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Friday, May 16, 2008 1:04 PM

Deploying VSTO 3 solutions

While the default mechanism for deploying VSTO v3 Add-Ins is ClickOnce, there there's now also a documented way to deliver VSTO solutions via an MSI installer. By extension, this should mean you can push it out via group policy (or SMS or whatever). Mary
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Wednesday, May 14, 2008 6:48 PM

Microsoft launches RoboChamps, a worldwide simulated robotics competition platform built on .NET

It's seems like competitions are the flavour of the month. A couple of weeks ago we launched a world-wide competition for people building simulated robots. This is "... a simulated robotics league that is open to academics, hobbyists and developers
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Friday, May 09, 2008 6:48 PM

VSTO/VSTA Power Tools and Submitting Feedback on MS Products

Anyone who's been to any of my recent presentations knows that I'm a passionate advocate of developing on the Office platform . The release of VSTO v3 with VS2008 was a big step forward in making Office development a truly first-class .NET development
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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 5:02 PM

Visual Studio 2008 Training Workshop Recordings on Channel 9

In September, we recorded the sessions from a full 5-day Visual Studio 2008 Training Workshop. These sessions were delivered by several of the Technical Evangelists on the Visual Studio Rhythm team and Program Managers from the product group. Last week
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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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Wednesday, December 19, 2007 6:23 AM

Great Silverlight and OpenXML demos

I've been meaning to blog about this for ages. Darko Jovisic, a Developer Evangelist from Croatia, did a couple of great demos during a presentation in September and he's released them on CodePlex for you to download and explore. First demo: Simple application
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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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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 05, 2007 10:17 AM

More Videos from the Virtual Tech•Ed Fishbowl

A bunch more of the videos from the Virtual Tech•Ed Fishbowl on the Gold Coast have gone up. Check these out. Highlights from Two Top Tech·Ed Australia Sessions In this entertaining video, Nick Hodge, officially titled “Professional Geek” at Microsoft,
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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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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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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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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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Tuesday, June 26, 2007 12:00 AM

Learning Online with Virtual Labs - .NET Framework 3.0 Virtual Labs

Today, .NET Framework 3.0 Virtual Labs (this time from the MSDN Suite of Virtual Labs ) Windows CardSpace Virtual Labs Core Features of Windows CardSpace Windows Presentation Foundation Virtual Labs Building Windows Presentation Foundation Applications
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