April, 2007

Rob Windsor ( Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) , User Group Leader) Rob Windsor on Discoverability The .NET Framework is big - very, very big - and it grows with each new version. While many developers are still trying to incorporate the features added to .NET 2.0 into their applications, .NET 3.0 has been released and .NET 3.5 is less than a year away. Keeping up with the avalanche...

Yesterday, I had the opportunity to chat with Michael Amanfi on the roof of my building about his work with Windows Workflow Foundation and specifically, his community project called Team Workflow - a workflow authoring and process automation tool built on Windows Workflow Foundation to help teams create, distribute and track tasks to drive team collaboration. Video: Michael Amanfi on Windows Workflow...

If you visit our Ignite Your Coding webpage ( http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-ca/ignite/ ), you'll notice that we are in the midst of running a webcast series on Office and SharePoint 2007 development - I highly encourage you to sign up, it will be a good series. But what about the content we previously had on the page with regards to the .NET Framework 3.0? Here are links to archived versions of...

In this final installment, here is an interview with Colin Bowern from Official Community. There were sixteen videos filmed in total and you can view them very shortly from the TorontoCodeCamp.net website. In this segment, Colin is interviewed by Kyle Cowan about his role as a speaker at the Code Camp and what gets him excited technologically speaking. Video: Colin Bowern - Live From The Toronto...

Sasha Krsmanovic is the Microsoft MVP lead for Canada. The acronym MVP stands for Most Valuable Professional - they are exceptional technical community leaders from around the world who are awarded for voluntarily sharing their high quality, real world expertise in offline and online technical communities. Microsoft MVPs are a highly select group of experts that represents the technical community's...

Here is a video taken at the Toronto Code Camp on March 31. Chris Dufour, the camp organizer, explains the challenges around planning a large scale community event for developers: Video: Chris Dufour - Live From The Toronto Code Camp 2007

Are you interested in developing gadgets for Windows Live and Windows Vista ? If so - we have an offer coming up that will definitely interest you in a big way! Gadgets are mini-applications which allow users quick access to information from applications, the Internet, and utilities. Windows Vista gadgets are hosted on the Sidebar, which allows users to configure these gadgets on their desktop according...

During the Unify and DNIC tours, we've been telling you about our certification offer. We would like to thank you all for your interest. Due to the overwhelming response the limited quantity of kits sold out extremely quickly. The offer is now closed. To view other available certification offers please click here .

I had the pleasure of sitting down with Jean-René Roy during my last trip to Montréal to discuss DevTeach that Jean-René organizes every year. The Canadian Microsoft team will be there in large number so come say hello. Here's the link to the Podcast .

J'ai eu le privilège de m'assoir avec Jean-René Roy lors de mon récent passage à Montréal et parler de l'événement DevTeach que Jean-René organise annuellement. L'équipe de Microsoft Canada sera la en très grand nombre alors venez nous dire un petit bonjour. Voici le podcast .

Jump Start Your Career http://www.microsoft.com/canada/msdn/jumpstart/ I am happy to announce the start of Jump Start from Microsoft Canada . Its purpose is to help developers and IT professionals reach their certification goals. To do this, we are pleased to offer you a certification study kit. Six (6) different kits were created based on popular demand. Each kit relates to a specific certification...

We listen really hard to our community and when this subject came up loud we responded. If you head over to Soma's blog you'll find the announcement that Microsoft Expression Web and Microsoft Exrpession Blend will now be included with MSDN Premium subscription. Enjoy!