B# .NET Blog

IT Forum 2006 has almost come to an end. I've just completed my ATE duties for Windows PowerShell; if you haven't downloaded it yet, go and take a look at http://www.microsoft.com/powershell. The RTW version is available for XP SP2 and 2003 SP1. The RC2 version is available for Windows Vista.

Next, I'll be attending the last two sessions of the day. It's always nice to see Andrew Cheeseman And Team talk about their event network. For the last timeslot I'll take a look at some of the Windows Vista stuff on hardware.

Last day I attended a big session on Windows Vista Kernel Changes by Mark Russinovich (who has recently joined Microsoft, and was formerly one of the sysinternal guys). Mark gave a really nice overview of some of the most interesting changes to the Windows Vista kernel, which is also the foundation for Windows Longhorn Server. At the time of Vista SP1, the kernel versions will be synchronized again to make maintenance easier by just having to maintain one code base.

Needless to say the party last night by the Visual Studio 2005 Team Edition for Database Professionals (or shortway DataDude) folks was great. I didn't stay so long, but nevertheless a real recommendation.

Okay off to some sessions now. Stay tuned for some interesting (technical, at last) stuff coming up this weekend in "headless mode" and with daily blogging continuing next week as of Monday.

Cheers!

-Bart (who'll be flying back to Belgium tomorrow afternoon)