Anith Gopal

A couple of weeks ago we had a Windows Identity Foundation workshop in Belgium delivered by Vittorio Bertocci . Frank Cornelis from FedICT was very quick to apply this knowledge and make it so you can now easily use the Belgian electronic ID cards with your ASP.NET applications.

Trolling the customer bugs and noticed this one: “What happen to the Visual Studio 2008 Express Download Link??” ..and thought my answer directly back to the request might be useful for other folks:   Visual Studio 2008 Express is actually comprised of four different downloads/editions. · Visual Basic 2008 Express Edition · Visual C# 2008 Express Edition · Visual C++ 2008 Express Edition · Visual Web Developer 2008 Express Edition. Not a single product/download like you are searching for

I’m still hearing quite a few people say they will join us but at the same time they still need to register. Benefit from the discount up to 120 euro if you register before the 31st of January. I hope that the speaker line up ( http://www.microsoft.com/belux/techdays/2010/speakers.aspx ) and the session list ( http://www.microsoft.com/belux/techdays/2010/sessions.aspx ) actually inspires you most to join us but a financial incentive never hurts either.

http://blogs.msdn.com/windowsazure/archive/2010/01/04/sign-up-for-a-windows-azure-platform-offer-today-and-get-visibility-into-your-usage.aspx On the offers page ( http://www.microsoft.com/windowsazure/offers/ ) you get a list of options you have to buy computing power on the Windows Azure platform. As an MSDN Subscriber, I’m obviously first activating the benefits I get through my subscription. The process also includes providing credit card details but you won’t be charged unless you go over a certain amount of usage.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/nl-be/ee815840.aspx At this free event on December 4th in the Kinepolis Brussels , Scott will be speaking about Visual Studio 2010, .NET 4 as well as about the latest on web development with ASP.NET 4.0 and the next version of Silverlight. Scott Guthrie , the man behind ASP.NET, is now Corporate Vice President of Microsoft .NET developer Platform and responsible in addition to ASP.NET for products as IIS, Visual Studio, Silverlight and the Common Language Runtime (CLR).