In our company we are currently working with VS2008 and office 2003.  Everything will be upgrade to VS2010 and Office 2010 the comming months.
But some developers already have VS2010.

Since the moment that they have it installed they had problems with VS2008 connecting to excel.
They always got the error "TF86001: Team Foundation was unable to load the office addin" and "TF80042: The document cannot be opened because you don't have Microsoft Excel 2003 or later, or one of its components installed".

The problem is caused bacause of the installation of VS2010.  Here you need at least office 2007 or higher.

The solution for this is easy.  Just follow the next steps:

1) Open a command prompt in admin mode
2) Change the directory to "Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\Common7\IDE\PrivateAssemblies"
3) Unregister the 2010 add-in version: "regsvr32 /u TFSOfficeAdd-in.dll"
4) Chnage the directory to "Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9\Common7\IDE\PrivateAssemblies" (could also 9.0 instead of 9)
4) Register the 2008 add-in version: "regsvr32 TFSOfficeAdd-in.dll"

This will  disable the office integration in VS2010 and enable it again in VS2008.  You cannot use the tree queries, it has only the ability for flat queries.
Also you can only use VS2008 and not VS2010 for the export to excel.

If you repair your Team Explorer,there is a big change you have to do these steps again.

What if we upgrade to Office 2007 or higher after this change?  Easy just the the opposite.  Unregister the VS2008 add-in and register the VS2010 add-in.

Yesterday I took the exam @ Sitecore for Advanced User and I passed with 18/20.  So from now on, I'm a certified Advanced User .

What is Sitecore? Sitecore is a WCMS (Web Content Management System).  In our company we use it for our websites.

The advanced training gives you following insides:

1. What is it?
2. How does everything work (like content editor, page editor)
3. How to publish
4. Workflows
5. Security
6. Maintenance

This year, the 8th edition of the XP Days Benelux takes place on November 25-26th 2010.  The location is Kapellerput in Heeze (The Netherlands).

Together with my colleague Peter Doomen, I'm selected as a speaker.  The session we are going to deliver is the Frog Factory. Read more about this session here and here.

All the info about the XpDays can be found here.

May we have your vote please? Together with 3 colleagues, I participate on the PMI Agile contest on YouTube. Have a look at our presentation Agile @ SD Worx YannicHelsen and give us your vote! How to? Sign in on YouTube, become a member of the PMIAgile group on http://lnkd.in/BpXYNP  , click on our video (“Agile @ SDWorx” YannicHelsen) and vote for use by clicking I love it! Tnx in advance!

This is the video:

Yep, the first problem I got with windows 7 64-bit, Office 2010 64-bit and Windows Mobile Device Center.

Using windows 7 64bit, you need to install the Windows Mobile Device Center 64-bit.  No problem when using Office 2007.
But after I installed Office 2010 64-bit, no synchronization is made with my HTC mobile phone.

So I reinstalled the Mobile center and then I got the message that he can't find outlook.  So what's the problem?

It seems that Windows Mobile center isn't up to date to use with the 64-bit version of Office 2010.

How to resolve?
Well you could de-install office 2010 64-bit and reinstall the 32-bit version.  But as I have a 64-bit processor this is stupid.
Another solution is to use google mail to sync with Outlook and then to sync with your mobile phone. 

None of them has my interest.  So I hope that MS will soon release a new version of their mobile center.  As this is so stupid for the moment.

Mattias Skarin aka Crisp posted a nice small article with a case study about a team that is transformed from Scrum to Kanban.  He also put a few things he learned from this process, but also mentioned that they still have a way to go.

So if you are interested in this, read it here: http://blog.crisp.se/mattiasskarin/2010/04/27/1272362964756.html

An old colleague of me, Gill Cleeren (Together with Kevin Dockx) wrote his first book.  It's a book about Silverlight 4 Data and Services Cookbook.

Over 80 practical recipes for creating rich, data-driven business applications in Silverlight.

Find all the book info and how to order it here: http://www.snowball.be/2010/04/26/My+Book+Released+Silverlight+4+Data+And+Services+Cookbook.aspx

Gill, Congrats with your first book.

The April RTM version of the TFS2010 Power tools are released.  Find a detailed description here: http://blogs.msdn.com/bharry/archive/2010/04/26/tfs-2010-power-tools-have-released.aspx

Yesterday evening, my work hosted an event for the Belgium Agile Usergroup.  The main stream of this is evening was "Using Kanban Beyond Software Development".  Together with 2 colleagues (Peter Doomen and Sofie) I was one of the presenters.

There were 3 presentations and one open space:

1. Kanban in a complex administrative world (Sofie)
2. Kanban for support of development teams (Sven)
3. Kitchen Kanban - Cooking 13 different plates for 1600 people with Kanban (Peter)
4. Kanban is better than Scrum because... (Open discussion)

Afterwards we had a small break out session with following topics:

1. Discuss the result of the Open Discussion
2. Presentation of the Kanban Game
3. Evaluation: What did we learn today?

In total, we had 4 time slots (of 20 minutes).  Each presentator has given his presentation twice in one of the timeslots, so he could follow one of the other sessions.

It was a no slide presentation, but we made one A0 poster for each presenter. Here's my poster