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March 2006 - Posts

• Ruby resources

  Wouter[1] wrote about Ruby (I am proud to be the cause of his post) and this inspired me to give some additional info on Ruby. I have been using Ruby for a while now and I really like it. Ruby home Download Ruby Ruby on .NET Getting started (online book) Read More... Posted Wednesday, March 15, 2006 10:18 AM by Erno de Weerd | 0 Comments Filed under: .NET, Coding

• Expression Interactive Designer and Expression Graphics Designer March CTP

  Both EID and EGD have new a new CTP[1] that is compatible with the WinFX February CTP I can't wait to get my hands on UserControls!!! [1] Microsoft Expression - Home Read More... Posted Saturday, March 11, 2006 1:20 PM by Erno de Weerd | 0 Comments Filed under: .NET, Design

• Tracing Data Access

  Besides speaking at the DevDays I also had the chance to attend a session from Bob Beauchemin[1] During this session he referred to an article he wrote that contains very useful information on how to trace Data Access on a very low level. It took some Read More... Posted Thursday, March 09, 2006 10:46 AM by Erno de Weerd | 0 Comments Filed under: .NET, Coding

• The Dutch Microsoft DevDays 2006: some random notes

  Today was the last of the two Microsoft DevDays 2006. Both days I had the honor of giving a talk about windows Presentation Foundation. I must say that, even though WPF is very appealing on its own, competing with abstract stuff like Windows Communication Read More... Posted Wednesday, March 08, 2006 7:22 PM by Erno de Weerd | 3 Comments Filed under: .NET

• Demo code from my DevDays 2006 sessions

  I have added two downloads to the Windows Presentation Foundation Tutorials page. Both are zips that contain the (working :)) demo code for the WPF Overview session (Dev002) and the WPF Data Binding session (Dev013). I really enjoyed speaking at the conference; Read More... Posted Wednesday, March 08, 2006 3:33 PM by Erno de Weerd | 0 Comments Filed under: .NET, Coding, Design

• My audience

  Rory[1] touches upon a sensitive area in his post about customer feedback. Although I hesitate a little in criticizing my customers/audience (I might end up with very bad scores on my future evaluations) I would like to add some of my own experiences. Read More... Posted Thursday, March 02, 2006 9:51 AM by Erno de Weerd | 2 Comments Filed under: Training, Off topic

• New certification: Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist

  I just found out that, as of January 25th, I am a Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist (MCTS) . I passed both required exams (in beta). The first exam is a general .NET 2.0 exam (pretty tough) and the second one is a Web Application Exam. Still waiting Read More... Posted Wednesday, March 01, 2006 9:15 AM by Erno de Weerd | 0 Comments Filed under: .NET, Training