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I have exciting news: the Gadget Vs. Gadget Competition has been EXTENDED to August 15, 2007 to allow more submissions. We’ve received a great response however, in order for submissions to be valid all gadgets must be posted on the Windows Live Gallery
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On Wednesday, my colleague Christian Beauclair posted about the expiry of the Betas and Release Candidates of Windows Vista . Last night, I attended Kate Gregory's talk on " Programming for Windows Vista " for the Toronto .NET User Group and a lot of
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On April 18th, I hinted about a "special offer". On May 1st, John Bristowe posted resources and guidance on how to build a gadget. Now the cat's out of the bag - the Gadget VS Gadget competition has now launched and gives you both the opportunity to build
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EnergizeIT 2007 is coming on June 16th and it's shaping up to be a very exciting free Summer event! It's going to happen on a Saturday in downtown Toronto and it's a perfect opportunity for Developers and IT Pros to let loose and "Get Your Geek On!".
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Last week, Jean-Luc hinted at an "offer" in his blog post on Windows Live and Vista gadgets . A deeper explanation on what Jean-Luc was referring to is coming soon! (Stay tuned to this blog for more information.) As part of his post, he also provided
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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
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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,
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In case you missed it, we posted all the .NET Framework 3.0 webcasts (including the .NET Framework 3.0 overview presentation with Christian Beauclair) on our Ignite Your Code website . If you are interested in Windows Presentation Foundation, Windows
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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!
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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
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My colleague Rodney Buike (IT Pro Advisor) just posted some interesting stats for our 2007 Launch Tour including: 21 Events 68 Partners 250 Demos 136 Booths On top of that, we've had over 12229 attendees come out to our events. Thanks to everyone who
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The news you have heard is correct - Vista has RTM-ed (Release(d) To Manufacturing - essentially meaning it has shipped)! I was sitting in a classroom at the Microsoft Campus in Redmond when the news came in. The entire group I was with just spontaneously
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Microsoft | Learning has published learning portals for developers wanting to know more about building next generation applications on the .NET Framework 3.0 , the 2007 Office System , and Windows Vista : Windows Vista and the .NET Framework 3.0 - Learning
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The launch of Windows Vista and the 2007 Microsoft Office System is just around the corner! Our Developer Advisor team will be coming across Canada to present on the latest developer innovations in the .NET Framework 3.0, the Office 2007 APIs and Windows
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