.NET Reflector, by Lutz Roeder, must be one of the most useful tools I have when developing .NET code. Usually it is the first thing I install right after Visual Studio not even waiting until I need it because I know I will. So the big news is that Red Gate, makers of the Ants profiler and lots of other tools, are taking over from Lutz Roeder and will continue developing .NET Reflector. Interesting move and I hope this means a bright future for the .NET Reflector. Read more about this here . Enjoy!

It is available from the subscriptions download at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/subscriptions/default.aspx Get it while it is hot Enjoy!

Afgelopen jaar hebben we het eerste CodeCamp in Nederland georganiseerd en dat was een groot succes. De meeste deelnemers vroegen om meer, sommige zelfs om een CodeCamp per kwartaal of een heel weekend lang. Nou hebben we dat laatste nog niet gedaan maar we zijn wel aan de slag gegaan om een nieuw CodeCamp te organiseren. Als datum hebben we zaterdag 6 september gekozen. Gelukkig waren Microsoft en Class-a behulpzaam en kunnen we, net als vorig jaar, weer in het Microsoft Innovation Center in Barneveld

VS2008 SP1 Beta is quite a package. By default the installation downloads the packages as needed and when needed. Now that is just fine if you only need to install a single machine. But when you need to install multiple, possibly virtual, machines like I have to it just wastes a lot of bandwidth and time . Fortunately there is a solution and it can be found here in the blog post by Heath Stewart. Enjoy!

The new ReceiveActivity and SendActivity that marry Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) and Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) are really cool . Getting started is easy because a new Sequential Workflow Service Library, found under WCF instead of Workflow in VS2008, uses nice defaults for everything. But sooner or later you need to change these defaults and you need to know what can be done and what can't. When you want to use the new ReceiveActivity in a workflow you need to use a compatible

Looking for more information about VS2008 and .NET 3.5? I suspect you might just be as there is a ton of new functionality and with the pace of everything coming out it isn't likely that you know it all To help learn the new stuff Microsoft has put a Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 training kit together with lots of labs and presentations. Just go through the list and check what you would like to know more about. You can download the trainings kit from here . Enjoy!

If you are expecting a link to the download I am sorry but you are going to be disappointed Why? Because it just isn't available yet! I can already hear you saying "But it must be coming any day now, right?" Wrong Yes, I just heard from Hugo that there are no current plans for releasing a new service pack for the very simple reason not enough people are asking for it. Come gain, why was that? Because not enough people are asking for it! So click in this link and vote for another SQL

Talking about conferences we pretty much finalized the session schedule for the SDC this year as well. And the session schedule is even more impressive as last year. We are holding back on publishing it for a bit longer until we have confirmation from all the speakers but stay tuned for more Hope to see you there as well