Guy Barrette
Microsoft Regional Director, Montreal, Canada
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VS 2010 crashes after unlocking PC - Win XP SP3
Each time I unlocked Win XP SP3 and Visual Studio 2010 was already running, VS would crash. A quick search lead me to this Connect page and a fix: simply disable hardware acceleration in VS (Tools\Options\General).
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Samedi .NET: La collaboration entre les développeurs et les testeurs avec Microsoft TFS 2010
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Crystal Reports 2010 Beta 2 for Visual Studio Runtime Error
I was doing a proof of concept with Crystal Reports 2010 Beta 2 for Visual Studio 2010 and got this error at runtime:
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Vibe, a Windows 7 Tablet
Looks like the Vibe could give the iPad some serious competition. The specs are fantastic except maybe for the 4 hours battery life.
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Windows Phone 7 ā Montreal events (Sept 29-30 2010)
Here are a few Windows Phone 7 events that will take place in Montreal.
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Security Update for ASP.NET
Following the discovery of a security flaw in ASP.NET, Microsoft has been working day and night to release a security update thru Windows Update.
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XAML Clipart and Icons
Last week, I was doing a proof of concept Windows Forms screen and I wanted a little bit more punch so I went looking for some free icons. I found a great site called OpenClipArt.org that has a good set of good looking icons available in bitmap (PNG) and vector (SVG) formats.
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Seagate Momentus XT ā SSD for the common man
I recently had a discussion with my good friend Eric Moreau about solid state drives (SSD). I was saying that although Iād love have the performance boost of a SSD drive, the thought of having a $500 SSD drive in a $800 laptop was simply not right for me. A few days later, he sent me a link to a blog post by Jeff Atwood where he writes about a new and affordable hybrid drive from Seagate, the Seagate Momentus XT.
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Serious ASP.NET Security Flaw
Looks like a serious ASP.NET security flaw was published yesterday (Friday Sept 17 2010).
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Samedi .NET - Introduction au B.I.