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On January 24th, the first Belgian Web Camp takes place. Some updates have been done
to the agenda, including another speaker being added. 
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          <a href="http://bit.ly/gVWONY">
            <img style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; border-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; border-right: 0px" title="WebCamps_signature_v2" border="0" alt="WebCamps_signature_v2" src="http://www.snowball.be/content/binary/WindowsLiveWriter/UpdatestoWebCampcalendar_85E8/WebCamps_signature_v2_3.jpg" width="467" height="191" />
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This is the final agenda:
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          <b>8:30 - 9:00 </b>
          <i>Welcome and registration</i>
        </p>
        <p>
          <b>9:00 - 11:00 </b>
          <b>Opening Keynote – What’s new in the Microsoft Web Platform </b>
          <b>(Scott
Hanselman, Principle Program Manager, Microsoft)<br /></b>Just recently, Microsoft have released a bunch of new products that web developers
can use to build websites and web applications.  Scott, Drew and Jonathan will
take you on a whirlwind tour of what’s new in the Microsoft Web Platform, including
ASP.NET MVC 3, NuGet and more.<b></b></p>
        <p>
          <b>11:00 - 11:30 </b>
          <i>Coffee Break</i>
        </p>
        <p>
          <b>11:30 - 12:30 </b>
          <b>HTML5: How about today? </b>
          <b>(Katrien De Graeve, Developer
Evangelist, Microsoft)<br /></b>What is HTML5? With more and more browsers supporting HTML5, ECMAScript 5 and
other web standards, developers now have a strong web platform they can use to create
a new class of web application that is more powerful and interactive than ever before. 
What's in HTML5 that lets us take our sites to the next level?<br />
Expect demos and code! 
</p>
        <p>
          <b>12:30 - 13:30 </b>
          <i>Lunch</i>
        </p>
        <p>
          <b>13:30 - 14:45 </b>
          <b>Come in as jQuery zero, go out as jQuery hero </b>
          <b>(Gill
Cleeren)<br /></b>jQuery is the web developers’ new favorite. This lightweight JavaScript library
has developers writing JavaScript code again, and loving it! What previously needed
20 lines of code can now be done in just 3 lines. Who wouldn’t be enthusiastic? Microsoft
showed its love for the library by fully integrating it in Visual Studio. I dare to
ask: should you stay behind? In this session, we’ll take a look at jQuery and we’ll
teach you what you need to know to get you on your way. More specifically, we’ll look
at selectors, attributes, working with WCF, jQuery UI, and much more. You could easily
walk out of this session wearing a sticker: “I love jQuery”! 
</p>
        <p>
          <b>14:45 - 15:15 </b>
          <i>Coffee Break</i>
        </p>
        <p>
          <b>15:15 - 16:30 </b>
          <b>OData: Open Data for the Open Web </b>
          <b>(Jonathan Carter,
Senior Technical Evangelist, Microsoft)<br /></b>There is no shortage of valuable data being generated by applications, reports,
tools, Web sites, etc. Unfortunately, this leaves many of us wishing we could programmatically
access the data and logic behind an app, report, or Web site. To break down data silos
and increase the shared value of data and its associated business logic through the
Web, Microsoft has recently announced the Open Data Protocol which enables exposing
any data source as a Web-friendly data feed. Join this session to understand what
the Open Data Protocol (OData) is and how it adds end-user and developer value to
many of Microsoft's leading products and services (such as SharePoint Server 2010,
Microsoft Codename "Dallas", Windows Azure, SQL Server Reporting Services, SQL Server
PowerPivot for Excel, Visual Studio, .NET, Silverlight, AJAX, etc.), as well as being
accessible from a range of platforms such as Java and PHP. " 
</p>
        <p>
          <b>16:30 - 17:30 </b>
          <i>Closing drink</i>
        </p>
        <p>
Registration can be completed <a href="https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032472434&amp;Culture=en-US">here</a> (there
are a few seats left!!)<br />
Location: 
<br /><strong>Business Faculty 
<br /></strong>St. Lendriksborre 6 / Font Saint Landry 6<br />
Brussel - Neder over Heembeek 1120<br />
Belgium<br /><br />
You can also watch the live stream but you need to register from <a href="https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032472819&amp;Culture=en-US">here</a>.
And if you want to view the event from within your company, you can get a free breakfast
(Register <a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/belux/archive/2011/01/06/web-camp-belgium-join-online-and-breakfast-is-on-us.aspx">here</a>) <img width="0" height="0" src="http://www.snowball.be/aggbug.ashx?id=4e173be4-e3f9-43c1-83bb-3b6a5807d3ee" /><br /><hr />
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      <title>Updates to Web Camp calendar</title>
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;
On January 24th, the first Belgian Web Camp takes place. Some updates have been done
to the agenda, including another speaker being added. 
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;
&lt;a href="http://bit.ly/gVWONY"&gt;&lt;img style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; border-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; border-right: 0px" title="WebCamps_signature_v2" border="0" alt="WebCamps_signature_v2" src="http://www.snowball.be/content/binary/WindowsLiveWriter/UpdatestoWebCampcalendar_85E8/WebCamps_signature_v2_3.jpg" width="467" height="191"&gt;&lt;/a&gt; 
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;
This is the final agenda:
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;
&lt;b&gt;8:30 - 9:00 &lt;/b&gt;&lt;i&gt;Welcome and registration&lt;/i&gt; 
&lt;p&gt;
&lt;b&gt;9:00 - 11:00 &lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;Opening Keynote – What’s new in the Microsoft Web Platform &lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;(Scott
Hanselman, Principle Program Manager, Microsoft)&lt;br&gt;
&lt;/b&gt;Just recently, Microsoft have released a bunch of new products that web developers
can use to build websites and web applications.&amp;nbsp; Scott, Drew and Jonathan will
take you on a whirlwind tour of what’s new in the Microsoft Web Platform, including
ASP.NET MVC 3, NuGet and more.&lt;b&gt;&lt;/b&gt; 
&lt;p&gt;
&lt;b&gt;11:00 - 11:30 &lt;/b&gt;&lt;i&gt;Coffee Break&lt;/i&gt; 
&lt;p&gt;
&lt;b&gt;11:30 - 12:30 &lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;HTML5: How about today? &lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;(Katrien De Graeve, Developer
Evangelist, Microsoft)&lt;br&gt;
&lt;/b&gt;What is HTML5? With more and more browsers supporting HTML5, ECMAScript 5 and
other web standards, developers now have a strong web platform they can use to create
a new class of web application that is more powerful and interactive than ever before.&amp;nbsp;
What's in HTML5 that lets us take our sites to the next level?&lt;br&gt;
Expect demos and code! 
&lt;p&gt;
&lt;b&gt;12:30 - 13:30 &lt;/b&gt;&lt;i&gt;Lunch&lt;/i&gt; 
&lt;p&gt;
&lt;b&gt;13:30 - 14:45 &lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;Come in as jQuery zero, go out as jQuery hero &lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;(Gill
Cleeren)&lt;br&gt;
&lt;/b&gt;jQuery is the web developers’ new favorite. This lightweight JavaScript library
has developers writing JavaScript code again, and loving it! What previously needed
20 lines of code can now be done in just 3 lines. Who wouldn’t be enthusiastic? Microsoft
showed its love for the library by fully integrating it in Visual Studio. I dare to
ask: should you stay behind? In this session, we’ll take a look at jQuery and we’ll
teach you what you need to know to get you on your way. More specifically, we’ll look
at selectors, attributes, working with WCF, jQuery UI, and much more. You could easily
walk out of this session wearing a sticker: “I love jQuery”! 
&lt;p&gt;
&lt;b&gt;14:45 - 15:15 &lt;/b&gt;&lt;i&gt;Coffee Break&lt;/i&gt; 
&lt;p&gt;
&lt;b&gt;15:15 - 16:30 &lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;OData: Open Data for the Open Web &lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;(Jonathan Carter,
Senior Technical Evangelist, Microsoft)&lt;br&gt;
&lt;/b&gt;There is no shortage of valuable data being generated by applications, reports,
tools, Web sites, etc. Unfortunately, this leaves many of us wishing we could programmatically
access the data and logic behind an app, report, or Web site. To break down data silos
and increase the shared value of data and its associated business logic through the
Web, Microsoft has recently announced the Open Data Protocol which enables exposing
any data source as a Web-friendly data feed. Join this session to understand what
the Open Data Protocol (OData) is and how it adds end-user and developer value to
many of Microsoft's leading products and services (such as SharePoint Server 2010,
Microsoft Codename "Dallas", Windows Azure, SQL Server Reporting Services, SQL Server
PowerPivot for Excel, Visual Studio, .NET, Silverlight, AJAX, etc.), as well as being
accessible from a range of platforms such as Java and PHP. " 
&lt;p&gt;
&lt;b&gt;16:30 - 17:30 &lt;/b&gt;&lt;i&gt;Closing drink&lt;/i&gt; 
&lt;p&gt;
Registration can be completed &lt;a href="https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032472434&amp;amp;Culture=en-US"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; (there
are a few seats left!!)&lt;br&gt;
Location: 
&lt;br&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;Business Faculty 
&lt;br&gt;
&lt;/strong&gt;St. Lendriksborre 6 / Font Saint Landry 6&lt;br&gt;
Brussel - Neder over Heembeek 1120&lt;br&gt;
Belgium&lt;br&gt;
&lt;br&gt;
You can also watch the live stream but you need to register from &lt;a href="https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032472819&amp;amp;Culture=en-US"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.
And if you want to view the event from within your company, you can get a free breakfast
(Register &lt;a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/belux/archive/2011/01/06/web-camp-belgium-join-online-and-breakfast-is-on-us.aspx"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;) &lt;img width="0" height="0" src="http://www.snowball.be/aggbug.ashx?id=4e173be4-e3f9-43c1-83bb-3b6a5807d3ee" /&gt;
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      <category>Efficiency</category>
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        <p>
Man, it's going fast now! Almost feels like Christmas, downloading all these goodies.<br />
Here is the link for <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=38cc4cf1-773a-47e1-8125-ba3369bf54a3&amp;displaylang=en&amp;tm">ASP.NET
MVC Preview 2.</a><br /><br />
The ASP.NET MVC Preview 2 provides an early look at an upcoming framework for building
ASP.NET web applications using the Model-View-Controller pattern.
</p>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 05 Mar 2008 19:22:08 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;
Man, it's going fast now! Almost feels like Christmas, downloading all these goodies.&lt;br&gt;
Here is the link for &lt;a href="http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=38cc4cf1-773a-47e1-8125-ba3369bf54a3&amp;amp;displaylang=en&amp;amp;tm"&gt;ASP.NET
MVC Preview 2.&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;br&gt;
&lt;br&gt;
The ASP.NET MVC Preview 2 provides an early look at an upcoming framework for building
ASP.NET web applications using the Model-View-Controller pattern.
&lt;/p&gt;
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Just after the ADO.net Entity Framework went into Beta 3, Scott Guthrie's team released
the first CTP ASP.NET 3.5 extensions, which contain the MVC Framework (Model
View Controller), ASP.NET AJAX Improvements, ASP.NET Silverlight Support, ADO.NET
Data Services and ASP.NET Dynamic Data Support.
</p>
        <p>
I have just finished installing it, since I'm really looking forward to the MVC framework.
However, I'm not really sure as what to expect, since it really brings a new way of
developing ASP.NET applications into play.
</p>
        <p>
The installation gave me this strange but very honest error...
</p>
        <p>
          <img src="http://www.snowball.be/content/binary/installation3.5.jpg" border="0" />
        </p>
        <p>
But, it ended up installing everything correctly, the extensions are showing up inside
of the Project Template window. 
</p>
        <p>
          <img height="399" src="http://www.snowball.be/content/binary/ptw.jpg" width="638" border="0" />
        </p>
        <p>
I'm hoping to find some time to start exploring the new Silverlight controls...
</p>
        <p>
All of this candy can be downloaded <a href="http://asp.net/downloads/3.5-extensions/">here</a>.<br />
Video's on using the MVC and other stuff included in this release can be found <a href="http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2007/12/09/asp-net-3-5-extensions-ctp-preview-released.aspx">here</a>. 
</p>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 10 Dec 2007 16:15:07 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;
Just after the ADO.net Entity Framework went into Beta 3, Scott Guthrie's team released
the first CTP&amp;nbsp;ASP.NET 3.5 extensions, which contain the MVC Framework (Model
View Controller), ASP.NET AJAX Improvements, ASP.NET Silverlight Support, ADO.NET
Data Services and ASP.NET Dynamic Data Support.
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;
I have just finished installing it, since I'm really looking forward to the MVC framework.
However, I'm not really sure as what to expect, since it really brings a new way of
developing ASP.NET applications into play.
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;
The installation gave me this strange but very honest error...
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;
&lt;img src="http://www.snowball.be/content/binary/installation3.5.jpg" border=0&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;
But, it ended up installing everything correctly, the extensions are showing up inside
of the Project Template window. 
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;
&lt;img height=399 src="http://www.snowball.be/content/binary/ptw.jpg" width=638 border=0&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;
I'm hoping to find some time to start exploring the new Silverlight controls...
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;
All of this candy can be downloaded &lt;a href="http://asp.net/downloads/3.5-extensions/"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br&gt;
Video's on using the MVC and other stuff included in this release can be found &lt;a href="http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2007/12/09/asp-net-3-5-extensions-ctp-preview-released.aspx"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;. 
&lt;/p&gt;
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