Guy Barrette
Microsoft Regional Director, Montreal, Canada
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Nvidia Laptop Graphic Card Drivers Update
Last year, I bought a Dell Vostro 1700 with an Nvidia GeForce 8600M GT 2560MB graphic card with a respectable rating of 4.5 for Aero and 5.1 for gaming.
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PHP for Visual Studio
While doing a little browsing, I found a product that let you program with PHP inside Visual Studio 2005 & 2008. They even have a standalone version for those who don't have Visual Studio installed. The price is dirt cheap: $99. The only strange thing is that there is absolutely no info at all about the company on their Website. Strange is you ask me.
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Wired article: Apple Evil/Genius (and how Microsoft changed)
Interesting article in Wired this month by Leander Kahney called How Apple Got Everything Right By Doing Everything Wrong.
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Will the real Crystal Reports 2008 stand up?
After looking at Business Objects' Webpage about Crystal Reports 2008 for Visual Studio, you may conclude that the version included in Visual Studio 2008 is a "light" version of CR 2008.
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Visual Studio Talk Show #70 is online (French)
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IE8 Beta 1 Whitepapers
Doing a little search on some of the new IE8 features, I found this page listing a series of IE8 whitepapers:
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LINQPad
[From Eric Moreau]
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Visual Studio 2008 PowerCommands
[From Eric Moreau]
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Mix08: Qixing Zheng in the WideOpen Web
At Mix08, I had the chance to record a quick interview with Qixing Zheng. Qixing is a UX advisor for Microsoft Canada. If you're doing anything UX related and you're in Canada, make sure to bookmark the Canadian UX Connection blog.
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Crystal Reports 2008 - Doh! (Part Deux)
[Follow up from my previous post]