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Visual Studio 2005 - SQL Server 2005 Hands on Training Day. Presented by Cairns Software Developers Forum and International .NET Users Association (INETA) and Microsoft Join us to celebrate the launch of Visual Studio 2005! ...

One of my favorite parts of doing Windows Presentation Foundation (Code Named Avalon) presentations is showing off the Expression Interactive Designer (ie Sparkle) This way cool tool makes creating XAML a breeze and lets you do it with very powerfull...

As i posted earlier we will be offering a free evening Security Event for the community. We now have the dates and locations finalized and are now taking registrations -so get in early Please feel free to forward this along! Security Interchange...

I just learned the New Zealand User groups have been archiving many of their presentations in on demand web cast format! If you want to watch them check out: http://msevents-as.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?EventID=120466606&EventCategory...

Listing the folks interested in doing a road trip to Code Camp from the post i made asking for people that are interested Brisbane Andrew Dugdell http://blogs.virtualserver.tv/blogs/dugie/ Andrew.Dugdell@clariti.com.au Charles Sterling http...

Are there any other bikers looking to do a road trip to Code Camp? If so post a comment and i will add you to the Motor Cycle Code Camp road trip blog role (or drop me a line at chass@microsoft.com ) Chuck PS i might not be able to do this if...

MVP's and Super Star New Zealanders Peter Jones and Kirk Jackson are thinking about organizing code camp New Zealand ! They are just kicking around ideas but looking at Date - TBD! In Porirua (near Wellington ) If you would like to help...

I was at Dialog Thursday and the question was raised when would Enterprise Library for .NET Framework 2.0 be released and i indicated then "a couple of days" well that is time is NOW! You can download it at: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/?url...

Greg Low has put together a great resource on the topic of SQL Server: SQL DownUnder which he defines as: SQLDownUnder is a podcast for the community of professionals using SQL Server TM . Experiences with SQL Server Service Broker and Dynamic...

Just sat in a presentation on SSIS by Peter Myers and must admit it was WAY cool and I definitely want to play more with this technology now! Now i wish i hadn't focused only the developer sessions at launch....If you made this same mistake you can...

Just in time for Craig's WCF visit and Hands On Traing We have just announced a "Go Live" licenses for the Windows Workflow Foundation Beta2 Runtime ( WF ) and Windows Communication Foundation Beta2 Runtime (WCF Download the WF & WCF B2 runtimes...

Heres snapshots of the Adelaide SQL Server 2005 and Visual Studio 2005 community launch, the keynote, and a few of the sessions. Frank's there , so's Jeff and Dave Glover is featured twice! Spot David Lemphers in there too talking about DLINQ to everyone...

Come see how Windows Vista is fundamentally different from earlier versions of Windows, Windows Vista introduces development advances that help developers create next-generation applications that take full advantage of Windows Vista, including: · WinFX...

Long time friend Jeff Beehler and Lead Program Manager in charge of Team Foundation Server will be visiting Austratlia to celebrate the launch of TFS! I am currently accepting requests for having him do customer visits, user groups etc His current...

That's right the best Australian developer conference of the year is back! Mitch and Greg have just opened up the request for papers so if you have a topic you want to see or would like to present please visit: http://www.codecampoz.com/

Just wanted to apologize for the email we just sent for the Patterns and Practices Summit... In that email we list the speakers in the email as being: Alan Cooper Chris Sells Anders Hejlsberg Unfortunately this not correct - Luckily we...

This is is still preliminary information and we dont have the registration links yet but again "Fore warned is Fore armed" Will post final information in two weeks *************** Security Interchange bought to you by Microsoft. Maybe you...

In Feb I will be "going dark" for a several days when I am on the Road with Craig McMurtry and wanted have an easy place for people to "find" me... Feb 13-17th WCF ISV training North Ryde Feb 15 Sydney User Group Presentation – Andrew Coates...

The registration site is finally LIVE -Special thanks to Adam Cogan for putting me up while visiting! Registration site http://msevents-as.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=120466486&Culture=en-AU for agenda Event Abstract Please...

Looks like Component Software just released Converter for Subversion, CVS and RCS to Team System.... http://www.componentsoftware.com/Products/converter/download.htm If anybody has tried it love to hear your thoughts Chuck

Recieved this Query on one of the alia's i am on and thought other folks might be interested in the answer: Hi guys, I am learning how to use VB .Net (haven't-programmed-for-ten-years-way), as there has been huge interest in it from the students...

If you are still doing VB 6 development or tasked with upgrading VS 6.0 projects this download Enables Visual Studio 6.0 to use Team Foundation Server Version Control. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=32202966-EF04-442F-8C5C...

The last post I indicated none of the applications were happy as they were now all sitting on the wrong drive letter I eventaully remapped the drive letters but this wasn't easy as easy as right click on the drives in the MMC and rename due to the...

Per my last Ximage post i was going to sysprep the OS and create a new Image...Unfortunately it didn't go well at all. I sysprepped the OS on the partition i wanted to replicate (Sysprep /Reseal) Booted a drive that could run Ximage Created...

Playing with Ximage on a bare drive and realized it doesn't set the Master Boot Record (Fare enough it doesn't know which partition to set it to) after looking around for a while i found the way to do this in XP and Windows Server 2003 is to: ...