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Visual Studio 2010 First Previews
Microsoft has published some information about Visual Studio 2010 and the .NET Framework 4.0 today.
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Visual Studio Talk Show #82 is now online (French)
James Lapalme: Le Web sémantique
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Microsoft to ship and support jQuery
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Acer Aspire One First Impressions
I grabbed an Acer Aspire One this weekend. The Windows XP model was on sale at FutureShop for $299.
Here are some random first impressions:- The form factor is very cool. Not too small but very light.
- FutureShop (Canadian reseller) only sells models with bilingual (English or French) keyboards.
- The Canadian models allow you to select XP in English or French.
- The whole setup process takes less then an hour (didn't timed it).
- The color choice I had was between sapphire blue and sapphire blue.
- Sapphire blue is a fingerprint magnet.
- The power supply is very tiny.
- Deinstalled Office Student 2007 trial and Mcafee.
- Installed Free AVG, Spyware Doctor and Picassa (both from Google Pack).
- I had an old 5.25" external USB enclosure so I stuffed in there a DVD drive to install Office Ultimate 2007 and Visual Studio Team Suite.
- Installed SQL Server Express 2008.
- Some dialog boxes have a height of 600 pixels.
- Copied some files to the netbook using an external 2.5" USB drive.
- Wifi works without problems.
- External VGA can output more then 1024x600 if the netbook screen is disabled. The driver can go up 2048x1536 however I wouldn't dare go as high. I tested it with an output of 1280x800. Nice!
- If you want to use it as a presentation machine, you must have a podium like setup where you see the output from an external monitor and the projector.
- XP boots fast.
- A fresh boot leaves me with 500MB free memory. Shocking!
- Visual Studio takes about 8 seconds to start.
- Doing presentations that don't require a virtual machine or not CPU intense.
- On a plane to watch a movie or work on a document or presentation.
- As a photo viewer when I go see family and friends.
- Bringing a laptop with me just in case.
- Bringing a backup presentation machine.
- On vacations to dump the daily pictures.
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The Ultimate Steal - Office Ultimate 2007 for $60
If you're a student or know one, do you that students can get a heavily discounted copy of Office Ultimate 2007? In the US, the price is $59.95 US and in Canada it's $64 CDN. The offer is available in about a dozen countries around the world.
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PDC 2008: Ask the Brain
I didn't knew that the PDC brain had a name: Brianna. You can even ask her some PDC related questions:
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System.Transactions Timeout
When debugging code that creates database transactions using TransactionScope, you may have an odd error when commiting. That's because the default transaction timeout is 1 minute. You can increase the timeout value in the TransactionScope constructor or in the config file like this:
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TechDays Registration - Now Open!
Looks like Mario was wrong. Christian Beauclair has the correct date.
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TechDays Registration
Many people asked me when they'll be able to register for TechDays. I think that in this picture, Mario Cardinal is telling us something ;-)
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Silverlight 2 RC Now Available
Silverlight 2 Release Candidate is now available. Check all the details, breaking changes and more in this blog post from ScottGu:
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Dell M409WX Projector
I was looking for a projector for our user group. My top criteria were: lightweight, widescreen and of course, lowest cost possible. After a little shopping, I found that the Dell M409WX would fit the bill.
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PDC 2008 - Attendees to get Windows 7 Pre-Beta bits
PDC 2008 attendees will get Windows 7 Pre-Beta bits
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Communauté .NET Montréal - 1st @Lunch Meeting - Sept 24th 2008
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Countdown to PDC 2008
News from PDC 2008 Central...
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PC Pride
Some PC pride to go along the new Microsoft ad campaign:
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Communauté .NET Montréal - Sept 22th 2008 Meeting - SQL Server Auto Maintenance Kit
More info at www.dotnetmontreal.com
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Speaker Idol - INETA wants to send you to DevTeach Montreal 2008
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Who Are These Guys?
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Zune 3.0 Software Now Available
Zune 3.0 client software is now available.
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Communauté .NET Montréal - Sept 17th 2008 Meeting - Team System for DB Pro
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Save $50 on your DevTeach Montreal Registration
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Register for DevTeach Montreal
Register for DevTeach Montreal at the early early bird special price before it goes up.
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Microsoft Canada's Conferences
Microsoft Canada has started it's own series of conferences called TechDays Canada.
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Ignite Your Career Webcast Series
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Microsoft Canada Align IT Tour
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Communauté .NET Montréal - Sept 8th 2008 Meeting - Silverlight
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Visual Studio Talk Show #81 is now online (French)
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NumberFormatInfo
I was recently confronted with this problem:
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Shoe Circus - Jerry Seinfeld and Bill Gates
Is this the first video of the new Microsoft campaign with Jerry Seinfeld?
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Google Chrome EULA - Oooops
Doh!
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Google Chrome - Random Thoughts Part Deux
More random thoughts...
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Google Chrome - Random Thoughts
Thinking about it, it makes no sense for Google to release a Web browser just for the sake of releasing one. Why hurt FireFox? Why risking releasing a product that will be scrutinized for security flaws? It just doesn't make any sense.
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Browser War 2.0
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Visual Studio Talk Show #80 is now online (French)
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PDC Brain World Tour - New Zealand
Looks like the PDC Brain has embarked in a world tour and visited New Zealand's RDs.