Anith Gopal

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://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).

At Microsoft we like to drive special attention to people that do great work in the developer community, as you might know the MVP title is a recognition of this effort. Since yesterday we have two new MVPs in Belgium, of which one in the developer space.

Go here and register: https://partner.surface.com/en/Pages/default.aspx If you are not a Microsoft partner yet then this is the place to go to: http://partner.surface.com/EN/Pages/MicrosoftPartnerProgram.aspx

Do you have an application or cool ideas for an application using the Azure Services Platform ? You might give the NewCloudApp contest a try

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa511258.aspx There are quite a few new UI featuers and UI changes in Windows 7. Enough to check out out the Windows User Experience Interaction Guidelines I bleive which has been updated with information about the new jumplists, touch and more.

I’m loving the new Windows version, I’ve been using it on my work and my demo computers since the release of the Beta version in January. I’m not going back! Now with the release of Windows 7 RC we are coming closer to a scheduled release by holiday season 2009 (as announced during TechEd US keynote)

Multi-mania is a great multimedia event taking place on 18th and 19th May in XPO Kortrijk.

I was taught that documenting the code is almost as important as a writing it. On this site you find some hilarious comments: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/184618/what-is-the-best-comment-in-source-code-you-have-ever-encountered Like this one: //When I wrote this, only God and I understood what I was doing //Now, God only knows   Or: try { } finally { // should never happen }

An update is due with all upcoming events organized by the very active user groups. But first: save the date for Community Day is back on June 25th 2009

Congratulations are due to our new and renewed MS Most Valuable Professionals! New MVPs: Karine Bosch , MVP for SharePoint Server I met Karine a few year ago when I was doing SharePoint development as well. She was then already quite active in the SharePoint community, having developed tools for CAML and SharePoint. She was the person working very closely with the late Patrick Tisseghem, a legend in the SharePoint field

You can go here to register. We have got a very nice agenda! https://partner.microsoft.com/belux-nl/40100049   Agenda Innovation day 09.30 –10.00: Welcome and coffee 10.00 –10.15: Intro 10.15 –11.00: Microsoft Innovation Center On March 4th, the Microsoft Innovation Center (MIC) will be officially opened in Mons