Archives
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ASP.NET MVC 1.0 Release Candidate
ScottGu has written a long blog post describing the enhancements found in the ASP.NET MVC 1.0 Release Candidate:
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Microsoft France using Têtes à Claques in a viral campaign
Guillaume Belmas, an MVP in Paris, sent me this crazy info this morning: Microsoft France is using Les Têtes à Claques in a viral campaign.
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Visual Studio Talk Show #90 is now online (French)
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European Commission vs. Microsoft – Browsers War
The European Commission is now accusing Microsoft of antitrust practices by bundling Internet Explorer with the Windows OS.
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Silverlight and software architecture training in Montreal
Here are a few training events happening in Montreal in the next weeks:
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Presidential Inauguration - Silverlight and Photosynth
Nice adoptions of Microsoft technologies...
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Julie Lerman's Entity Framework book news
Julie Lerman's book on the Entity Framework is now complete and ready for the printer.
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Windows Azure SDK Updates (January 2009 CTP)
New updates (January 2009 CTP) are now available for Windows Azure:
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Old colleagues in the news (Orckestra)
IT World Canada has an article on a successful Future Electronics project involving Orckestra, founded by old Nurun colleagues. Congrats guys! (Louis, Louis-Philippe, Stéphane, Christian and all).
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VSTS and TFS 2008 virtual images
If you want to test Team System 2008 and Team Foundation Server 2008 in a virtual environnement or if you need virtual machines with these product pre-installed for presentations, Microsoft has made available a series of virtual machines that you can download for testing purposes. Note that they will expire on December 31 2009.
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Netbooks: Installing Windows 7 Beta from a USB stick
Netbooks don't have disc drives so how do you install a new OS? You can use a standard DVD drive in an external USB hard drive enclosure or you can use a USB stick.
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Validation Application Block Hands-On Lab
The Patterns & Practices Group recently released an Hands-On-Lab for the Validation Application Block. It is quite extensive, the lab manual being 79 pages long!
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ZoomIt 3 - Now available
[From Eric Moreau]
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Windows 7 Beta - mounting and burning ISO (for free)
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Windows 7 Beta - Acer AspireOne Performance - OMG!
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Windows 7 Beta - Fix for MP3 corruption
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Windows 7 Beta now available
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Free Entity Framework eBook
Zeeshan Hirani has written a 500 pages book about the Entity Framework and has released it as a free eBook. Wow!
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Microsoft Regional Directors 2009 Predictions
The Regional Directors have posted their 2009 predictions. You can read them here:
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2009 Predictions - ASP.NET, BizTalk and LINQ 2 SQL are dead and so are VB, C# and Azure
We just started a brand new year that will surely be very exciting. Looking into my crystal ball, here are a few predictions for 2009.
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Listening to podcasts in a car
I usually work downtown and I take the subway for my daily commute but in January, I'll have to take my car to drive to my client. Last fall, I bought a new car radio with a mini audio jack to plug in an MP3 player and WMA/MP3 playback from a CD or a UBS device. All of this for a mere $99 and installed for free at BestBuy!
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Looking for HD videos sharing sites
I want to share some HD videos that I created using my new Canon HG20 camcorder. So far, I found MotionBox and Vimeo. Sure, Microsoft offers Silverlight video hosting at http://streaming.live.com/ but I'm looking for a service à la Flickr for HD videos. Any other ideas?
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Erik Renaud and François Tanguay - New MVPs C#
Congrats to 2 new MVPs C# from Montreal: Erik Renaud and François Tanguay
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Visual Studio Talk Show #89 is now online (French)
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Zune Y2K9 Bug - Solution
Microsoft published a solution for those who bricked their Zune 30 yesterday.