Kate Gregory: Kate has over three 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.
Visual Studio
27 Aug 2010
A Look at VS Add-in for Windows 7 Taskbar Extras
Kate Gregory writes
"...If your build results in errors or warnings, you'll also get a taskbar icon overlay when it's done letting you know about them.) And here we have handy thumbnail buttons - for build, debug, and start without debugging:..."
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TechTalk
25 Aug 2010
Insight About Useful Code Comments
Kate Gregory writes
"...Recently, I was shown this quote. The person who showed it...is a smart person I respect, so I'm going to leave that person un-named. The authors of the quote, Kernighan and Plauger, are legends of the field. In 1979...they wrote:..."
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TechTalk
16 Aug 2010
Windows Phone 7 Link Resources
Kate Gregory writes
"...I'm collecting link on Windows Phone 7 topics...pictures and links to dev tools...Windows Phone 7 paper prototype to supplement your emulator experience..."
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