Guy Barrette, Microsoft, Regional Director, Montreal, Canada, Visual Studio, .NET Expertise January 2009 - Posts - Guy Barrette

Guy Barrette

Microsoft Regional Director, Montreal, Canada

January 2009 - Posts

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:

http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2009/01/27/asp-net-mvc-1-0-release-candidate-now-available.aspx

Posted: Jan 28 2009, 10:40 AM by guybarrette | with no comments
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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.

http://www.microsoft.com/france/technet/edouardsecret/

Have no clue what Les Têtes à Claques are?  They are a phenomenon here in Quebec with their online videos (both in French and English).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T%C3%AAtes_%C3%A0_Claques

http://www.tetesaclaques.tv

Posted: Jan 19 2009, 06:55 AM by guybarrette | with no comments
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Visual Studio Talk Show #90 is now online (French)
Accueil

http://www.visualstudiotalkshow.com

Bruno Boucard: Parallélisme et concurrence

Nous discutons avec Bruno Boucard des extensions au Framework .NET pour le parallélisme et la concurrence. Entres autres, nous discutons de l’offre sur le parallélisme au sein de Visual Studio 2010 et du nouveau paradigme de programmation par "Task" plutôt que par "Thread".

Bruno Boucard est spécialisé dans les technologies Microsoft depuis de nombreuses années. Il possède une longue expérience dans le développement logiciel allant du développement en mode noyau à l’organisation de projets agiles. Après 8 ans passés dans le développement de systèmes rédactionnels principalement pour l’Agence France Presse (AFP) autour de systèmes UNIX, il plonge en 1997 dans l’univers des salles de marchés de la Société Générale (SGCIB) où il porte son expertise système sur les technologies Microsoft à travers la plateforme Win32. Avec l’annonce de la plateforme .NET en 2000, il quitte progressivement le monde C/C++ au profit de du Framework .NET et de son langage C#. Aujourd’hui, Il dirige une équipe d’architecture mais reste passionné par les innovations technologiques comme par exemple l’offre sur le parallélisme au sein de Visual Studio 2010.

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Posted: Jan 18 2009, 08:20 AM by guybarrette | with no comments
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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.

http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/djhighlights/200901161608DOWJONESDJONLINE000884.htm

So, what’s next?

The European Commission will ask Microsoft to remove Paint because bundling a sophisticated paint program with the OS is harming Adobe’s Photoshop sales.

The European Commission will ask Microsoft to remove Wordpad and Notepad because bundling sophisticated word processing software with the OS is harming Sun’s StarOffice sales.

The European Commission will ask Microsoft to remove all the network stacks from the OS because it is harming network stack vendor’s sales.

The European Commission will ask Microsoft to remove the fonts included with Windows because bundling fonts with the OS is harming font vendors’ sales.

The European Commission will ask Microsoft to remove mouse support from Windows because it is harming the mouse driver’s vendors’ sales.

The European Commission will ask Microsoft to remove the graphical user interface from Windows because it is harming Apple, KDE, and GNOME sales.

To solve these problems, Microsoft is working on a European specific version of Windows and I happen to have an exclusive screenshot of the Alpha version.

Of course this is sarcasm but the real question is if the European Commission rules that bundling a browser in the OS is bad trade practice from Microsoft, will they impose the same restrictions to Apple and Linux vendors?

Posted: Jan 18 2009, 07:03 AM by guybarrette | with 3 comment(s)
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Silverlight and software architecture training in Montreal

Here are a few training events happening in Montreal in the next weeks:

Silverlight Tour
3 days Silverlight training in French by the folks from RunAtServer and MVP Laurent Duveau.
http://www.runatserver.com/SilverlightTraining.aspx

 


Workshop: Best practices to design a modular software architecture by MVP Mario Cardinal
Language: English
http://www.devteach.com/SpecialEvent.aspx

Use this special code to save $100 on your registration: G0005GUVSM

Posted: Jan 17 2009, 11:35 AM by guybarrette | with no comments
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Presidential Inauguration - Silverlight and Photosynth

Nice adoptions of Microsoft technologies...

The Presidential inauguration will be streamed with Silverlight:
http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2009/jan09/01-16PICMSSilverlightPR.mspx?rss_fdn=Press%20Releases

CNN will be building Photosynths using pictures that people will upload:
http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2009/44.president/inauguration/themoment/

 

Posted: Jan 17 2009, 11:12 AM by guybarrette | with no comments
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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.

http://www.learnentityframework.com/

Posted: Jan 17 2009, 10:05 AM by guybarrette | with no comments
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Windows Azure SDK Updates (January 2009 CTP)

New updates (January 2009 CTP) are now available for Windows Azure:

Windows Azure SDK: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=130232
Windows Azure Tools for Visual Studio: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=128752

Posted: Jan 16 2009, 06:47 AM by guybarrette | with no comments
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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).

http://www.itworldcanada.com/Pages/Docbase/ViewArticle.aspx?id=idgml-b3d2cad2-5128-436b&Portal=252cc78a-a947-4072-84be-f50cac8ec48e&sub=17623

 

Posted: Jan 16 2009, 06:44 AM by guybarrette | with no comments
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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.

Read all about these on Brian Randell's blog:
http://www.pluralsight.com/community/blogs/brian/archive/2008/12/24/happy-holidays-and-look-what-santa-s-brought.aspx

 

Posted: Jan 15 2009, 11:02 AM by guybarrette | with no comments
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