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Microsoft released a separate toolkit for using the CCR and DSS framework inside your own applications, enabling Concurrent programming inside your regular C# (or VB.NET) application. And managing a directory of services with the DSS framework. So there is no need anymore for using Robotics Studio for these ...

The BizTalk Labs have delivered a new part, a hosted Workflow Service, now it is possible to create a workflow and host it in the "cloud". we can use the ISB (Internet Service Bus, instead of Enterprise) to send messages across the internet. Combine this with authentication and authorization and we have a powerfull ...

Yesterday we (Raimond, Marcel and me) gave a presentation during the DevDays Geek Night. The room was packed with about 200 enthusiastic geeks! We talked about Robotics in general, the new Robotics Studio 2.0 beta, the RoboChamps robotic competition and also on the design of our robot "Woody". Finally a real life demonstration of ...

We'll be delivering the Quicklearn BizTalk 2006 R2 Developer Deep Dive from may 19 till may 23 in our location in Utrecht. So, are you an experienced BizTalk developer, and are you interested in all the details of BizTalk 2006 R2 then this is the course for you! Topics included:Advanced Pipeline developmentBizTalk RFIDSchema ...

Next week, on friday the 16th of november at 15:00, we'll be hosting the kickoff for the annual RoboChallenge contest at our location in Veenendaal. The RoboChallenge is a nice contest open to everyone, the purpose is to build a robot, and program it to drive around and collect colored objects. Take a look at the RoboChallenge site. If you ...

Last week I followed an Ensim 3.2 SDK Training, together with Edward, Vincent and some of my Belgian Colleagues. (for those who don't know Ensim, they have a product for provisioning Hosted Exchange, IIS, SQL and WSS, which we happen to use for our hosting services) We had a nice time, learning a lot on the SDK, and now it's up to ...

Well, the 2007 RoboChallenge is over, and we ended up in 3rd place, between all the (expensive) robots from the Noordelijke Hogeschool Leeuwarden(NHL). Our robot Woody did a great job, we past the qualification in 1 pass, and during most of the mission's there was no problem with the software. Only during the last mission we had a case ...

There will be a new dutch BTUG meeting at March 29th 2007. (www.btug.nl) This is the opportunity to learn more on BizTalk and meet and discuss with peers. The BTUG is for new and experienced BizTalk users, ranging from architects to developers/infrastructure people. Stay tuned for more information, registration and the agenda, the event ...

To keep up my link blogging, here some new goodies hot off the press: Virtual PC 2007 [1] Sql Server 2005 SP2 [2] [1] http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=04D26402-3199-48A3-AFA2-2DC0B40A73B6&displaylang=en [2] http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/sql/2005/downloads/servicepacks/sp2.mspx

It's time to export those XAML(WPF) programs to the web, download and install this browser plugin for IE and/or Firefox, on Windows or Macintosh. The plugin enables the XAML together with JavaScript(AJAX) to be executed on the client browser (with some reduced functionality). Now it's finally time for the Web applications to grow past the ...