Guy Barrette

For those looking at Windows Phone 7 development, Microsoft Canada will hold two events in Montreal next week (Sept 9 and 10, 2010)  where you’ll be able to see a real Windows Phone 7 device.  Well, it’s a pre production developer device so it’s the closest thing you’ll get to the real thing right now  ;-)

Today only (Monday August 30th 2010), you can get Julie Lerman’s Entity Framework Second Edition book that was just published for a mere $9.99 US (eBook version).

Hey!  Telerik is coming to Canada.  Evan Hutnick, Telerik evangelist, will speak at 6 Canadian user groups.

Just saw this Azure offer.  You can try Azure for free, no credit card required, for a full month.

If your looking for security guidance for Windows or SQL Azure, this page lists a series of interesting resources:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff934690.aspx

Here’s a nice VB and C# reference page that does a syntactical comparison of both languages.  Useful for someone fluent in one language but needs to understand or code in the other one.

IE9 Preview hit 95/100 on the Acid3 test!

Dan posted a comment on my blog asking me about the Expression Encoder Pro price.   Looks like the US price for Expression Encoder Pro on the MS US online store went from $50 to $199.  Was $50 an intro/special price?