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 

The 1st event is called “Microsoft Canada Windows Phone 7 Night in Montreal (featuring a developer device!)” and will take place on Sept 9 evening.
Register here

The second event is targeted at developers who used the phone emulator and wants to test their app on a real device.  This will take place on Sept 10.  You need to contact Christian Beauclair to reserve a spot.
christian.beauclair@microsoft.com

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).

Go here: http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596807269
Use this promo code: DDPEF (Monday August 30th 2010 ONLY)

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

Check Evan’s blog for more info

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

Get all the details here and read the fine print (like US only)

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

This one also:
http://www.globalfoundationservices.com/security/index.html

J.D. Meier has put his security notes in one handy PDF document:
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/jmeier/archive/2010/08/03/now-available-azure-security-notes-pdf.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.

http://www.harding.edu/fmccown/vbnet_csharp_comparison.html

IE9 Preview hit 95/100 on the Acid3 test!

Read all about it here

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?

The funny thing is that it was $88 CDN a couple of weeks ago in the Canadian store.  I asked MS Canada why and the price magically went down to $66 CDN.  Not a bad deal now when compared to $199 in the US store 

I recently started having an error message when saving Word documents as PDF files.  The error states that “This file is in use by another application or user”.  Yeah, sure!

Bizarre, it worked well before.  Before what?  Before I installed Kaspersky AntiVirus.  For whatever reason, Kaspersky doesn’t like when Word save a document as a PDF.  The trick is to add Word as trusted application in Kaspersky and you’ll be able to save your documents as PDF.

http://www.visualstudiotalkshow.com

Andre Vachon: Les nouveautés du langage C++ dans Visual Studio 2010

Nous discutons avec André Vachon des nouveautés du langage C++ dans Visual Studio 2010. Le C++ est un langage de programmation permettant la programmation sous de multiples paradigmes comme la programmation procédurale, la programmation orientée objet et la programmation générique. C++ est actuellement le 3e langage le plus utilisé au monde (le 1er si on le regroupe avec le C).

André Vachon est un vétéran de longue date de Microsoft. Il s'est joint à l'équipe de développement de Windows NT d'origine et a été responsable de la conception et du développement de l'architecture des pilotes graphique sous Windows NT. André s'est ensuite concentré sur l'outillage pour le développement de Windows, d'abord en développant les outils de débogage et puis l'infrastructure de tests. André a récemment rejoint la division Visual Studio en tant que gestionnaire de programme principal pour le compilateur C++. André est titulaire d'un baccalauréat en informatique de l'Université McGill.

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If you’re experiencing problems with your iOS 4 device and your Exchange server, be advised that there’s a bug in iOS4.  Here’s the email I received from my hosted Exchange provider:

There is currently an issue with Apple’s IOS4 that causes issue with the Activesync function in Exchange. Apple devices that were either upgraded to the 4.0 version or that were delivered with that version already installed are concerned by this issue.

A patch was released by Apple (http://support.apple.com/kb/TS3398) that in some cases, will resolve the issue. This patch extends the time that the phone waits for a reply from the exchange server and this should help significantly. Since this issue affects the Activesync system, all types of mobiles can be affected by the issue but the patch is only for iPod touch, iPhone 3G, iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS.

Sherweb has made modifications to the Activesync system to help palliate for the load caused by the software flaw. If you are still experiencing the issue, please run a small test. On the mobile device, open a browser and type in: https://webmail.ihostexchange.net/cas.txt. Please contact our support team at support@sherweb.com or by phone at 1-888-567-6610 and give us the results of this test.

Thank you for your patience

The Sherweb Team

Nice way to take down the planet’s Exchange server Apple 

Eric Juteau has published a great Expression Encoder 4 FAQ.  A must read is you’re interested by this tool.

Read it here