geekSpeak recording: Kate Gregory talks about the Vista Bridge

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In the geekSpeak, C++ expert, Kate Gregory answers questions about the Vista Bridge.  This is a little-known, hidden gem found the in the Windows Vista SDK.  This show has little or no C++ content and is aimed at .Net dev who want to access cool 'Vista goodness' without the C++/CLI approach.

Here's more about Kate:

Kate Gregory has been the Microsoft regional director (RD) for Toronto since January of 2002, and is a founding partner of Gregory Consulting. She has almost three decades of scientific and engineering programming experience in a variety of programming languages. Her recent programming work is almost exclusively in Microsoft Visual C++ and Visual Basic .NET, on a variety of projects, for both enterprise and independent software vendor (ISV) clients.

Kate is the author of over a dozen books including 'Microsoft Visual C++ .NET 2003 Kick Start' (Sams, 2003). She teaches .NET, XML, UML, and C++, and is in demand as an expert speaker on tours for Microsoft Canada, and sessions in the United States, Europe, and Africa. Kate is a founding sponsor of the Toronto .NET Users Group, the founder of the East of Toronto .NET Users Group, a member of the INETA speakers bureau, and a member of adjunct faculty at Trent University in Peterborough. She has been awarded the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) designation for Visual C++, and won the Regional Director of the year award in 2005.