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Extended Strongly Typed Resource Generator

One cool VS 2005 feature is the strongly type access to resources.  Basically, VS generates a class that encapsulate access to the resources.  One drawback is that the class generated is "i...

.NET Framework 3.0 is now available

Since Vista has reached the RTM status, this means that the .NET Framework 3.0 is now available. http://www.netfx3.com/  ...

TechEd 2007 will take place in Orlando instead of New Orleans

Microsoft has made the difficult decision not to hold TechEd 2007 in New Orleans. With this event drawing a large number of attendees from around the world and with the airlines only servicing the cit...

Listen to Podcasts on your Xbox 360

Ever wanted to listen your favorite Podcast on your Xbox 360?  Or read your favorite blogs?  Check out XB Stream: http://www.xbstream.com/xbs/intro/...

Book Review: ASP.NET 2.0 MVP Hacks and Tips

ASP.NET 2.0 MVP Hacks and Tips Authors: David Yack, Joe Mayo, Scott Hanselman, Fredrik Normn, Dan Wahlin, J. Ambrose Little, Jonathan Goodyear Publisher: Wrox ISBN: 0764597663 Retail Price: $39.99 U...

Book Review: Software Engineering with Microsoft Visual Studio Team System

Software Engineering with Microsoft Visual Studio Team System Authors: Sam Guckenheimer, Juan J. Perez Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional ISBN: 0321278720 Retail Price: $39.99 US, $53.99 CDN Pub...

Book Review: Understanding .NET, Second Edition

Understanding .NET, Second Edition Author: David Chappell Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional ISBN: 0321194047 Retail Price: $39.99 US, $53.99 CDN Publication Date: May 2006 Softcover: 317 pages ...

Book Review: Expert Web Services Security in the .NET Platform

Expert Web Services Security in the .NET Platform Authors: Laurence Moroney, Brian Nantz Publisher: APress ISBN: 1-59059-115-1 Retail Price: $59.99 US Publication Date: November 2004 Softcover: 259 ...

CodeCamp: Already 210 registrations

We already have 210 registrations for Code Camp Montreal.  We have capacity for 300 attendees.  If you haven't registered yet, do it fast! www.codecampmontreal.com  ...

Code Camp Montreal: Prizes list (so far)

Wow, we have a fantastic response from the sponsors who are providing tons of prizes for Code Camp Montreal.  Here's the list (so far): Compagnie Produit Valeur 1 inscription DevTeach 2007...

Code Camp Montreal

I'm happy to announce that we'll have a Code Camp here in Montreal. Date: Saturday, October 14th, 2006Where: Mariott Chateau Camplain More info at www.codecampmontreal.com Interested in speaking?&nbs...

State Machine Workflows & ASP.NET

If you're using state machine workflows in a ASP.NET app, make sure you use the ManualWorkflowSchedulerService instead of the DefaultWorkflowSchedulerService as stated in this blog entry:http://b...

Book Review: Agile Project Management With Scrum

Agile Project Management With Scrum Author: Ken Schwaber Publisher: Microsoft Press ISBN: 073561993X Retail Price: $39.99 US, $56.99 CDN Publication Date: February 2004 Softcover: 163 pages Online i...

ATLAS contest on DotNetSlackers

Sonu from DotNetSlackers.com started an Atlas contest where you can win an MSDN Premium subscription (yes, the most expensive one that gets you Team Suite!). Check it out:http://dotnetslackers.co...

TechEd Webcasts

Couldn't made it to TechEd Boston?  Many sessions are already available as Webcast. https://www1.msteched.com/content/webcasts.aspx  ...

Visual Studio Talk Show #32 about SharePoint 2007 is online (French)

Serge Tremblay: SharePoint et la programmation de "web parts" Nous discutons avec Serge Tremblay du portail de collaboration et de partage d'information Sharepoint.  Entres autres, nous d...

TFS Admin Tool does not support Workgroups

I tried the Team Foundation Server Administration Tool to manage the users in my TFS server but I can't since the tool supports domain installations only.  When reading the doc, they say tha...

MSDN Webcast: Adopting Visual Studio Team System by Etienne Tremblay

My good friend and Team System expert Etienne Tremblay did a MSDN Webcast about adopting Team System.  You can view a recording of this Webcast here: http://www.microsoft.com/events/EventDetails....

Visual Studio Team Edition for DB Professionals

Microsoft is adding a new role in Team Server: DB Professionals.  The product name is Visual Studio Team Edition for DB Professionals.  People who bought Team Suite will get this product for...

Visual Studio Talk Show #31 about Source Code Control is Online (French)

Carl de Billy: La gestion des sources et des configurations Nous discutons avec Carl de Billy de la gestion du code source et des configurations. Ca peut surprendre mais beaucoup de programmeurs...

How BIG is TechEd?

TechEd USA is the largest Microsoft conference but do you have an idea on how large it is?  Here are some numbers about the food that will be served at TechEd Boston 2006: 1,250,000 pi...

Statement completion and Intellisense for SQL....Cool!

Statement completion and Intellisense for SQL....Cool! SQL Prompt provides Intellisense style auto-completion for Microsoft SQL Server editors. It will tell you the exact formatting you should use fo...

Atlas Install Error - _28942B4D9DE730210E7C27BD4FBAD377

I had this error when installing the April CTP of Atlas: The cabinet file '_28942B4D9DE730210E7C27BD4FBAD377' required for this installation is corrupt and cannot be used. This could indicate a networ...

Visual Studio Talk Show #30 is online - French

DevTeach 2006: Le meilleur et le pire de la plate forme .NET Pendant la confrence Devteach 2006 nous discutons avec les confrenciers sur le meilleur et le pire de la plate forme .NET. Qu'est-ce qui fo...

Montreal Visual Studio User Group - Monday May 15 Meeting

 More info at http://www.guvsm.net/ Lundi 15 mai, 18h15 Confrencier: Mario Cardinal, MVP Software ArchitectureSujet: Architecture agile avec linversion de contrle: Les patterns Dependency ...

DevTeach Day 3

Highlight of day 3 at DevTeach was the Montreal Visual Studio user group meeting in the evening.  We organized a panel about data access.  The panelists were Kathleen Dollard, Rod Paddock, A...

DevTeach Day 4-5

I spent Thursday afternoon and Friday morning with the Canadian RDs and the good folks of MSDN Canada at the Canadian RD Summit.  In this annual meeting, MSDN Canada is sharing its plans for the ...

DevTeach Day 1

On the first day DevTeach 2006 I attended the Canadian User Group Leader conference organized by MSDN Canada.  I was shocked at how many user group leaders were present.  There was abou...

DevTeach Day 2

I gave my only session this morning.  It was about the CLR integration in SQL Server 2005.  The talk went very well with lots of interesting questions from the audience.  I didn't had t...

Book Review: Visual Basic 2005 Express: Now Playing

Visual Basic 2005 Express: Now Playing Author: Wallace Wang Publisher: No Starch Press ISBN: 1-59327-059-3 Retail Price: $29.95 US, $38.95 CDN Publication Date: March 2006 Softcover: 452 pages Onlin...

Book Review: SQL Server 2005 Distilled

SQL Server 2005 Distilled Author: Eric L. Brown Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional ISBN: 0321349792 Retail Price: $34.99 US, $46.99 CDN Publication Date: March 2006Paperback: 314 pages Online in...

Hands On Labs - Enterprise Library 2.0

The Hands On labs for Enterprise Library 2.0 were published a couple of days ago. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=C8CA14D0-05EA-4A44-AE78-F5E4DF6208AF&displaylang=en  ...

Mix06 sessions are now online

All the Mix06 sessions are now available for download.  Mix is the newest Microsoft conference and it was about Web 2.0.  It's super cool for Microsoft to offer all this content for fre...

Interested in writing articles?

If you're interested in writing articles about software development with .NET, a good place to start is writing for Level Extreme .NET.  It's a free online magazine available at www.levelextreme....

Visual Studio Talk Show #29 about software factories is online

http://www.visualstudiotalkshow.com/Archives/029-26avril2006-CarolRoy.html Carol Roy: Fabrique de logiciels (Software Factories) Nous discutons avec Carol Roy d'une approche de dveloppement novatrice...

DevTeach - Data Access Panel

 More info at www.guvsm.net Mercredi 10 mai, 18h30 Meeting spcial dans le cadre de la confrence DevTeach 2006Endroit: Marriott Chteau ChamplainDate: Mercredi 10 mai, 18h30 21h30Note: L'ass...

Book Review: Murach's ASP.NET 2.0 Web Programming with VB 2005

Murach's ASP.NET 2.0 Web Programming with VB 2005 Authors: Anne Boehm and Doug Lowe Publisher: Mike Murach & Associates ISBN: 1-890774-32-4 Retail Price: $52.50 US Publication Date: January 2006...

Book Review: eXtreme .NET: Introducing eXtreme Programming Techniques to .NET Developers

eXtreme .NET: Introducing eXtreme Programming Techniques to .NET Developers Author: Neil Roodyn Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional ISBN: 0321303636 Retail Price: $39.99 US, $57.99 CDN Publicatio...

Team System Presentation - Quebec City

I'll be doing a Team System presentation in French in Quebec City on behalf of MSDN Canada. Outils de gestion du cycle de vie des applications Microsoft : Visual Studio Team System et Team Foundation ...

Interviewed on Developer Night in Canada

I was interviewed by John Bristowe of MSDN Canada for the Developer Night in Canada podcast.  We talked about various topic like DevTeach, my TechEd Birds of a Feather session and Windows Wo...

SQL Server 2005 SP1 now available

SQL Server 2005 SP1 is now available. http://www.microsoft.com/sql/sp1.mspx  ...

Guest blogger on MSDN Canadian Developers blog

I was a guest blogger on MSDN Canadian Developers blog where I blogged about Workflow Foundation:http://blogs.msdn.com/cdndevs/archive/2006/04/05/569156.aspx Here it is: [WinFX] Have You Ever Worked W...

Atlas Control Toolkit CTP released

You can now download the CTP of the Atlas Control Toolkit along with the source code. http://download.microsoft.com/download/B/8/1/B8176A86-5D85-41B8-819B-19A9ACF1CE8C/AtlasControlToolkit.exe The "At...

Info about SQL Server Everywhere

From Steve Lasker's blog:http://blogs.msdn.com/stevelasker/archive/2006/04/10/SqlEverywhereInfo.aspx Information about SQL Server Everywhere (SQL Everywhere) On April 6, 2006 Paul Flessner announced S...

Code Master Challenge contest

Microsoft Code Master Challenge contest using Windows Vista. $125,000 in prizes. Void in Cuba, Iran, Iraq, Libya, North Korea, Sudan, Syria and Quebec http://www.codemasterchallenge.com  ...

Visual Studio Talk Show #28 about MultiThreading is online (French)

http://www.visualstudiotalkshow.com/Archives/12avril2006-EricCote.html ric Cot: Multi-threading et concurrence Pour cette mission un peu spciale, un des co-animateurs de l'mission, Eric Cot, se retro...

Rod Paddock WPF Presentation

Rod Paddock, CoDe Magazine editor, came to Montreal to speak at the Montreal Visual Studio User Group about Windows Presentation Foundation (Avalon) on April 3rd.  Rod was demonstrating some of t...

My TechEd 2006 BOF was accepted!

My Birds of a Feather session for TechEd 2006 was accepted! Premilinary schedule is Tuesday, June 13, 2006 at 9:00 PM. Information overload - my brain is exploding! Microsoft is on a roll, delivering...

Data Access Panel at Devteach

  Meeting spcial dans le cadre de la confrence DevTeach 2006Endroit: Marriott Chteau ChamplainDate: Mercredi 10 mai, 18h30 21h30Panel: Data Access Techniques: Which one is best for me? Gratuit p...

Team Foundation Server Trial Edition

You can now download a 180 days trial edition of Team Foundation Server here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=D5C12289-F4E4-49A9-9235-AB2F6D4CA097&displaylang=en...

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