As promised: The code Peter and I wrote last Thursday.

Please keep the following guidelines in mind:

1. Attach the database to a SQL 2008 database (no 2005 does not works. If you really want it I can convert it for you).
2. Change the connection string (changing ‘LAPTOP-SNAKE\SQLEXPRESS’) to your database provider
3. Run it

Good luck, should you have any questions, please post ‘m down here.

A while ago there was a request in the class to persons who want to participate in a .NET contest. Ofcourse Peter and I signed up.

Yesterday was the day of judgment. After waking up at 0500 I drove at 0545 to school, to pick up Peter at about 0620. At 0607 I arrived. Fortunately Peter was also on his way (he told me that he didn’t sleep that good the night before), and off we took, to Kontich, to the office of QFrame.

After driving an hour and 15 minutes we arrived at the building, at about 0730.

10 minutes later our teacher arrived, and the other students. At 0800 we entered the building, drank some coffee, and at 0835 the introduction started. We got the assignment and we started programming.

There was a small lunch at 1200 to 1230. I ate 2 sandwiches and we (Peter and I) were the first to go back for our laptop to continue the task, but we had to wait

We programmed our application until 1530, then we got an introduction to Extreme Programming.

At the same time we presented our programs to the jury (1 team at the time).

Finally they told us who the winners where. 3th place for another school. 2nd for the PHL, and 1st for the PHL (Peter and me).

So Peter & I won a BEAUTIFUL laptop, and the year price. But we gave that one to our teacher Mrs. Sporen!

The laptop we won: It’s a Sony VAIO VGN-FW11S:

Just great.

After that we went bowling and eating, but that was just cool, but not too interesting to post on my blog

A bit late, but I’m back in Belgium Haven’t found the time to post so I’ll summarize the last events:

• Tech·Ed 2008 ROCKED!
• The last session on Visual Studio 2010 made code writing much more useful in terms of ‘I want this to implement like that here’, and then to write the actual implementation.
• Then we took the bus to the airport (at 1730), and the plane to Brussels (at 2100).
• I had a cold in the evening, and the result was that when the plane landed I was deaf as a post because of the pressure difference.
• My dad & my sister picked me up at the airport (Thanks!)
• Today I went to my girlfriend Very nice to see her again (yes, I actually missed her )

That’s it (not to mention the knowlegde I’ve gained

The session on WPF and Winforms databinding was very interesting, I’ll have a look on the powerpoints soon

The food was a lot of lettuce. What are we? Rabbits?

Now I’m attending a session on do’s and don’ts on Silverlight! Very useful.

This is Bart de Smet, writer of the B# blog, and is now working in Redmond for Microsoft!

Damn, it’s almost over…

Going to a session on WPF and Winforms databinding in a moment, and at about 1200 we’ll discuss the last part of the day with the ‘colleagues’ (the other MSPs).

Attending a session on Speech Recognition!

It’s a bit hard for the speaker to speak because there is a lot of echo here

Next session I have to choose, and it’s VERY hard.

My possibilities:

Still don’t know

Well there were some problems with the presentation in front, which made it not very interesing.

That’s why I left the session. Doing some random stuff now, emailing, but I still feel a bit sick.

In a few moments there is something for MSPs, but I’ll omit that because I don’t want to miss the last 2 sessions.

As stated on my previous post: I was sick because the Tapas I ate yesterday were not good.

I woke up at ~0700, ready to go to the CCIB (the location where the congress is hosted).

I ate a bit, but I had to go back to bed, took some medicine because my stomach was really acting up.

At about 1130 I was awake, at 1145 I took the metro, ate lunch at Tech·Ed, and then I wanted to go to a session about .NET debugging and performance issues. But it was full.

So now I am attending about Designer <> Developer workflow.

First things first: the mobile session SUCKED! It was only for Standard Windows Mobile 6.1 (about 1% market). So I left.

After that I called with my girlfriend with Windows Live Messenger. Went very good!

In the evening there was a country party, I ate good over there, met the editor from the B# blog (I’ll post the pictures tomorrow!), talked a bit with Katrien!

When it was finished Jan (Jan = the Academic Program manager @ Microsoft) proposed to go and eat something in a Tapas Bar… I still have acid burn. But more on that on the next post.