Jan Tielens' Bloggings

The word is out ...

Did you ever wonder why PDC is held in Los Angeles this year? I didn't know either before this morning, until I encountered this road sign:

I just arrived at Los Angeles for the PDC conference! Together with a bunch of EMEA people we are staying in the Hollywood Renaissance Hotel (check David’s post for a list of Belgians). There was a welcome party yesterday evening but since everybody was awake for more than 24 hours, a lot of people (including me) left quite early. For some early impressions you can check my MSN Space for some pictures. Today we are going to do a city tour in L.A., trying to visit all the tourist hot spots. The countdown for the key note has started ... :-)

Here's a little hint for all the SmartPart fans out there: stay tuned for some exciting announcements... I'm not going to spoil the surprise but here's my advice for web part developers: invest some time in ASP.NET 2.0; you'll be able to use it sooner than you may think. :-)

I'm getting excited, tomorrow (very very early, even for me) I will leave for PDC, together with a bunch of other geeks. It will be my first major Microsoft event outside Belgium; I'm ready for the information overload. Besides the technical content I really hope that there will be some other SharePoint/BizTalk/IW fans which I've "met" online.

I knew that I had seen this sometime somewhere when I was looking for it. Even my SharePoint buddy didn't know how to pull off this little trick. But thanks to Chan's post, I now have a link to the solution! :-) You can get the HTML to display contents of a Document Library or a List (just a list of items, no toolbars) by using the RPC protocol, the nice thing is that you can also use RPC by providing parameters in the URL. For example this URL

I know I promised the new version of the SmartPart for this weekend, but minutes before I wanted to upload the bits to GotDotNet Workspace I found a small issue. It took me some time to find the bug, but now I’m proud to present to you the SmartPart version 1.1! Before you all start downloading the latest version, here’s an overview of the new features:

Pfew, it has been a while since my last noticeable blog post. I'm sorry for my avid readers who have visited my blog in vain in the last couple of months. Just to kill some rumours: I don’t have a blog restraint, I haven’t transformed into a Websphere junkie and I’m still alive. :-) Holidays are over and I’m ready for the new Blogging Season!