Hello I have decided to leave and pursue my career outside of Microsoft Consulting Services. It was a great experience for me to work in this company. The day after tomorrow it will be my last day, so after that I will not be able to answer to your...

Microsoft Office 365 is here. It includes: Office Pro Plus, Exchange, SharePoint and Lync. See more in the webcast: http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/presskits/office/videogallery.aspx?contentID=office365_announce . You can sign up for the Beta version...

Not so many people know that Microsoft has an Application Platform Capability Assessment site, where you can do on-line tests to see if your company is well using the processes and technologies for: ALM, BI, SOA and business process: https://www.microsoft...

Yes, I did the “big” mistake and I try to add a 5-th partition to my HDD (I was thinking that there are only 3: C, D and System Bakup) and I click Yes to all the messages without reading… and I end up with a dynamic hard drive…...

Microsoft patterns & practices announcing the release of a new guide: Developing Applications for the Cloud. You can find it here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff966499.aspx . There are also some very useful code samples.

An interesting book about Windows Phone 7 (author: Charles Petzold) will be available next months. Right now it is in a draft version which is also free to download: http://www.charlespetzold.com/phone/index.html

Team Foundation Server Power Tools September 2010 are here ! You can download it from : http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/c255a1e4-04ba-4f68-8f4e-cd473d6b971f See the new feature: Team Foundation Server Backups

Here are couple free resources for learning Visual Studio 2010: Product overview: http://download.microsoft.com/download/C/D/3/CD39BB69-35CC-458A-B4EB-2F928B58FB4B/VisualStudio2010_ProductOverview.pdf Moving to Visual Studio 2010 e-Books: http://www...

Visual Studio 2010 , .NET Framework 4 and Silverlight 4 were released this week ! See more details at : http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/en-ca/ Here is a training kit for VS2010 : http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=752CB725...

Pour les derniers mois j’étais très occupée, avec des affaires non-techniques… Plus précisément, en janvier 2010 mon chum et moi on a eu notre premier enfant : un adorable petit garçon. Et depuis...

"Novell on Monday will offer a kit for developers to build Apple iPhone and iPod Touch business applications using Microsoft's .Net Framework instead of the Apple-designated C or Objective-C languages" ""What's important here is that C# and .Net are...

Even if I am not an enthusiastic gamer I can't stop to admire the progresses done in this project. The voice, face and body recognition at its best. Here is the link: http://www.xbox.com/en-us/live/projectnatal . This is the future for the human-computer...

Windows 7 RC is now available to the TechNet/MSDN subscribers, and on May 5th will be available at http://www.microsoft.com/windows7 for partners, IT pros, and tech enthusiasts to pilot Windows 7 RC at work and at home. Here is the Windows 7 team blog...

Today I was struggling to obtain in SQL Server 2005 the list of groups (from Active Directory) to which a user belongs to. Here is the final result. Enjoy it! EXEC master.dbo.sp_addlinkedserver @server = N'ADSI', @srvproduct=N'Active Directory Services...

Many companies are building their own base classes wrapping the native UI classes (in order to be able to customize them). Here a proof-of-concept how you can do Window and UserControl inheritance in WPF. - The DemoWPFBaseClassesLib : contain the...

Yesterday Microsoft published a first series (9 from 40) of "How Do I" videos with code snippets for the Azure Services Platform. For a high-level view, on this site you can see a list of case studies about how other companies are using the Azure Services...

It was released an improved structure for the patterns & practices node in the MSDN Library. You can find the new top level page here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms998572.aspx The catalog of p&p offerings has now couple general...

"WCF does not support the use of SOAP extensions, but it does have other extensibility points that can be used to intercept and manipulate SOAP messages. For example, you can use a behavior extension to hook into the WCF Dispatcher with a class that implements...

Here is a very interesting site about the " Microsoft Cloud Computing Tools " : Windows Azure and Live Framework "Windows Azure is the development, hosting, and management environment of the Azure Services Platform, which enables you to run applications...

This is the next step in my previous sample (see the previous post from this month). Now I want to add and delete products using my Web service and EF. The problem I found: I had to go back to the database and set a cascade delete for the FK_ProductInventory_Product...

Couple days ago I started a simple application (WCF Web service using Entity Framework to access a SQL DB and a WPF client). In the SQL database I had 3 tables - mainly a many-to-many relation. Now I need to get more data: I want to obtain all the Products...

For those who are looking for more WPF functionalities, there is a "project" on CodePlex called: Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) . "This project is the portal for accessing the WPF Toolkit and the WPF Futures releases. The WPF Toolkit is a collection...

For those interested in some AJAX samples, here are the code samples for the book "ASP.NET AJAX In Action" published by Manning. This January 2009 release can be compiled also with ASP.NET 3.5.

Hello and Happy New Year 2009 ! Here is a sample code I wrote to show you how to create a WCF Web service which is using Entity Framework to access a SQL 2008 database. Here are the main steps: 1 - create your SQL database (Products) with the...

J'ai eu un client qui m'a posé la question suivante: Quelle est la meilleure stratégie pour graduer (déployer une version) une application SharePoint d'un environnement d'essais à un autre environnement d'essais jusqu'en production? Et voila un...