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Thanks for your patience. The REMIX08 site is now live so, check out the sessions , subscribe to the REMIX blog or Register ! It's $199 (inc. GST) for a full day of learning and you'll get a full copy of Expression Studio 2 compliments of us (retails...

I should have known better than to put a date to the REMIX08 site going live - mind you, I didn't really think anybody read my blog which is probably why I felt confident publishing the date but, I've had a few emails today asking me when the site will...

We managed to twist the arms of Angus Logan and Arturo Toledo to join us for ReMIX Australia in both Sydney and Melbourne - ok, so it didn't take much to convince Angus, who left his role as Portals Technical Specialist in Microsoft Australia last year...

For those of you who are extra eager to get down and dirrrty with Silverlight 2.0 Beta 1, you'll find plenty of brand new hands-on labs here to keep you busy (and improve your skills!!). You'll need to install VS08 Tools as well as download the Silverlight...

MIX Las Vegas brought us many exciting announcements including the unveiling of Silverlight 2 and Expression 2 Betas. Back here in Australia, we decided to bring you the great MIX experience in a one day event in Sydney and Melbourne on 20th and 22nd...

2 days to go... The ADNUG (Adelaide .NET User Group) is pleased to announce that Steve Riley is making a special guest appearance at the user group meeting this month. Steve is in Australia for the Heroes Happen 2008 launch and presenting the Locknote...

Reading up on the Delicate Genius’ blog , I watched a great keynote session from Guy Kawasaki + Steve Ballmer at MIX Las Vegas. Guy interviews Steve on the hard questions about Yahoo, Google, Apple, Facebook, Vista and of course, Silverlight 2.0. Very...

Hot of the press news from MIX during Chris Pendleton’s Virtual Earth session today. Now available Virtual Earth JavaScript Intellisense Helper Creating Microsoft Virtual Earth mashups and applications just got a whole lot easier thanks to Marc...

Real World WCF with David Shields Join us at the Perth .NET Community of Practice, March 6th to hear David Shields present on WCF. In this session, David will talk about a real life implementation of WCF and WS-Eventing. Windows Communication Foundation...

I always feel pretty excited as we are about to hit the road with a launch"roadshow" (This has been my 4th major launch at Microsoft, including being the Visual Studio 05 "Ready Launch" lead a couple of years back.). Believe it or not, a lot of late nights...

February 19th 9.01pm: Microsoft launch DreamSpark – a program to give students all over the world access to Microsoft developer and designer tools at no charge. It’s available through channel 8, our student community and can be found at http://channel8...

I had one of my regular catch ups with local MVP, Nick Randolph yesterday. He brought a great community site for Visual Studio developers to my attention. It's well worth checking out if you are falling into the occasional "pot hole" or two with your...

Hi guys, Firstly, thanks to everyone who entered the competition. We are pleased to announce that the best entry is Derek Miller. In his words... “ Heroes Happen Here 2008 will be looked back at as the Woodstock of technical launches in 5+years...

Hi Devs, We've put together a little offer for you. You can win one of ten of the special edition Heroes T-shirts. You can either click on the video below to find out more and check out the prizes or, simply send your answer via the contact form, telling...

Check out the first Developer Cubed Comic strip "Sunshine, Lollipops and Rainbows". To stay up to date with the latest comics, bookmark Visual Studio 2008 Portal . ~ Jen

To help you get started with Visual Studio 2008 - we have launched the Visual Studio 2008 Portal . We have also got the first strip of Developer Cubed up there. These strips were created by a local animation design house Nectarine . Huge thanks...

MSDN Code Gallery is a portal for snippets, samples and other resources. In it you can find pages that describe samples and supporting documents including screenshots and design documents. In addition, you will find hosted conversations about these samples...

Leave a comment or drop an email to delicate genius , for your chance to get a copy of BigScreen photos or BigScreen Weather. BigScreen Photos is a frontend to Flickr. It’s a Vista Media Center add-in which allows you to browse Flickr on your media...

If you are interested in Sharepoint, come down to SA Innovation Centre, Level 2, Westpac House, 91 King William Street, Adelaide at 5.45pm. Duration: 5.45pm - 7.45pm close Guest speaker Daniel Brown – Sharepoint Architect – Sharepoint resources...

Recently launched by local SQL Server guy in Brisbane, Rod Colledge - this website shares best practice resources/links all around SQL Server. Happy reading! ~Jen

Imagine cup i s the world’s premier technology competition for students. Each year, students are provided with a theme – this year, the theme is extremely topical and relevant – “Imagine A World Where Technology Enables a Sustainable Environment”. Last...

Check out 'Mix on Campus ' , it's a free Microsoft web design, multimedia and web developer event. Originally just for university students and lecturers, 'Mix on Campus' has drawn interest from members of the broader IT/Dev community, so we are slackening...

Phil Meyer and Jorke Odolphi will be delivering FREE hands-on labs to learn about our latest Web server technology: Microsoft Windows Server 2008 and Internet Information Services 7 at Clifton’s and Associates in Sydney, on the 6th and 7th November. ...

This month we kick off Dynamics Developer Sessions, a quarterly briefing for developers who want to know more about how to develop solutions using Visual Studio, .NET and Dynamics. Read more about this on Dave Lempher's post . Dave will...

Check out this great news! I was just reading CSO Online and Jeff Jones post about vulnerability report and Vista did really well! Check it out below, i think we are on a good thing! For the original click here I was somewhat surprised (but pleased...