Category: Visual Studio

Virtual PC 2007 Beta is available for download from http://connect.microsoft.com. Ever since I switched to Windows Vista I had issues with running Virtual PC 2004. Biggest problem was that the screen would no longer repaint itself upon actions done inside[…]

Notice the 3,4 in the left column of this weblog? Yes, that’s my Windows Experience Index base score. There are quite a few people publishing their score on a weblog or forum. The way it’s usually posted is by means[…]

Presenting a session at a technical conference (or user group) is not everyone’s favourite activity. Especially as most of us are just happy typing and clicking behind (or in front of usually) a computer screen.  There are, however, also a[…]

From the docs: “There are two ways to read an XML document in the System.Xml.XPath namespace. One is to read an XML document using the read-only XPathDocument class and the other is to read an XML document using the editable[…]

Microsoft launched a Wiki website. The MSDN Wiki site is an experiment in order to see how it can integrate community contributions into the Visual Studio 2005 and .NET Framework 2.0 documentation. There’s is already so much content available, but[…]

For the past week I’ve been testdriving Windows Vista Beta 2. I wanted to install earlier builds before, but I never found the right drivers for my nforce4/sata-raid configuration. While running Vista, you will encounter one specific feature that is[…]

Tech·Ed 2006 is sold out, that’s probably old news. If you can’t be there, you can at least watch about 40 breakout sessions that will be live from Boston – for free. You may try your luck accessing the page[…]

Does anyone know of an RSS Reader that allows you to filter out postings? I subscribed to the mainfeed of http://blogs.msdn.com/ and out of the 200 new messages (maximum on Bloglines), about 80% is the same posting (with a twist) shouting to everyone[…]

In my efforts to write a beginner’s book on C# (in Dutch) I came across this bug. While I understand some of the reasoning in the Microsoft response: “Resolving this as by design. We need a unique mechanism to identify[…]

It arrived today in my e-mail box. I’m both happy and honored to receive the award.