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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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Tuesday, September 11, 2007 4:23 PM
More Great .NET 3.0 Training in Australia
I just got this note from Faith Rees about some exciting .NET 3.0 training being conducted by our partner, Readify . Contact them directly for more info. Juval Lowy’s Windows Communication Foundation MasterClass– Registrations close 21 September Juval
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Friday, August 24, 2007 2:50 PM
Generating OpenXML Documents on the Server
Via Doug . One of the great features of the New OpenXML file formats used by Office 2007 is their server-side programmability (creation, interrogation, updating etc). Erika Ehrli has a great post on Building Server-Side Document Generation Solutions .
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Tuesday, August 21, 2007 2:43 PM
Office DevCon in Sydney November 3-4 - Will you be there?
Long-time MVP Graham Seach is organising an Office CodeCamp-style DevCon to be held here at the MS Offices in Sydney over the weekend of November 3-4 (that's closer than you think!). It will most likely be a free event and Graham is looking for expressions
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Monday, August 20, 2007 3:24 PM
Developer Readiness for Windows Server 2008
Anthony Borton just sent me this (I notice it's also on his blog - and Chuck's ) Windows Server 2008 Developer Essentials This two-day technical readiness event is designed to introduce developers to many of the new features of Windows Server 2008. As
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Tuesday, August 14, 2007 9:35 AM
OpenXML Explained Book - Hard Copy and Online
I've been talking about VSTO v3 and OBA in my TechEd sessions in Australia and New Zealand, but there have also been lots of questions about OpenXML. Wouter Van Vugt has written a great book called OpenXML Explained and I've been giving out copies in
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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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