Last week, I attended the 2007 MVP Global Summit in Redmond and the Canadian contigent really made a splash. We all wore bright red Team Canada jerseys and showed our national pride by chanting "Canada, Canada". In case you aren't aware, MVP stands for...

S’il y a bien un message que nous avons entendu après chaque arrêt du lancement d’affaires de Windows Vista, Système Office de Microsoft 2007 et le serveur Exchange 2007 , c’est votre intérêt de recevoir des logiciels afin de vous familiariser avec nos...

If there is one message that we have heard from you following each stop of the Windows Vista, 2007 Microsoft Office System, and Exchange Server 2007 Business Value Launch , it is your cry for a copy of the software so that you can play and become familiar...

In the next couple of weeks, John Bristowe, Christian Beauclair, and I will start travelling to a city near you for the Developer Night in Canada (DNIC) User Group Tour: The Exciting Adventures of the Microsoft Application Platform Developer . We will...

I can remember when I first started programming - I was about 11 years old, my father bought me a Commodore 64 and I took on the challenge of learning BASIC. At the time, the only documentation I had to help me in my learning process was the manual that...

Here is my interview with Chris Dufour ( ASP.NET MVP ), the leader of the East of Toronto .NET User Group . Chris has been really busy in the last year, including organizing the 2007 Toronto Code Camp , sharing his custom DotNetNuke Code Camp Event module...

As you may or may not know, I'm a big fan of Team System (the proof is that I wrote two books on the topic found here and here !). Adam Gallant , one of my colleagues who specializes in VSTS is organizing a series of webcasts from March right through...

Before I joined Microsoft, I was a developer consultant. In that context, when you get hired on to do projects you try to find the easiest and most cost effective way to solve problems. At first, I used to build everything from scratch - if the client...

Video: Vancouver TechFest 2007 - Peter McFarlane and Mike Jensen While at Vancouver TechFest 2007 , I was able to catch Peter McFarlane and Mike Jensen from Habañero Consulting Group to discuss their presentation; Implementing State Machine...

Video: Vancouver TechFest 2007 - Dana Epp and Charlie Russel I love the folks in the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) program. They are passionate people who love what they do and love to help the community at-large. Dana Epp and Charlie...

Video: Vancouver TechFest 2007 - Medhat Elmasry While at Vancouver TechFest 2007 , I got a chance to chat with Medhat Elmasry about the British Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT) . As you'll see in the video, there's a lot of opportunties for...

Video: Vancouver TechFest 2007 - Jeff Pennal and Lawrence Chan Shorly after my presentation on the Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) , I bumped into Jeff Pennal and Lawrence Chan of OpenRoad Communications . (They run the local Java user group here...

Video: Vancouver TechFest 2007 - Rob Chartier Vancouver TechFest 2007 is underway! Earlier this morning, I took a cab over to British Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT) and was able to catch part of the registration on my video camera. I was also...

MP3: Rob Chartier on Vancouver TechFest 2007 Vancouver TechFest 2007 is this Saturday! If you're a developer, database administrator, or IT professional then make your to British Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT) (Burnaby Campus) this Saturday...

The Team Foundation Server product team has been hard at work on the version 1.2 release of the Team Foundation Power Tools (if you recall, it used to be called the Power Toys). There is a Canadian connection in this release - Joel Semeniuk , one of our...

Hands down, I believe one of the best ways of keeping up to date with technology and keeping connected with your peers is through community. In Toronto, we have a very vibrant community of talented individuals and developer "rock stars". I'm often asked...

Guy Barrette advised that the Montreal .NET User Group (GUVSM) is running a day long Team Foundation Server training session in French on Saturday, March 24th at the Marriott Château Champlain in Montreal. Guy (Regional Director / ASP.NET MVP) and Etienne...

.NET has strong support for collections. Even the built-in Array type implements ICollection. The ICollection interface derives from the IEnumerable interface to allow easy enumeration of all elements in a collection. In C#, the foreach statement uses...

News & Highlights Announcing the release of NetAdvantage for WPF 2007 Volume 1 - Beta 1 Capturing screenshots from Xbox XNA games - Shawn Hargreaves CSS Reference Chart for SharePoint 2007 (Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Windows...

Here is a video of Mike, a 3D modeling artist attending the Ottawa Game Camp. In this video, Mike gives his views on some of the 3D frameworks and technologies out there and how XNA measures up. Video: Game Camp Ottawa 2007 - Mike The 3D Artist ...

My IT Pro counterpart Rod Buike recently posted a video of the Microsoft Digital Ice House . In case you weren't able to visit it, or you want to experience it again, I've added it here: Video: Microsoft Canada’s Digital Ice House Enjoy!

Last Saturday, Carleton University hosted a Game Camp for students and faculty. The theme of the Game Camp was XNA and Game Studio Express. Christian Beauclair gave an in-depth presentation on how to create a pong game from scratch. We also took a look...

To celebrate the consumer launch of Windows Vista on January 30 2007, Microsoft Canada built a Digital Ice House at the corner of Dundas and Yonge Street in Toronto, in the middle of Dundas Square. Here are some photos with highlights from the event which...

If you are interested in XNA or game development, you won't want to miss this! It's a global gaming competition - check out the website at: http://www.dreambuildplay.com . As with XNA Game Studio Express, we're going to break from convention and look...

This is in regard to the "Live for You" webcast series we held in November. (You can find the videos here ). The Live team as just release version 1 of the Windows Live SDK which is an aggregation of all documents pertaining to the Live services for developers...