Jan Tielens' Bloggings

If you haven't checked out the recently released Enterprise Library, you should do it very soon. :-) This week I'm teaching a course about building Enterprise Applications, so it's a good opportunity to evangelize the Enterprise Library among my students.

Do you want to learn something about ASP.NET 2.0? For free? Microsoft Belux is hosting the ASP.NET 2.0 On Tour event in Brussels. For more details and registration vist the MSDN Belux event page.

Next week I'm again in Portugal delivering a BizTalk course, this time in Lisbon. I'm really looking forward to it, since last time was really great! If you're intrested you can find more information here.

This evening we installed the U2U RSS Feeds for Microsoft SharePoint 2003 on our SharePoint server. Too bad I didn't carry my camera; just imagine Patrick in a 1m by 1m "server room", sitting on the ground with a keyboard on his knees, shouting bad things to the server... :-) The good news is that the installation went like a charm! So now you can access the content of our SharePoint Resource Center by using RSS:

Today is an exciting day! This morning we released the U2U RSS Feeds for Microsoft SharePoint 2003 tool and now Microsoft Belux published an article about building web parts (the smart way of course) written by Patrick and myself. On top of that today is Nele's birthday, happy birthday Nele!

Maybe you’ve noticed that the last couple of weeks I haven’t blogged a lot. Behind the scenes  the U2U SharePoint Team was working hard on finishing the first release of a very exiting new tool: U2U RSS Feeds for Microsoft SharePoint 2003! The people that have visited that Belgian Developer & IT-Pro Days two weeks ago, already got a sneak preview. But now it’s ready to be shown to the rest of the blogosphere!

Once again there's an update for the BizTalk Server 2004 installation guide, get it here. While you're at the download site, you maybe want to download the newly released BizTalk Adapter for WSE 2.0. When do we get a new BizTalk Server Adapter for SharePoint Libraries?? :-)

Thanks to everyone who has made some comments about our Hardcore SharePoint sessions (both on- and offline). It's great to hear from you guys and girls! Patrick has posted some more information about when/how we will release all the stuff we showed. Quite some people have some questions about the SharePoint Application Blocks (what are they, where can we find them, ...), mostly about the Content Application Block for SharePoint. Well, maybe you can compare the Content Application Block with ObjectSpaces for SharePoint, the only difference is that the CAB is here right now. :-) (just kiddin'). I completely agree with Patrick on this one, it should be made available as a free download. We'll keep you posted...