[Via the IE Blog] The IE team has made Internet Explorer 7 available for beta testing. Check out the technical overview and the anti-phishing white paper. More info can be found in this IE Blog post.
Please note that this first beta is not intended for broad consumer trial and evaluation.
Jelle Druyts, member of the Belgian .NET community, has his article linked in the second issue of the BetaExperience newsletter. In the article Jelle talks about the enhancements in Visual Studio 2005 while developing the WeFly247 project. Read his thoughts on refactoring, datatips & visualizers, partial classes, nullable types, the new provider model etc.!
Peter Himschoot, Microsoft Regional Director in Belgium, has written an article on writing ASP.NET 2.0 Web Parts. The article, a summary of his TechEd 2005 Europe talk, is a great way to get started building custom web parts.
Bart De Smet, a Belgian MVP for Visual C#, has started the install of Windows Vista in Virtual PC. He blogs his first experiences here and here.
And finally Tom Mertens, currently at the Imagine Cup Finals in Japan, has fun with the first beta of Acrylic, an innovative illustration, painting and graphics tool.