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Summer Holiday….is over.

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I’m back from a relaxing and sunny holiday in the south of France (Cote D’Azur). We spend the first week in a brand-new convenient mobile-home on camping Les Tournels just a few rocks away from the famous St-Tropez beach Pampelone. From there, we visited several beaches in the region and did one-...

July 11, 2006

WinFx is dead, live .NET Framework 3.0

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According to the latest rumors, Microsoft decided to rename WinFx (a new set of technologies including Windows Communications Foundation, Windows Presentation Foundation, and Windows Workflow Foundation) to .NET Framework 3.0. Moreover, 3.0 wil ship as part of Vista.

June 10, 2006

Windows Vista Beta 2 attempts

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The weekend Vista Beta 2 was released, I downloaded it from the MSDN subscribers site and tried to install it on my desktop PC (P4, 2GB of memory, 500GB HD). The installation went quite well in fact. Even my two RAID configurations did not cause any problems since the old XP drivers still worked....

June 8, 2006

Web 2.0? Does the web have a version number?

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While we were visiting Redmond, one of the presentations mentioned the phrase Web 2.0. Since then, I’ve been trying to grasp the concept of that, but apparently I’m not the only one who couldn’t get a clear picture. In fact, the whole concept is as vague as possible, and none of the articles I’ve...

June 8, 2006

WCF MasterClass

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Next week I’m going to attend a WCF MasterClass at Microsoft Netherlands. Since Gijs de Jong is currenly most visible as the WCF expert here, I presume he will be the tutor for those two days. I’m looking forward to it, but I hope I haven’t spend to much time reading all those articles…

June 8, 2006