Guy Barrette
Microsoft Regional Director, Montreal, Canada
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Multi Monitor Tool
I recently bought a new desktop along with two 24” monitors. While the Windows 7 multi monitors experience is great, I still found that it’s missing a few things like a title bar button to quickly send a window between monitors. Sure, you can use the Windows Key + Shift + Right/Left Arrow to send the windows between monitors but why not a title bar button?
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Visual Studio Talk Show #111 is now online - Migration des outils open source vers TFS (French)
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Adding MVC capabilities to an existing Web Forms project
If you want to add MVC capabilities to an existing Web Forms project, there are no automatic way to do it. I wish the process was as simple as right-clicking on the Web Forms project and selecting something like “Add MVC Capabilities…” but no, it’s a manual process.
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Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 delayed
Microsoft announced that the release of Visual Studio 2010 and the .NET Framework 4 will be delayed a little bit to help them enhance performance. A public Release Candidate version will ship before the final bits.
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DevTeach Toronto 2010 sessions
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Martin Lapierre on Code Contracts in Code Magazine
Fellow Montrealer Martin Lapierre had an article about Code Contracts called “Introducing Advanced Code Contracts with the Entity Framework and Pex” published in the Jan/Feb 2010 Code Magazine issue. Congrats Martin!
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Planning for WCF RIA Services?
There are currently two version of WCF RIA Services:
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Installing Win7 from a USB flash drive
Microsoft released a tool on CodePlex that copy the Windows 7 bits from an ISO file to a USB flash drive so that you can install the new OS on computers that don’t have DVD drives like netbooks.
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Richard Campbell Remixed
Yesterday, my wife wanted to watch “Confessions of a Shopaholic” on TV. Being bored, I went to my computer and created this MP3 based upon the samples John Bristowe gathered for his Richard 5000 Silverlight app, an homage to Richard Campbell. Richard is amongst other things the .NET Rocks co-host and RD for the Vancouver region.
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Azure Benefits for MSDN Subscribers
At PDC09, Microsoft announced that the Azure billing clock will start in January 2010 for selected countries. Announced previously was that MSDN subscribers will get Azure “hours” as part of their benefits.