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Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2 is here!

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The signs have been very clear during the last couple of days, but it is finally official. Beta 2, which is 99% feature complete is there and can be downloaded immediately.

July 27, 2007

About free cocktails, dolphins and lots of fun

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We are already back for three weeks, but until now, I have not found the time yet to report on our great holiday. Including traveling time, the holiday lasted only ten days, which is way too short for fully enjoying the awesome Sandos Caracol Beach Resort. Since taking the ca...

July 16, 2007

What’s new in .NET 3.5 and Visual Studio 2008

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Update July 25th: Huge signs that beta 2 will arrive THIS week. Update July 16th: There are some 'signs' that beta 2 will arrive really soon.  Most of the community information on Visual Studio 2008 has been focussing on the Language INtegrated Query (LINQ) features of C# 3.0, but ...

July 12, 2007

Guidance Automation Extensions 1.3 is coming…

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A very short blog entry that triggered me. Hopefully, it will arrive soon, since that makes it potentially possible to use the Web Client Software Factory on a Visual Studio 2008 (Orcas) environment. For those guys that also use the V3 alpha drops of the Service Software Factory, be pat...

July 3, 2007

Mexico, here we come…

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In just two days of working, our holiday starts. Me and my girlfriend Barbara have been considering taking our new Volvo and driving off to the south of France again. We enjoyed that holiday a lot last year, but we thought that we'll have plenty of opportunities for such a holiday as so...

June 18, 2007

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