Tuesday, 26 April I will be with Microsoft France in Strasbourg as a speaker for the "Rencontres Solutions Métiers sur Office". I will demonstrate the tool I developed for Tech Head Brothers website based on VSTO 2003, Word 2003, XML Schema, XML, XSLT, Web Services secured with WS-Security and WS-Policy.

I finally managed to have a first beta going to the Tech Head Brothers authors of my publishing tool based on Word 2003, XML, Web Services... Read more and a bit more.

Direct From TheServerSide.net "Omnicore has released X-develop Professional 1.0. X-develop is a new multi-language IDE for professional coders. X-develop Professional 1.0 supports the .NET, Mono and Java platforms as well as the C#, VB.net, Java, JavaServer Pages and J# programming languages. X-develop includes features such as on-the-fly error checking, refactoring and smart code templates." Read more...

The long awaited virtualization product is finally available on VMware site: VMware Workstation 5. I have succesfully updated my license form 4.5 to 5 for free and I am currently downloading it. I tried the beta of the 5 version with the possibility to import Microsoft Virtual PC and was surprised that it worked so well. Now to say which one is faster... I would say that it is difficult to see differences in speed, at least with my Visual Studio 2005 tests.