Archives
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Outlook hangs caused by recent PayPal messages
For so strange reasons, Outlook has been hanging trying to open emails from PayPal recently.
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Book Review: Microsoft Windows Azure Development Cookbook
Microsoft Windows Azure Development Cookbook is a book targeted at developers with at least some basic experience of Windows Azure. You won’t find long chapters explaining how the Cloud works so this should not be your first Azure book. Instead you’ll find 80 recipes covering a wide range of Azure technologies like: table storage, blobs, queues, roles, diagnostics and the management API, SQL Azure and the Azure AppFabric.
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Montreal event: Back from //Build/
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Windows Azure Toolkit for Android
Wade Wegner announced yesterday the availability of the Windows Azure Toolkit for Android. This is on top of the toolkits for Windows Phone and iOS.
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Montreal Event: Samedi .NET Azure
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TechDays Canada 2011–Registration Open
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The unofficial BUILD precon
If you planned your Build trip so that you can attend the Monday pre-cons, well you know now that they have been cancelled. I guess that MS feared that they would steal thunder from their keynotes. Anyway, your previous option was to go to Disneyland. Now you have a second option: “Creating User Experiences: An Interactive Workshop for Developers”, a workshop by Billy Hollis.
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TechDays 2011 Session Submissions Now Open!
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Quest for a better Wi-Fi backyard coverage
I recently purchased a new antenna for my router trying to get a better Wi-Fi signal when in my backyard. It worked but still, I wanted an even better signal so I started to investigate other hardware options:
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Build is sold out!
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Better Wi-Fi coverage with the D-Link ANT24-0230 Antenna
I was getting a somewhat OK wireless signal from my D-Link DIR-655 router in my backyard but I wanted a stronger signal. I looked at a few possibilities and ended up trying the D-Link Xtreme N 2.4GHz ANT24-0230 Antenna.
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DevTeach for the 1st time in Ottawa
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Build
Microsoft will unveil it’s Windows 8 development strategy at the Build conference this September in Anaheim. Microsoft already said that HTML5 and JavaScript will be used for developing apps but I don’t believe this is the whole story and more will be announced prior or at the conference. See you there!
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3 Screens
Looking at the Windows Phone 7, Windows 8 and Xbox screens, it’s now clear that we have an unified UI strategy.
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Microsoft to aquire Skype: impressed by the press coverage
So now every in the world knows about Microsoft intention to acquire Skype. It’s huge but what impressed me was the coverage in the non technical medias. The local newspaper has a front page feature plus extensive coverage.
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Windows Azure Toolkit for iOS, Android and Windows Phone
Microsoft announced the release of Windows Azure Toolkits for iOS, Android and Windows Phone.
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Try Windows Azure for free, no credit card
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AzureFest Montreal
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Solving a corrupt .OST Outlook file
I had a problem with my .OST Outlook folder last week. First, Outlook reported a problem with that folder and asked me to run the repair tool (SCANPST.EXE).
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IE10 Platform Preview
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Bing breaks 30% US market share, Google 3% down
Interesting news about Bing market share in the US from Experian Hitwise: Bing breaks 30% US market share, Google 3% down
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Rock Paper Azure
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Adobe Acrobat annoying behaviour
Acrobat is really annoying each time a document is opened. It does some kind of screen reader preparation that I don’t care and shows this dialog for a few seconds:
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Mix11 - Watch the keynotes live, read the liveblog
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MUST READ announcement from 3 Microsoft VPs
Microsoft published minutes ago an announcement in the Silverlight Team blog. What’s unusual is that it is signed by 3 Microsoft VPs:
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Canon using Microsoft Tags
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A new RD in town!
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Windows Phone 7 App Challenge
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Apple product info video style for ovens?
Friday fun. Have you watched the iPad 2 intro video? Have you find the style a little bit snooty? Even Conan O’Brien did a parody of it. Well while looking around for info on some countertop ovens, I stumbled upon a Breville video in the Apple style and yep, it’s not a parody!
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Windows Azure Toolkit for Windows Phone 7
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EF 4.1 RC available
Entity Framework 4.1 Release Candidate is now available. All the info can be found on the ADO.NET team blog.
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Connexion développeur
Le blogue de l’équipe MSDN Canada est maintenant disponible en français.
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Windows Phone 7 - Lack of interest?
We usually have between 40 and 80 people attending our regular meeting at the Montreal .NET Community. This week, we had a special Windows Phone 7 blitz with 2 meetings. The topics were very good: Tou.tv and Flickr apps development retro feedback from the teams who wrote them.
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Japan earthquake and tsunami - How to donate
You can help with the relief efforts by contributing to the Red Cross:
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Visual Studio 2010, TFS and SP1 – What’s the install sequence?
Confused about the installation sequence of VS 2010/TFS/SP1/Feature Pack clients and servers? Check Brian Harry’s great blog post where he lists the installation sequence for the clients and the servers.
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VS 2010 SP1 installation error: Generic Trust Failure
I tried to install VS SP1 from the ISO (not the Web Installer) on a machine and ended up with a non successful install with the following error: Generic Trust Failure.
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VS 2010 SP1 and other cool stuff
Visual Studio SP1 is now available along with these other VS enhancements/benefits:
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Friends don’t let friends use Internet Explorer 6
MS has put an IE 6 Countdown site to help educate and get the usage of this 10 years old browser down to 1%.
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Windows 7 SP1 now available
I installed the SP1 for Windows 7 yesterday on two machines. Short story: nothing to report, everything went fine.
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TFS 2010–Bridging the gap between developers and testers
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Quoted in La Presse
I was recently interviewed by a journalist from La Presse for a feature on Cloud Computing for the Business section that was published Wednesday, Jan 19th 2011. The online version is available here.
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CES 2011–Microsoft Keynote Impressions
Microsoft has been kicking off the CES for a number of years by doing a keynote the evening of the event first day. This year, SteveB talked about Xbox, Kinect, Windows 7 new laptops, Surface 2 and Windows vNext running on the ARM architecture.
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Montreal Web Camp
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How Kinect Works
Here’s a great blog post from the Xbox engineering team explaining how the Kinect sensor works.
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DevTeach 2011 Montreal Sessions
We just finalized the speakers/sessions selection for DevTeach 2011 that will take place in Montreal. That was not easy because we received 425 session proposals and we have only 68 slots.