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Some learn by listening – so they go to conferences, meetups, or watch sessions online (like TechDays Online ). Others learn by doing. For those folks, there are great online hands-on labs that can be done, like those on TechDays Online (did you know TechDays Online had hands-on labs that you can complete...

Our friends at Imaginet are hosting two-hour events in Vancouver, Edmonton and Calgary where they’ll show Visual Studio developers how to get up to speed with all the goodies that have packed into Visual Studio 2010 . Here’s what they’ll cover: What’s new in Team Foundation Server 2010 Learn about important...

Edmonton developers! We’ll be at Second Cup (10209 Jasper Ave NW) at 11 AM for Windows Phone 7 Coffee and Code ! Come join us to chat about Windows Phone 7, our tools, and the overall experience from a developer’s experience. If you have an app that you’d like to test out on a real device, this is a...

Here’s Rick Claus MCing the lunchtime show: One of the lunchtime demos was a tour of all the goodies in the upcoming Windows Phone 7, which was given by Anthony “The Mobile Situation” Bartolo: “Windows Phone 7 is HOTT!” You could even hear that he said “HOTT” with two T’s: And his Windows Phone 7 device...

And now, more photos of the goings-on at TechDays Edmonton! Here are Barnaby Jeans, Damir Bersinic, Dottie Yeates and John Bristowe having a pow-wow early this morning: Here’s another shot of Michael Schweitzer talking about the .NET 4.0 Framework in the Optimizing the Development Process track: At the...

Here’s Microsoft’s Kevin Harris doing the Silverlight presentation on Day 1: After Kevin’s session came what might be the hottest session at TechDays this year – the Windows Phone 7 session. Here’s the crowd in the room a good ten minutes before the session started, with most of the seats already gone...

Hello from TechDays Edmonton ! I’m spending the week in the home of the Oilers , helping run the developer tracks at Microsoft’s cross-Canada tech training conference for developers and IT pros. TechDays takes the content from Microsoft’s big-ticket conferences – TechEd North America , MIX and PDC –...

Deployment Clinic Today in Montreal Deployment clinics are a little more formal than Coffee and Codes. You can book an exclusive timeslot to deploy and test apps to a Windows Phone 7 device, and there’s one taking place all day at Microsoft’s Montreal office ( 2000 Avenue McGill College , 4th floor)...

On Thursday, I will be driving three hours north to Edmonton to hang out with members of the developer community and to connect with a few folks who are doing some great work on the .NET Framework. First, I will attend a meeting of the Edmonton .NET User Group (EDMUG). This meeting will feature...