Katrien's MSDN Blog
Microsoft Web Platform Installer 1.0 released
Version 1.0 of the Microsoft Web Platform Installer is out since yesterday. The Web PI offers an...
Author: Katrien DG Date: 01/21/2009
New Architect newsletter and more from MS BeLux
According to my colleague Philippe Destoop, our Architect Evangelist for Belgium and Luxembourg,...
Author: Katrien DG Date: 01/20/2009
TechDays 2009: SharePoint pre-conference update
This year TechDays gives you the possibility to follow a deep technical full-day pre-conference on...
Author: Katrien DG Date: 01/16/2009
Updated Windows Azure SDK and Visual Studio Tools CTP (January 2009)
Windows Azure SDK and the Visual Studio Tools, available for download to everyone, were first...
Author: Katrien DG Date: 01/15/2009
Do you know Visual Studio Gallery? All extensions, add-ins and products to enhance Visual Studio
The Visual Studio Gallery (https://www.visualstudiogallery.com/) is website aggregating all...
Author: Katrien DG Date: 01/12/2009
TechDays 2009 – update on content and speakers
TechDays 2009 registration is open: this year’s event will take place on March 10th, 11th and 12th...
Author: Katrien DG Date: 01/05/2009
Juval Löwy speaking at VISUG event this month
Don’t miss Juval Löwy’s second user group event with the VISUG takiing place this month. Juval is...
Author: Katrien DG Date: 01/05/2009
Windows Azure – installing SDK, tools and creating a first cloud project
The Azure Services Platform was announced October of last year at the Professional Developers...
Author: Katrien DG Date: 01/04/2009
Guidance on which presentation technology to use for RIAs, client and web apps
My colleague Philippe’s blog brought this to my attention: a knowledge base on Application...
Author: Katrien DG Date: 12/29/2008
Unity for Silverlight by P&P group has been released
The Patterns & Practices group at Microsoft has just released Unity for Silverlight, which is...
Author: Katrien DG Date: 12/16/2008
Web Hosting Roadshow slides and all the links
It was great fun presenting the Web Platform overview to the folks over at the Microsoft Web Hosting...
Author: Katrien DG Date: 12/11/2008
Silverlight workshop by the Belgian user group: get your hands dirty
Looking for some hands-on experience with Silverlight? The Belgian Silverlight User Group is...
Author: Katrien DG Date: 12/02/2008
New blog on VSTS by Pieter Gheysens
Pieter is a very active member of the Belgian .NET community, being vice-president of the VISUG user...
Author: Katrien DG Date: 12/02/2008
Latest videos posted to Chopsticks: “Oslo”, “M”, ASP.NET MVC, Silverlight, IE8 and all Luxembourg TechDays08 content
Quite a few new screencasts and interviews have been added to Chopsticks these last few weeks. Time...
Author: Katrien DG Date: 11/27/2008
Live Framework – storing data in a Mesh-enabled Silverlight web application in 4 steps
In my previous post about the Live Framework and Mesh-enabled apps I described how to create your...
Author: Katrien DG Date: 11/25/2008
Community events: BIWUG event on Silverlight and e-ID in SharePoint 2007
The next event for the Belgian Information Worker User Group will take place on December 8th 2008,...
Author: Katrien DG Date: 11/25/2008
Live Framework – creating a Silverlight Mesh-enabled web application in 8 steps
After seeing what the new Mesh-enabled web applications can do during the last PDC in Los Angeles I...
Author: Katrien DG Date: 11/19/2008
TechEd EMEA: Visual Studio 2010 in the keynote and lots of Belgians
Back from Tech-Ed EMEA developers, running from 10 to 14 November 2008 in Barcelona. It was a very...
Author: Katrien DG Date: 11/16/2008
Links for Azure, Visual Studio and other experiences from PDC 2008
After a jetlag, a few days of e-mail immersion and inbox cleaning, finally some time to get into the...
Author: Katrien DG Date: 11/08/2008
PDC 2008 – Regional Directors share their thoughts (Dutch)
Peter Himschoot and Gill Cleeren, Regional Directors, both share their thoughts on what PDC 2008 is...
Author: Katrien DG Date: 11/04/2008
PDC 2008 – Gregory Renard shares his thoughts (French)
After a very exciting week in Los Angeles to attend PDC where Microsoft has announced its new...
Author: Katrien DG Date: 11/03/2008
PDC 2008 Day 2 Keynote – Windows 7, Live Framework, VS2010, Office 14 and more!
While in the keynote of day 1 we saw the light of Windows Azure Platform, the Microsoft Software +...
Author: Katrien DG Date: 10/28/2008
PDC 2008 Day 1 Keynote – the Windows Azure Platform
I arrived in Los Angeles on Saturday, with a warm and beatiful day welcoming me in California. It’s...
Author: Katrien DG Date: 10/27/2008
Working at Microsoft Belgium
Ever wondered how we work here at MS BeLux? Check out these two videos and you might feel the itch...
Author: Katrien DG Date: 10/22/2008
Bart De Smet on Channel9: LINQ-to-Anything
Don’t miss the 100th episode of Going Deep on Channel9, this episode stars Bart De Smet. In case you...
Author: Katrien DG Date: 10/16/2008
Silverlight 2 RTW – all the links you need to get started
After the RC0 a few weeks ago we a, Silverlight 2 RTW (Release to Web) is here, it’s official! This...
Author: Katrien DG Date: 10/14/2008
Update: Belgians at PDC get-together, we have a sponsor!
If you are planning to attend PDC 2008 you will not regret the investment. Check out all the Pre-PDC...
Author: Katrien DG Date: 10/12/2008
XNA: book, interview, event and a new CTP
First of all, what is XNA? If you haven’t read upon this, XNA is a framework and a set of tools that...
Author: Katrien DG Date: 10/07/2008
Congratulations to new MVP Kurt Claeys
Kurt Claeys (https://www.devitect.net) has just been awarded the MVP award in the category “Connected...
Author: Katrien DG Date: 10/06/2008
MSDN Road Show: Rich Client Experiences with Silverlight 2 and WPF coming to a city near you
Are you looking for more technical information on creating RIAs (Rich Internet Applications) and...
Author: Katrien DG Date: 10/02/2008
Launch event for XNA Belgian User Group and Belgian Silverlight User Group
Yes, we have two new user groups with a launch event on November 6th, 2008 in Ghent! Register at...
Author: Katrien DG Date: 09/29/2008
Interview with Hans Verbeeck on TechEd EMEA 2008
Last week I sat down with Hans Verbeeck, the overall business owner for TechEd EMEA 2008 (IT...
Author: Katrien DG Date: 09/20/2008
Three new Chopsticks screencasts by the community
We published three new videos produced by the community today. Two videos by Hans Le Roy Hans Le Roy...
Author: Katrien DG Date: 09/16/2008
Project Rosetta – from Flash to Silverlight
Last week the DPE team at Microsoft launch a new site was launched with articles especially written...
Author: Katrien DG Date: 09/11/2008
IE8 Accelerator for MSDN Social Bookmarks
I’ve been using IE8 Beta 2 for a few weeks now and I’m getting quite used to do actions on text or...
Author: Katrien DG Date: 09/10/2008
Looking for the Belgian attendees at PDC 2008!
After receiving this question a few times: “will there be any Belgian event at PDC2008?”, and with...
Author: Katrien DG Date: 09/08/2008
We’re coming to Luxembourg: TechDays08 registration is open
I’m really glad with this announcement, the TechDays'08 event will take place the 30th of September...
Author: Katrien DG Date: 09/05/2008
User Group events this Fall: VISUG and SQL User Group
After a deserved break during summer months, the Belgian user groups are getting back at their...
Author: Katrien DG Date: 09/03/2008
Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2: resources for developers and HTML integrators
With the release of IE8 Beta 2 you are likely to start getting more questions and more (power) end...
Author: Katrien DG Date: 08/27/2008
10 minutes with your DE - Data Access in .NET Framework 3.5 SP1: short video
After the famous “10 minutes with your RD” by Regional Director Gregory Renard, I decided to get...
Author: Katrien DG Date: 08/25/2008
Expression Blend 2: tips & tricks using the interface
Being a developer using Expression Blend 2 (or 2.5 Preview) for implementing basic design of...
Author: Katrien DG Date: 08/25/2008
Two big conferences coming this fall: should I choose PDC or TechEd EMEA?
I’m just soooo lucky: getting to be there at PDC AND also TechEd EMEA seems too good to be true. I...
Author: Katrien DG Date: 08/18/2008
Visual Studio 2008 and .NET 3.5 SP1 released today
As has just been announced on several MSDN and product teams blogs, Service Pack 1 for .NET...
Author: Katrien DG Date: 08/11/2008
patterns & practices: Improving Web Services Security – Scenarios and Implementation Guidance for WCF
Last week the p&p group released v1 of the guidance documentation “Improving Web Services...
Author: Katrien DG Date: 08/07/2008
Composite Application Guidance for WPF (previously PRISM)
The Patterns & Practices team at Microsoft released the Composite Application Guidance for WPF...
Author: Katrien DG Date: 07/17/2008
Community Day 2008 – 12 sessions by 9 user groups
Yesterday the second Belgian Community Day took place in Keerbergen. I joined in a bit later due to...
Author: Katrien DG Date: 06/27/2008