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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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Friday, May 02, 2008 9:23 AM

US Tech.Ed Session Catalogues Live

As I said , I'm off to Tech.Ed Developers in Orlando at the beginning of next month (and our event manager, Fran Barlow, is off to Tech.Ed IT Professionals the following week). I also noted that the track owners for Tech.Ed New Zealand and Australia are
Posted by acoat | 3 Comments
Wednesday, April 30, 2008 9:56 PM

Help us find this year's most Innovative Teachers

Eight teachers who use technology in innovative ways to support learning will win a trip to KL next year to compete in the APAC awards. The winner will also receive a laptop computer for themselves and four HP laptops and a printer for their school. The
Posted by acoat | 1 Comments
Wednesday, April 30, 2008 12:56 PM

Record your Demos Happen { Here } demo with Community Clips

Jensen Harris (of " The Story Of The Ribbon " fame) announced it, Allan Da Costa Pinto has pointed to it already (as, of course, has Frank - does he never sleep?). There's a great new public site for the (previously internal only) Microsoft
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Tuesday, April 29, 2008 7:05 PM

Visual C++ 2008 Feature Pack Released

During my Windows Development session at the Heroes Happen { 2008 } launch shows around the country, I said that there was feature pack coming "soon" that would enhance VC++ 2008. Well, "soon" has arrived. I got a note in my inbox
Posted by acoat | 1 Comments
Monday, April 28, 2008 10:40 AM

Demos Happen { Here } - Win a trip to TechEd in Sydney and/or LA

Note: this competition is open to Australian Residents aged 18 years or over on or before 1 September 2008 One of the cool things we're doing as part of the launch of Visual Studio 2008, Windows Server 2008 and SQL Server 2008 is running the first Microsoft
Posted by acoat | 3 Comments
Tuesday, January 22, 2008 2:15 PM

Want to stay connected to the Aussie DPE Team?

I was chatting with Darren the other day and he said that he's been feeling increasingly disconnected from the DPE team here in Australia since Frank left, and also now that Chuck 's gone. Putting aside the fact that they're impossible shoes to fill,
Posted by acoat | 10 Comments
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
Posted by acoat | 3 Comments
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
Posted by acoat | 4 Comments
Wednesday, December 19, 2007 4:47 PM

New Visual Studio 2008 Virtual Labs

Back in June and July, I did a series of posts about the great Virtual Labs that are available for you to jump right into with no download and no configuration requirements. I posted about labs for: Business Intelligence Microsoft Search Solutions for
Posted by acoat | 1 Comments
Wednesday, September 19, 2007 5:46 PM

Funniest Home Videos - Oz Partner Style

Great initiative from Christian Longstaff and the local Partner Team Following the success of Channel 9 , ON10 , we now have an Aussie video blog for Partners: Partner-TV Australia . This new blog consists of short videos of fellow Microsoft’ies and partners
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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
Posted by acoat | 1 Comments
Tuesday, September 11, 2007 11:28 AM

ViaWindowsLive.com - for Windows Live Developers

Tatham and Dr Neil alluded to it in their fishbowl interview , and now Anna 's been plugging it too. From the developers of ViaVirtualEarth , there's a new site for Windows Live developers . Check out the plethora of topics on the nav bar:
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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 .
Posted by acoat | 3 Comments
Tuesday, August 14, 2007 5:58 PM

Free developer events in Sydney, Canberra and Melbourne

Those guys at Readify are at it again. I got this in the inbox from Greg Low today. Hi Folks, Many of you that were at TechEd will have heard about the Readify Developer Network by now. For those that haven’t, I’ve spelled out most of it in this blog
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