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:[…]
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Visual Basic losing interest?
An interesting tool from Google allows you to display the trend of search terms over time. Out of curiosity, I looked at the popularity of the terms “visual basic” and “c#”. It doesn’t look too good for VB. (Red line[…]
Read moreAnnounced: LiveID will support OpenID
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.
Read moreAirport security check
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[…]
Read moreLINQ to XML instead of XPath
Working on a new project, I needed to read some elements from an XML file. As a matter of habit, I used XPath, but later I figured this was a good opportunity to try it out using LINQ. So here[…]
Read morePassed 70-642
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?[…]
Read morePassed 70-643
In order to upgrade my MCSE certification, I’m taking exams for Windows Server 2008. I could upgrade through a special upgrade path, but since I never took any exam on Windows 2003, I would first have to upgrade from 2000[…]
Read moreVB for C# programmers – a little gotcha
The debate whether to use C# or Visual Basic .NET is not uncommon for most .NET developers. Certainly, one has a distinct preference, but the general idea is that you can do in C# what you can do in VB[…]
Read more“Welcome to the MCT Program”
“Congratulations! On behalf of Microsoft, we are happy to welcome you to the Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT) Program. You will be sent a Microsoft Certified Trainer Welcome Kit within four to six weeks.” Yes, that’s the e-mail I received this[…]
Read moreTFS source control and a bit of usability, or is it just me
It’s something very trivial, but earlier today, I accidentilly closed the folders view in my source control explorer. How to get them back? Would you consider this? I didn’t at first. But then again, it may be just me.
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