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Yesterday I arrived in Barcelona for TechEd 2007. I followed already some interesting sessions about LINQ, it brings you closer how you can access data in a more intuitive and more object-oriented way (data = objects). I really like LINQ to SQL, one of the drawbacks, is that it...

Last weekend I visited CeBIT 2007 in Hannover. We rented a house for the weekend in Steinhude which is not far from CeBIT and can easily be reached by car and train. If you are looking to stay overnight in Steinhude I would recommend this house, all comfort is available (TV,...

Scott Guthrie is coming for a presentation on February 1st. The session will take place at Utopolis Mechelen. Please subscribe to the event through the VISUG site. Two presentations will be given, namely: First Look at Visual Studio and ASP.NET ‘Orcas’ ASP.NET 2.0 and...

VISUG has a brand new website. All the necessary features are already available and more functionality is coming soon. The two last VISUG events for year 2006 are announced. One of the events is a panel discussion about exception handling and logging, and it will take place...

The session ‘Turn Left or Right? How to Best Design Your Web Services Interface’ at TechEd was very interesting and pointed issues like versioning, contracts, interfaces, etc. Christian Weyer from ThinkTecture is currently building a tool called WSContractFirst (WSCF)...

I am looking forward to TechEd Amsterdam 2005. No doubt that it will be a great experience and there will be a lot of interesting seminars given. And do not forget to register to the BeLux Country Drink!

This weekend I visited CeBIT. It was a long trip due to road works and heavy rain, but it was worthwhile. There was a lot of people, but thankfully CeBIT at the Messegeländer in Hannover has about 30 halls. In one of the first halls, there was an exclusive car from Bugatti....

The second day at TechEd I followed 2 sessions about ASP.NET 2.0 where the speaker demonstrated a lot of nice new controls and features. One of the features I like most (call it a feature or a bug-fix), is that the designer does NOT mess your aspx code anymore, which is a very...

The first opening key note was very entertaining and refreshing. There was an introduction of the team services in VS.NET, a demo with 3d-glasses on a 64-bit platform, a promising project called SkyServer.org, announce of the Express edition of VS.NET, and many other things....

This weekend I visited CeBIT 2004 at Hannover and as usual there was a lot to see. It was a trip of about 450 KM but we had no traffic problems, although there were a lot of road works. We slept in the hotel Montana Lauenau which was perfectly in order and was on the road to...