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Monday, June 26, 2006 9:25 AM

Only 8 cities left on the Vista Tour in Vic, WA and QLD

I am on the home stretch of this Vista tour with only 8 cities left! If you haven’t managed to get a look at Vista yet this is a great chance! VIC UG 27/6/2006 Perth UG 28/6/2006 Rockhampton (w/Data#3) 3/7/2006 Townsville (w/Data#3) 4/7/2006 Cairns 5/7/2006
Posted by Charles_Sterling | 1 Comments
Monday, June 26, 2006 1:56 AM

My First Blog post directly from Word!

I just read Frank’s post on blogging from Word 2007 and have to admit it is pretty cool… Looking out how ubiquitous RSS is becoming you have to wonder if (when?) RSS will replace email and News (or has it already?). In either case a great book written
Posted by Charles_Sterling | 0 Comments
Saturday, June 24, 2006 11:45 PM

Types of fishing, Rod and Reel selection for the Gold Coast (offshore fishing)

Sitting, on a plane on my way to Melbourne (second time in three days) I thought I would cover off gear selection. While I prefer big game trolling this style of fishing may not make the most sense as the fish may be down deep, not present, not hitting
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Saturday, June 24, 2006 8:51 PM

My Best Fishing Trip on the Gold Coast! (offshore fishing)

Today set the bar on how good Fishing on the Gold Coast can be. Despite a rough start with t he weather cold, raining and too windy to get over the bar. Then w hen the weather did finally started calming down the local tackle shop ran out of the bait
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Friday, June 23, 2006 1:24 PM

Tutorials for the Expression Products

During the Innovation Tour i showed two of the Expression Products and had a bunch of questions about all three...If you are interested in them we just released a set of Tours & Demos
Posted by Charles_Sterling | 1 Comments
Wednesday, June 21, 2006 5:26 PM

Technical training event for Microsoft Windows Vista and the 2007 release of Microsoft happening in Adelaide Thursday July 13th

Technical training event for Microsoft Windows Vista and the 2007 release of Microsoft happening in Adelaide Thursday July 13 th in the Innovations Centre, level 2, The Santos Building. This is a Free of Charge event, but you need to register here to
Posted by Charles_Sterling | 1 Comments
Monday, June 19, 2006 6:52 PM

Local Aussie releases is his 3rd book! -Pro WCF: Practical Microsoft SOA Implementation

Good Friend of mine Chris Peiris just released his third book! This one on WCF! So if you missed my WCF and hands on lab and want to come up to speed check it out: http://www.apress.com/book/bookDisplay.html?bID=10185 . In talking to Chris he has actually
Posted by Charles_Sterling | 0 Comments
Monday, June 19, 2006 6:03 PM

Going to the Partner Conference!

I just found out i am going to the Australian Partner Conference -yeah! I will be doing one of the Mix sessions titled: " New Technologies, New Platforms, New Experiences, New Opportunities" So if you are a partner, attending the event and would like
Posted by Charles_Sterling | 0 Comments
Monday, June 19, 2006 3:39 PM

Visual Basic Upgrade> How to print images in Visaul Basic 2005

Just received some email from a VB 6.0 enthusiast asking how to print graphics in Visual Basic 2005. He said it was much easier in VB 6.0 and I am embarrassed to say I don’t even remember how we used to print images from Visual Basic 6.0 so I cannot even
Posted by Charles_Sterling | 0 Comments
Monday, June 12, 2006 8:22 PM

Add simple page/scene navigation into Expression Interactive Designer

To add Page Navigation: 1. Delete the default Scene from the Projects Panel. 2. Add a new Page (File, New, Page Scene) 3. Repeat step 2. 4. Add an event to the first Page (i.e. add a button from the Library) 5. In the Events panel click Add, select an
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Sunday, June 11, 2006 7:34 PM

How to do a simple animation with Expression Interactive Designer

In all my Vista Presentations I have been doing some sort of animation with the Expression Interactive Designer and thought I would jot down the steps how to do this with a button. 1. Create or open a project 2. Open a preexisting XAML page or add a new
Posted by Charles_Sterling | 0 Comments
Thursday, June 08, 2006 7:51 PM

Visual Studio 2005 support for Office 2007 announcement

I just saw that the VSTO Group announced that we will have a fully supported version of VSTO for Office 2007 before Orcas!!! I have included below the post KD Hallman made into the VSTO forum: I’m excited to announce “Cypress”, a fully-supported free
Posted by Charles_Sterling | 1 Comments
Thursday, June 08, 2006 4:14 PM

Creating a Ribbon for Office 2007 -simple version

In my post: Creating a Ribbon for Office 2007 i included all the code for the standard tutorial. In playing with this tutorial i realized it wasn't really viable for presenting so i stripped it down to the bare necessities which I have included below:
Posted by Charles_Sterling | 0 Comments
Thursday, June 08, 2006 3:43 PM

VSTO v3 CTP on Vista Beta 2!!!

I love the new V3 of Visual Studio Tools for Office ...One of my biggest issues with VSTO v3 is i couldn't run it on my Vista Beta2 machine but i just saw that TQuinn posted a work around on his blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/tq/archive/2006/06/06/620048.aspx
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Tuesday, June 06, 2006 7:07 PM

Work around for the exception in Expression Interactive Designer on Windows Vista Beta2

If you are suffering from exceptions in Expression Interactive Designer like i mentioned in my Windows Vista Hardware Review you can try disabling the Visual Themes as a work around for now. To diable Visual Themes: In Explorer- Right click on ExprID.exe
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Tuesday, June 06, 2006 6:48 PM

Creating a Ribbon for Office 2007

If you are are playing with Andrew's VSTO Tutorial and are having with the image rendering you might have put your GetResourceBitmap function into your ImageConverterclass like i was doing issues (Thanks Kathleen McGrath for finding my mistake!!) i have
Posted by Charles_Sterling | 1 Comments
Tuesday, June 06, 2006 6:38 PM

One Click Deployment Under Windows Vista

Visual Studio 2005 One Click deployment doesn’t seem to get along gets along with Windows Vista IIS 7.0. Since I love demoing this One Click I decided to see what it take to get something demo-able under Windows Vista. –Turns out it is a piece of cake!
Posted by Charles_Sterling | 2 Comments
Monday, June 05, 2006 11:33 AM

Vista Presentations at an Australian User Group near you!

Looks like the the 3 innovation days have booked out....but not to fear you can still catch some of this content at a local user group ! Date Group Presenter Location Contact 6/7/2006 Newcastle Coders Group Chuck University of Newcastle David Williams
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Sunday, June 04, 2006 12:02 AM

Razor gang teaches me a lesson on the Gold Coast (Offshore Fishing)

June 4 2006, the weather forecast was for small craft warnings and 30KPH+ winds. So do I do? -Go fishing! This trip was with my neighbor, Iain Burnell, a keen Snapper fisherman, who was hoping the snapper had started to make their appearance on the Gold
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Friday, June 02, 2006 11:18 PM

M400 Video Not working in Windows Presentation Foundation Applications on Vista Beta2

If you are doing Windows Presentation Foundation programming on your M400 and none of your Video's are playing it is very likely being caused by the Intel(R) Calistoga Graphics Controller....Disabling the driver (and forcing the computer to use the Standard
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Friday, June 02, 2006 2:23 PM

Hall of Shame - NO More!

Just noticed i was on Frank's Hall of Shame list for the Global Corporate Challenge ....Sure pick on the guy with Ross River<g> Actually i have been a good boy and wearing my device everyday except Thursday....just been pretty average at recording
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