Office Zealot

  It's always nice when I try to find a certain tool and GooBinging for it and in the end showing me an old blogpost from .... me, myself and I, pointing in the right direction. The blogpost in this case was: WinDiff and other 'old' tools in Visual Studio 2008 It showed me where I could find some old tools I used ...

  Right now I am reading the book “Refactoring with Microsoft Visual Studio 2010” by Peter Ritchie published by Packt Publishing. The book appears to cover a wide range of refactoring techniques added with a lot of pointers to patterns and practices to support the provided technologies. If you are interested in already getting an ...

Now available is the Visual Studio LightSwitch Training Kit and it contains demos and labs to help you learn to use and extend LightSwitch. It contains walkthroughs and hand-on labs where you'll build a book library. Also it contains more advanced materials showing you how to extend LightSwitch again with hands-on labs to help you build and ...

  Last week I took some time to write a blogitem to announce to you the availability of the new developer toolset Visual Studio Lightswitch Beta 1 to MSDN subscribers. In the same post I added some pointers to resources that Microsoft provided that you might need to accomplish your first Visual Lightswitch tasks and to get ...

  For your convenience Microsoft posted an overview with all the Visual Studio 2010 options and features compared over the available editions (VS 2010 Professional, Premium and Ultimate). http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/en-us/products/2010/default.mspx#compare Check it out and decide what your favorite edition will be. Remember the ...

It’s been a while since I updated my blog. Not that I didn’t want to but I simply was too busy doing other things. Remember we had to explore several upcoming products, learn new stuff (and I didn’t even get a chance to learn the -‘old’- stuff!). Some of the products that are can be researched: Windows 7 (RTM already), R2 servers, Office 2010, ...