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Tuesday, March 10, 2009 11:43 AM
CodeCapmOz April 4-5 – Speakers, Sessions, Social
CodeCampOz is fast approaching - (4-5 April in Wagga Wagga). Mitch has announced the speakers and sessions , and talked about the important social aspects of CodeCamp , in addition to the obvious technical benefits. Looks like another great CodeCamp!
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Tuesday, February 03, 2009 5:40 PM
Ramp yourself up with Ramp Up
I know, getting training budget is hard at the moment, but you really want to make yourself as employable as possible. Help is at hand (in fact, it’s only a mouse click away). There are, of course, a whole bunch of Virtual Labs you can do (for developers
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Monday, November 17, 2008 11:17 AM
Finding the Windows dpi setting in .NET
I had a note from Stephen Lead (of Ignite Spatial fame) asking how to determine the dpi setting a user has selected in Windows. He pointed me to the only MSDN article he could find on the subject, ironically explaining how to do it in Visual FoxPro. I
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Tuesday, May 27, 2008 7:22 PM
Developing an add-in for multiple versions of Office
One of the common questions I get asked when I do sessions on VSTO / OBA development is "how can I target Office 2003 and Office 2007?" (I also get asked about previous versions of Office, but I have a less helpful response there). Mary Lee's
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Wednesday, May 21, 2008 6:18 PM
Content when you need it - Great training kits available
I went to see the clever folk at Vivid Group yesterday. Being clever, they've already established an internal user group of sorts, but they're often looking for compelling content to deliver. Fortunately, I was able to point them to some great resources.
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Tuesday, January 15, 2008 11:46 PM
More VSTS2008 Virtual Images on MSDN
Matt Nunn sent this round recently - a couple of additions to the many Virtual Images you can download and just start using. I would like to announce that just prior to the holiday season we posted new public VSTS 2008 VPC Images. There are 2 versions
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Thursday, December 20, 2007 7:02 AM
Lots of Pre-Configured Virtual Machines for You to Use
Continuing the trend of making it easy to get your hands on a pre-configured environment to help evaluate and learn the new stuff, there are a number of great (and I mean this in several senses of the word) downloads available for you to grab and fire
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Wednesday, November 21, 2007 9:18 PM
MapPoint Web Services (and SQL 2k8 Spatial) Presentation for GITA
I'm in Perth as a result of GITA inviting me to speak at their Seminar and Workshops . I presented on MapPoint Web Services and showed a sneak peek of SQL Server 2008 's Spatial capabilities (here's another white paper ). My slides are available here
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Thursday, November 15, 2007 2:56 PM
.NET Framework 3.5 Namespaces Poster Available
This just in from Paul Andrew . We just completed the .NET Framework 3.5 update to the Commonly Used Types and Namespaces poster. Here's a link to the file (PDF, XPS and 16-page XPS) if you want to grab it now and be the first on your block to get it
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Tuesday, November 13, 2007 12:52 PM
XNA Games Studio Express Events in Sydney and Melbourne this week
A couple of great XNA Games Studio Express events this week in the MS offices in Sydney and Melbourne, presented by Pete Isensee , director of the Microsoft XNA Developer Connection (XDC). Who should attend? XNA (Game Studio Express) users Game development/design
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Thursday, November 08, 2007 2:03 PM
.NET and VBA Interop
I got a nice note from Joe Hanna of vantage IT today following my presentation at the Office DevCon last weekend. In case you were interested, I thought I might let you know the results of attempting to build a .NET User Control and consuming it in a
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Tuesday, August 14, 2007 9:50 PM
Wow, Now I'm MCPD!
Call me unusual, but I like doing the MS Certification exams . First, some history. My first exam was way back in 1999, when I participated in the beta program for the (then) new Visual FoxPro exams, 70-155 (Designing and Implementing Distributed Applications
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Thursday, August 02, 2007 2:26 PM
VSTO Resources
This came through on an internal list today. The author, Asli Bilgin, warns that this is " BY NO MEANS a comprehensive list ", so if you've got more, leave them in the comments here. VSTO Resources bits & bytes Get Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Tools
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Friday, July 20, 2007 5:55 AM
Learning Online with Virtual Labs - Microsoft Office Virtual Labs
Today, a great series of labs for developing Office solutions, including a bunch of brand-new labs on Visual Studio Tools for Office. Microsoft Office Virtual Labs (from the MSDN Suite of Virtual Labs ). The 2007 Microsoft Office System delivers an entirely
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Monday, July 02, 2007 12:00 AM
Learning Online with Virtual Labs - ASP.NET Virtual Labs
Celebrate the new Financial Year with another great set of labs. ASP.NET Virtual Labs (from the MSDN Suite of Virtual Labs ) With ASP.NET you create richer Web applications with fewer lines of code. These virtual labs teach you about the innovations that
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