.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!

On May 3 rd GAMTUG , the Galway Area Microsoft Technology Users Group, is organizing the DDD Ireland and I will be there doing a session on Workflow Foundation in a SOA architecture and a seconds session about using the new VSTO version 3 features that ship with Visual Studio 2008. Check out the video for a preview

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!

So another day at TechEd Barcelona. Not all that much to report though. I had booth duty at the Ask The Experts booth all day so didn't get to see any sessions yet. The booth was pretty quiet with not to many questions, so not much to report there. Now I am waiting for the last session slot of the day. I am going to What is new in WPF 3.5 by Ian Griffiths. I don't think I have heard him before so I am just as interested in the speaker as the topic. This evening we are getting together for

I've been a bit busy lately and with a lot of things on my mind and I've neglected this poor blog for a few weeks now. I promise I'll pick back up soon and I've got some ideas for some future posts, but they will have to wait for a better moment. Meanwhile, here's an assorted list of thoughts and links: If you have to create Office Add-Ins using .NET, then give these guys a serious look. Their documentation isn't too good, but the stuff works very nicely, it's not hard to pick up, supports several

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

If have Dutch language users of your applications and you want to localize the installer packages Visual Studio 2005 produces you might want to check out Willem van den Broek work. He created a complete translation so all you have to do is set the Localization property to Dutch and you are good to go. Download the package from www.vbcentral.nl/msi . You can find more details on the same page. Enjoy!