Been a while since i have done any inking code and since Windows Vista makes these type of applications possible without the need for a tablet pc i decided to take a look at how to create these applications with Windows Presentation Foundation. Turns...

Anthony just brought to my attention that July 2nd -4th the Microsoft readiness team is running the Visual Studio 2005 Deep Dive training here in Brisbane. I highly recomend this course for anyone responsible for installing, administering and customising...

Just looking at some of the INETA membership numbers and found it interesting that Australia has the 3rd largest number of usergroups and 5th largest number of members. I can not really imagine what a South Korea usergroup must be like with 40,000 attendees...

All week i have been with the security experts from around the world at Auscert . Without Jesper it was a little like Peanut Butter with no Jelly but must admit the weirdest thing was how the attendees are now treating Microsoft. -The last three years...

Looking at the PDC site i see with no great surprise we rescheduled PDC. The reason i say with no great surprise; PDC has always been about future technologies and with all the releases we just had: Vista, Office 2007, Silverlight, 20 new Windows Live...

You may remember Jeff when he came out. He is doing a talk on customizing VSTS and looking for different ways development shops customize it and real world references...I offered to compile the list from Australia/New Zealand so if you have one feel free...

In my blog post: Easily create cool XAML objects from the WMF files/Clipart collection i wrote how cool it is to open and export clipboard files in Expression Design to XAML. Unfortunately I was running Beta1 and according to the development team in RTM...

Joseph just pointed a very cool feature of WMF files i didn't know about - you can export them to quite granular XAML objects! All you have to do make this happen: In Expression Design File > Open. Then File > Export. Save as type XAML. -Open this...

I had so much fun at the last New Horizons Visual Studio 2005 event they invited me back to do another - this time in Melbourne! Not certain exactly what I will be doing- which is the great thing about not using any slides you are always ready-grin! But...

I get this email from Joseph that this guy from a major ISV wants to know more about WPF. In talking to him, turns out three times a week i have been driving by www.nova-mind.com on my way in to work and they are the largest supplier of Mind Mapping Software...

I received a question: How do you show thumbnails of the video ahead of time? Interestingly silverlight if you set the AutoPlay property to "False" it automatically does this for you. But in a XBAP or a Windows WPF application you need need to have a...

I just finished a conference call with the core TechEd project team when Dan Green pointed out a small...er large, er HUGE hole in my plan. This TechEd project is about raising environmental consciousness through the use of compelling and user interesting...

Find out how Queensland organisations are implementing Sharepoint and the latest Microsoft collaboration solutions to add value to their businesses. The Microsoft Spotlight program 2007 is a competition amongst the Queensland Microsoft Partners to...

I have two friends heading up development teams in Brisbane looking for some some A list developers-both senior and junior openings. The First is at a large ISV called * Citect on a very large SCADA product called Ampla where you will be working with...

Nope not with Microsoft ( I have been married to MSFT for 15 years)but rather to my lovely wife Maria Del Pilar (aka Pilar). After watching the movie Alfie and reading some of the recent Readify blog posts i realized i have a pretty good thing going and...

I have had a lot of interest in my post: Free day long instructor led Windows Presentation Hands on lab Most of the interest has been expressed as "Chuck Save me a seat" type of interest and it is pretty clear choosing the attendees is going to...

After my forays into writing Sidebar gadgets with WPF using Element host i have to admit i was not looking forward to tying it with silverlight. The fact i started by downloading a couple of existing samples -that all failed didn't really boost my confidence...

I have been accessing my MSDN ISO's using a little Utility called: Virtual CD-ROM Control Panel for Windows XP Unfortunately it doens't really play that well on Vista....That said you CAN use it -with only two gotchas. The first it must be run as administrator...

I have been building my Xbap and Silverlight applications in Visual Studio 2005 with the Visual Studio 2005 extensions for .NET Framework 3.0 (WCF & WPF) and figured since these older bits wouldn't render an XBAP application that you have set the...

I have had a couple people ping me about the session agenda at remix as it is noticeably missing from the site: http://www.microsoft.com/australia/remix07/agenda.aspx While it isn't all locked down it will be close to the following: Design Track · Australian...

If you haven't seen Nicks blog Secret .NET Developer he indicates they are having a "Secret" presenter June 7th and I thought I would share 10 more hints for their mystery person: 1. Quite skilled at collecting garbage(?!) 2. Loves looking at reflections...

Joseph Cooney has been working with me on that Pimping the Environment for TechEd (grin) project i have been waxing on about and threw together a very rough proof of concept for the "room" experience...I am guessing this room's rough wire frame look is...

I have had several people contact me about doing another WPF F Hands on lab - but cover more information and in more cities. Well i have been working with the best of the best to do just this! Namely: Joseph Cooney (QLD) Paul Stovell (Flying to Vic) Deepak...

If you live in Brisbane and interested in Sharepoint check out the Sharepoint Usergroup. The meetings are second Wednesday of the month (tomorrow) and run from 12:00pm to 1:00pm. They meet at Microsoft - Level 9 1 Eagle Street Tomorrow's topics are: Office...

Not to be missed! "Using TFS to support long-running deployment projects " Maroochy Shire Council is one third of the way through deployment of a new records and document management system, a project that is planned to take another two years. This session...