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Having fun while doing my job

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Recently, I've been giving presentations on topics such as C# 2.0 and ASP.NET 2.0 to some of the coworkers of Aviva .NET Professionals (a partner of Aviva Solutions). Usually that is not something worth blogging about. But yesterday evening's group was so full of enthousiasme, I couldn't resist s...

June 13, 2007

Great fun ‘im Schweizerhaus’

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Although I lived most of my life in Nijmegen (in the east of the Netherlands), I also lived for about four years in a little village near the German border which is called Millingen aan de Rijn. Although this village is quite busy on itself (it is a very popular place for both Germ...

June 9, 2007

Visual Studio “Orcas”…2007…2008

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If you have been reading the many posts about this week's TechED that is going on in Orlando, you may have noticed the references to Visual Studio 2008 (a.k.a.) and SQL Server 2008 (a.k.a. Katmai). I'm not sure if I've been been paying attention or not, but I don't remember an...

June 5, 2007

Windows Live Writer Beta 2 and Sharepoint 2007 Blogs

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I've been using Windows Live Writer for a while now, but somehow it never worked properly from behind a firewall. Moreover, Aviva Solution's weblog is based on Sharepoint 2007, and WLW did not support this type of blog, up until now... The Live! team has released beta 2 of Windows Live Writer. An...

May 31, 2007

SilverLight 1.1 Developer Reference poster

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I haven’t had a lot of time to investigate SilverLight yet, but if you haven’t heard of it, I’m afraid you’ve been living in a cave for the last couple of months. Anyway, check out this great poster (click here get a full-size version).<p align="center"></p>

May 24, 2007

Visual Studio “Orcas” Beta 1 - First impressions

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It arrived sooner than expected, but still, I'm glad to see Microsoft has made such an amount of progress. Last weekend I downloaded the Professional Edition and the Team Foundation Server bits and got started. My main interest is to see if it is good enough for production development. We use the...

April 23, 2007