January, 2008

Rini, our Canadian product manager for Visual Studio, just sent us a link to a great MSDN article describing all the differences between the editions of Visual Studio 2008. Our team gets a huge amount of questions from you guys about this and in the spirit of helping you manage the overload of content out there, here's the link ;-)

The good folks at Non~Linear Creations informed me of this fantastic opportunity to learn how to integrate Silverlight into MOSS 2007. If you're going to be in the Greater Toronto Area on March 1, 2008 and have some spare time, you should think about registering for the Toronto Code Camp and attend their session. Below are the details of the session: MOSS 2007 and Silverlight Integration ...

In the spirit of the "Heroes Happen Here" concept for launch, Microsoft and Seagate are sponsoring a web comic based on your stories. head over to http://www.itdevcomics.com/ to submit your great stories. Let's make Canada proud and have some great submission from our community. Thanks and keep on coding ;-)

A message from Graham Jones, President of VANTUG: By now I expect most of you will have heard about Windows Home Server . Just in case you haven’t, it is an exciting new “consumer” product based upon the proven Windows 2003 R2 technology. It is aimed at the household that has more than 1 PC, which is now very common, and has the following features: Supports up to 10 networked client PCs ...

We've been teasing you with posts about the upcoming launch of Visual Studio 2008, Windows Server 2008 and SQL Server 2008 in Canada. The wait is finally over. The dates are announced and registration is opened. Head over the launch portal to secure your seat and we look forward to seeing you. UPDATE - Just wanted to let you know that my colleague Rick put up a great post on the ITPro site about the...

Eli Robillard is the founder of the Toronto SharePoint Users Group. He is a past writer for the MSDN Developer Center, a member of the MSDN Canada Speakers Bureau, a member and founding board member of the ASPInsiders, and an author and technical editor of SharePoint books. His latest is Professional SharePoint 2007 Development (Wrox Press). Eli is a Principal Architect in the Technical Architecture...

Last month I did a webcast on Vista Sidebar Gadgets and how you can use them to extend the reach of your software solutions, either by augmenting a desktop or web-based solution or to act as an innovative way to advertise your product or solution in a viral or word-of-mouth manner. I'll admit that I'm late in writing this post, but as the saying goes, "better late than never!". In any case, the...

You've probably started to see some noise on some of the Microsoft web sites about the big launch that will kick off in LA on February 27th and you're probably wondering what our team as in store for Canada. First - rest assure that we will have a really strong set of events across Canada to celebrate the launch. The team if assembling all the pieces as we speak. (Right after this post I'm going back...