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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, March 03, 2009 9:30 PM

Tim Sneath : Announcing Family.Show v3 – Our WPF Reference Application

Tim’s blogged about a cool WPF reference application released onto CodePlex by Microsoft and Vertigo. Family.Show 3 is a family tree program that allows you to quickly enter relationships, key dates and other information. Dave tells me it’s not perfect
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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, February 02, 2009 10:24 AM

Virtual Goodness with the Linked .NET User Group this Thursday

As if it wasn’t enough to organise physical User Groups in Perth, Brian Madsen has been helping to organise a .NET User Group on LinkedIn . This month the irrepressible Zain Naboulsi is presenting on Deepen your Debugging: Tips and Tricks for the Visual
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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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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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Saturday, April 26, 2008 3:04 PM

Times Reader SDK Released

Yeah, I know I'm about 3 months late with this, but I'm coming out of the tunnel (between here and here ). Frank blogged it (of course) as did Tim Sneath (and probably 100s of others). I've been using the New York Times reader as a great example of a
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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, December 19, 2007 4:50 PM

DotNet-U: Great training you can take and give

We had the pleasure last week of hosting Doug Turnure , the Developer Evangelist from Atlanta, Georgia. Doug and I started at Microsoft around the same time (I think he pre-dates me by about 6 months) and we've corresponded a few times but this was the
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Wednesday, December 19, 2007 7:00 AM

Free eLearning Courses Available Online

I'm on the way to Redmond (about an hour out from San Francisco) and clearing my backlog of "Blog This" from my email. This is a beaut! There are some great eLearning courses available for you to do free of charge including: Collection 5125:
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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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Thursday, November 01, 2007 9:54 AM

Searching for Contacts in VSTO

I LOVE VSTO v3! As part of my demos for Graham Seach's Office DevCon , I've developed a VSTO v3 Outlook Add-in that adds a form region to an incoming e-mail if: The sender is in my contacts (based on the e-mail address); and The contact has a non-null,
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Wednesday, September 19, 2007 2:39 PM

Office DevCons - Sydney (November 3-4) and San Jose (February 10-13)

As I posted previously , Grahame Seach is pulling together the community Office DevCon in Sydney this November (3-4). The website is now live with the list of 29 sessions and speakers, information about the conference and the facilities, as well as a
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Wednesday, September 12, 2007 3:09 PM

(fish)Bowling for TechEd

Two new videos from the Virtual TechEd FishBowl . While you're at it, check out the BuilderAU video section for even more TechEd goodness. XNA Gaming Tools and Technologies XNA, Microsoft’s latest suite of game creation tools, is composed of industry-leading
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