Last week I was in Canberra presenting at the Lunchtime and Late Afternoon sessions of the User Group. Athena's just pinged me to say that she's posted the slides and code here. Enjoy!

Update - I've also got a detailed walk-through document for the demo I used as part of the presentation.

BTW, I'll be presenting this stuff in Adelaide on July 13 and in Sydney on July 20th if you're interested in seeing it.

One of the great new components in VS2005 is the BackgroundWorker component, which makes writing threaded applications a whole lot easier. There's a new article up on MSDN that explains its use and shows some sample code.

I've just uploaded an article I wrote about customising one of the starter kits in the C# Express edition of Beta 2 for the July 2005 edition of International Developer Magazine.

This month was a great month for C# Express exposure with 3 of the top computer mags in the country including it on their cover CD and devoting as many as 4 pages to a walk-through tutorial. Kudos to Finula for making this possible, and extra kudos to International Developer, Atomic and PC Authority for carrying the stories.

I've spent the last couple of days with the one and only Dave Glover at some Indigo training being run here in the MS Sydney office. Dave's got to miss the final day tomorrow as he's off to Adelaide to MC at the opening of the new Adelaide office of dotNet Solutions, run by the brains (and the brawn) behind the Canberra .NET user group, John and Athena. If you want to see Dave at the top of his form, drop Athena a note and she'll give you all the details.