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

Guy Barrette

Microsoft Regional Director, Montreal, Canada

September 2009 - Posts

And tonight on the History Channel, hummm, Channel 9: Visual Studio

Microsoft has published on the History Channel Channel 9 a two part documentary on the history of Visual Studio.   So many memories!

Part one:
http://channel9.msdn.com/shows/VisualStudioDocumentary/The-Visual-Studio-Documentary-Part-One/

Part deux:
http://channel9.msdn.com/shows/VisualStudioDocumentary/The-Visual-Studio-Documentary-Part-Two/

Boy, I knew Huckaby was old but I never thought he was that old  ;-)

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Posted: Sep 29 2009, 10:13 PM by guybarrette | with no comments
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Silverlight FireStarter sessions are online

[From Gill Cleeren – RD Belgium]

A couple of weeks ago, Microsoft held an event called Silverlight FireStarter in Redmond.  Basically,  it was a full day overview of the Silverlight platform.  What’s nice is that the sessions are now available on the Web for free.

More info here

Event Kick Off
Mithun Dhar
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Keynote
Scott Guthrie
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Key Silverlight Scenarios
Tim Heuer
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Expression 3 Overview
(Includes Behaviors)
Adam Kinney
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Sketch Flow
Janete Perez
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Toolkit & Controls
Justin Angel/
Shawn Oster
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RIA Services
Brad Abrams
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Building Silverlight UIs with XAML Power toys
Karl Shifflett
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Q&A Panel
All Speakers
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Posted: Sep 29 2009, 10:03 PM by guybarrette | with no comments
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machineKey Generator

When deploying to a Web farm, each server has to have the same machineKey validation key.  This MSDN page explains everything you want to know about that even providing some C# and VB code to generate the keys but why bother, Milan Negovan created a simple page to help you do just that!   :-)

MachineKeyGenerator

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Posted: Sep 27 2009, 04:41 PM by guybarrette | with no comments
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Can’t Download Attachments with TFS Work Item Web Access (WIWA)

There’s a bug in the WIWA feature in Team System Web Access 2008 SP1 Power Tool that prevent downloading attached files to work items.

This is a know bug with a very simple fix.

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Posted: Sep 27 2009, 04:29 PM by guybarrette | with no comments
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Visual Studio Talk Show #106 is now online (French)

Accueil

http://www.visualstudiotalkshow.com

Eric Moreau: Validation Application Block

Nous discutons avec Éric Moreau du « Validation Application Block » qui permet d'ajouter de la validation efficace à une application sans trop d'efforts. Le « Validation Application Block » est une de ses composantes offerte avec Enterprise Library qui est publié par le groupe "Patterns and Practices" de Microsoft.

Éric Moreau est un consultant indépendant ayant près de 20 années d’expériences diversifiées. Il développe principalement des applications de type client/serveur utilisant les technologies .Net (VB et C#) et MS SQL Server. Éric détient le titre de MVP Visual Basic depuis 2004. Il détient la certification MCPD (Microsoft Certified Professional Developer: Windows Developer). Voici le lien pour lire son blog.

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Posted: Sep 27 2009, 04:15 PM by guybarrette | with no comments
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iPhone Boot Camp for .NET developers (Montreal event)

Jean-René Roy from DevTeach latest boot camp is about iPhone development and is targeted at .NET developers looking learn how de develop iPhone apps.

Use this rebate code while registering to save $100: G0005GUVSM

http://www.devteach.com/SpecialEvent.aspx

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Posted: Sep 18 2009, 07:11 AM by guybarrette | with 3 comment(s)
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Windows 7 for a mere $29! The catch?

Windows 7 for a mere $29! The catch? You need to be a student.

Who?

Exclusively to college and university students

When?

Students in the US can pre-order their copy of Windows 7 in the US starting today and students in the UK can pre-order their copy beginning on September 30th (pre-ordered copies will be available for download beginning October 22nd). Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Korea and Mexico can participate in this offer on October 22nd (Windows 7 GA).

How?

http://www.win741.com/

More info on the Windows blog.

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Posted: Sep 18 2009, 06:27 AM by guybarrette | with no comments
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RIA Services: Custom Authentication

I’ve been scratching my head on this one yesterday.  I wanted to use some kind of custom authentication with RIA Services instead of using the default one.  The overview document found here states this:

If the Application Developer wants to use their own Custom Authentication, they can do so by implementing IAuthentication<User> instead of deriving from Authentication Base.

Well, I wasn’t able to get it to work so I fired up a quick email to Laurent Duveau who pointed me to this StackOverflow page where Nick Gotch explains how he did it simply by overriding some of the AuthenticationBase methods.  Works like a charm!

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Posted: Sep 14 2009, 09:30 AM by guybarrette | with no comments
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Visual Studio Talk Show #105 is now online (French)

Accueil

www.visualstudiotalkshow.com

Alain Durocher: Infopath

Nous discutons avec Alain Durocher de la programmation Infopath avec Microsoft .NET. Entres autres, nous discutons comment Infopath s'intègre avec SharePoint.

Alain Durocher est consultant en informatique depuis maintenant un peu plus d’une dizaine années. Il est spécialisé en développement Infopath avec Microsoft .Net pour Sharepoint. Il a été principalement impliqué dans des projets pour le milieu financier, de création de formulaire dynamique imbriqué avec des Workflow Sharepoint utilisant la technologie Windows Workflow Fondation. Il utilise aussi la technologie Visual Studio Tools for Office (VSTO) avec Visual Studio 2008.

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Posted: Sep 12 2009, 06:18 AM by guybarrette | with no comments
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VS 2008 – Server Explorer Gone

Today, the Server Explorer would not show up in my Visual Studio 2008 and I could not add a new data connection.  From the Visual Studio command prompt I tried to run “devenv /resetskippkgs” to no good.  I then found this post on StackOverflow.  The trick seams to make sure to run the command prompt as an administrator.

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Posted: Sep 11 2009, 03:41 PM by guybarrette | with no comments
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