In this episode I had a chance to catch up with one of my colleagues, John Bristowe, a Developer Evangelist with Microsoft Canada. In this extended conversation, John and I discuss some of our favorite new features in Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4 with a Canadian geography lesson thrown in from John.

Show Notes

TechDays Canada

Cygwin – Your favorite Linux tools and utilities for the PC

NiNite – App Downloader and Installer

Thursday Night WAN Party hosted by Sara Chips

John on Twitter: @jbristowe

John's Top Tech Learning Podcasts:

• Hanselminutes
• .NET Rocks
• dnrTV!
• Windows Weekly

Canadian Developer Connection Blog

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In this episode, I sit down with Jordan, Angela, Moungi, and Wade from our local DPE Tools team to discuss what's new in Visual Studio 2010. We discuss the Sku changes, the migration path, MSDN benefits, as well as the some of the new features found in Visual Studio 2010 to make development teams successful.

Show Notes

Visual Studio 2010 Product Information

Application Life-Cycle Management Assessment

Brian Harry's Blog Post on TFS Basic

Brian Keller's Blog

10/4 Show on Channel9

Visual Studio 2010 Training Course on Channel9

Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4 Training Kit

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In this episode I have a conversation with Loke Uei Tan and Anand Iyer of the Windows Mobile team. We discuss the recently launched Windows Mobile 6.5 platform, the new marketplace and how developers can build applications that target the Windows Phone platform and possibly win a Microsoft Surface table in the process.

Show Notes

Windows Phone

Windows Phone for Developers

Windows Phone Blog

HTC Touch Pro 2

Samsung Omnia 2 

Samsung Jack

HTC Snap

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