Ozzie Rules Blogging

The Queensland VSTS Users Group is based in Brisbane and will meet for a breakfast session on the first Friday morning of each month. Brekkie is available from 7:30am with the actual meeting running from 8am to 9am. The first session is focused on driving...

I had several people request a higher res version of my webcast. -Okay most people were complaining about the current version, but in either case you can get a higher resulotion version at: http://203.147.133.54/chass/wpf_gadget.wmv

I just finished a book by one of my favorite light fantasy authors Piers Anthony . And noticed in the authors note Piers wrote: "I had decided to change from the Windows computer operating system to Linux," Oh no! What was I going to do? Stop reading...

I just saw our Team Foundation Server MVP from Israel released another administration tool for Team Foundation Server -and it looks really good! TFS Permission Manager 1.0

If you are having issues with your VSTS web test buttons being disabled it is very likely you are running under Windows Vista and -not forced Visual Studio to run in the Administrator context...To do this all you have to do is click on the Visual Studio...

In case you would like a video of my previous blog post: Writing a Gadget in Visual Basic and Windows Presentation Foundation You can find it at Channel9 at Video: Writing a Gadget in Visual Basic and Windows Presentation Foundation

Karsten wrote a great sample on getting a gadget working in Windows Presentation Foundation . Unfortunately if you are starting from scratch there are a lot of pieces needed to get this working ; so i thought i would rewrite his sample in VB -and supply...

Had a question about how to create an application magnifier and was amazed at how easy it was to get a prototype working! Depending on what you consider lines of code it is about 3 lines! Dim g As Graphics = Me .CreateGraphics() 'Get the Graphics...

If you have been playing with Sparkle and wanted a way to bring in Flash files in XAML then today is your lucky day as Mike Swanson just released SWF2XAML . For download directions see: http://www.mikeswanson.com/SWF2XAML/

While at the recent Windows Vista Launch i had a bunch of questions on Team Foundation Server under a VM....Many of which dealt with performance which i immediately dumped on Dugie. Dugie is also known as Andrew Dugdell , the local VM guru, MVP and local...

I have a coworker who was trying to get impersonation working in ASP.NET and indicated despite setting the Web.config to impersonate: < identity impersonate = " true " userName = " Guss " password = " Password " /> and he indicated "IT" didnt...

Based on the strong interest shown by the Brisbane developer community during the VSTSTechBrekkie series ( www.vststechbrekkie.com ), I am pleased to announce the formation of the Queensland VSTS Users Group. The Queensland VSTS Users Group is based...

One of the more common questions i get asked at User Groups and events is how can i learn Technology WPF/ASP.NET/XXX/.... My stock answer is to pick small project or application and dedicate couple of days driving it to completion. I not am retracting...

In my previous post I mentioned a conference we are helping ACS and Object create an Architecture event called: Australian Architect Forum . One thing we would like to determine is what content Australian Architects are interested in. As i mentioned...

Solutions Architecture is clearly the hot topic right now. –Being one the most requested topics at TechEd, the Patterns and Practice event was also one of the year’s best events. Unfortunately the Patterns and Practice event team isn’t going to be able...

Good friend of mine Brian Randell builds alot of the Microsoft Team Foundation Server hands on labs and launch demos all of which run under Microsoft Virtual Server...He saw my email i sent to the development team: Microsoft Recomending AGAINST running...

Question on the Australian DL: Could someone please tell me how i login as Administrator it says i am a Admionistrator, but when i try and do things that require Admin rights, I get a msg box saying i need to login as Admin? To Login as administrator...

One of my customers are using Power Builder to do their development and wanted to know about support for using Team Foundation Server Version Control for Powerbuilder. Unfortunately despite it working and Ed Hintz actively fixing powerbuilder bugs this...

I just realized i had over 100 comments on my blog that i needed to approve/read. -oops sorry about that! In either case many of them were for me to post some of my fishing pictures.... Fair warning many of these photos are pretty big! ...

In a recent meeting I was asked: I want to be able to report on what objects where changed since the last label I am pretty certain labels are NOT in the data warehouse. The easiest method would be to create a report using the TFsVersionControl...

In the server planning document we state: Virtual PC Team Foundation Server servers will operate correctly on a Virtual PC or a virtual server. However, this configuration is not recommended for production environments. It can be used in evaluation...

A question came in from my blog post on Windows Media Encoder : I'm quite new into recording screenvideos. I am a teacher in denmark and would like to be able to create video tutorials (with sound) for my pupils and other teachers. Currently I am...

Remember back when Compaq used to sell Ipaq's? Well i have one of the originals a 3650 complete with with an additional sleeve for accessing PCMIA cards. The battery is dead but the device still works like a champ...The question becomes: is this...

While i was Melbourne Wednesday i mentioned to a couple people Windows Vista would be on MSDN Subscriber downloads this week. Just wanted to let everybody know we are uploading them now and depending on the server you hit may only see the 64bit version...

Before heading down to Melbourne for the Ready Summit I managed to sneak out for quick trip Sunday. Rumor had it there were a couple of little black Marlin on the 50 meter line and Wahoo in close so Glen and myself put out some 18knot lures and started...