Jelle Druyts

Guidance Automation Toolkit (PDF, Dutch) (.NET Magazine #14, September 2007)

Met behulp van de Guidance Automation Toolkit kun je herbruikbare code en patterns rechtstreeks in Visual Studio ter beschikking stellen aan ontwikkelaars. De toolkit is ontworpen om de integratie van herbruikbare stukken code in businessapplicaties te vergemakkelijken, en het stelt je in staat processen te automatiseren en ontwikkelaars door moeilijke procedures te leiden die anders tientallen bladzijden documentatie zouden vergen. In dit artikel leg ik uit hoe je zelf aan de slag kan met deze technologie.

The Command Pattern In Windows Presentation Foundation (February 14th, 2006)

Windows Presentation Foundation (formerly codenamed "Avalon"), or WPF for short, is a brand new Microsoft framework for developing very rich and powerful Windows applications. There is much to be said about Windows Presentation Foundation and its numerous new and enhanced capabilities, but this article will in stead focus on an old trusted friend, who has finally been given a dedicated room in the big house of Windows User Interface development: the "Command" pattern. This design pattern basically abstracts all actions the user can perform in an application into the notion of "commands"; it has been implemented in many different ways on top of various UI frameworks, but now, it has finally made it into the gut of the system itself.

Customizing generated Web Service proxies in Visual Studio 2005 (November 25th, 2005)

This article discusses the new Schema Importer Extensions feature in .NET Framework 2.0 to show you how to customize the generated Web Service proxies in Visual Studio 2005. In the early days of the .NET Framework, Visual Studio .NET gave us a huge productivity boost by making it very easy to create and consume Web Services. Over time, however, the Web Services platform has been shifting more and more towards a mature enterprise environment in which the need for power, control and customization has grown considerably in the last years.

Applied Visual Studio 2005 Enhancements In WeFly247 (July 27th, 2005)

As we're embarking on the journey that brings us to the next major version of the Microsoft .NET Framework, which is taking the productivity and power of the platform to an even more mature level, let's take a look at the enhancements that have been incorporated in this 2.0 release, and how they've been applied throughout the WeFly247 project that's part of the Beta Experience.