October, 2006

Microsoft | Learning has published learning portals for developers wanting to know more about building next generation applications on the .NET Framework 3.0 , the 2007 Office System , and Windows Vista : Windows Vista and the .NET Framework 3.0 - Learning Portal for Developers 2007 Microsoft Office System - Learning Portal Specifically, these portals feature free e-learning courses (for...

It's amazing the number of services available to developers for creating intelligent and clever applications. Windows Live provides you with tons of APIs to incorporate search, maps, gadgets, messenger bot integration and much more - you can translate these services into real business value. For example, if you are a restaurant, you can map out the co-ordinates of your incoming orders so you can determine...

Hi everyone, Welcome to the Canadian Developers Podcast. In this series, we'll be chatting with members of the Canadian developer community, finding what exciting stuff you are doing with XNA, ASP.NET AJAX, Windows Live and other technologies, and giving you an interesting new way to connect with Microsoft Canada. In our first show, we are interviewing Larry Hryb (Major Nelson) on XBOX.com and...

Yesterday Mark Relph and I spent the day at the Brant House talking to the press about XNA and XNA Game Studio Express . Take a look at what Mark had to say. Video: Mark Relph on XBox 360 & XNA If you are interested in GameCamp, head over to http://www.microsoft.com/canada/events/event_details.aspx?event_id=1032312244 to take a look at the agenda and to register. Barnaby

Great news. IE 7 is now available with all it's improvement in ease of use and security. As a developer, make sure to find out more at the MSDN Developer Center for IE as well as reading this article on the new features. You can download IE 7 here .

The pictures from the Montreal CodeCamp are now available. Go check them out. Les photos du CodeCamp de Montréal sont maintenant disponible. Allez les voirs.

The launch of Windows Vista and the 2007 Microsoft Office System is just around the corner! Our Developer Advisor team will be coming across Canada to present on the latest developer innovations in the .NET Framework 3.0, the Office 2007 APIs and Windows SharePoint 2007. The day will start with a keynote and then be followed by a number of tracks, including a developer track. The dev track will...

Thanks to everyone who participated at the Code Camp Montréal! The event was a big success, in part due to the hard work of Guy Barrette , Jean-René Roy , Mario Cardinal , the speakers and the volunteers. I took a photo of some of the speakers at the event. You can check them out here: http://flickr.com/photos/jldavid/270543023/ At the event, I did a podcast with the speakers at the 3 Brasseurs...

We'd like to announce a new all day event that will be held on Saturday November 11th in Toronto starting at 9AM. If building games for the Xbox 360 or Windows gets you excited then you have to be at this event. For the first time, Microsoft will take you through the details of our (soon to be released) XNA Game Studio Express . If you didn’t already know, anyone can now build interactive, high performance...

Thanks to everyone who came to the code camp in Montreal. It was a fantastic event with great interaction and a lot of enthusiasm. To those of you who came to my session on XNA Game Studio Express (and anyone who's interested in XNA games), I wanted to post the links from my presentations because the slide I used was added after I sent the whole deck to Guy for posting on the Code Camp web site. XNA...

I recently got my hands on Lego Mindstorms, which coincides very nicely with the release of the Microsoft Robotics Studio September 2006 CTP. According to the website: " The Microsoft Robotics Studio is a Windows-based environment for academic, hobbyist and commercial developers to easily create robotics applications across a wide variety of hardware. Key features and benefits of the Microsoft Robotics...

We've recently announced the availability of the Microsoft .NET Micro Framework. The .NET Micro Framework is the core framework for SPOT (Smart Personal ObjecTs) watches and devices. I've owned several different SPOT watches for many years now and I've got to tell you, they are quite cool. My collection consists of an Abacus Wrist .NET and an Abacus Smart Watch 2006 (Silver Modern Classic). My friend...

This is fantastic news for Guy Barette and his team. 300 people have now registered for a great day of code sessions and great prizes at the Montreal Code Camp . I will be there with Jean-Luc David do meet as many of the community members as possible and to deliver a couple sessions on XNA Game Studio Express.

After a quick ride to Kitchener on the VIA Train, Mark Zielinski and I arrived at the University of Waterloo. Mark was completely in his element as this was his alma mater - he directed both of us to the Tatham Co-Op building for the BarCamp Waterloo event (I'll get Mark's account of the event online very shortly). This BarCamp was organized differently from the BarCamp Earth held at the MSN Building...

Hi - my name is Jean-Luc David. I joined Microsoft a little over a month ago in the role of Developer Advisor. Prior to teaming up with Microsoft, I was an independent consultant for 11 years, focused on Web and software development. I've also written four books for WROX/Wiley Publishing - Professional Javascript 2nd Edition, Professional WinFX Beta, Professional Visual Studio 2005 Team System and...