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April 2006 - Posts

Wednesday, April 26, 2006 11:03 PM

Winner "Find that Feature in Office 2007" and Round II

The winner of "Find that Feature in Office 2007" is Volkan Elveren of Germany! His answers were: 1) How do you access the format painter in Word 2007? a) When you select text in Word 12, the MiniBar appears "ghosted" above the text you selected. b) On
Posted by Charles_Sterling | 0 Comments
Wednesday, April 26, 2006 9:12 PM

Creating the XBox 360 Platform by one of the Redmond XBox Developers (Brisbane Only)

We are lucky enough to have Dr Jens Troeger, one of the Xbox Developers in Town and he is presenting on the exciting new Xbox 360 gaming platform! This presenation will be at the Garden Point Campus at QUT Friday 28th April, 3-4pm in room 410 of 'S' Block.
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Wednesday, April 19, 2006 8:51 AM

Find that feature in Office 2007

Since I am doing the training on Office 2007 developer features i thought i should also use the product as a normal home user and have to admit while i really like it i can find it bit frustrating. That being the case i thought i would start a little
Posted by Charles_Sterling | 1 Comments
Tuesday, April 11, 2006 9:25 PM

Charles Sturt Graduation Ceremony (with a Joke)

Last Friday i spoke at the Charles Sturt computer science graduation ceremonies and have to admit i was very honored and a little nervous about speaking at such a prestigious ceremony mostly because i had no idea what i talk about since most of my presentations
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Tuesday, April 11, 2006 6:59 PM

Visual Studio 2005 error "Cannot read configuration File" when running ASP.NET under Vista build 5308

If you run into the error "Cannot read configuration file" or the web designer won't add controls to web applications under Visual Studio 2005 you are probably running into the situation of Visual Studio is not running with Administrator access...to get
Posted by Charles_Sterling | 0 Comments
Monday, April 10, 2006 10:43 PM

Visual Studio 2005 not installing on Vista Build 5308 with error SP2 required

When installing Visaul Studio 2005 on Windows Vista Build 5308 (Feb CTP) it was failing with the error that the minium requirement had not been met and i needed to install SP2 (silly setup) I did two things to get past this so i am not certain which actually
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Monday, April 10, 2006 10:13 PM

Videos not playing on Vista build 5308

Getting Ready for Code Camp i decided to put on the Febuary Build 5308 of Windows Vista . After installing WinFX and the SDK I attempted to run a short Video ( i have had issues with video on other Vista builds) and alas the audio came through but no
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Monday, April 10, 2006 4:28 PM

Playing a sound from VB.NET

Recieved this question in mail: I am a novice programmer, and am having difficulty in using "Playing a Sound". Hello, I know I am certainly still a novice compared to some of my coworkers! I was playing with writing a game in GDI+ (probably not something
Posted by Charles_Sterling | 1 Comments
Monday, April 10, 2006 1:45 PM

Upgrading Team Foundation Server

Most of Jeff's questions during the tour revolved around licensing to RTM -below is a set of "crib notes" for getting TFS to the released version Team Foundation Server Beta 3 – this pre-release version of TFS was released in the fall of 2005 with a “Go-Live”
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Monday, April 10, 2006 1:42 PM

Team Foundation Server MSSCCI Provider 1.0

Several people asked about this during Jeff's Tour and wanted to make sure and get a link to it from my blog.... We just published v1.0 of the Visual Studio Team Foundation Server MSSCCI Provider to Microsoft Downloads. This release was tested with the
Posted by Charles_Sterling | 0 Comments
Monday, April 10, 2006 1:03 PM

Thanks for the get well calls and an apology to Cairns?

I must admit i am always surprised when somebody mentions reading my blog and was particularly shocked from all the "get well" calls after i posting i had contracted Ross River Fever and it also looks like i may have blamed my Cairns friends for no good
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Thursday, April 06, 2006 12:12 AM

Vista Training in "May" sees some changes

In my earlier post i indicated we would be delivering some Vista training in May....Well this has now slipped out to the first week in June and will also include a session on Office 12 please find the updated proposed agenda below. As soon I have the
Posted by Charles_Sterling | 2 Comments
Wednesday, April 05, 2006 11:27 PM

Ximage Saves the Day

Yesterday at QUT i dropped my “every day hard drive” in the elevator while swapping with my Team Foundation Server Drive and while the dropped drive would spin up it wouldn't boot any more -sigh. Mounting it in an external caddy and running chkdsk would
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Tuesday, April 04, 2006 4:39 PM

A gift from the Cairns User Group

What do you give a man that has everything? Well back in February I visited the Cairns User Group for a day long hands on lab and the Cairns residents gave me an expected gift – Ross River Fever ! In their defense I am pretty certain it was during a beautiful
Posted by Charles_Sterling | 2 Comments
 
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