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Welcome to the first Canadian MSDN Flash of the year! I hope that you got a break during the holidays and are still feeling recharged a couple of weeks into 2010.
The theme of 2009 was “let’s raise our game”. With
Windows 7
, we took our OS to the next level with new features and interface that’s both beautiful and usable.
Bing
raised the game of Live Search, providing great search results and keep getting better with constant improvements. The whirlwind progress of
Silverlight
didn’t stop:
Silverlight 3
raised the bar for rich internet applications.
We also raised our game here at Microsoft Canada’s Developer and Platform Evangelism team. We held
TechDays 2009
and
EnergizeIT 2009
, the biggest cross-country events we’ve ever done, hosted webcasts like
Ignite Your Career
and
Developer Night in Canada
, held or appeared at local events like CodeCamps, DemoCamps, FailCamp, user groups and
Coffee and Codes
, and wrote hundreds of articles on the
Canadian Developer Connection blog
.
There’s a lot more of this game-raising in store for 2010, starting with development, platform and productivity goodies with “2010” in their names: Visual Studio 2010, SharePoint 2010 and Office 2010. Microsoft is reaching beyond the desktop and into the cloud with Windows Azure and SQL Azure ( MBOYES: Is that the correct name?) , and changing internet app development with ASP.NET4.0, ASP.NET MVC 2 and Silverlight 4. We’re also hard at work planning the 2010 editions of EnergizeIT and TechDays, along with other ways of helping you raise your game.
Happy New Year, everyone!
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Build a Windows Azure-based App from Scratch
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A Lap Around Microsoft Visual Studio and Team Foundation Server 2010
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ASP.NET MVC 2 Release Candidate
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NEWS IN A FLASH
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Get your Applications In a Cloud! — Windows Azure Introductory Special
MSDN Premium Subscribers can sign up for Windows Azure Offer with 750 hours of Windows Azure compute per month for 8 months. Claiming Windows Azure via MSDN
here
. Download Windows Azure training guide on “How to deploy an application”
here
.
DevTeach-Learn How to Build Killer Apps Using Windows 7 Community Tour
Join Richard Campbell and Kate Gregory for an action-packed overview on Windows 7 application development. Whether you are looking to create more performant, reliable, or secure applications, or you are an application developer looking to leap-frog past your competition, this
FREE event
across 7 cities, will provide you with the information you need to better understand the Windows 7 platform. Learn more
here
.
Test Drive Windows 7 in a Virtual Environment
With a single click, you can take Windows 7 and check it out, feature by feature, without having to “pave over” your current version of Windows! You’ll run it on our servers in a “try before you buy” environment, catch virtual labs and videos on our latest and greatest OS and see how Windows 7 can help you and your organization.
Preview WCF RIA Services for Silverlight 4
Microsoft WCF RIA Services simplifies building interface-rich and data-rich web applications with ASP.NET and Silverlight. It provides a pattern for you to write application logic that runs on the mid-tier and controls access to data, making it easier to build and maintain your apps, and works with Visual Studio 2008 and Visual Studio 2010 Beta.
PHP on Windows
Become a Pretty Hot Programmer with this series of presentations! See how PHP and IIS work together, get your LAMP apps running on WISP and learn about the Microsoft Web Platform.
MFC and Windows 7
MFC’s been around since 1992, and it’s still going strong — the newest version will ship with Visual Studio 2010. In this video, Pat Brennan talks about how it takes advantage of the new Windows 7 features, from the taskbar to the Ribbon UI to the restart manager.
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Hit List: Usability Slide Decks
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Security for Developers |
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MOSS Security
A brand-new video (just out this week!) providing an overview of security in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server. |
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Microsoft SQL Azure Security Model
Managing security on SQL Azure is a lot like managing it on SQL Server, but there are some differences in authentication and authorization. This video covers those differences. |
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Expanding SDL for Cloud and Agile Development
Jeff Jones (Strategy Director in the Microsoft Security Technology Unit) on the expansion of Microsoft’s Security Development Lifecycle to cover security issues when developing “client and cloud” apps and integrating security with agile development practices. |
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