Kate Gregory: Kate has over two decades of scientific and engineering programming experience in a variety of programming languages including Fortran, PL/I, C++, Java, Visual Basic, and C#. Her recent programming work is almost exclusively in Visual C++ and Visual Basic.NET, on a variety of projects, for both Enterprise and ISV clients. Since January 2002 she has been Microsoft Regional Director for Toronto and since January 2004 she has been awarded the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional designation for Visual C++. In June 2005 she won the Regional Director of the year award. Kate is the author of over a dozen books including Microsoft Visual C++ .NET 2003 Kick Start. She teaches .NET, XML, UML, and C++ and is in demand as an expert speaker, with numerous cross-Canada tours for Microsoft Canada, and sessions at DevDays, TechEd (USA, Europe, Africa) and VSLive Toronto, among others.
Editors Picks
29 Oct 2009
Celebrating 40 Years of the Internet
Kate Gregory writes
"...The BBC has a nice article about it. The Globe and Mail tosses in a quick summary of the history of the internet...link to my post that points to a more comprehensive summary in Vanity Fair. If you think the Internet is just the web, all I can say is you missed a golden age. These days..."
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TechTalk
19 Oct 2009
Ways to Access an MSDN Subscription
Kate Gregory writes
"... have an MSDN subscription. If you can't afford it and your company is new, take a look at BizSpark which makes it free. If you're not new or your company doesn't make software, look at...for everyone else, this is..."
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Visual Studio
16 Oct 2009
Rico Mariani and the History of Visual Studio
Kate Gregory writes
"...So far he's up to 8 parts and they make for great reading. He goes into some of the technical challenges the teams faced, and talks about cancelled and sidelined projects along the way. He's made a category for..."
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