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With the release of IE8 Beta 2 you are likely to start getting more questions and more (power) end users trying this release out. In this post I’ll point out some of the new features of IE8 and then give you the most important pointers for compatibility
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After the famous “ 10 minutes with your RD ” by Regional Director Gregory Renard , I decided to get started with my own short screencast series on Chopsticks as well. I’m naming these “10 minutes with your DE”. My first screencast is now online, I ended
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As has just been announced on several MSDN and product teams blogs , Service Pack 1 for .NET Framework 3.5 and for Visual Studio 2008 have been released. SP1 is available for Visual Studio 2008, this download includes the .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 as well.
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Last week the p&p group released v1 of the guidance documentation “ Improving Web Services Security: Scenarios and Implementation Guidance for WCF ”. WCF is quite a complex subject and more guidance on how to securely implement serices is very important
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IE8 Beta 1 has been out for several months now and we are closing in on the release of IE8 Beta 2, which has been announced for August 2008 by the IE team. Now is a good time to get started on ensuring site compatibility with this new release. Because
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Yesterday the second Belgian Community Day took place in Keerbergen. I joined in a bit later due to some meetings at the office but it was still more than worth it. Nine Belgian User Groups joined in this year to organize a day “For the Community, By
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There are now 3 new recordings available on Chopsticks by our Regional Director Gregory Renard . The recordings are all on new features of Visual Basic 2008, are available in French and follow the series “10 minutes avec votre RD” that Gregory launched
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Last Wednesday Yves Goeleven presented the MSDN evening session on Team Foundation Server branching and merging patterns. During the introduction Yves explains the main groups of problems that you encounter in the development environment, and how to identify
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The MSDN evening session from last week has been recorded and can be watched online on our Chopsticks platform. In this session, Martijn Beenes , coming specially from the Netherlands for this session, explains how to use the installer tools, MSI's, WiX
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During the opening keynote at TechEd Orlando last Tuesday, Soma announced the availability of Silverlight 2 Beta 2. As from now you can find the different downloads related to Silverlight 2 Beta 2. The best place to start is reading Scott Guthrie's post
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I'm really running behind with my blogging, these have been busy weeks. I was at several community events and did a presentation at Multi-mania . Wow, that was a first where everybody was talking around mostly non-Microsoft products. Gill , Brecht and
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Today we released the Beta versions of the Service Packs that will be shipping for .NET 3.5 and Visual Studio 2008. Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack (SP) 1 Beta Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack (SP) 1 Beta Please note that the betas are intended
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Last week on April 24th we had our first MIX essentials event in Belgium. It was a full day with a dynamic opening keynote; developer and designer break-out sessions and of course a fantastic closing keynote and Q&A session with Steve Ballmer . Opening
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After Gregory Renard 's " 10 minutes with your RD " series, Peter Himschoot, also a Regional Director for Microsoft Belux has launched his series called "Chopsticks Noodle". The two first videos are now available on Chopsticks: Using
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The Visual Studio & .NET Framework evangelism team has just released the .NET Framework 3.5 Enhancements Training Kit . This is a preview containing 6 extensive labs on the following subjects: ADO.NET Data Services ADO.NET Entity Framework ASP.NET
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