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The past weeks I have been pretty busy working on one of the things I found really missing in the current version of windows Workflow Foundation. Windows Communication Foundation Input & output activities. I thought it would be very useful and also a very nice exercise for me to create those activities the same way…

The past few weeks I have been working on writing a new training on windows workflow foundation. Last week we did an internal dry run of the content and as we speak I am working on the hands-on labs that accompany the course. During the development of the labs I ran into an interesting struggle…

I was very happy to receive the email this morning with the following content:   Dear Marcel de Vries, Congratulations! We are pleased to present you with the 2007 Microsoft® MVP Award! The Microsoft MVP Award is our way of saying thank you and to honor and support the significant contributions you make to communities…

Just got the word that the service packs for Visual Studio 2005 and Team Foundation Server are now available for download at the MSDN sites. You can download them here: Visual Studio 2005 SP1 Team Foundation Server SP1 Just as a note: Make sure you have enough disk space free before you install the Visual…

This morning I browsed to the MSDN website I got a big surprise, my article on team system is up there as one of the feature article links!  I know I already published that the article was available, but It was great for me to see that MS thinks it is good enough to make…

  Last week I downloaded my copy of Windows Vista and this weekend I reinstalled my laptop with Vista. Today I came to work and connected to the network to start my work. I have installed Visual Studio 2005 team suite and the team foundation client. I did this from a external hard drive that…

Since office was officially released I decided to start using office 2007 right away. I don’t know if this is something many people encounter, but it takes me some time to figure out how I can do the things I was used to do. The ribbon bar is perhaps very intuitive for first time office…

Today I have been working on a web service that needed to accept an additional SOAP header, but I did not want to give the client developers the additional burden of actually specifying the header before they could call the web service. I just wanted it to be infrastructural and not something the developers need…