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The Silverlight-Tour comes to Quebec!
17 July 08 12:16 AM | Laurent Duveau
The Silverlight Tour now have some dates in Quebec! My company RunAtServer Consulting will manage this training for this part of Canada. The Silverlight Tour Workshop is a high quality three-day course on Silverlight 2. It divides the content into three...
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Windows Live Writer CTP
10 June 08 08:08 PM | Laurent Duveau
The CTP of this wonderful blogging tool is now available! Here is a list of new features: Video and Image Publishing Enhancements Upload videos to Soapbox Image cropping and tilting Additional border styles (reflection!) Support for LightBox and other...
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Save A Developer. Upgrade Your Browser.
05 April 08 05:30 PM | Laurent Duveau
A new campaign has raised on the web to invite IE6 users to upgrade to a high level browser (IE7, Firefox, Opera or Safari) in order to make everyone happier (users + developers). "Our current campaign focuses on assisting users in upgrading their...
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Connect and share with Microsoft!
22 March 08 09:00 PM | Laurent Duveau
Microsoft Connect has been improved! The new website is much more intuitive and interactive. "Your dashboard" view helps to keep an eye on your activities and news. I find the new Connect much more interesting than the old! What is Connect ...
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[MIX08] Announcing MIX09
07 March 08 02:14 PM | Laurent Duveau
MIX09 will be held in Las Vegas on march 18-20, 2009.
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[MIX08] pre-conference day
04 March 08 05:13 PM | Laurent Duveau
Today march 4 was the MIX08 pre conference "Together@MIX". We had sessions and panels on the morning and an afternoon full of fun activities (I chose the Las Vegas Extreme rides!). Here is the speakers and a bit of what they said: Steve Guttman...
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[MIX08] WPF Schedule Manager
01 March 08 05:51 PM | Laurent Duveau
Going to MIX08 next week ? Thirteen23 has created a very nice MIX08 Schedule Management Application with WPF (so Vista only!) to help you create your own conference schedule, keep track of times, and browse all the sessions. http://thirteen23.com/experiences...
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Visual Studio Gallery
29 February 08 06:19 PM | Laurent Duveau
Microsoft has just released a new website for .NET developers : the Visual Studio Gallery. http://visualstudiogallery.com You can browse and download existing products & extensions for Visual Studio (any version). In the web category you will find...
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Canadian 2008 launch events aka HEROES happen {here}
03 February 08 10:07 PM | Laurent Duveau
http://www.microsoft.com/canada/heroeshappenhere/register/default.mspx Event Overview Attend an event in your city to take part in the launch of three new Microsoft products: Windows Server® 2008 Microsoft® SQL Server® 2008 Microsoft Visual Studio® 2008...
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MIX08 conference soon!
01 February 08 09:31 PM | Laurent Duveau
In case you do not know MIX is a Microsoft web development conference hold in Las Vegas each year. This is where they make great announcements like Silverlight last year (MIX07), people start to call it "The PDC for web developers". -> MIX08...
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Free Microsoft Press E-Books!
17 January 08 10:47 PM | Laurent Duveau
Good deal: 3 free e-books from Microsoft Press! Go to http://csna01.libredigital.com/?urvs5cn3s8 sign with your Windows Live ID and get the full complete books! Introducing Microsoft LINQ by Paolo Pialorsi and Marco Russo Introducing Microsoft ASP.NET...
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Merry Christmas MVPs!! (+gift inside)
24 December 07 12:03 AM | Laurent Duveau
Are you a Microsoft MVP ? Are you running Vista ? Planning to go to the Summit ? Then download my MVP Global Summit Countdown Gadget for Vista!! http://gallery.live.com/liveItemDetail.aspx?li=c36fa782-4ab9-4383-aaff-81b1b2a27314&bt=1&pl=1 This...
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Expression Blend Service Pack 1 for VS2008
01 December 07 05:11 PM | Laurent Duveau
The Service Pack 1 for Expression Blend contains several fixes and changes, and also optimize Visual Studio 2008 support. Download link: http://www.microsoft.com/expression/products/download.aspx?key=blendsp1
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No more "click to activate" in IE !!!
16 November 07 10:02 PM | Laurent Duveau
Whoohoo that is a great news !!! Microsoft has now licensed the technologies from Eolas , removing the “click to activate” requirement to use pluggins such as Flash in Internet Explorer, which caused so many headaches since april 2006. What is going to...
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A new business in town!
28 October 07 10:15 PM | Laurent Duveau
As you may know I am a partner of RunAtServer Consulting , a company based in Montreal and highly specialized in Microsoft web technologies such as ASP.NET and AJAX, as well as Silverlight and Expression. We are deeply involved in local .NET communities...
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