WCF

Can't wait to get this book on WCF

Peter Himschoot — Tue, 31 Oct 2006 05:00:00 GMT

Michele Bustamente (Das Blonde, with some Indigo in her hair :)) is currently finishing her book on WCF.

This is on I will buy the moment the ink hits the paper.

Good news: we can download some chapters of her book already here !!!

Windows Vista RC2 is here! Installing the SDK

Peter Himschoot — Mon, 09 Oct 2006 03:41:00 GMT

Vista RC2 is probably the last public drop of Vista before it goes RTM. This build contains updated drivers, and yes, finally my Tecra M4 plays video's without problems (no hickups, etc...). Now to the interesting problem: installing the SDK and VS integration...

Since there is no official SDK available for RC2 (yet), I've tried installing the Sep 2006 SDK, and I must say, works like a charm! Visual Studio integration too. Although I might be a little too early, there is a lot to test :)

Next on my list is intalling Camtasia and recording a session on WPF, which I want to make public.

MSDN Session (sept 25 2006) Pictures

Peter Himschoot — Fri, 29 Sep 2006 02:16:00 GMT

Tom posted some pictures of the event here. Cool!

WCF and WF demos from Ingo's session

Peter Himschoot — Fri, 29 Sep 2006 02:11:00 GMT

Ingo posted the demos he so brilliantly gave on his blog.

WCF Tracing

Peter Himschoot — Wed, 27 Sep 2006 02:37:00 GMT

Channel 9 has this very nice video on debugging WCF applications with tracing

Check it out!

What's .NET 3.0 anyway?

Peter Himschoot — Wed, 27 Sep 2006 02:32:00 GMT

A lot of people are wondering if .NET 3.0 is a new version of .NET, and if they'll have to port their application from .NET 2.0.

Actually .NET 3.0 is a bunch of new things (WPF, WCF, WCS and WF) built ON TOP OF .NET 2.0. So anything you've built with .NET 2.0 will run normally on .NET 3.0.

.NET 3.0 training today

Peter Himschoot — Wed, 27 Sep 2006 02:29:00 GMT

Today I gave a training to 13 people about .NET 3.0. I recycled yesterday's session on WPF (there was only one person who already saw it yesterday - who got to do same extra labs) then went on with WCF and WF.

However, can you imagine training people in .NET 3.0 in a single day? I mean, it's very hard to give an overview of most of .NET 3.0's features in a single day...

MSDN Event On .NET Framework 3.0 Fully Booked!

Peter Himschoot — Wed, 13 Sep 2006 04:17:00 GMT

September 25 Ingo Rammer and I will speak on the .NET framework 3.0, with place for 600 developers.

And it's fully booked. Cool!

Link

Vista RC1 is here !!!

Peter Himschoot — Mon, 04 Sep 2006 02:46:00 GMT

Yesterday I downloaded Vista RC1 and installed it today. Installation was a piece of cake, my NVidia driver was installed directly (instant glass support). For the moment everything looks OK.

On MSDN the RC bits for .NET framework 3.0 are also available.

Amazing XAML article

Peter Himschoot — Fri, 18 Aug 2006 23:34:00 GMT

Wohooo, my article on XAML and its extensibility has been published on the Belgian MSDN site.

http://www.microsoft.com/belux/msdn/nl/community/columns/himschoot/amazingxaml.mspx

Actually, I've already made a couple of improvements to the article (thanks to suggestions from several kind people like Rob Relyea and Tim Sneath). This update should get published on MSDN Corp...

Let me know what you think!