOSS 2007&lt;/a&gt;. The detailed agenda looks like this:&lt;/p&gt; &lt;blockquote&gt; &lt;p&gt;18:30 - 18:45&amp;nbsp; Welcome and Introduction &lt;br&gt;18:45 - 19:30&amp;nbsp; Tips and tricks for working with the Content Query Web Part &lt;br&gt;19:45 - 20:30&amp;nbsp; Best Practices for doing Web Content Management in MOSS 2007 &lt;br&gt;20:30 - 21:00&amp;nbsp; Discussion&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt; &lt;p&gt;More details can be on the &lt;a title="BIWUG web site" href="http://www.biwug.be/" target="_blank" rel="tag"&gt;BIWUG web site&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;div class="wlWriterSmartContent" id="0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:8ea15b10-d4db-49b9-bd7d-2b899ac75bb5" contenteditable="false" style="padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-top: 0px"&gt;Technorati tags: &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tags/ACCB.NET" rel="tag"&gt;ACCB.NET&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tags/BIWUG" rel="tag"&gt;BIWUG&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tags/User%20Groups" rel="tag"&gt;User Groups&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=1812563" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description><category domain="http://blogs.msdn.com/davbosch/archive/tags/Windows+Vista/default.aspx">Windows Vista</category><category domain="http://blogs.msdn.com/davbosch/archive/tags/2007+Office+system/default.aspx">2007 Office system</category><category domain="http://blogs.msdn.com/davbosch/archive/tags/Developer+Community/default.aspx">Developer Community</category></item><item><title>2 new bloggers for our Belgian community</title><link>http://blogs.msdn.com/davbosch/archive/2007/03/05/2-new-bloggers-for-our-belgian-community.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 06 Mar 2007 00:39:01 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:1812358</guid><dc:creator>David Boschmans</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>http://blogs.msdn.com/davbosch/comments/1812358.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://blogs.msdn.com/davbosch/commentrss.aspx?PostID=1812358</wfw:commentRss><wfw:comment>http://blogs.msdn.com/davbosch/rsscomments.aspx?PostID=1812358</wfw:comment><description>&lt;p&gt;I'm happy to welcome two new Belgian technology bloggers to the blogosphere! Both are actively using the new Microsoft productivity and collaboration platform: &lt;a title="Microsoft 2007 Office system" href="http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/FX100647101033.aspx?pid=CL100569831033" target="_blank" rel="tag"&gt;Microsoft 2007 Office system&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a title="Kevin DeRudder" href="http://www.u2u.info/Blogs/Kevin/default.aspx" target="_blank" rel="tag"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Kevin DeRudder&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; is a &lt;a title="u2u" href="http://www.u2u.be/" target="_blank" rel="tag"&gt;u2u&lt;/a&gt; colleague of &lt;a title="Jan Tielens" href="http://weblogs.asp.net/jan/archive/2007/03/01/kevin-starts-a-blog.aspx" target="_blank" rel="tag"&gt;Jan Tielens&lt;/a&gt;, focusing on the web technologies ASP.NET and AJAX but also caught the SharePoint virus. He has been helping Jan out on integrating &lt;a title="ASP.NET AJAX support to the SmartPart" href="http://weblogs.asp.net/jan/archive/2007/02/26/new-version-of-smartpart-now-with-ajax-connections.aspx" target="_blank" rel="tag"&gt;ASP.NET AJAX support to the SmartPart&lt;/a&gt;. Jan and Kevin promised to record a web cast for&amp;nbsp;&lt;a title="msdn.be" href="http://www.msdn.be/" target="_blank" rel="tag"&gt;msdn.be&lt;/a&gt; of the SmartPart at work using AJAX connections. Looking forward to that web cast!&lt;br&gt;Kevin already has posts on &lt;a title="ASP.NET AJAX Basics" href="http://www.u2u.info/Blogs/Kevin/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=4" target="_blank" rel="tag"&gt;ASP.NET AJAX Basics&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a title="Canceling an Asynchronous Request" href="http://www.u2u.info/Blogs/Kevin/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=5" target="_blank" rel="tag"&gt;Canceling an Asynchronous Request&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;and &lt;a title="Localize your Control Toolkit controls" href="http://www.u2u.info/Blogs/Kevin/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=6" target="_blank" rel="tag"&gt;Localize your Control Toolkit controls&lt;/a&gt;. Keep on blogging Kevin!&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;My colleague &lt;a title="Tom Mertens" href="http://blogs.msdn.com/tommer/archive/2007/02/27/blog-about-office-user-tips-and-tricks.aspx" target="_blank" rel="tag"&gt;Tom Mertens&lt;/a&gt; points to&amp;nbsp;the blog&amp;nbsp;&lt;a title="Kris Gielen" href="http://krisgielen.blogspot.com/index.html" target="_blank" rel="tag"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Kris Gielen&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. Kris&amp;nbsp;is&amp;nbsp;a Training Professional who&amp;nbsp;blogs on the Microsoft 2007 Office system, and how&amp;nbsp;he uses these tools being and end-user and power-user. He recently started a series of posts titled "&lt;a title="10 reasons why I like Microsoft Office 2007" href="http://krisgielen.blogspot.com/2007/01/10-reasons-why-i-like-microsoft-office.html" target="_blank" rel="tag"&gt;10 reasons why I like Microsoft Office 2007&lt;/a&gt;". Check out his random thoughts, his series on 2007 Office system and much more on &lt;a title="his blog" href="http://krisgielen.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" rel="tag"&gt;his blog&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Keep it coming guys!&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;div class="wlWriterSmartContent" id="0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:425001b2-0910-45c8-973e-cc65e42e3636" contenteditable="false" style="padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-top: 0px"&gt;Technorati tags: &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Kevin%20DeRudder" rel="tag"&gt;Kevin DeRudder&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tags/ASP.NET%20AJAX" rel="tag"&gt;ASP.NET AJAX&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Kris%20Gielen" rel="tag"&gt;Kris Gielen&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Office%20tips%20and%20tricks" rel="tag"&gt;Office tips and tricks&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=1812358" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description><category domain="http://blogs.msdn.com/davbosch/archive/tags/2007+Office+system/default.aspx">2007 Office system</category><category domain="http://blogs.msdn.com/davbosch/archive/tags/ASP.NET/default.aspx">ASP.NET</category><category domain="http://blogs.msdn.com/davbosch/archive/tags/Developer+Community/default.aspx">Developer Community</category><category domain="http://blogs.msdn.com/davbosch/archive/tags/Web+Development/default.aspx">Web Development</category><category domain="http://blogs.msdn.com/davbosch/archive/tags/Microsoft+AJAX/default.aspx">Microsoft AJAX</category></item><item><title>Ted Neward on Rich Office Client Applications</title><link>http://blogs.msdn.com/davbosch/archive/2007/02/26/ted-neward-on-rich-office-client-applications.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 26 Feb 2007 22:40:51 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:1764898</guid><dc:creator>David Boschmans</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>http://blogs.msdn.com/davbosch/comments/1764898.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://blogs.msdn.com/davbosch/commentrss.aspx?PostID=1764898</wfw:commentRss><wfw:comment>http://blogs.msdn.com/davbosch/rsscomments.aspx?PostID=1764898</wfw:comment><description>&lt;p&gt;Over on the &lt;a title="InfoQ web site" href="http://www.infoq.com/" target="_blank" rel="tag"&gt;InfoQ web site&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a title="Ted Neward" href="http://blogs.tedneward.com/" target="_blank" rel="tag"&gt;Ted Neward&lt;/a&gt; has published a new article on &lt;a title="Rich Office Client Applications" href="http://www.infoq.com/articles/rich-office-client-applications" target="_blank" rel="tag"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Rich Office Client Applications&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;"&lt;a title="Rich Internet Applications" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rich_Internet_Applications" target="_blank" rel="tag"&gt;Rich Internet Applications&lt;/a&gt; (RIA's)" vs "&lt;a title="rich client" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rich_client" target="_blank" rel="tag"&gt;rich client&lt;/a&gt;" or "&lt;a title="smart client" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart_client" target="_blank" rel="tag"&gt;smart client&lt;/a&gt;": the user experience is driving the adoption of a hybrid client, using the best of both the client-side and the server-side. In this article Ted talks about various extensibility options in the Microsoft Office&amp;nbsp; System and how they can be used to build Rich Office client applications over Java backends.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;div class="wlWriterSmartContent" id="0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:6efe8c33-e4f2-4f03-b110-d8879fa9e256" contenteditable="false" style="padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-top: 0px"&gt;Technorati tags: &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tags/.NET" rel="tag"&gt;.NET&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Java" rel="tag"&gt;Java&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Java%20and%20.NET%20Integration" rel="tag"&gt;Java and .NET Integration&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Smart%20Client" rel="tag"&gt;Smart Client&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Rich%20Client%20Desktop" rel="tag"&gt;Rich Client Desktop&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Rich%20Internet%20Apps" rel="tag"&gt;Rich Internet Apps&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=1764898" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description><category domain="http://blogs.msdn.com/davbosch/archive/tags/2007+Office+system/default.aspx">2007 Office system</category><category domain="http://blogs.msdn.com/davbosch/archive/tags/ISV+Community/default.aspx">ISV Community</category><category domain="http://blogs.msdn.com/davbosch/archive/tags/Developer+Community/default.aspx">Developer Community</category></item><item><title>SmartPart for SharePoint: now with AJAX support</title><link>http://blogs.msdn.com/davbosch/archive/2007/02/24/smartpart-for-sharepoint-now-with-ajax-support.aspx</link><pubDate>Sat, 24 Feb 2007 17:45:49 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:1752691</guid><dc:creator>David Boschmans</dc:creator><slash:comments>2</slash:comments><comments>http://blogs.msdn.com/davbosch/comments/1752691.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://blogs.msdn.com/davbosch/commentrss.aspx?PostID=1752691</wfw:commentRss><wfw:comment>http://blogs.msdn.com/davbosch/rsscomments.aspx?PostID=1752691</wfw:comment><description>&lt;p&gt;During last &lt;a title="TechEd in Barcelona" href="http://www.mseventseurope.com/TechEd/06/pre/defaultDev.aspx" target="_blank" rel="tag"&gt;TechEd in Barcelona&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a title="Jan" href="http://weblogs.asp.net/jan/" target="_blank" rel="tag"&gt;Jan&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a title="Patrick" href="http://blog.u2u.info/DottextWeb/patrick/" target="_blank" rel="tag"&gt;Patrick&lt;/a&gt; delivered a session "&lt;a title="Building Web Parts the Smart Way" href="http://www.u2u.be/res/Jan.aspx" target="_blank" rel="tag"&gt;Building Web Parts the Smart Way&lt;/a&gt;", where they showed the power of the &lt;a title="SmartPart" href="http://weblogs.asp.net/jan/archive/2006/12/02/announcing-the-return-of-the-smartpart.aspx" target="_blank" rel="tag"&gt;SmartPart&lt;/a&gt;.&amp;nbsp;As we launched &lt;a title="ASP.NET AJAX" href="http://ajax.asp.net/" target="_blank" rel="tag"&gt;ASP.NET AJAX&lt;/a&gt; during the conference - which resulted in an AJAX pre-conference and 7 AJAX related sessions - there was quite some interest from SharePoint developers in how to get ASP.NET AJAX to work with SharePoint. A lot of people have been looking into this. See &lt;a title="Jan's AJAX-related blog posts" href="http://weblogs.asp.net/jan/search.aspx?q=ajax&amp;amp;p=1" target="_blank" rel="tag"&gt;Jan's AJAX-related blog posts&lt;/a&gt; for more resources. But this was something that wasn't covered during TechEd: Developers.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Last Thursday Jan took the time to build on the groundwork of &lt;a title="Eric Schoonover" href="http://www.capdes.com/2007/02/microsoft_office_sharepoint_se.html" target="_blank" rel="tag"&gt;Eric Schoonover&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;and &lt;a title="ASP.NET AJAX-enable the SmartPart" href="http://weblogs.asp.net/jan/archive/2007/02/22/smartpart-for-sharepoint-asp-net-ajax-support.aspx" target="_blank" rel="tag"&gt;ASP.NET AJAX-enable the SmartPart&lt;/a&gt;. Read the how-to guide in &lt;a title="his blog post" href="http://weblogs.asp.net/jan/archive/2007/02/22/smartpart-for-sharepoint-asp-net-ajax-support.aspx" target="_blank" rel="tag"&gt;his blog post&lt;/a&gt; and have a look at the &lt;a title="screencast" href="http://blogs.leadit.be/files/SmartPartWithAJAX.wmv" target="_blank" rel="tag"&gt;screencast&lt;/a&gt; in which demonstrates the use of ASP.NET AJAX together with the SmartPart, from within SharePoint. &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;This often used technique will enhance the user experience of web parts running in SharePoint environments but it will also ease the life of web developers when enabling existing applications with ASP.NET AJAX.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Jan promised to do a&amp;nbsp;full&amp;nbsp;web cast on the "SmartPart with AJAX support" for the &lt;a title="MSDN Belux web site" href="http://www.msdn.be/" target="_blank" rel="tag"&gt;MSDN Belux web site&lt;/a&gt;. Watch our blogs for more news&amp;nbsp;on the availability&amp;nbsp;of the web cast.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;div class="wlWriterSmartContent" id="0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:be032776-513e-41ab-9e94-bcc7e71ec720" contenteditable="false" style="padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-top: 0px"&gt;Technorati tags: &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tags/SmartPart%20for%20SharePoint%20-%20ASP.NET%20AJAX%20Support" rel="tag"&gt;SmartPart for SharePoint - ASP.NET AJAX Support&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tags/ASP.NET%20AJAX" rel="tag"&gt;ASP.NET AJAX&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=1752691" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description><category domain="http://blogs.msdn.com/davbosch/archive/tags/2007+Office+system/default.aspx">2007 Office system</category><category domain="http://blogs.msdn.com/davbosch/archive/tags/Visual+Studio+2005/default.aspx">Visual Studio 2005</category><category domain="http://blogs.msdn.com/davbosch/archive/tags/ASP.NET/default.aspx">ASP.NET</category><category domain="http://blogs.msdn.com/davbosch/archive/tags/Web+Development/default.aspx">Web Development</category><category domain="http://blogs.msdn.com/davbosch/archive/tags/Microsoft+AJAX/default.aspx">Microsoft AJAX</category></item><item><title>Interesting links from my unread RSS Feed Items</title><link>http://blogs.msdn.com/davbosch/archive/2007/02/20/interesting-links-from-my-unread-rss-feed-items.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 21 Feb 2007 00:34:58 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:1729898</guid><dc:creator>David Boschmans</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>http://blogs.msdn.com/davbosch/comments/1729898.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://blogs.msdn.com/davbosch/commentrss.aspx?PostID=1729898</wfw:commentRss><wfw:comment>http://blogs.msdn.com/davbosch/rsscomments.aspx?PostID=1729898</wfw:comment><description>&lt;p&gt;Due to a busy travel schedule and working on the agenda of &lt;a title="Dev &amp;amp; IT-Pro Days 2007" href="http://www.microsoft.com/belux/devitprodays/" target="_blank" rel="tag"&gt;Dev &amp;amp; IT-Pro Days 2007&lt;/a&gt;, I haven't been able to read all the posts from the blogs I'm subscribed to. But this week I've a couple of days of holidays, which allows me to catch up on "unread" RSS feeds. Here are the most interesting links I came across: &lt;/p&gt; &lt;ul&gt; &lt;li&gt;&lt;a title="Microsoft Best Practices Analyzer for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 and the 2007 Microsoft Office System" href="http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=cb944b27-9d6b-4a1f-b3e1-778efda07df8&amp;amp;displaylang=en" target="_blank" rel="tag"&gt;Microsoft Best Practices Analyzer for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 and the 2007 Microsoft Office System&lt;/a&gt;. (Via &lt;a title="Alexander Windel" href="http://blogs.msdn.com/alexander_windel/archive/2007/02/16/new-sharepoint-best-practices-analyzer-releases.aspx" target="_blank" rel="tag"&gt;Alexander Windel&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;br&gt;The Microsoft Best Practices Analyzer for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 and the 2007 Microsoft Office System Best Practices Analyzer programmatically collects settings and values from data repositories such as MS SQL, registry, metabase and performance monitor. Once collected, a set of comprehensive ‘best practice’ rules are applied to the topology. &lt;br&gt;Administrators running this tool will get a detailed report listing the recommendations that can be made to the environment to achieve greater performance, scalability and uptime.&lt;br&gt;Install instructions can be found &lt;a title="here" href="http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=cb944b27-9d6b-4a1f-b3e1-778efda07df8&amp;amp;displaylang=en" target="_blank" rel="tag"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.  &lt;li&gt;&lt;a title="patterns &amp;amp; practices Performance Testing Guidance" href="http://www.codeplex.com/PerfTesting/" target="_blank" rel="tag"&gt;patterns &amp;amp; practices Performance Testing Guidance&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;The purpose of this project is to build some insightful and practical guidance around doing performance testing and using Visual Studio 2005. It's a collaborative effort between industry experts, Microsoft ACE, patterns &amp;amp; practices, Premier, and VSTS team members.&lt;br&gt;Usage Scenarios:  &lt;ul&gt; &lt;li&gt;Improve efficiency and effectiveness of your performance testing  &lt;li&gt;Learn expert techniques performance testing  &lt;li&gt;Apply expert techniques for performance testing using Visual Studio.NET 2005 &lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt; &lt;li&gt;OneNote 2007 PowerToys (Via &lt;a title="Chris Pratley" href="http://blogs.msdn.com/chris_pratley/archive/2007/02/16/new-onenote-2007-powertoys.aspx" target="_blank" rel="tag"&gt;Chris Pratley&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;br&gt;A set&amp;nbsp;of nex&amp;nbsp;PowerToys for OneNote 2007 is about to be released by &lt;a title="Daniel Escapa" href="http://blogs.msdn.com/descapa/archive/2007/02/17/sort-pages-powertoy.aspx" target="_blank" rel="tag"&gt;Daniel Escapa&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br&gt;The ones out so far are:  &lt;ul&gt; &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/descapa/archive/2007/02/14/onenote-2007-word-count.aspx"&gt;Word Count&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/descapa/archive/2007/02/15/send-to-onenote-2007-powertoy.aspx"&gt;Send to OneNote&lt;/a&gt; (from the file explorer/shell)  &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/descapa/archive/2007/02/14/export-your-outlook-notes-to-onenote.aspx"&gt;Export&amp;nbsp;Outlook Notes to OneNote&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt; &lt;ul&gt; &lt;li&gt;The 3&lt;sup&gt;rd&lt;/sup&gt; installment of the “Live From Redmond”: &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a title="AJAX Security Webcast Series is now available for on-demand viewing" href="http://www.microsoft.com/events/EventDetails.aspx?CMTYSvcSource=MSCOMMedia&amp;amp;Params=%7eCMTYDataSvcParams%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22ID%22+Value%3d%221032325007%22%2f%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22ProviderID%22+Value%3d%22A6B43178-497C-4225-BA42-DF595171F04C%22%2f%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22lang%22+Value%3d%22en%22%2f%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22cr%22+Value%3d%22US%22%2f%5e%7esParams%5e%7e%2fsParams%5e%7e%2fCMTYDataSvcParams%5e" target="_blank" rel="tag"&gt;AJAX Security Webcast Series is now available for on-demand viewing&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;a title="http://www.microsoft.com/events/EventDetails.aspx?CMTYSvcSource=MSCOMMedia&amp;amp;Params=%7eCMTYDataSvcParams%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22ID%22+Value%3d%221032325007%22%2f%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22ProviderID%22+Value%3d%22A6B43178-497C-4225-BA42-DF595171F04C%22%2f%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22lang%22+Value%3d%22en%22%2f%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22cr%22+Value%3d%22US%22%2f%5e%7esParams%5e%7e%2fsParams%5e%7e%2fCMTYDataSvcParams%5e" href="http://www.microsoft.com/events/EventDetails.aspx?CMTYSvcSource=MSCOMMedia&amp;amp;Params=%7eCMTYDataSvcParams%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22ID%22+Value%3d%221032325007%22%2f%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22ProviderID%22+Value%3d%22A6B43178-497C-4225-BA42-DF595171F04C%22%2f%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22lang%22+Value%3d%22en%22%2f%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22cr%22+Value%3d%22US%22%2f%5e%7esParams%5e%7e%2fsParams%5e%7e%2fCMTYDataSvcParams%5e" target="_blank" rel="tag"&gt;On-Demand HERE&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;This Webcast will cover advanced cross-site scripting (XSS) attack methods, such as Web malware, XSS in e-mail, Datamining with AJAX and virus’s that run inside of Web browsers. We will cover the impact of these attacks and how they can be used to steal cookies. In addition, we will review how mistakes in AJAX style programming could introduce security vulnerabilities into your code.  &lt;li&gt;Keyboard Shortcut Reference Posters:  &lt;ul&gt; &lt;li&gt;&lt;a title="Visual C# 2005" href="http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=c15d210d-a926-46a8-a586-31f8a2e576fe&amp;amp;displaylang=en&amp;amp;tm" target="_blank" rel="tag"&gt;Visual C# 2005&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;a title="Visual Basic 2005" href="http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=6bb41456-9378-4746-b502-b4c5f7182203&amp;amp;displaylang=en&amp;amp;tm" target="_blank" rel="tag"&gt;Visual Basic 2005&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;a title="Visual C++ 2005" href="http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=bccf84f4-4136-48b2-b4ec-83eaa484da20&amp;amp;displaylang=en&amp;amp;tm" target="_blank" rel="tag"&gt;Visual C++ 2005&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt; &lt;li&gt;&lt;a title="SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 2" href="http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/sql/2005/downloads/servicepacks/sp2.mspx" target="_blank" rel="tag"&gt;SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 2&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;span&gt;Now &lt;/span&gt;fully compatible with Windows Vista and the 2007 Microsoft Office system  &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/virtualpc/overview.mspx"&gt;Virtual PC 2007 is now available&lt;/a&gt;: Whether Microsoft virtualization technology is an important component of your existing infrastructure or you're just a Virtual PC enthusiast, you can now download Virtual PC 2007 absolutely free.  &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.hookedonlinq.com/" target="_blank"&gt;Hooked on LINQ&lt;/a&gt;: This website aims to be the premier community resource for LINQ (Language Integrated Query) for Microsoft®'s .NET. (Via &lt;a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/frankarr/archive/2007/02/15/hooked-on-linq-developers-wiki-for-net-language-integrated-query.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;Frank Arrigo&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://msmvps.com/blogs/brianmadsen/archive/2007/02/20/hoooked-on-linq-new-site.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;Brain Madsen&lt;/a&gt;)  &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.stoyanoff.info/blog/2007/01/17/windows-sidebar-styler/" target="_blank"&gt;Windows Sidebar Styler&lt;/a&gt;: This is an application which takes advantage of various technologies introduced in Windows Vista in order to provide extensions to the existing functionality of Windows Sidebar. Haven't tried it but worth having a look at. (Via &lt;a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/ericnel/archive/2007/02/20/vista-gadgets-using-wpf-an-update-sidebar-styler.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;Eric Nelson&lt;/a&gt;)  &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.codeplex.com/DinnerNow" target="_blank"&gt;DinnerNow v1.2&lt;/a&gt; is now available (via &lt;a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/jamescon/archive/2007/02/20/dinnernow-version-1-2-now-available.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;James Conard&lt;/a&gt;)  &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://weblogs.asp.net/nunitaddin/archive/2007/02/20/support-for-reflector-5-0-in-testdriven-net-2-3.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;Support for Reflector 5.0 in TestDriven.NET 2.3&lt;/a&gt; (via Jamie Cansdale &amp;amp; &lt;a href="http://www.aisto.com/Roeder/Frontier/" target="_blank"&gt;Lutz Roeder&lt;/a&gt;) &lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;div class="wlWriterSmartContent" id="0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:533e98b9-438b-4442-abf2-c8e2e33e02fa" contenteditable="false" style="padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-top: 0px"&gt;Technorati tags: &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Windows%20SharePoint%20Services%203.0" rel="tag"&gt;Windows SharePoint Services 3.0&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tags/OneNote%202007" rel="tag"&gt;OneNote 2007&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tags/AJAX%20Security" rel="tag"&gt;AJAX Security&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tags/SQL%20Server%20SP2" rel="tag"&gt;SQL Server SP2&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tags/VPC%202007" rel="tag"&gt;VPC 2007&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tags/LINQ" rel="tag"&gt;LINQ&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tags/DinnerNow" rel="tag"&gt;DinnerNow&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Reflector%205.0" rel="tag"&gt;Reflector 5.0&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=1729898" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description><category domain="http://blogs.msdn.com/davbosch/archive/tags/Windows+Vista/default.aspx">Windows Vista</category><category domain="http://blogs.msdn.com/davbosch/archive/tags/2007+Office+system/default.aspx">2007 Office system</category><category domain="http://blogs.msdn.com/davbosch/archive/tags/ISV+Community/default.aspx">ISV Community</category><category domain="http://blogs.msdn.com/davbosch/archive/tags/SQL+Server+2005/default.aspx">SQL Server 2005</category><category domain="http://blogs.msdn.com/davbosch/archive/tags/Developer+Community/default.aspx">Developer Community</category><category domain="http://blogs.msdn.com/davbosch/archive/tags/Security/default.aspx">Security</category><category domain="http://blogs.msdn.com/davbosch/archive/tags/Microsoft+AJAX/default.aspx">Microsoft AJAX</category></item><item><title>BIWUG membership is now free - New meetings announced!</title><link>http://blogs.msdn.com/davbosch/archive/2007/02/02/biwug-membership-is-now-free-new-meetings-announced.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 02 Feb 2007 20:50:01 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:1583948</guid><dc:creator>David Boschmans</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>http://blogs.msdn.com/davbosch/comments/1583948.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://blogs.msdn.com/davbosch/commentrss.aspx?PostID=1583948</wfw:commentRss><wfw:comment>http://blogs.msdn.com/davbosch/rsscomments.aspx?PostID=1583948</wfw:comment><description>&lt;p&gt;It's been a while since the last meeting of the &lt;a title="Belgian Information Worker Group (BIWUG)" href="http://www.biwug.be/" target="_blank" rel="tag"&gt;Belgian Information Worker Group (BIWUG)&lt;/a&gt; but now they're ready to move forward at full speed. On the web site the upcoming meetings are being announced.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;The first meeting is taking place next week &lt;strong&gt;February 8th from 6:30 pm&lt;/strong&gt; on, in the &lt;a title="Microsoft Belux offices in Diegem" href="http://www.microsoft.com/belux/nl/about/belgium/route_bel.aspx" target="_blank" rel="tag"&gt;Microsoft Belux offices in Diegem&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;WORKFLOW IN MOSS 2007&lt;br&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;18:30 Welcome and Introduction &lt;br&gt;18:45 MOSS Commercial perspectives &lt;br&gt;19:15 AgilePoint &lt;br&gt;19:45 break &lt;br&gt;20:00 MOSS 2007 Workflow&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Next meetings are scheduled:&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;8/03/2007 18:30: &lt;strong&gt;WEB CONTENT MANAGEMENT WITH MOSS 2007&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;18:30 Welcome and Introduction &lt;br&gt;18:45 Highlights from Berlin &lt;br&gt;19:15 Getronics case for Web Content Management &lt;br&gt;20:00 Web Content Management within MOSS 2007&lt;br&gt;Location: Dolmen&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;26/04/2007 18:30: &lt;strong&gt;RECORDS MANAGEMENT WITH MOSS 2007&lt;br&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;18:30 Welcome and Introduction &lt;br&gt;18:45 Records Management &lt;br&gt;20:00 Custom Convertors &lt;br&gt;20:30 Custom Policies&lt;br&gt;Location: Getronics&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;22/06/2007 18:30: &lt;strong&gt;BIWUG SHAREPOINT DAY&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;To Be Defined check later ! &lt;br&gt;Location: TBD &lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;BIWUG membership is now free! So if you want to attend one or more of these meetings you can freely register on &lt;a href="http://www.biwug.be"&gt;http://www.biwug.be&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;div class="wlWriterSmartContent" id="0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:aadcf144-21d8-4bf7-8468-f2d255a2761b" contenteditable="false" style="padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-top: 0px"&gt;Technorati tags: &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Microsoft%20Office%202007" rel="tag"&gt;Microsoft Office 2007&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tags/SharePoint" rel="tag"&gt;SharePoint&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tags/MOSS2007" rel="tag"&gt;MOSS2007&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tags/BIWUG" rel="tag"&gt;BIWUG&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=1583948" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description><category domain="http://blogs.msdn.com/davbosch/archive/tags/2007+Office+system/default.aspx">2007 Office system</category><category domain="http://blogs.msdn.com/davbosch/archive/tags/Developer+Community/default.aspx">Developer Community</category></item></channel></rss>