Guy Barrette

At the MVP Summit, we were shown this cute video of a 5 year old girl talking about Visual Studio 2008:

Silverlight 2 in Action is a great book to get you started with Silverlight development.  At 371 pages, it’s a short book that has enough info to get you going and act as your jumping board into Silverlight.  I like the fact that each chapter is rather small but gets to the point immediately.  I also like the short code snippets and the fact that relevant code is never buried into pages of code filling.  Highly recommended for .NET devs looking for a Silverlight 2 jumpstart.

This month’s Wired Magazine has an interesting article on Netbooks and their impact on the major laptop manufacturers, Microsoft and most importantly, on how we use software and the trend toward Cloud based apps.

Here are my pictures from the 2009 MVP Summit:
http://cid-13e3fe758c3a4f06.skydrive.live.com/play.aspx/2009%20-%20MVP%20Summit?ref=1

Here are the videos I took at the 2009 MVP Summit attendees party that was held at the Music Experience Project in Seattle. I took them with my tiny Casio digital camera so the picture and sound quality are not that good.  I’d like to credit all the MVPs who are in these videos but I don’t know them all.  If you can help me identifying them, I would appreciate that.

Jason Zander (General Manager, Visual Studio, Developer Division) published some info and screenshots of the new VS 2010 WPF UI:
http://blogs.msdn.com/jasonz/archive/2009/02/20/a-new-look-for-visual-studio-2010.aspx

 
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Trying to add a service reference in a Visual Studio 2008 project, I had this error: