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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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Saturday, June 30, 2007 12:00 AM
Learning Online with Virtual Labs - Soup to Nuts Virtual Labs
Today, a great set of labs to finish the Financial Year - Soup to Nuts Virtual Labs (from the MSDN Suite of Virtual Labs ) Learn how to build Microsoft Windows Forms applications and Smart Clients in Microsoft .NET. We will cover object oriented concepts
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Thursday, June 28, 2007 12:00 AM
Learning Online with Virtual Labs - Microsoft Visual Studio Team System Virtual Labs
Today, Microsoft Visual Studio Team System Virtual Labs (from the MSDN Suite of Virtual Labs ) What's new in Visual Studio Team System Virtual Lab Express is the fastest and easiest way to test drive Microsoft products and the Virtual Lab environment.
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Thursday, June 21, 2007 4:28 PM
What version of TFS am I Running?
Chris Birmele , our (ostensibly neutral) VSTS Technical Specialist was complaining about not being able to work out what version (Beta, RC, RTM, SP1) and which Edition (Standard, Trial, Workgroup) of TFS was running on a machine. After consulting with
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Thursday, May 31, 2007 12:12 PM
.NET and Win32 Interop - New Toolkit Available
While I was prepping for some VFP sessions I delivered in Hong Kong last week, I pinged yag for some pointers from his DevCon keynote. In addition to a bunch of great info on Sedna and VFP 9.0 SP2 , he pointed me at a really cool resource - the Microsoft
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Friday, May 25, 2007 8:18 PM
Slide decks from the Hong Kong Roadmap and Futures Event
I've just spent a couple of days in Hong Kong culminating in 3 presentations to VFP and VB6 developers about strategies for moving their applications forward to take advantage of the platform. The three decks are attached. I posted some of the sample
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