Jan Tielens' Bloggings

Did you ever wonder what technology you should use to create your Office smart client application? Today we have a lot of technologies and tools to choose from (I don't know if that's a good or a bad thing ;-): InfoPath, Visual Studio.NET, VSTO 2003/2005, IBF, Access Developer Extensions, Smart Documents, Smart Tags, ... Today an article was published on MSDN that tries to give an overview of these technologies and has some guidelines which technology to use, you can read it here.

There's a fix for a known problem in IBF, get it here.

That’s right, tomorrow I’ll start my new job at U2U! I’ll will be working on Information Worker technologies together with the famous Patrick Tisseghem (actually Patrick already blogged about it). I’m very excited and it promises to be a great job! For those of you who don’t know U2U: it’s a “Competence Center for .NET Software Development. Above all, U2U is a Competence Center for Software Developers. But U2U is also an official Microsoft Partner and a Microsoft Certified Technical Education Center. And that’s not the end of the story; there’s more to it. The numerous Microsoft official trainings we offer are only the tip of the iceberg, and fit in with a larger aspiration. As a competence center, we first of all want to be the epicenter of pioneering work in software development. Furthermore, U2U is a meeting place for developers who want to keep track of the latest technologies. At U2U, you’ll find the solutions to your development problems of today,and you’ll prepare for tomorrow.”

Tom van de Kerkhof has updated his treeview webpart for SharePoint. It uses the SmartPart webpart, to display a user control in a webpart. It's a nice example how the SmartPart can be used to create SharePoint webparts by using ASP.NET user controls. Nice work Tom!

Some great news for the people of Belgium and The Netherlands: SP2 is available in Dutch! Download here.

I didn't know they were comming!

I'll be “out of office” until August 22nd. During that time I won't be able to read/answer my email, so if you send one; don't expect an immediate reply. :-) Anyway, tomorrow I'll leave Belgium to visit Mexico and Guatemala. Enjoy your holidays and see you soon!

Blogging is really catching up in Belgium: today I would like to welcome Alain Leroy, yet another Microsoft Belux employee! I guess Microsoft Belux wants to beat the U2U blogging team (see Patrick’s post). :-) At this moment I think it’s a draw (MS Belux 4 - U2U 4), let’s start to count the posts… Just kidding, as I always say: it’s a quality thing.