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My provisional program for DevDays 2005: 09:30 Keynote: Microsoft Developer Tools Strategy Prashant Sridharan (Microsoft) 10.45 Visual Studio Tools for Office 2005 Lex Oskam (Microsoft) 13.15 Indigo update Gijs de Jong (Microsoft) 14.45 BizTalk in action Sijmen Koffeman (Microsoft) 16.30 ASP.NET Web Services 2.0 Alex Thissen (Twice) I’ll probably be attending these sessions during my first DevDays ever: DevDays 2005.

To be honest, I’m glad I’m not on an ASP.NET project right now. I saw ASP.NET 2.0 in action last Friday, and I would go crazy if I would have to do an ASP.NET 1.1 project now. 2.0 and the new Visual Studio 2005 (Whidbey) take a lot of ‘standard work’ out of the developers' hands, making development much faster. It begins with something as simple as leaving the cursor where it is while switching between views.

Currently I’m reading the Microsoft Press book“Developing web applications with Microsoft Visual Basic .NET and C# .NET” by Jeff Webb. (This book is part of the very interesting “MCAD/MCSD Self-Paced Training Kit“.) I borrowed this book from the Microsoft Library here at my new job. They’ve got a very wide variety in books! Another plus to add to the list. Although I’d like to think I’ve mastered quite a part of the .

This is the first in what I hope will be a lot of posts here on my newly created weblog. I started blogging at Google’s blogger, but then I wasn’t aware of the possibilities bloggingabout.net brings you! So now I moved my blog here, to be able to give my opinion about all kinds of (developer related) stuff, and off course just for the fun of it. I’ll try to keep you posted!