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I had planned on doing my Teched Presentation on Windows Vista but had a rude shock that Visual Basic 6.0 wouldn't install in either of my Vista machines. Since the setup was failing immediately i suspected it might have something to do with the JVM dependency...

Over the weekend i built an AMD AM2 X2 Dual core 64 bit computer and had planned on using one of the nicest video cards i have ever seen a Gygabyte GeForce 7600 GS for pushing around Windows Presentation Foundation apps. The reason i say nicest was construction...

For the folks that cannot attend TechEd we have some great news for you! I am working with Ron Jacobs, Greg Low, Paul Glavich, Windows Media Encoder and a JVC handycam to deliver over 20 of the sessions and interviews for your "viewing" pleasure. These...

Had some folks playing with my Windows Sidebar Bar and they indicated Comnet was running very very slowly... Turns out: " Vista's TCP autotuning is having an issue negotiating with some routers and load balancers." To work around this at a command...

I have just started uploading this session so it won't be available for another hour but it was definitely great session and the section on Internet Explorer protected mode is worth the download! Windows Vista System Integrity Technologies

At TechEd I did a presentation on 5 toolkits with 7 demos to help Visual Basic developers extend their Visual Basic 6 applications and skills to Visual Basic .NET. You can watch the whole video but it is pretty low quality -I plan to use media encoder...

My last couple of presentations i have mentioned how media center enabled content/applications are huge new opportunity. A couple of interesting data points on that topic: 60% of all PC's shipped in the US are shipping with Media Center By...

Big thanks to Jorke at WebCentral , in addition to letting us use the server the WMV's and WMA's are hosted on Jorke has posted the content to their Media Server for streaming! To see/hear all the content in a big loop simply go to the following URL...

In my post Teched Session: Visual Studio: Leveraging Your Visual Basic 6 Investments with VB 2005 I mentioned not doing the session on the Interop Toolkit as it wasn't available. Well I got a copy from Paul Yuknewicz and I have definitely revised my plans...

While transcoding the sessions from today i have managed to uploaded three of the sessions from Monday! Hope you enjoy! Scott Gutherie Building Web Applications Part I Scott Gutherie Building Web Applications Part II Windows Presentations...

I know Teched is over but i still have a couple more webcasts and Audio tracks to upload...this is the end of the Audio Tracks but i still have 3 more sessions with full video. Enjoy! Steve Riley: Windows Vista networking and IPsec improvements...

As promised i have some great sessions -and in audio for your listening pleasure! Ten things you need to know to about Windows Server "Longhorn" Deploying Windows Vista: Everything You Need in One Hour Image Engineering: Creating Your Perfect...

In David's MSDN Flash he mentioned Coates and myself would be re-enacting a traditional Turkish wrestling contest(see below). Now i have nothing against the Turkish - heck i eat Turkish bread everyday but anybody who knows Coates (aka the Cabana boy...

Now that TechEd is done and dusted, Ron , Greg , Paul and i should be able to post the rest of the content we recorded. I have three more sessions to convert/transcode and thought rather grind through the 90/minutes per session i would build out a...

For TechEd we just needed a couple links to web pages and thought –what a great use for the Windows Sidebar! ...

I have a two more sessions for your viewing pleasure! Leveraging your Visual Basic 6 Investments in Visual Studio 2005 Panel Discusion on Web VNext

Our very VB MVP and Teched speaker has written a very cool offline teched Session picker and news reader all built on the one click deployment ! I would recomend checking it out! http://www.totalenviro.com/TechEd2006/index.htm If you are running...

SQL Down Under show 18 with guest Microsoft SQL Server engine team product manager Don Vilen (recorded at TechEd Australia) is now available for download from www.sqldownunder.com .

I have had a couple people request Jeff Beehler come back for TechEd just to redeliver his "Lessons learned shipping TFS" presentation. Unfortunately this isn't going to happen, but I did have the audio feed from his presentation in Brisbane and married...

Eric Deily Program Manager for IIS 7.0 is coming out for TechEd Australia and has graciously agreed to come up to Brisbane for walk through of IIS 7.0. IIS 7.0 is taking the next big step in terms of extensibility, unification with ASP.NET, improved diagnostics...

I am running Vista build 5520 (and loving it finally) but had a problem installing Expression Interactive Designer. The error you would get was: "You Need to have the July 06 CTP of the .NET Framework 3.0 run-time components installed before...

I caught up with Paul Andrews after his session on the topic of the client experience for Workflow. Hope you enjoy! Paul Andrews on the user experience for Workflow

If you are in the Gold Coast area this horrible wet evening join us at the Gold Coast User Group meeting where Shea and Anthony will redeliver their Code Camp presentation. Note location change! “A day in the life of a VSTS Developer” by Shea...

I went out today with one of my regular fishing buddies Iain Burnell to try out my new toy a Cannon Unitroll downrigger . We started out day fishing with our tried and true method of drifting livebait, squid and pilchards down a burley trail and were...

Reading Michael Kleef’s blog “do they really care?” ; i will never forget the time I was flying with Matty and he is bragging about his super dooper “indestructible” Samsonite while we are waiting for the luggage to come out. After all the rest of the...