Ozzie Rules Blogging

Recieved this question in mail: I am a novice programmer, and am having difficulty in using "Playing a Sound". Hello, I know I am certainly still a novice compared to some of my coworkers! I was playing with writing a game in GDI+ (probably...

If you run into the error "Cannot read configuration file" or the web designer won't add controls to web applications under Visual Studio 2005 you are probably running into the situation of Visual Studio is not running with Administrator access...to get...

When installing Visaul Studio 2005 on Windows Vista Build 5308 (Feb CTP) it was failing with the error that the minium requirement had not been met and i needed to install SP2 (silly setup) I did two things to get past this so i am not certain which...

Last Friday i spoke at the Charles Sturt computer science graduation ceremonies and have to admit i was very honored and a little nervous about speaking at such a prestigious ceremony mostly because i had no idea what i talk about since most of my...

What do you give a man that has everything? Well back in February I visited the Cairns User Group for a day long hands on lab and the Cairns residents gave me an expected gift – Ross River Fever ! In their defense I am pretty certain it was during...

Getting Ready for Code Camp i decided to put on the Febuary Build 5308 of Windows Vista . After installing WinFX and the SDK I attempted to run a short Video ( i have had issues with video on other Vista builds) and alas the audio came through but no...

In my earlier post i indicated we would be delivering some Vista training in May....Well this has now slipped out to the first week in June and will also include a session on Office 12 please find the updated proposed agenda below. As soon I have the...

Since I am doing the training on Office 2007 developer features i thought i should also use the product as a normal home user and have to admit while i really like it i can find it bit frustrating. That being the case i thought i would start a little...

Yesterday at QUT i dropped my “every day hard drive” in the elevator while swapping with my Team Foundation Server Drive and while the dropped drive would spin up it wouldn't boot any more -sigh. Mounting it in an external caddy and running chkdsk would...

The winner of "Find that Feature in Office 2007" is Volkan Elveren of Germany! His answers were: 1) How do you access the format painter in Word 2007? a) When you select text in Word 12, the MiniBar appears "ghosted" above the text you...

We are lucky enough to have Dr Jens Troeger, one of the Xbox Developers in Town and he is presenting on the exciting new Xbox 360 gaming platform! This presenation will be at the Garden Point Campus at QUT Friday 28th April, 3-4pm in room 410 of 'S' Block...

I must admit i am always surprised when somebody mentions reading my blog and was particularly shocked from all the "get well" calls after i posting i had contracted Ross River Fever and it also looks like i may have blamed my Cairns friends for no good...

Most of Jeff's questions during the tour revolved around licensing to RTM -below is a set of "crib notes" for getting TFS to the released version Team Foundation Server Beta 3 – this pre-release version of TFS was released in the fall of 2005...

Several people asked about this during Jeff's Tour and wanted to make sure and get a link to it from my blog.... We just published v1.0 of the Visual Studio Team Foundation Server MSSCCI Provider to Microsoft Downloads. This release was tested with...