To .NET

Today I arrived in Barcelona to attend IT Forum. Now, what’s a developer doing at an IT Management conference? Well, trying to bridge the gap perhaps. Besides, I was a system administrator for about 3 years, and I still maintain[…]

Here are some pictures taken at the Visual Studio 2005 Launch Event in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. Oh yeah, this was the SQL Server 2005 and BizTalk Server 2006 launch event also of course.

You’ve probably read it everywhere by now. Visual Studio 2005 is available for download from the MSDN subscribers website. It may be hard to download, as everyone is trying to get their hands on the bits. In fact, you may[…]

In an article published recently on DevTips.NET (beware: Dutch) I discuss the benefits of ClickOnce deployment. Though a very useful feature in the .NET 2.0 Framework, it has one (ok, perhaps more) simple limitation. The webpage from which one can download[…]

Finally… It took me almost a day to get it to install successfully. With all the prerequisites and carefull planning. I kept getting the “Error 28100.Error loading Event web service”. There are a few suggestions to resolve this, but none of them applied[…]

So this is it. Already. The event is over. Finished. See you next year. Hopefully. The sessions were a continuation of yesterday’s. With the product teams asking for feedback on what they have done, like with VS.NET 2005 and what[…]

It is great to get a chance to talk to the product group that is building the stuff we developers are going to be using. The purpose today was to discuss upcoming features in the C# language and the .NET[…]

So today was the day of exec speeches. Actually based on last year’s feedback, they decided to limit the exec talks to only half a day. The afternoon was reserved for more technology related sessions. The event is under NDA[…]

Registration was on the schedule for today. Oh, I forgot to take a picture of the bag. Well, it’s not worth taking a picture anyway. It’s more solid than the plastic bag we had last year. It’s nice to see[…]

So I made to Seattle. Actually, the trip was quite uneventful. No delays, no lost luggage (that figures because I only had my backpack). This morning I went strolling around the city, looking for a place to have some breakfast.[…]