Location: Wrest Point - Green Room Food and Networking: 22/09/2010 5:30 PM Start Time: 22/09/2010 6:00 PM till 7:30 PM   The Windows Phone 7 Operating System and the associated Designer and Developer Tools have been released to manufacture!!  This session is your opportunity to ask plenty of...

Way to go, all details finalised for Mr Lempher's Aussie trip and User Group Briefings. The original posting is on Andrew's blog at http://blogs.msdn.com/acoat/archive/2010/01/27/windows-azure-user-group-briefings.aspx but to save you a click the details are as follows:- Date/Time City Details Mon 22...

The inaugural Australian ALM Conference and Microsoft Australia official launch of Visual Studio 2010 is scheduled for the 13 th & 14 th April this year. Registrations have just opened and we would like to let you know about a special Early Bird offer. The first 50 attendees to register for the conference...

Hopefully by now you've heard Visual Studio 2010 and Fx 4 Beta have shipped, if you live in Oz and not an MSDN subscriber then the best place to download it from is http://www.microsoft.com/australia/visualstudio/default.mspx. If you are feeling a bit nervous about installing on your base machine...

Wow, just spotted this amazing solution utilising Windows 7 Touch and Silverlight 3 with Deepzoom. Check out http://rubrik.ch.msn.com/reportagen/zermatt.aspx and click on the Info button and read how it was created, stunning!! Yes, it works with a mouse too if you don't have Windows 7 with a Touch display...

You can find more information at www.pdcbof.com and follow them on twitter at http://www.twitter.com/pdcbof See ya there!! Cheers Dave

In case you missed this on other channels, WebsiteSpark Program has arrived and you can find more details at http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2009/09/24/announcing-the-websitespark-program.aspx and http://blogs.technet.com/jorke/archive/2009/09/24/announcing-websitespark-in-australia.aspx Also...

At the Australian Partner Conference gala awards dinner last Thursday (Sept 3rd, 09), WARDY IT Solutions was announced as the winner of the Data Management Solutions Partner of the Year. This award was in recognition of their high level of performance in the design and delivery of Microsoft SQL Server...

Nigel was after a few pointers for Widget development for Windows Mobile 6.5, so thought useful to blog as well!! The model for widget development is similar to that of Apple, Nokia, Opera etc - HTML, JavaScript, CSS - the platform APIs differ for example persisting setting, creating enus etc, but same...

I often hear from folk in smaller cities in Oz that there is limited access to solid training!! So great news from the guys from Readify in conjunction with Crimson !! If you live in or near Darwin or know someone who does then be sure to let them know about these training opportunities!! Crimson Courses...

Yeeh hah, the guys in Adelaide are pulling CodeCampSA together, it should be a great few days, so make sure you mark out the days in your diary and get along, meet new people, catch up with mates and learn a new trick or two!!  The event is free of charge and is being held at UniSA's City West campus...

Hey if you went to the Victoria.NET User group on Tuesday then you would have caught my Windows 7 session, you can find resources I mentioned at here , hope those that installed Win 7 on the night are enjoying and those that grabbed the DVDs have had a chance to fire it up!! You can find resources...

  We’ve just opened the “Call for Content” for TechEd 2009 Australia and New Zealand, if you are interested in getting involved then check out Andrew’s blog at http://blogs.msdn.com/acoat/archive/2009/05/06/tech-ed-australia-and-new-zealand-call-for-content.aspx Cheers Dave

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Hi there all, great to see you are the inaugural SDDN User Group in Perth and thanks Stephen for the invitation!! Here is a list of the resources that I referenced in my talk!! My slides and demo code (inc AdventureWorks Database) can be found here . Go to “ Mix09: Building Amazing Business Applications...

First up, great to see so many of you at the session on Tuesday, thanks for making the time etc!! I was asked to post up the sample code, but tbh, I don't think this makes a lot of sense now as re have released the beta under it's new name of .NET RIA Services. Also some of the controls that were part...

Melbourne: Business Edge Workshops For more info Check out http://www.aiia.com.au/event_details.aspx?ID=ab59693e-f203-de11-aaad-001b78cbf152 To register online visit http://www.gener8.com.au/aiia/businessedge.asp When: 8:00am, Wednesday, 18 March 2009 - 3:30am, Thursday, 19 March 2009 Where: Exhibition...

There are a few places left for the Windows Azure Workshop running in Sydney from March 10 till the 12th, if you are interested please contact Shuk Chan at shukc@microsoft.com as soon as possible!! Cheers Dave Training Workshop Agenda - 3-day Begin Length End Session Title Day #1 8:30 AM 30 9:00 AM Registration...

In case you missed Peter's announcement, I'm doing a session on Wed Feb 11th at the ADNUG meeting on the Alexandria Framework, it's well cool, so hopefully we'll see you there!! Session Description Silverlight introduced a great media experience; Silverlight 2 added a control model making it easier to...

When: Saturday 21st February 2009 - 9:00am to 4:30pm. Cost: Absolutely Nothing. Zip. Nada... $0.00 Where: Cliftons, Level 2 - 440 Collins St, Melbourne Contact: info@sddn.org.au The Silverlight Designer and Designer Network has been a little quiet since its first meeting in December - but there is a...

Just spotted that Andrew posted about CodeCampOz - cool!! Summary is. Mitch Denny has just announced that registration is now open for this year's CodeCampOz . April 4-5 at Charles Sturt University in scenic Wagga Wagga , this not-to-be-missed event is now in its 5th year. Sign up on the Event Brite...

Caught Damian's most excellent JQuery session at VictoriaDotNet last week and was reminded just how poor my understanding of JavaScript is. JQuery will be part of the ASP.NET platform and will ship as part of MVC Framework, check out Scott's MVC Category on his blog - Also see this ASP.NET and JQuery...

In case you missed this announcement from Mahesh… Cheers Dave Monday 15th December 2008 5:30pm (Pizza and drinks served); 6pm (presentations start) Microsoft Theatre, Level 5, 4 Freshwater Place, Southbank Back to Basics - WCF, WPF and WF Over two years ago Microsoft introduced .NET 3.0 and with it,...

If you thought that Windows Live was a bit of a yawn then you’ve not seen the latest incarnation, it’s got way more integrated and socialized, added in concepts of social feeds, networks, sharing, update notifications etc, the networking has taken off like wildfire, so be in to win and get connected...

www.microsoft.com.au/powertodevelopers Please make sure you check it out, lots to show and tell from the recent PDC and some announcements too!! Cheers Dave