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It's official! WPF/E has been named Microsoft Silverlight. (Yet another meaningless name...)  Flash, eat your heart out! Link to Microsoft Silverlight

(It has been too long... I am trying to get less clutter and more valuable info in my blog...) Last Friday I wrote my biography, a session summary and I sent them accompanied by my portrait to Microsoft as I will be doing a session on the Dutch DevDays[1] Windows Vista and Longhorn Server: The Transactional File System I am pretty exited about ...

  Today Microsoft releases XNA Game Studio Express 1.0 The official link and download page aren't there yet but after digging around I found a link[1]. Here's the official link[2] [1] Microsoft XNA Game Studio Express 1.0 [2] Microsoft XNA Game Studio Express 1.0

In my previous post about using and Dispose[1] I touched lightly on the Garbage Collector. Indeed very lightly, I never mentioned it but Dispose is very much related to the GC. Today I found Chris Lyon's Weblog which contains excellent info on the GC, ranging from Dispose to WeakReferences. Read the blog, it's just 17 posts but well worth your ...

Please note that my explanation in this post is incorrect. I am sorry if I caused any trouble. In .NET 2.0 disposing the SqlConnection DOES return the connection into the connectionpool. In my experience .NET 1.1 acted differently; I will try to investigate this and let you know.   In many talks, tutorials and books you will find C# ...

During the last few weeks I developed the idea that it would be nice to be able to pull Key Performance Indicators (KPI) data from a data warehouse to the desktop in gadget on the sidebar in Vista. I even asked some colleagues if there are any standard API's or Web Services to access KPI's. Today (the second day of a course on Longhorn Server I ...

As you might have noticed the Microsoft Expression Products[1] got their final names and a new addition. In true adherence to other naming schemes[2][3] they decided to give Interaction Designer a name that is 'easy' to recognize. I remember it by remembering that it's the one with the non descriptive name... Let me think.... ah! Blend (was ...

Today I have met Jason Olson[1]. I have been reading his blog ever since the gaming world was looking for the ultimate gameloop in managed code[2]. Like Jason I love game development and do 'normal' development for my work. This week he is teaching Longhorn Server at a Train The Trainer event in Amsterdam. I'll be redelivering ...

 Eric[1] showed me a great summary of tricks that will let you use some new Vista API's from managed code[2]. Thanks Eric! [1] Eric [2] Vista-only features for the managed developer

Last Friday I gave a seminar on the requirements for the Vista Logo Certification[1]. During the talk someone suggested that the problems of running Visual Studio 2005 (and SQL Server 2005 as well) on Windows Vista can be fixed[2]. Although I haven't tried it yet (I will a soon as I get my hands on a Volume License Key for Vista) I'd be ...