Jan Tielens' Bloggings

There is a rumour that next week (@ DevDays) U2U will announce a tool to generate RSS feeds for SharePoint. Nothing new you might think, there are several other solutions. That's right, but you haven't seen the screenshots, nor the feature list. I did! :-) In fact I "found" some screenshots on my desktop today... (don't know how they got there)

As always, Patrick is very good at spoiling surprises. :-) Next week, at the Belgian Dev-Days, the SharePoint team at U2U will release some really cool stuff, so keep tuned. If you want to read the scoop, go an read Patrick's post about our upcoming CAML tool, SharePoint/Outlook synchronize tool and SharePoint RSS feed generator!

[Via Christof] BizTalk Service Pack 1 is released! Get it here, more info on Scott's blog.

• The generation of wrappers for BizTalk 2002 Application Integration Components (AICs) so that they can be used as BizTalk 2004 adapters and pipeline components;
• The wrapper for BizTalk 2002 custom preprocessors so that they can be used as BizTalk 2004 pipeline components; and
• Implementation of BizTalk 2002 IInterchange to facilitate migration of BizTalk 2002 applications that submitted messages bypassing specific transports directly into BizTalk.
  Please, read readme file for more details.

Since last week you can sign up for testing the beta's of two SQL Server related service packs: SQL Server 2000 SP4 and Reporting Services SP2. I signed up for testing the Reporting Services SP2 beta mainly because it contains web parts which can be used inside SharePoint, nice! The goal of these web parts is showing the contents of report inside a SharePoint site. So these new web parts are some serious competition for Bryant Like's RS Web Parts which actually do just the same.

It has been out some time (since January 6th), but I know some of my clients are waiting for it. :-)

Last week I was in Porto (Portugal) for delivering a BizTalk course. It was great, in many ways: Porto is a very nice city, working with the group was a pleasure, everyone was so kind, ... On Thursday I had the honor of attending the first geek dinner at Porto! Thanks guys, it was great meeting all of you and I'd love to come back! :-) Check my MSN Space for more pictures of last week.

Woehoe, the date for the 3rd Belgian Geek Dinner is set: 21st of January. This time it's in Brussels, 8PM at La Maison d'Attila. Check Roy's blog for more details and registration. See you all there!