Guy Barrette

If you like TheRegion.com, home of the Microsoft Regional Directors, you'll love this Vista Gadget created by Adi Saric.

While waiting for Enterprise Library 4, you might want to use Entlib 3.1 with Visual Studio 2008.  All the blocks will work but the VS integration will not.  Does that mean you're stuck editing the config file by hand?  Not at all, all you need is add a few registry entries by downloading a .REG file from CodePlex.

With his own VS 2008 hockey puck and Hockey Canada jersey, ScottGu is now an official honorary Canadian!

I finally made it to Seattle.  Why do I say finally?  Well, we were flying American Airlines, you know, the airline that grounded all its MD-80 last week and guess what?  6 MVPs from Montreal were flying on MD-80s Sunday morning flights!  So it's not until Saturday that we had a confirmation from AA that our flights were not cancelled.

I was trying to return a WCF custom FaultException and just couldn’t figure out how to read the custom info I was sending from the client when I found this blog entry from Jean-Paul Smit:
http://bloggingabout.net/blogs/jpsmit/archive/2007/03/21/wcf-fault-contracts.aspx

Some of the experts at the Launch 2008 Montreal Technical Readiness 2008: Bertrand, Laurent Duveau, Etienne Tremblay and Mario Cardinal.

Some of the experts at the Launch 2008 Montreal Technical Readiness 2008 ATE Booth:

Interesting numbers on Microsoft Certified Professionals Worldwide:
http://www.microsoft.com/learning/mcp/certified.mspx