My good friend and fellow community leader of VBcentral, Willem van den Broek, released a package which will help you to create Dutch setup programs from within Visual Studio 2005.
The package installs all, in Dutch (Netherlands) translated files, necessary for creating Windows Installer packages in the Dutch language from within the Visual Studio 2005 IDE. To be able to choose the Dutch language directly from the IDE, the locale info for Dutch (Netherlands) is inserted into the Windows registry also.

This language pack is offered to you, free of charge, by the Dutch Visual Basic community VBcentral.

 http://www.vbcentral.nl/msi

At the MVP Summit I saw a handout with all the default shortcuts in Visual Basic 2005. Till now, I didn't know that you can download that poster from the site of Microsoft.. ;-)
 
This poster contains the default key bindings for Visual Basic 2005, and is available as a PDF download in either color or grayscale for you to print. Keyboard shortcuts can help increase productivity when performing certain tasks within the Visual Studio 2005 IDE (Integrated Development Environment). This wall poster provides the shortcut and associated description for the default key bindings setup in the Visual Basic 2005 profile. The poster is provided in both color and grayscale for you to print locally as a PDF file. It is best printed landscape on paper size A3 (297mm/11.7” x 420mm/16.5”) or larger

So here's the link..
 Visual Basic 2005 Keyboard Shortcut Reference Poster

... Microsoft awarded me for the 2nd time as MVP for Visual Basic! Yes!!

"Congratulations! We are pleased to present you with the 2007 Microsoft® MVP Award!
 
The Microsoft MVP Award is our way of saying thank you and to honor and support the significant contributions you make to communities worldwide. As a recipient of Microsoft’s Most Valuable Professional award, you join an elite group of technical community leaders from around the world who foster the free and objective exchange of knowledge by actively sharing your real world expertise with users and Microsoft.  Microsoft salutes all MVPs for promoting the spirit of community and enhancing people’s lives and the industry’s success everyday.  To learn more about the MVP Program, visit: www.microsoft.com/mvp.

Your extraordinary efforts in Visual Developer - Visual Basic technical communities during the past year are greatly appreciated. ..."

The Visual Basic team has put together a "Live from Redmond" webcast series aimed at the next version of Visual Basic and Visual Studio code named "Orcas". The series will start April 18th and will continue into June. Some topics that will be covered: Orcas Overview, LINQ Overview, LINQ to SQL Server & O/R Designer Deep Dive, Building N-Tier Applications, Offline Data Caching, Building Service-Oriented Applications, Using the Interop Toolkit to Migrate your VB6 Application and a couple more!

Blog Visual Basic Team...

On March 28 we organizing another VBevent. The thema of this evening is... new stuff! The first presenter is Jacqueline van der Holst (Avenade). She will talk about LINQ. After a short break Alex Thissen (Class-A) will do a session about Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF).. As always... attending of this event is free! This event is hosted by Oosterkamp Training | Consultancy.
 
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Jeffrey Palermo (MVP C#) organizes a great party on the Sunday night befor the Global MVP Summit.... and you're invited! Beside our friends from .NET Rocks! are Telerik, DevExpress and DataDynamics sponsors. Great!

Party with Palermo: MVP Global Summit edition
website:  http://partywith.palermo.cc
March 11th, 2007 @ 7PM - 11PM
Jillian's Billiard club - www.jilliansbilliards.com
731 Westlake Ave N
Seattle, WA 98109
(206) 223-0300

Grand prize:  1 XBox360 Free to attend Free pool Free food Free drink Free t-shirt Free swag

 Party with Palermo 

After announcing Dino Esposito, Ingo Rammer and Mark Miller, has also Francesco Balena confirmed to come to Amsterdam to speak on the DevDays 2007. On the blog of Arie Leeuwenstein, a Dutch DPE of Microsoft, you are invited to select your top 3 of sessions/topics which Fransco will give. So... use your voice!

http://blogs.microsoft.nl/blog_arie_leeuwesteijn/archive/2007/02/08/10122.aspx

I'm tagged by my good friend Alex Thissen, so now it's my turn to share some facts about me, that you probably don't want to know....

1. Since the age of 14, I'm really a big fan of computers. The first computer I bought, was a Commodore VIC 20. In the weekends and holidays I worked very hard in cafetaria, to earn that *big* amount of money. Finally I had enough and I took the train to a bigger city with a computer shop. The shopowner asked me if I needed a datarecorder too... "Ehh... A what? Duh....". He said: "Without a datarecorder, nothing will be stored. So, actually a computer is worthless.."
   I took the first train back, without a computer or datarecorder. First I had to work for a couple of weeks to spare for the additional part..... :-((
2. During my study I started a software development company, named Obisoft. But after my study I worked for about 5 years in a non-technical environment: I was teacher at a couple of elementary schools. I really loved to last three years when I worked on the St. Joris shool in Lichtenvoorde.
3. After 10 years active for the Dutch Visual Basic Group, I decided to start, with my fellow Willem van den Broek, a new community VBcentral.nl. After a year, we are quitte successful.. we have already more the 1.000.000 pagevies and about 1600 registered members.
4. I like playing golf on our local golfcourse 'de Voortwisch' or in a local indoor golfcentre Hole in 1.
5. I'm married with Miranda (6-6-96)  and we have two beautiful kids: Marenne (8) and Yorick (almost 6). Since a couple of months Yorick wins the most of the times when we are playing Midtown Madness on the X-Box.. :-((
   
   

 I tag Damir Tomicic, Dennis Vroegop, Sander Gerz, Jackie Goldstein en Arie Leeuwesteijn.
 
 Blog-Tag: A game for Virtual Party

I wish you all a merry X-mas and a happy new year! As special gesture I've prepared a little dance for you. See the link below... :-))

 My special dance for you

On the website of SubMain you can download a free copy of the ebook: C#/VB.NET Coding Guidelines. This 100+ page book can help you to write better readable and structured code.

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• Class Member Usage Guidelines
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