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Joe Schwetz, who runs the internal TFS servers for Microsoft, is looking to do some customer meetings in Australia. Right now he is looking to do his trip early November-isque. Rather than doing a world wind tour like i had Jeff Beehler do; i was thinking...

I have always wanted to do a barefoot cruise and next week is my first chance- at the beautiful Whitsundays. To make the trip even better I am going with a couple of other Microsofties. Stephanie Boesch and Mike Wickstrand . The boat we are taking is...

Overview: This two-day technical readiness event is designed to introduce developers to many of the new features of Windows Server 2008. As Microsoft prepares to release the most advanced version of their server platform ever, now is the time to start...

While at TechEd we had 65+ people run through my Hands On Labs and we had a great time! Unfortunately a number of people had problems with rendering the video...the reason was setting the source to the production server was asking the application to make...

If you have been using Blend for Silverlight development i highly recommend grabbing the latest build: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=69540337-B619-4A47-AC27-52D8AF3A7830&displaylang=en

One of my most frequently asked questions last couple of days while at TechEd last week was "Chuck have you given up fishing? -I haven't seen you do a fishing post in a while". The answer is " Definitely Not! ". With TechEd this week and being in the...

If you are going to TechEd, just wanted to let you know i have uploaded the chalk talk schedules into Comnet. ` Wednesday 8 th August 9:00am-9:30am Commander: Sharepoint Case Study: Building the next generation aged care application 11.00am – 11.30am...

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...

Just had somebody point out that i had uploaded an old version of my lab Part 1 ...Argh! In either case all the labs have been gone through their first round of copy edits and should be pretty close to completion! Part 1: Creating XAML Browser Applications...

Change Log from the last uploads. Rewrote the data binding section in Part 1 and included the Dialog animation in Part 3. Here they are: Part 1: Creating XAML Browser Applications with Microsoft® Visual Studio 2008™ Part 2: Creating XAML Browser Applications...

If you installed Expression Blend2 August Preview you probably noticed the splash screen prompts you for a product key...even giving you a link to get this key. Unfortunately there was a little confusion with the folks that built the splash screen as...