Excellent article on MSDN Belgium  

In an interview with Betanews, Lisa Gurry, MSN Group Product Manager, mention the idea that Microsoft will launch a music service this year:"MSN will roll out a music download service in 2004. We have no further details to share at this time on our download music service; however, MSN Music currently enables people to discover their own world of...

With the Google Web APIs service, software developers can query more than 2 billion web documents directly from their own computer programs. Google uses the SOAP and WSDL standards so a developer can program in his or her favorite environment - such as Java, Perl, or Visual Studio .NET. The Google Web APIs developer's kit provides documentation...

Robert Scoble wants to be the relay between users/developers and the IE team. Noble task, but be aware Scoble about the comments you are going to receive.IE suffer so much to be abandoned by Microsoft that it's quite incredible that a team still exist in Microsoft. And apparently they work... on something.The problem is that apparently nobody...

In Longhorn Internet Explorer is looking good. Unfortunatly it's not available yet for Windows XP/2003. Sean send me a link to download a standalone version of IE 6.05. Note: just be cautious, because it's surely going to crash on some sites, but hey it's pretty cool ;-)  

Dino talk about a nice fix to have <TH> instead of <TD> in the header of a Datagrid.Well done, but this is already in a rollup package announced in June. The difficulty is the fact that you can have the update only by calling the technical support.Scott Galloway relay this too. "Incidentally, the hotfix package can only be...

In a project I need to know the name of the machine where the code run.Everything ok on different servers (MyServerName for example) , exception of a new one I just finished to setup (Windows 2003). The name I got is quite unusual, at least for me, NT AUTHORITY.This is the code (response.write is for testing only)Someone has an idea ?...

Well, you knew this was going to happen sooner or later: Except for disposable cameras, Kodak is going to stop selling traditional film cameras in Western Europe and North America. They're going to focus instead on digital cameras. They will keep making 35mm film, and they're going to continue selling reloadable film cameras in the rest of the...

Matt Hawley has been nice (and surely busy !) to send me his nice control EmptyDatagrid. I tested it and so far it works well and solve the problem. Few things however to improve (If I can dare to request something because Matt's job is really pro and has not the 'ugly' sound coming from some commercial companies): - OK first point Intellisense...

Simple. Get one of these incredible vests. You can have all your favourite digital devices with you all the time, and now they just announced a new version with solar panels embedded in the shoulders.So now you can charge your devices when you move. cool ;-)  

Well If this article is right, the new Xbox 2 is code name Xenon and should be there in 2006.Seems that it will be a BIG year for Microsoft with Longhorn and others ;-)  

This is an in-depth, behind-the-scenes look at strings in the Common Language Runtime and the .NET Framework. This study provides detailed information of the implementation of strings, describes efficient and inefficient ways of using strings. Read more...  

The ASP to .Net migration tools seems to have been updated to a Beta status.  

I received an interesting comment from Jan Tielens about how to display an empty datagrid: Hi guys, thanks for having me! ;-) For the record, my work regarding datagrids is for Windows.Forms, so my opinion expressed here will also be for the Windows.Forms grid. Although maybe it's applicable for Web.Forms too, but I'm not in the position to...

What to display if a Datagrid is empty ?The question sounds obvious, nothing, but if your Datagrid has a fixed size, I think it's a bad idea to have a nice page with an empty space in the middle.What are your favorite option?- Display a fake grey or pale dtagrid to simulate a disabled datagrid ?- Just a message to say that no data are present at...