I just saw Amanda Silver is going to be on Second Life! Join Amanda Silver, Lead Program Manager in the Dev Div, tomorrow at the Visual Studio Island Theater in Second Life to speak about Visual Basic on Silverlight. Amanda's work involves the language...

Been in Seattle all week at an internal conference called "TechReady" watching the latest and greatest coming out of Microsoft and have to admit despite ScottGu performing his magic i have been a little under whelmed -until today! Amanda Silver did a...

In my earlier post Visual Studio not creating event handlers for WPF applications i indicated C#didn't wire up event handlers... (But VB did and still does ). In Visual Studio 2008 Beta2 (or a build that is close it) this functionality has been added...

WebCentral is returning to Brisbane to deliver FREE Hands-On Learning Workshops for customers on Thursday, 02 August 2007 and we'd like you to join us! Products featured in this session will include: Managed SharePoint 2007 (Document storage and collaboration...

SQL Code Camp is sure to be the SQL Server event of the year! The site for the 2007 event is now being updated and is at: http://www.sqldownunder.com/CodeCamp/tabid/53/Default.aspx (There is an RSS feed in the announcements section if you’d like to keep...

Desmond from a great local ISV Image Process Solutions asked me if i knew of any local developers looking for work...truth be known everybody i know has more work than they can shake a stick at -but i thought i would post it on my blog just in case! ...

Thank you for attending today's presentation. We hope you have learnt about the new technologies out there. Here is a link to Pilar's Podcast and Screencast . Want to know more about Blogging and Twittering? Blogs: About and How To’s http://weblogs.about...

Looking forward to my AIOP meeting tonight as i am copresenting with two lovely ladies! Should be fun...this is what we are covering: Join Microsoft in a look at emerging technologies that can make Office Professionals lives easier –or living a nightmare...

I had LOTS of questions on my post "Rebinding Controls in Windows Presentation Foundation" about how do you access these items immediately after rebinding-and lots of advice. The advice I received was:   Don't bind in code only XAML Be...

The good folks at Readify have created a Silverlight discussion list for the community to share ideas, give feedback to Microsoft and hopefully make your life easier if you are creating Silverlight applications. To subscribe simply send a piece of email...

I am playing with the code for my Teched Hands on labs to dynamically rebind controls at run time and thought it might be worth breaking out separately. Particularly after the question about refreshing data in WPF The XMAL below binds to set of potential...

Well not yet, but at the current rate it will be by Tomorrow (Tuesday July 16th). If you are thinking about going now is the time! http://www.microsoft.com/australia/teched07/index.aspx

An introduction to the Composite Application Block (CAB) and the MVP pattern, Thurs, 2 nd Aug ( Graeme Foster ) Come join us at the Perth .NET user group where Graeme Foster will be demonstrating how to use Microsoft’s Composite Application Block (CAB...

If you were waiting to register for TechEd Australia; you might not want to wait too much longer- we only have 200 spots left which will probably go next week!

If you have been looking for the sessions most of them have been posted at: https://aunz.msteched.com/public/ausessions.aspx (Also looks like most of the Office System Content is missing)

My lovely wife has been helping me all weekend to get these ready. Let us know what you think. Hopefully the steps will be more complete and easier to understand. Enjoy! Here they are: Part 1: Creating XAML Browser Applications with Microsoft® Visual...

How cool is this? The largest Independent Software Vendor in Australia is looking for WPF developers! Oh yeah - If you are interested, I know the dev Lead and he rocks! Chuck

I have had a couple people mention my inking code not working on non tablet PC despite having a Wacom Tablet. Turns out on vista on a non tablet PC you need to register 3 assemblies to write .NET inking code: gacutil –i iacore.dll gacutil –i Microsoft...

Just uploaded Part 1 beta of my hands on lab being created for TechEd. Recent additions include: Data Binding and Referencing User Controls from Markup. Download a copy and let me know what you think: http://203.147.133.54/chass/part_one.xps...

The folks in Redmond (corp) have asked me to deliver an internal best practices session on engaging with community.(yes, i 'think' they emailed the right person...) Since this is a community session; it would be negligent to not let the community do my...

Chalk talks are informal conversations set loosely around a topic. How do the Chalk Talks work? Taking a page out of David Lempher's playbook this years chalk talks are going to be decided by YOU! If you are going to TechEd and want to host a developer...

Received this question: I need to bind some objects to an XML file – and refresh the binding whenever the XML source changes. By default my application (c# .exe) reads the source values romthe XML once at start-up, and doesn’t notice subsequent changes...