I’ve been meaning to blog for the last couple of year but it’s been really hard with work. I’m challenging myself to write more this year and also do some vlogs I’d like to record some 5-10 min videos explaining how to do something. I feel we live a world right now where 1h webcast are just too long, I usually tune out after 5-10m. So I’ll try to solving ......

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I’ve recently encountered a problem where my deployment agents where gobbling up a ton of space on the C drive of my deployed machine, after investigation, when you start a deployment, the agent copies the package content over to the machine it’s deploying on in the temp folder essentially at c:\users\<USER>\appda... ......

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I’d like to thank Packt for providing me with a review version of Visual Studio 2010 Best Practices eBook. In fairness I also know the author Peter having seen him speak at DevTeach on many occasions. I started by looking at the table of content to see what this book was about, knowing that “best practices” is a real misnomer I wanted to see what they ......

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This week I’m at the Microsoft Build/Windows conference. Now I’ve been to many conferences throughout the years and this is the first conference where I literally knew nothing about including the agenda. When I signed up for my badge on arrival we got a conference guide with all the hours of the session but no sessions. Very secret, very cloak and dagger. ......

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Hey everyone, I know it’s been an eternity since I blogged but I have so much to do that I unfortunately need to prioritize. Vincent Grondin and I did a 7h presentation on the new developer and tester tools available in the VS 2010 suite. It was a blast. We did it in front of an audience (around 120) and it was taped. We did it as a play and really ......

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So I’ve been hearing a lot of folks (myself included) having issue with debugging there web application with VS 2010, Cassini (the VS web server) and IE9. It looks like this Well I found and easy solution, image that . Edit your hosts file at location c:\windows\system32\drivers... and make sure the localhost 127.0.0.1 line is uncommented and ......

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I just noticed I haven’t blogged in about 8 months… time flies when you have work to do. Things are going well and I have a few bits of insight I’ll try to share in the coming months (ya ya to busy to blog, etc). Anyway I wanted to say that I was renewed as an ALM MVP for the 6th year, I’m very happy about this obviously, I invest a lot of time in the ......

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Hello everyone, long time no blog… I’ll try to get back in the game soon but with 2 customer and user group and life in general let’s just say I’m busy. In the meantime I’m passing along this great offer. Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Professional will launch on April 12 but you can beat the rush and secure your copy today by pre-ordering at the affordable ......

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I've been renewed again this year as a member of this elite cabal of crazies that call themselves Team System MVP!! I feel really happy today, this is always good to know our commitment to the product we love is recognize by our peers, community leaders and Microsoft. This program has really been a blessing for me in the last 5 years I've met incredibly ......

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Hello everyone, I’ve known for while I was going to be a judge but I forgot to mention it. Now that the day has come for me to take the plane to Egypt well I though I’d mention it ;-). This should be an interesting judging exercise this year since there is no one theme, every team can pick from one the 8 millennium goals from Unesco You can read about ......

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Well it look like it’s finally upon us. Soma just announce the availability of it for today on MSDN. Read all about it here. I’ve been busy evaluating it and giving feedback on it for the last 3 years and we finally have some bits that we’ll be able to install and play with on real hardware. There are just soooo many new good stuff in there that I can’t ......

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Well I obviously couldn’t resist the temptation to install the Windows 7 RC. Well I’m actually speechless (which says a lot if you know me). This is a great OS I mean I was expecting good even great but I’ve been extremely pleased. It’s fast, I mean really fast. I didn’t really have issues with Vista on that front when it was booted but it did feel ......

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So we’re throwing together a new code camp in Montreal at the end of May (May 30th actually) and I’m going to be speaking Check out the site here http://www.codecampmontreal... Here’s my session (It’s going to be in French as you can see by the Bio) Etienne Tremblay Etienne Tremblay Etienne Tremblay est Directeur Associé en charge du centre de technologies ......

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I’m speaking again at DevTeach this year in June in Vancouver. Here is a comprensive list of things going on. Party with Vancouver IT community Monday June 8th URL: http://party.cuga.ca/Home.aspx Vancouver IT community is hosting Monday june 8th in Vancouver a DevTeach kick off party. This is the official social event for DevTeach Vancouver. The event ......

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Hello everyone still listening… I know I’ve been a little silent for a while, well almost 6 months actually. Let’s say I’ve been busy ;-). The first big news is that I have left my old employer after 17 years. I’d like to say that it’s been a great time and I wish them good luck. I was offered a position has director of the Microsoft practice here in ......

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