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Dave Glover "Down Under (Oz)"

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Silverlight Designer and Developer Network, Melb, June 30th, @shanemo and SketchFlow, not to be missed!!
If you are a designer or a developer then make sure you make this SDDN event, tonight, Tuesday the 30th of June in Melbourne. Blend 3 and SketchFlow absolutely rocks and it'll be time well spent!! What's on? Sketch Flow: Don't know what SketchFlow is? Read More...

Posted Tuesday, June 30, 2009 12:16 PM by dglover | 0 Comments

Windows 7 Software Logo Toolkit Now Publically Available
Microsoft is pleased to announce the public availability of the Beta release for the Windows 7 Software Logo Toolkit. The toolkit allows ISVs to submit and receive the "Compatible with Windows 7" logo for their products. Improvements, including self-test Read More...

Posted Tuesday, June 09, 2009 10:35 AM by dglover | 1 Comments

Managed Code Wrappers for new Windows 7 APIs
Check out Windows® API Code Pack for Microsoft® .NET Framework (v0.85) !! Cope and pasted summary:- The Windows® API Code Pack for Microsoft® .NET Framework provides a source code library that can be used to access new Windows 7 features (and some related Read More...

Posted Wednesday, May 27, 2009 3:01 PM by dglover | 1 Comments

Application Architecture Guide 2.0
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 Read More...

Posted Thursday, May 14, 2009 1:28 PM by dglover | 1 Comments

Tech.Ed Australia and New Zealand Call for Content Now Open
  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 Read More...

Posted Friday, May 08, 2009 5:07 PM by dglover | 1 Comments

Save up to $900 when you add a MSDN® Premium or MSDN Professional subscription to Visual Studio® 2005 Professional Edition or Visual Studio 2008 Professional Edition license
"MSDN Attach" Promotion Expires June 30th 2009 "For a limited time, save up to $900 when you add a MSDN® Premium or MSDN Professional subscription to Visual Studio® 2005 Professional Edition or Visual Studio 2008 Professional Edition license. Plus, with Read More...

Posted Tuesday, May 05, 2009 1:49 PM by dglover | 0 Comments

Office 2007 Service Pack 2 (SP2) Ships
Cool, Office 2007 Service Pack 2 has shipped!! For me the killer feature in SP2 is that Outlook shuts down when you exit, so hopefully less “the data file was not closed properly” scans!!  Great to see Open Document Format support and in the box Read More...

Posted Wednesday, April 29, 2009 12:24 PM by dglover | 1 Comments

Sydney May23rd - "Windows Presentation Foundation" Community Workshop and Bushfire Appeal
We have a finalised Saturday May 23rdth for the Sydney Community Workshop which hopefully wont clash too much with other stuff in our busy lives!! For more information of the workshop format see my original posting at http://blogs.msdn.com/dglover/archive/2009/03/23/windows-presentation-foundation-community-workshop-and-bushfire-appeal.aspx Read More...

Posted Sunday, April 19, 2009 12:09 AM by dglover | 2 Comments

Windows Presentation Foundation Community Workshops and Bushfire Appeal Update
To date we've rolled out the Windows Presentation Foundation Community Workshops across Adelaide, Brisbane and Melbourne with a total of 130 people attending and at the same time raising over $9000 for the Red Cross Bushfire Appeal. A VERY BIG THANK YOU Read More...

Posted Monday, April 06, 2009 3:34 PM by dglover | 1 Comments

Windows Presentation Foundation Community Workshop and Bushfire Appeal
Ok, so you've seen Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) and you thought the technology looked interesting. You know your applications are starting to look dated, you understand WPF has matured, now in its 3 rd release; but life gets in the way and you Read More...

Posted Monday, March 23, 2009 5:00 PM by dglover | 3 Comments

Windows Presentation Foundation Community Workshop, Melbourne, Sat Mar 28th and Bushfire Appeal
Windows Presentation Foundation Community Workshop Ok, so you've seen Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) and you thought the technology looked interesting. You know your applications are starting to look dated, you understand WPF has matured, now in Read More...

Posted Friday, March 13, 2009 11:42 AM by dglover | 4 Comments

Limited Spaces Available at Sydney Based Azure Training - March 10-12, 2009
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 Read More...

Posted Monday, March 02, 2009 2:56 PM by dglover | 2 Comments

Federated Search in Windows 7: Creating a Search Connector Description
By now you may have spotted you can create your own Search Connector Descriptions in XML and install them in to the Federated Search support in Windows 7, see here for some examples, I'm particularly fond of the Twitter search extender, but there are Read More...

Posted Tuesday, February 24, 2009 10:02 AM by dglover | 1 Comments

Victoria.NET Back to Basics - Sessions on WCF, WPF and WF – Monday Dec 15th
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 Read More...

Posted Wednesday, December 10, 2008 4:12 PM by dglover | 0 Comments

Australia Developer Liberation Day Nov 6th - Live stream will be available at
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 Read More...

Posted Wednesday, November 05, 2008 4:06 PM by dglover | 1 Comments

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