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Software Developers Conference 2007
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...

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Creating Dutch language installer packages in Visual Studio 2005
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...

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1st Dutch Code Camp
The first Dutch Code Camp was held yesterday in Barneveld. With lots of people showing up there was a real nice vibe and all I can say is it was a smashing success. Lots of people wanted to know when we would organize the next one; someone even went so...

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Code Camp update
Het is al bijna zover, nog minder dan twee weken en het eerste Nederlandse Code Camp is een feit. Alles tot nu toe wijst erop dat het een groot succes gaat worden. Zo was er een fors overschot aan potentiele sprekers en hebben we een mooi en divers programma...

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Live From Redmond Webcast Series
Beth Massi, a former VB MVP who has joined the form , just blogged about a serie of blog casts the VB team is putting together. These web casts are all about VB9 and Visual Studio Orcas with stuff like LINQ, Offline data and SOA. Some interesting stuff...

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Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Microsoft Office System: Microsoft PSS VSTO 2005 Client TroubleShooter
During my VSTO - No Pain No Gain presentation last week I mentioned that the Microsoft PSS VSTO 2005 Client TroubleShooter is still real useful even though it hasn't been updated for VSTO 2005 SE. But I did fail to provide the listeners with the URL where...

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Visual Studio Tools for Office - No Pain No Gain
Last week I did a presentation in Bunnik for the SDN on VSTO. The title was VSTO - No Pain No Gain. The presentation went quite well and I think a lot of people learned about some of the hardships of developing VSTO applications and how to get around...

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Unit testing in Visual Studio 2005
One of the things I always disliked is that unit testing was only available in the enterprise VS2005 SKU, just like professional developers don't need or use unit testing. Yeah right, that is one of the hallmarks of a professional coder is you ask me...

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MVP Summit
So I have been a bit quite these last few weeks. Well a small side trip to Rome was part of the reason . This is a HDR picture taken at night in the Forum. The picture is actually created from three small JPEG's I will redo it with the original RAW images...

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Code Camp in the Netherlands
We are organizing a Code Camp event on may 12th in the Netherlands. Let us know if you are interested in hosting a session or just attending. More information can be found at http://www.code-camp.nl . See you there! Maurice de Beijer www.TheProblemSolver...

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Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 Update for Windows Vista
So it isn't officially called Service Pack 2 but it is still the long awaited VS2005 updated for running on Vista. I haven't tried it myself yet as I am not running on Vista yet, that will happen later this year when I get a new notebook. You can download...

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Cool tool: Lutz Roeder's Reflector
Reflector by Lutz Roeder is probably the tool I use most often when developing .NET code, well just after Visual Studio 2005 anyway. And now there is a new version, 5, out. Still free, still excellent. Highly recommended. Download from http://www.aisto...

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VSTO Excel solutions and disappearing Action Panes
If you are using Actions Panes in a VSTO Excel add-in you might have seen the following behavior. You create an new ActionPane, derived from UserControl, and add it to the Workbook ActionsPane.Controls collection. It shows up nicely so you think you are...

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Software Developer Conference 2007 - Call For Speakers
The Software Developer Network (SDN) has begun planning for its 16 th annual Software Developer Conference (SDC) to be held in The Netherlands on September 17 and 18, 2007. We hereby invite you to submit proposals to be considered for participation as...

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Running Visual Studio 2005 on Windows Vista
If you want to run Visual Studio 2005 on Windows Vista you might want to take a close look at the following two lists. They list some of the issues you might run into. In other words, make sure you can live without. Check for running with elevated administrator...

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VSTO Screen cast
I decided to give screen casting a try. Being Dutch I decided to make the first attempt a Dutch language video so don't bother if you don't speak the language :-) Take a look at http://www.windowsworkflowfoundation.eu/taskpane3/taskpane3.html . The screen...

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