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2013 8
- How do you build a Windows Store Line-of-Business app?
- Joining the Windows 8 App Race? Win Visual Studio headphones and Asus tablets
- Windows Azure Infrastructure as a Service General Availability
- TechDays Belgium 2013 online: videos and slides now available!
- Start building apps on Windows 8 – Video training content (French)
- Belgian Windows 8 Superhackathon on 27 March 2013 – join us!
- Modern.IE: new tool for web developers for browser testing and compatibility
- Mobile app idea? Get funding and support with AppCampus
2012 20
- Windows App Day – slides and video from the event
- Microsoft TechDays 2013 Belgium: first sessions & speakers announced
- Register free and join us for Windows App Day November 23, 2012
- Are you ready to WOWZAPP? Belgium part of Worldwide Hackathon for Windows November 10th
- Cloudify your Windows 8 and iOS apps with Windows Azure Mobile Services
- Marketing material: your app on Windows Store
- Windows Store – App Certification Tips
- Windows 8 Apps Expert Class on October 8 – Free Registration
- From XNA to Windows 8 Game in one day. Join the hackathon September 11
- This is why these 3 young Belgians need your Imagine Cup Vote!
- New Windows Azure Features and Services Announcement and Live stream today
- Register for Web Camp Special Edition on May 3 – All New Content
- TechDays 2012: session recordings, slides and content online
- ASP.NET MVC 4 Beta: Download, Resources, Single Page Applications
- Visual Studio 11 and .NET 4.5 Sneak Peek and beta date announced
- Quick tip: Windows Phone 7 Guidance - patterns & practices release
- Join the Belgian Experts and Microsoft Corp Product team for 12 hours of SQL Server 2012
- Bring your idea to life- turn it into an app (Windows Phone development)
- Deadline approaching for student competition “The Imagine Cup 2012” (cross posting)
- PhoneGap now fully supports Windows Phone 7 (cross posting)
2011 108
- Join us for the first PHP & Windows Azure Hackthon in Belgium
- Call for C++ Community folks in Belgium – January 10th meeting
- Azure Spotlight: Numeri’zik Robot Stream Goes Cloudy (cross posting)
- TechDays 2012 Developer Content Update
- JIT for Christmas, Lumia 800 for WP7 project call participants
- Quick tip: SkyDrive APIs for Docs and Photos, Hotmail calendars and more
- New Windows Azure Site and Features Available (cross-posting)
- TechDays 2012: 80% of agenda online and 1 more week to benefit from 15% discount
- Xbox Companion App release for Windows Phone 7 (cross-posting)
- Early Bird Pricing for TechDays 2012 Extended to December 20. Register now!
- StudentAppVenture, the Windows Phone 7 Developer Contest for Students : develop, submit and win
- Updated Windows Azure SDK & Windows Azure HPC Scheduler SDK Available
- Announcing first ISV Cafe event: join and get your free copy of Forza Motorsport 4
- Windows Azure Platform Training Kit – October 2011 Update now available
- Quick tip: Expression Encoder SP2 released
- Web Camps Belgium: Hands-on HTML5 and Web Apps announced
- Register now for TechDays 2012 and benefit from 15% Early Bird discount
- Microsoft Webcafe on November 23rd in Leuven–register and join us!
- Marketer of the year nomination at MS Belux: NUI and how Kinect brings high-tech magic to consumers (vote for us!)
- Save the Date: TechDays Belgium returns on 14-15-16 February 2012!
- Upcoming MSDN Webcasts on Windows Phone 7.5, Windows Azure, Orchard and VS Team Build
- WebMatrix 2.0 Beta: download, play, publish
- New Windows Phone 7.5 is here: developer update and training events announced
- New Windows Azure SDK 1.5 and Windows Azure Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio 2010
- Upcoming MSDN Webcasts on SharePoint 2010 and Windows Phone ‘Mango’
- On the road to BUILD – A day of California dreaming
- PhoneGap mobile HTML5 framework adding support for Windows Phone Mango
- Windows Azure Toolkits for Windows Phone 7, iOS and Android: new releases
- Quick tip: (free) JScript Editor Extensions for Visual Studio
- Available: Windows Phone SDK 7.1 RC with ‘Go Live’ license for publishing apps on Windows Phone Marketplace
- Windows Phone SDK 7.1 RC available now with ‘Go Live’ license for publishing apps on Windows Phone Marketplace
- Quick tip (link): Virtual images for testing different Internet Explorer versions
- Dive into the summer with MSDN: The Windows Azure Platform
- Dive into the summer with MSDN: HTML5
- 10K Apart: The Responsive Edition Contest open for participation
- HTML5 and IE workshop by the water, powered by Microsoft Webcafe – 25th August 2011 in Brussels
- Windows Phone SDK 7.1 “Beta 2 Refresh” Released - update your phone and tools
- Register for the first networking event at Brussels’ Microsoft Innovation Center
- Windows Phone 7.1 (Mango) SDK Beta 2 and device upgrade for registered developers
- Two quick tests in IE10 PP2 with innerHTML
- Web developers: try out new IE10 Platform Preview 2 with Drag & Drop, File Reader API, Web Workers, CSS3 Floats and more
- Quick tip (link): Mobile Test Drive site
- Last call to register for free Next Generation UX event on June 28 in Brussels
- BUILD: Use what you know. Do what you’ve always imagined!
- Write HTML5 and CSS3 with Visual Studio 2010 – download the free Standards Update today
- Kinect SDK Launched: get moving
- Links from my Demo Day session: HTML5 and the future of the web
- Discover the first preview of code-name Windows 8
- Community Day 2011 on June 23 – register now for full day of sessions for and by the community
- Innov@MIC–”The” Innovation day @ The Microsoft Innovation Center–June 23
- Community work: NuGet as a Service (NaaS) sees the light
- Next Generation User Experiences event on June 28 in Brussels – free registration
- Multi-mania session slides and resources – Hacking your way through website issues with IE9 F12 devtools
- Windows Phone 7 “Mango”: download SDK and consumer features unveiled
- New buildmypinnedsite.com helps you implement IE9 pinning and instrumentation
- Update to Windows Azure Toolkit for Windows Phone 7 includes ACS and Storage Queues
- Quick tip (link): Enterprise Library 5.0 Silverlight Integration Pack released
- Microsoft Webcafe on 26 May 2011 – Register for sessions and special beer tasting activity
- Windows Azure Toolkits for iOS, Android, and WP7
- Register for MSDN Belux webcasts on SQL Server self-service BI, FAST Search Server 2010 and Windows Azure
- Register for the ISV Discovery Day Spring Edition on May 12 2011
- Learn more about the Microsoft Platform Ready program
- Free Classroom Training: Touch Development For The Slate PC on May 9th
- HTML5 Web Camp Belgium recordings and slides available
- Register for webcast with Scott Hanselman LIVE from TechDays 2011 in Belgium on 26 April
- Windows Azure News from MIX11
- Official TechDays 2011 Belux Windows Phone app now available
- Watch the MIX 2011 keynotes live – April 12 and 13
- Congratulations to new and renewed MVPs for Belgium & Luxembourg
- MSDN Webcast: Lunchbox - Developing a Windows Phone 7 Application at Microsoft leveraging Windows Azure
- Quick tip (link): Windows Azure Toolkit for Windows Phone 7 available
- Quick tip (link): Microsoft opens European Cloud and Interoperability Center & second Microsoft Innovation Center in Brussels
- Dev:unplugged – participate in the global HTML5 contest and win!
- Install the BELUX MSDN and TechNet Desktop Gadget to stay up to date
- Quick tip: Microsoft Expression Web 4 SP1 available, new SuperPreview online service for Safari
- Quick tip (link): ‘Build a Better App’ brings content, labs and videos on Microsoft SharePoint 2010
- TechDays 2011 - Check out the sessions and build your own agenda
- Quick tip [link]: Visual Studio 2010 Service Pack 1 available for download
- Quick tip: Vote Microsoft for DataNews Awards for Excellence
- HTML5 Web Camp Belgium on 6 April 2011: free registration open now
- TechDays 2011 – Developer track sessions update
- Quick tip [link]: Windows Phone 7 MUST HAVE Toolkits
- New Windows Azure Free Trial Offering Available Today
- Plans announced to release a non-commercial Kinect for Windows SDK this Spring
- TechDays 2011: Final Chance to Register with Early Bird Pricing!
- Girl Geek app for Windows Phone 7 resources, slides and write up from #BGGD39
- IT in your DNA? ‘Crack the code’ winners announced, share your IT story and win tickets for TechDays 2011
- Internet Explorer 9 RC – download, what’s new and get your sites ready
- Windows Phone Developer Tools January 2011 Update Available Now
- Upcoming MSDN webcasts on TFS 2010 and Windows Phone 7
- ISV Community & Discovery Day – Your chance to win a Kinect & Xbox 360
- Windows Azure Platform Training Kit and Course, January 2011 Update
- Doing PHP? Get your app in the Cloud and you could go to Vegas
- Quick tip [link]: Expression Encoder 4 SP1 released
- Web Camp Belgium on ASP.NET MVC 3, NuGet, HTML5, jQuery and OData: videos and slides online
- MIX 2011: register with early bird and vote for Belgian sessions
- Microsoft Webcafe 2 on February 17th: join us at Combell Café
- Slides and links from my ‘HTML5 Today’ talk at Web Camp Belgium
- TechDays 2011: Early bird extended and first confirmed speakers
- Announcing Windows Azure Jump Start Training Videos
- Quick tip [link]: Native Extensions 1.0 for Microsoft Silverlight
- Final update: get ready for Web Camp Belgium - 24 January 2011
- ASP.NET MVC 3, NuGet, IIS Express, SQL CE 4, Web Farm Framework, Orchard, WebMatrix released
- Silverlight 4 named Best Rich Internet Application (RIA) Platform by InfoWorld
- Web Camp Belgium: join online and breakfast is on us!
- Web Camp Belgium update: new speaker and more of Scott Hanselman!
- Surface 2.0 Experience unveiled at CES
- Register for the next MSDN Live Meetings in January and February
2010 59
- Web Camp Belgium on 24 January with Scott Hanselman and James Senior: attend or watch online
- Quick tip [link]: Windows Phone 7 Developer Guide now available
- Quick tip [link]: Visual Studio 2010 SP1 Beta has been announced
- Silverlight 5 features, firestarter keynote and sessions resources
- Windows Azure SDK 1.3 and the new Windows Azure Management Portal Now Available
- Quick tip [link]: Azure Accelerator for Umbraco
- Quick tip [link]: Visual Basic for Windows Phone Developers tools now available
- Microsoft Webcafe #1 – Resources and notes
- See the next version of Silverlight – live streaming event on December 2, 2010
- Web professional? Join our new Microsoft Webcafe on November 25th
- Quick tip [link]: Enabling IE9 Beta UI features in Platform Preview 6
- Windows Phone 7 Project call at the MIC (Mons)
- IIS Media Services 4.0 released, support for multiple devices
- Quick tip [link]: Silverlight for Windows Phone Toolkit November 2010 (Windows Phone 7)
- Creating a Tile using theme’s color as background (Windows Phone 7)
- Quick tip [link]: WCF RIA Services SP1 and WCF RIA Services Toolkit October 2010
- Internet Explorer 9 - Platform Preview 6 is out
- Quick tip: using the WP Connect utility instead of Zune client (Windows Phone 7)
- REMIX10: (r)Experience the conference with full recorded content online
- Quick tip: Changing document and browser mode with developer toolbar (Internet Explorer 9)
- Quick tip [link]: the PerformanceProgressBar (Windows Phone 7)
- TechEd Africa: slides and resources from my Windows Phone 7 sessions
- Silverlight Media Framework 2.2 released with Windows Phone 7 Support
- SQL Server Day 2010 registrations open
- Are you ready for Windows Phone 7?
- REMIX10 – Update and final chance to register
- Our team is looking for an ISV Developer Evangelist, maybe you?
- Mobile Advertising SDK for Windows Phone 7 announced
- Windows Phone 7 Developer Tools released (RTM)
- Script Junkie – a resource on scripting, HTML and CSS
- Internet Explorer 9 Beta is here: download and experiment
- Windows Phone 7 - Developer Roadmap and a Belgian Contest
- REMIX10 – Registrations open and a glimpse at the agenda
- Windows Phone 7 Developer Tools Beta available
- A new lightweight web tool and stack: WebMatrix
- Internet Explorer 9 – Platfom Preview 3 available
- IIS Media Services 4.0 Beta is out
- Expression Blend SketchFlow 4 integration with SharePoint
- Microsoft Expression 4 launched, what’s new and resources
- Join Belgian Umbraco User Group in Brussels – June 10th
- Windows Phone 7 Developer Hub event confirmed speakers (31 May)
- Community Day 2010 registration open - 24th June
- MSDN Meeting recording & links – MIX 2010 update (Silverlight 4, IE9, Windows Phone 7 dev)
- PHP on Windows Training Kit updated (March 2010)
- Watch the TechDays Developer Keynote with Anders Hejlsberg
- TechDays Update: Windows Phone 7, IE9, lunch sessions and community!
- Silverlight Analytics Framework
- MIX 2010 Twitter Map, powered by Bing Maps
- Free Web Application Toolkits – Three extra toolkits released
- Windows Phone 7 Series revealed – get the lowdown at MIX10
- Las Vegas MIX’ing at Microsoft Belgium – live keynote watch event
- Event announcement: Leveraging Azure with non-Microsoft Technologies
- Visual Studio 2010 Release Candidate is available
- TechDays 2010 – Update Four – Agenda published
- TechDays 2010 – Update Three: .NET 4 Pre-conference
- TechDays 2010 – Update Two: sessions listing online
- Get Ready for the ‘MSDN Get Ready’ training events
- MSDN Azure Roadshow registration open (January 2010)
- The SketchFlow Conversations – Structure of a SketchFlow Project
2009 77
- New update of Windows Azure Platform Training Kit (December)
- The SketchFlow Conversations– Overview and Intro
- TechDays Belgium 2010 – First update
- BeLux Silverlight Contest winners
- Links for my intervention at Le Podcast High Tech – with Drupal user community Belgium
- UX@Vitra November edition – Slides and links from “Experience Continuum” talk
- Come see Scott Guthrie talk on Visual Studio 2010, web development and Silverlight 4
- Silverlight 4 Beta – Overview of the new features
- Microsoft PDC 2009 – the announcements at the keynotes
- SQL Server Day 2009 – now with a full developer track
- MS Web Platform Installer & Gallery – extensibility for your own non-public apps and products
- Celebrate the 1st anniversary of Belgian Silverlight User Group
- Sistr – Free open source rich typography tool for Silverlight
- REMIX 2009 – all recorded sessions now online
- PHP Benelux event on Oct 28th – Microsoft & PHP
- Start to Silverlight – jumpstart your first project with coaching and training event
- Internet Explorer 8 – Webslices and Accelerators Belux Contest is on!
- BeLux Silverlight 3 Contest – Be creative and win cool prizes
- Seen at REMIX: WebsiteSpark and Web Platform Installer 2.0
- Another chance to meet two ReMix speakers
- Slides and sample code from my .NET RIA Services webcast
- ReMix Belgium 2009 – join us for Silverlight, Expression Blend, UX and Surface sessions
- 3’ on Blend 3 - #10: XML Sample Data and DataGrid
- 3’ on Blend 3 - #9: Using Sample Data
- 3’ on Blend 3 - #8: SketchFlow States
- 3’ on Blend 3 - #7: SketchFlow Composition Screens and Navigation
- 3’ on Blend 3 - #6: SketchFlow Composition Screens
- 3’ on Blend 3 - #5: SketchFlow – Getting feedback into Blend
- 3’ on Blend 3 - #4: SketchFlow Player
- Windows Azure Platform: business model announced, try it for free now
- 3’ on Blend 3 - #3: SketchFlow Adding content
- 3’ on Blend 3 - #2: SketchFlow Introduction
- 3’ on Blend 3 – #1: The Workspace
- Silverlight 3: Out-of-Browser Applications
- Silverlight 3 is RTW, Expression Blend 3 with SketchFlow is RC – go get them!
- Congratulations to new and re-awarded Belgian MVPs
- Tooling and integration with Visual Studio to kickstart WPF development (by a Belgian firm) – an interview
- MSDN Chopsticks: recently added videos (ALM Roadshow, SharePoint, VISUG, SQLUG)
- All TechDays 2009 sessions recordings are online
- Slides for Windows 7 for .NET developers webcast, and update on Windows API Code Pack
- User Experience @ Vitra (UX@Vitra) events write-up
- The NewCloudApp() contest now international
- Windows 7 RC and support for VHD (including booting from VHD)
- Microsoft Web Platform Installer: what is it and how to install it?
- Multi-mania 09 and a Meet & Greet with Laurent Bugnion
- Community Day 09 coming on 25th June
- ALM Roadshow: Team Foundation Server and Visual Studio Team System
- Express Yourself newsletter: issue 5 is available
- User Experience at VITRA – join us at 4 different locations
- PHP on Windows Training Kit available (April 2009 update)
- Glimmer: a helpful visual tool for generating jQuery scripts
- Upcoming User Group events (BESUG, SQLUG, VISUG)
- New MSDN online sessions scheduled (ASP.NET MVC, ALM, Azure and more)
- Silverlight Advertising Creation Kit now available
- New and re-awarded Belgian MVPs, and a new ASP Insider
- Virtual Earth Silverlight Map Control (CTP), using Deep Zoom technology
- New sessions by VISUG: Back 2 Basics
- Geeky Girl Adventures in London
- Silverlight Drag & Drop Manager published on CodePlex
- MIX09 Sessions, my favorite picks
- Composite Application Guidance for WPF and Silverlight, v2
- Live Services Jumpstart training available
- TechDays welcomes girl geeks for BGGD #11
- .NET Developer technologies: what’s here to stay, what can you focus on? (trends)
- New Belgian Community site launched
- XAML Guidelines Document for WPF (and Silverlight)
- TechDays 2009 – we’ll have seven Regional Directors speaking!
- IE8 RC1 released – download, test your site and create web slices and accelerators
- TechDays 2009 – more confirmed sessions
- Microsoft Web Platform Installer 1.0 released
- New Architect newsletter and more from MS BeLux
- TechDays 2009: SharePoint pre-conference update
- Updated Windows Azure SDK and Visual Studio Tools CTP (January 2009)
- Do you know Visual Studio Gallery? All extensions, add-ins and products to enhance Visual Studio
- TechDays 2009 – update on content and speakers
- Juval Löwy speaking at VISUG event this month
- Windows Azure – installing SDK, tools and creating a first cloud project
2008 87
- Guidance on which presentation technology to use for RIAs, client and web apps
- Unity for Silverlight by P&P group has been released
- Web Hosting Roadshow slides and all the links
- Silverlight workshop by the Belgian user group: get your hands dirty
- New blog on VSTS by Pieter Gheysens
- Latest videos posted to Chopsticks: “Oslo”, “M”, ASP.NET MVC, Silverlight, IE8 and all Luxembourg TechDays08 content
- Live Framework – storing data in a Mesh-enabled Silverlight web application in 4 steps
- Community events: BIWUG event on Silverlight and e-ID in SharePoint 2007
- Live Framework – creating a Silverlight Mesh-enabled web application in 8 steps
- TechEd EMEA: Visual Studio 2010 in the keynote and lots of Belgians
- Links for Azure, Visual Studio and other experiences from PDC 2008
- PDC 2008 – Regional Directors share their thoughts (Dutch)
- PDC 2008 – Gregory Renard shares his thoughts (French)
- PDC 2008 Day 2 Keynote – Windows 7, Live Framework, VS2010, Office 14 and more!
- PDC 2008 Day 1 Keynote – the Windows Azure Platform
- Working at Microsoft Belgium
- Bart De Smet on Channel9: LINQ-to-Anything
- Silverlight 2 RTW – all the links you need to get started
- Update: Belgians at PDC get-together, we have a sponsor!
- XNA: book, interview, event and a new CTP
- Congratulations to new MVP Kurt Claeys
- MSDN Road Show: Rich Client Experiences with Silverlight 2 and WPF coming to a city near you
- Launch event for XNA Belgian User Group and Belgian Silverlight User Group
- Interview with Hans Verbeeck on TechEd EMEA 2008
- Three new Chopsticks screencasts by the community
- Project Rosetta – from Flash to Silverlight
- IE8 Accelerator for MSDN Social Bookmarks
- Looking for the Belgian attendees at PDC 2008!
- We’re coming to Luxembourg: TechDays08 registration is open
- User Group events this Fall: VISUG and SQL User Group
- Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2: resources for developers and HTML integrators
- 10 minutes with your DE - Data Access in .NET Framework 3.5 SP1: short video
- Expression Blend 2: tips & tricks using the interface
- Two big conferences coming this fall: should I choose PDC or TechEd EMEA?
- Visual Studio 2008 and .NET 3.5 SP1 released today
- patterns & practices: Improving Web Services Security – Scenarios and Implementation Guidance for WCF
- Composite Application Guidance for WPF (previously PRISM)
- Community Day 2008 – 12 sessions by 9 user groups
- New screencasts by Gregory Renard on Chopsticks
- MSDN event recording: Using Team Foundation Server for Version Control: Best Practices for TFS Branching and Merging
- MSDN Evening "Building setup packages with WiX": recording online
- Prism: codename for the new guidance for Composite Application development for WPF
- VSX, VISUG and Multi-mania events
- Watch VISUG session on VSX (Visual Studio Extensibility) online
- Next BIWUG meeting Thursday 22nd May 2008
- .NET 3.5 SP1 Beta and Visual Studio 2008 SP1 Beta are out
- Silverlight collaboration demo source code from the MIX essentials keynote
- MIX essentials 2008 Roundup
- Different ways for loading images and files in Silverlight 2 applications
- Upcoming MSDN Evening sessions and user group presentations
- Chopsticks Noodle: two new videos by Peter Himschoot
- .NET Framework 3.5 Enhancements Training Kit (April Content Preview) available
- MIX essentials micro blog
- MIX essentials agenda update
- Silverlight and the HTML page: let your Silverlight do the work
- MIX essentials countdown gadget
- MIX essentials 2008: registration is open for the Belgian event on April 24th
- {Heroes Happen Here} Community Launch - 6 sessions in May 2008
- Launch and TechDays in Belgium are over, Luxemburg coming on the 19th of March 2008
- Silverlight 2: structure of the new .XAP file (Silverlight packaged application)
- Grégory Renard's "10 minutes with your Regional Director" screencast series on Chopsticks
- Silverlight 2 Beta 1 - Silverlight Application project
- MIX08 session recordings are available online
- Steve Ballmer at MIX: he just loves Web Developers and we can prove it with this video
- MIX 08 – the beta releases downloads
- VISUG session by Juval Lowy - Demonstrating WCF – Beyond the Endpoints
- Web Service Software Factory: Modeling Edition For Visual Studio 2008
- New Web Client Software Factory 2.0 Release (February 2008)
- VISUG wants you to tell them how they're doing
- My academic session on Visual Studio 2008 and .NET 3.5
- Getting ready for MIX08
- ScottGu publishes a tutorial on Silverlight 2 Beta1
- TechDays 2008 agenda is finalized
- Guidance Automation Extensions (GAT) and Guidance Automation Toolkit (GAX): Final Release February 2008
- Visual Studio User Group meeting - Building Services with the Service Factory: Modeling Edition, on 21 February 2008
- New Belgian User Group: XNA-Bug
- Channel9 video: Scott Guthrie: What's Coming for Mix, Part 2: Windows, Web, and RIA, Silverlight 2.0
- Channel9 interview: "Scott Guthrie: What's Coming for Mix, Part 1: IIS7 for Developers"
- MSDN Code Gallery - your one-stop shop for code snippets and samples
- Get the latest content on Microsoft’s web technologies at MIX08
- TechDays 2008: new sessions added
- Preview of the Belgian TechDays 2008 agenda
- New WPF Starter Kit and SDK released: Syndicated Client Experiences Start Kit & Reader SDK
- Silverlight Tools and Resources
- BIWUG presentation on OpenXML now available
- Silverlight 1.0 Fire Starter video now available through MIX University
- Visual Studio 2008 Launch and TechDays 2008 Belgium: registration is open