Yesterday i had a LOT of fun doing a free ASP.NET Training course with New Horizons and needed some REALLY compelling/cool/beautful master pages samples and could not find any! I started the work of creating my own with Office Sharepoint designer ...

(this was a response to the Australian Developer List run by Peter Stanski) Many of you may already know this but most my responsibilities are focused around your perceptions of Microsoft (ie not sales or revenue) so it may seem strange that I have...

This Tuesday, Sept 19, the Queensland MSDN User Group will have Charles Sterling (me!)presenting an overview of the .NET Framework 3.0. This all demo presentation will start out with building a Windows Communication Service, wrapping this service with...

Had a couple people ask me how to get Windows Vista RC or Office Beta2 Refresh. http://www.microsoft.com/windowsvista/getready/preview.mspx Office is Download Only and can be found at: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID...

Just had a semi rude shock trying to view the documentation for a little utility called Total Recorder that Vista no longer supports the older Windows Help (*.hlp) format...If you are an ISV shipping *.hlp files you might want to check out: Windows...

.NET Framework Application Upgrade Strategies Starting with the premise most companies are running a variety of Microsoft .NET Framework 1.0 and 1.1 ASP.NET applications and would like to standardize on ASP.NET 2.0 running on the .NET Framework...

The first two items i bought arriving on the Gold Coast was a 5 meter boat i bought for $5000 and a $99 fish finder. 3 months after getting the boat i find out the motor needed major servicing, the radio dies and the seats start following apart....Which...

Had a question from the NZ DL: ********* I would like to add text directly into a image and save the new image back to file. I am currently creating a Graphic object, this works when displaying to a screen, but I need to beable to save...

It was just pointed out i mentioned Payam's session "Introduction to the .NET Framework 3.0" is available as streaming media But i didnt' point out where his sessions are avialable for download on demand. These wmv files can be found at: http...

I just started playing with Windows Communication Foundation and thought i would share what i have found to be worlds easiest hosted Windows Communication Foundation Service....From start to finish the webcast takes 6 minutes and is only ~4mb. If you...

It is rather embarrassing that after all the presentations, membership drives, events and dinners i have done with ACS that i haven’t officially joined -until today that is! If you are an IT person and have ever wondered “how can i influence the government...

Lots of new functionality for Team Foundation server! http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=3F21144A-4E98-4CE0-830F-D1F3E8AC9D67&displaylang=en 1. Unshelve – adds merge capability to the existing Unshelve command 2....

Microsoft is putting together a group of people to help install Windows Vista on our internal computers. Since the combined launch of Vista, Office and Exchange is being referred to as the LOVE launch these folks(myself included) are being referred...

If have been wanting to try XAML or a designer looking for "What's Next" you need to download what i consider to be one of the most exciting tools from Microsoft-& it is only 7mb! http://www.microsoft.com/products/expression

I have not made it any secret but this is my first post that I am sadly/reluctantly planning on going back to Redmond/Seattle in Feb 2008 (my wife’s idea not mine) With my remaining 18months I need to finish my “Gamefish Bingo” card. If I have forgotten...

Sunday morning while dropping me off Iain (my fishing buddy) commented on what an “awful” day fishing it had been. I must admit compared to our average trips it wasn’t a huge day out as we only had one nice Yellow Tail Kingfish in the ice chest….Not really...

Had a query from one of the user group folks about the registry key sizes under 64 bit Windows that are not being redirected to virtual hives. I put together the following code to check a couple keys and it appears the 64 bit key sizes are the exact same...

On a fresh Vista RC install I noticed IE was hanging on links to PDF files....Turns out Adobe was attempting to display a modal dialog box asking if i accepted the license agreement which Vista/IE 7 wasn't allowing to be displayed.... Running a pdf...

Last weekend i took the Gigabyte AM2 Motherboard AMD kindly gave us for Vista development to MSY and told them i needed a low profile CPU cooler for THIS Motherboard and CPU. Apparently this was too vague as they gave me a cooler for an AMD Socket...

Since coming back from TechEd i have been noticing a change in my behaviour of sending email rather than calling people. (my typical tactic) Contrary to what i would have expected, i have noticed a huge DROP in my efficiency as now i am still calling...

I have a couple people ping me about the labs from TechEd. While i dont' have the titles to map to these yet i have uploaded them for your availability http://203.147.133.54/chass/hol/CLIHOL200.pdf http://203.147.133.54...

I just heard some great news our QUT student ambassador, Mathava.Gnanananthanhas, just accepted a job as the intern at the Brisbane office! Why am i so excited about this? - Marty is the guy that did all the Team Foundation Server installs at Mincom...

Oh my god i just saw that Steve Irwin is dead from a Sting Ray barb in the chest! Fwiw: This is what most people in the US think of when they think of Australia! http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,23739,20349892-952,00.html

At 3:30AM Sat morning the Windows Vista Team signed off on build 5600 as Release candidate 1!! They should have the builds replicated to the internal servers in the next 24 hours and on http://msdn.microsoft.com/downloads/ and http://connect.microsoft...

Good Friend David Sceppa is coming out to Australia Sept-Oct. Exactly the same time as when i am going on vacation -damn! Then i was thinking "hey maybe he wants to go camping!" He hasn't decided to if wants to go yet but if you live on the Capricorn...