Category: Visual Studio

Even though the Dutch Microsoft DevDays are still ahead of us, here’s a chance to look even further at TechEd Europe 2009. This year, it will be hosted in Berlin. But what is more surprising is the change back to[…]

Yes, that’s right. If you are working with Sharepoint, you can download the designer for free. Here’s where you can donwload it: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=baa3ad86-bfc1-4bd4-9812-d9e710d44f42

For some reason, the e-mail took a detour, but I got it (thanks Gerard): “Congratulations! We are pleased to present you with the 2009 Microsoft® MVP Award! This award is given to exceptional technical community leaders who actively share their[…]

I will certainly not be the first, nor the last, but here it is. ASP.NET MVC 1.0 final version is released. Download ASP.NET MVC 1.0 here.

Guillermo writes about a website that can compress javascript files. It does a really good job, but when I downloaded the result, it was unreadable. O="functioresultarkervar conercatch( windowoundstionif(atTemp uetails r){}eh   Would a browser still understand what to do? Well,[…]

It was about time I migrated my weblog, based on .Text version 0.95 to a more modern blogging platform. As you will probably know, the codebase of .Text was integrated to Community Server ages ago. I doubt whether much of[…]

This came in my mail this morning: “Congratulations on earning your Enterprise Administrator certification! We hope you enjoy the benefits of your certification and of membership in the Microsoft Certified Professional community.”  Last Wednesday was my final exam: “70-647 PRO:[…]

Here, sitting in a session from Kim Cameron, he just mentioned that LiveID will support OpenID. So, if you use OpenID to access sites and services, you can re-use your LiveID to log in. Applause in the room.  

On my way to the PDC in Los Angeles, I get the usual drill at the security check at Schiphol airport. “Where are you going?”. – Los Angeles. “Why?” – Well, I’m attending a conference on software development. “Why do you[…]

Just took exam 70-642 – Windows Server 2008 Network Infrastructure, Configuring. I was a little bit worried about this exam because manually calculating subnets and figuring out routing options was never my strength. That’s what we have subnet calculators for, right?[…]