February, 2008

If you use FrontPage (or you know someone who uses FrontPage) - we have good news for you if you are considering upgrading your toolset. Expression Web provides a really solid Web authoring tool to create and maintain sites based on standards-compliant code. I have a non-technical friend (a theatre producer) who bought Expression Web on my advice (he was a hardcore FrontPage user), and he found Expression...

Windows Live SkyDrive is now available in Canada and will provide you up to 5 GB of free storage space! Do you have problems carrying large files around or maybe source code (or other assets)? Then I'd recommend that you look at this solution. It's a great alternative to a USB key - no matter where you are, you can connect to your storage space and access your files. It's also a great way of sending...

5 days and counting until the Heroes Happen {Here} tour kicks off in Toronto before heading out with a number events across Canada.  Both the IT Pro and Dev teams are working away to get the hardware all set up so we can load up our virtual machines and get the show on the road.  And when I say setting up hardware, I mean setting up hardware!!! So what are we setting up?  Well Dell and...

Laurent Duveau is a Senior .NET Trainer/Developer and the founding partner of RunAtServer Consulting . He specializes in web development with ASP.NET, AJAX, Silverlight, Windows Live and Expression softwares. He also teaches .NET courses as a Microsoft Certified Trainer, and was a speaker at great events like DevDays in France and Code Camps in Montreal. He is part of the Montreal Visual Studio...

We have just announced a new program called Microsoft DreamSpark which provides professional development and design tools to students in Canada (and around the World) at no charge. The official launch date for Canada is February 21st. Our team is really committed to help support and advance their learning and skills through technical design, technology, math, science and engineering activities. ...

Got VSTS 2008 Database Edition ? Then, you'll love this: Earlier today, a colleague of mine notified me of a set of power tools that has just been released by the folks who own the features found in VSTS 2008 Database Edition . The Power Tools for VSTS 2008 Database Edition are a set of new features based on the feedback we received by DBAs and developers in the community. In fact, if you read the...

At the request of Mohammad Akif , our Senior Architect Advisor extraordinaire, I am posting a link to some free training on Visual Studio 2008. If you are going to be in the Mississauga, Ontario area on Monday, February 11th and have half-a-day to spare to get more information on Visual Studio and Windows Server 2008, this session may be of interest to you. Synopsis: Please join us and your...

Rini, our Canadian product manager for Visual Studio, wants to make sure you guys are well informed and trained. He's been working with many partners in putting together seminars in different cities and asked me to let you know of the first two: Friday Feb 22nd - with Object Sharp in Toronto Thurday Feb 28th - with Imaginet in Winnipeg

I just published an article with all the links provided by the speakers during the conference. Head over here .

My colleague, Rick, made a great post on the IT Pro blog about this event. Go check it out here . We need your participation because this event is about you .

The nominations are in and it's now time for you to decide. Go to the MSDN Code Awards site to cast your vote for the Developer of the year and the Development Team of the year.

A cool new load testing tool was released to Codeplex that might be useful to Windows Communication Framework developers. Check it out .

During the Code Award cycle we received a great email that I am reproducing here with the permission of the author, Daniel Léger. This is a great example of someone using technologies to better the life of others. Thanks Daniel. -------------------------------- "Regarding the MSDN Code Awards: I know you'll find this stupid, but I'd like to see nominated the people at Microsoft who make products...