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May 2008 - Posts

Closed curtain development at Microsoft

Posted Wednesday, May 28, 2008 11:12 PM by maarten
Windows Vista is done (ok, ok, some 'small' patchwork is needed to iron out the wrinkles). Ready for one and a half year now and the next version is under development and code named "Windows 7". Ehhrmm.... Excuse me, is -that- a code name? Let's investigate Read More...
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DevDays 2008 Overview

Posted Saturday, May 24, 2008 12:20 PM by maarten
DevDays 2008 (and GeekNight 2008 ) is now behind us now. It turned out to be an excellent developer event, a -mini TechEd - as I heard someone say. The two days were covered with great sessions and great names. Steve Riley for one, with his famous talks Read More...
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Geek Night is behind us, tomorrow DevDays part 2

Posted Thursday, May 22, 2008 11:21 PM by maarten
Today DevDays part 1 and Geek Night took place. The DevDays event is really getting bigger over the years. I heard someone say in a video that it was a 'mini-TechEd' and I think he was right. The amount of sponsor stands is huge this year. Everywhere Read More...
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Microsoft Expands List of Formats Supported in Microsoft Office

Posted Wednesday, May 21, 2008 11:20 PM by maarten
Hot news from the press ... REDMOND, Wash. — May 21, 2008 — Microsoft Corp. is offering customers greater choice and more flexibility among document formats, as well as creating additional opportunities for developer and competitors, by expanding the Read More...
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Tomorrow: DevDays 2008 - Amsterdam

Posted Wednesday, May 21, 2008 8:20 PM by maarten
Tomorrow (May 22) and Friday (May 23) DevDays 2008 is hosted in the RAI, Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Two days of technical developer sessions and a Geek Night in between. The DevDays event is an event where you get two days packed with sessions and other Read More...
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Create a GUI interface Using Visual Basic

Posted Tuesday, May 20, 2008 8:33 AM by maarten
Crime labs are using advanced tools to solve the mysteries of crime. CSI New York, if we may believe television, is using Visual Basic for that purpose! And why not ... the villain in the end is arrested thanks to these great tools of modern society :-) Read More...
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Microsoft 2.0

Posted Thursday, May 15, 2008 1:59 PM by maarten
Today I received the book that I bought at Amazon last week written by Mary Jo Foley on "How Microsoft Plans to Stay Relevant in the Post-Gates Era". The main title of the book is Microsoft 2.0 . While I was buying the book I decided to buy two more books, Read More...
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.NET hell vs. DLL hell

Posted Thursday, May 15, 2008 12:20 AM by maarten
First discussions are starting to hit the world about the just released Visual Studio 2008 SP1 Beta and .NET Fx 3.5 SP1 Beta. What happened is that instead of just fixing things in the Service Pack, Microsoft decided to add a whole lot of new features Read More...
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Visual Studio 2008 and .NET FX 3.5 SP1 Beta available now

Posted Monday, May 12, 2008 7:21 PM by maarten
It was originally planned for last friday, but to hold back the pressure for the support team to enjoy Whitsun and Mother's Day, it was rescheduled to today. The Service Pack 1 beta (remember its still the beta!) for Visual Studio 2008 and .NET FX 3.5 Read More...
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TechEd EMEA 2008: IT Professionals and Developers switched places.

Posted Saturday, May 10, 2008 3:45 PM by maarten
It came to my attention when checking my agenda and the TechEd website . I noticed the dates changed for TechEd EMEA 2008. The weeks are still the same however the order was changed. The IT Professionals week was planned for the second week, just after Read More...
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Bill Gates: Backstage at the Office Developer Conference

Posted Wednesday, May 07, 2008 8:02 AM by maarten
A couple of months ago I attended the Office Developer Conference 2008 , a conference completely dedicated to developing Office applications. The conference used to be an 'on invitation only' conference but this year the conference was open for public Read More...
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WinDiff and other 'old' tools in Visual Studio 2008

Posted Monday, May 05, 2008 3:06 PM by maarten
Ever wondered wh ere all your 'old' but favorite tools resided in Visual Studio 2008? Are they removed? I needed a tool called WinDiff to see what is changed between two textfiles and that tool did work for me in most cases. There is however no menu item Read More...
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Microsoft Withdraws Proposal to Acquire Yahoo!

Posted Sunday, May 04, 2008 7:55 AM by maarten
http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2008/may08/05-03letter.mspx?rss_fdn=Press%20Releases Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT) today announced that it has withdrawn its proposal to acquire Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO). The press release comes with a letter Read More...
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