February 2008 - Posts
The Visual Studio User Group Belgium is hosting an event with Juval Löwy on Thursday 3rd April 2008: Demonstrating WCF – Beyond the Endpoints . Abstract from VISUG: "WCF is more than just the next generation platform for building connected systems. In
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The Microsoft patterns & practices is really keeping busy: after a new release of the Web Client Software Factory they have now announced a new addition to the p&p library, the Web Service Software Factory: Modeling Edition for Visual Studio 2008
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The Microsoft patterns & practices team has just released a new version of the Web Client Software Factory (WCSF). The Web Client Software Factory (WCSF) provides a set of guidance for architects and developers building enterprise Web applications,
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The Visual Studio User Group Belgium is holding a survey amongst members: tell them how they're doing and there might be something in it for you. There is a chance to win an interesting prize if you submit your answer before March 4th: a free ticket to
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It was fun doing the sessions at some colleges in Belgium the last two weeks. The session gives an overview on all the new cool features in the IDE but also on language features, LINQ(of course!), WCF, WF, WPF, OBA. I visited three schools: Katholieke
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My MIX08 countdown sidebar gadget says it: 7 days to go! Just one week away I can’t wait to be at MIX08. So much coming, so little time! After Scott Guthrie’s post about the new Silverlight 2 features, I’m hoping we all can get working on our Silverlight
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You may have seen it posted on several blogs: Scott Guthrie has published an overview of Silverlight 2 functionality and a complete 8 part tutorial! The tutorial is step-by-step guide on building a sample Silverlight 2 Beta1 application that reads stories
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It’s great to see our agenda for the TechDays getting finalized. If you have not yet registered there is some good news and some bad news: registration for the launch event on the 11th is closed. Registration for TechDays is still open at the time of
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Microsoft patterns & practices has announced the February 2008 release of the GAT and GAX. This new release includes support for Visual Studio 2008 as many were waiting for. The main improvements to the July 2007 CTP release are the following: Support
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Olaf Conijn is coming to the next Belgian Visual Studio User Group (VISUG) for a session on “Building Services with the Service Factory: Modeling Edition”. The meeting takes place on February 21st 2008 at 6:30PM. If you are looking into Software Factories
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The website for the new XNA Belgian User Group is live. The user group is geared towards all people interested in game development in Belgium, but clearly if you have no technical skills you can join in as well. Join the meetings to learn more and share
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Check out the second and last part of the interview with Scott Guthrie over on Channel9. After talking about II7 in part 1 , the second part is a much longer interview (46 minutes!) with lots of new info on ASP.NET Extensions but also on Silverlight 2.0.
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