Dave Glover "Down Under (Oz)" : ASP.NET

Visual Studio 2010, Fx 4 Beta 2 Training Kit

dglover — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 01:09:00 GMT

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 then install it in a Virtual Machine, it works just fine!!

There is a great set of training resources for Visual Studio 2010 & Fx 4 Beta 2 in the form of the Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Training Kit and check out http://channel9.msdn.com/learn/ for more great learning materials.

You'll find material covering

What's new for Common Language Runtime
ASP.NET 4
Windows
Windows Workflow
Windows Communication Foundation
Silverlight
Data Access
Parallel Computing
Extensibility Framework
Application Lifecycle Management

so check it out and get up to speed fast with the Visual Studio 2010 and Fx 4 Beta 2!!

Ohhh, lol, I have installed VS2010 Beta 2 on my ASUS Eee PC 1005HA-H with 2 gigs of RAM, running Windows 7, that plus TFS 2010 B2 Basic - ok, it's not going to set any speed records but useable and fun for trying stuff out esp when you are on the move.

Cheers Dave

Experience the Zermatt region, Switzerland, with this Windows 7 Touch Solution, inc the help of Silverlight and Deepzoom

dglover — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 04:20:07 GMT

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 (or for that matter Windows 7), but yeah, the experience is not as immersive!!

Check out the Windows 7 Training kit if you want to build amazing stuff too!!

Cheers Dave

Going to PDC09 then keep an eye out for Birds-of-a-Feather

dglover — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 07:00:17 GMT

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

WebsiteSpark Program has launched

dglover — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 10:24:07 GMT

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, Microsoft Web Platform Installer 2 has shipped and there is a great selection of applications from the Web App Gallery

Cheers Dave

WARDY IT Solutions win Microsoft Data Management Partner of the Year

dglover — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 05:32:25 GMT

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 solutions supporting customer's mission-critical applications.

The Awards were presented in 30 categories and WARDY IT Solutions was recognised for superior technology and innovation in Data Management Solutions. The Data Management Solutions Partner of the Year award recognises partners who delivered exemplary solutions using Microsoft technologies to address customer business needs and challenges.

Congratulations to Peter and the crew!!

Cheers Dave

Getting started with Windows Mobile 6.5 Widget Development

dglover — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 12:13:38 GMT

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 concepts.

Developing Widgets for Windows Mobile 6.5
Getting started with widgets on Windows Mobile 6.5
Useful info on setting up dev environment - important thing is that the 6.5 is a developers toolkit and must be installed after the 6.0 refresh SDKs - see blog item... SDK, DTK, DRK: WTF?!
Nick Randolph's blog at Nick's .NET Travels - lots of great stuff on Widget Development...
And get yourself signed up on Codemasons site - The Codemasons' Guild
The W3C spec for widgets is at Widgets 1.0: Requirements

Cheers Dave

Readify to run .NET Developer Training in Darwin!!

dglover — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 03:21:13 GMT

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	Dates
5 day professional .NET 3.5	August 10-14
Visual Studio ® 2008 ASP.NET3.5 (6463A)	August 18-19
Visual Studio ® 2008 ADO.NET 3.5 (6464A)	August 20-21
Implementing a Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (5061A)	August 31-September 2

Cheers Dave

CodeCampSA is happening the weekend of July 18-19th 2009

dglover — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 14:59:15 GMT

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 (Between North Tce and Hindley St, Adelaide, South Australia).

For more information keep an eye on http://www.codecampsa.com/

Cheers Dave

Application Architecture Guide 2.0

dglover — Thu, 14 May 2009 05:28:00 GMT

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 from Tarn Barford's awesome session on Iron Python at http://blog.sharpthinking.com.au/post/2009/05/11/IronPython-Presentation.aspx - funny we both did our sessions on Netbooks!!

And Mahesh's session covering the Application Architecture Guide 2.0, tbh, I had lost track that version 2 was over on codeplex!! If you've not see this guide then I highly recommend you download it from http://www.codeplex.com/AppArchGuide/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=20586

There is great coverage of where technologies fit, from web, to services, data access, security, desktop and mobile along with recommended best practices and patterns, honestly take a break from your busy day to day busy existence and check it out, it'll be time well spent!!

Cheers Dave

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

dglover — Fri, 08 May 2009 09:07:09 GMT

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

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

dglover — Tue, 05 May 2009 05:49:41 GMT

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Cheers Dave

Perth SDDN .NET RIA Services Event Follow up

dglover — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 10:09:52 GMT

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 with Silverlight 3” and download the full demo files and check out the running application.

Training resources can be found: http://silverlight.net/learn/labs.aspx and specifically the “Microsoft .NET RIA Services Overview” reference guide!!

Brad Abrams blogs is a great place for more on .NET RIA Services, see http://blogs.msdn.com/brada/

For what’s new in Silverlight 3 see http://timheuer.com/blog/archive/2009/03/18/silverlight-3-whats-new-a-guide.aspx which also includes links to the required downloads.

Cheers and thanks, Dave

Silverlight Alexandria Line of Business Framework Hobart Update

dglover — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 10:35:23 GMT

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 of Alexandria are now included in SL3, notably DataForm and DataPager, so it's unlike the code I have will work as is.

That said there is a great set of learning resources at http://silverlight.net/learn/labs.aspx

Check out this Tim's excellent summary of what is new in Silverlight 3, he's done a great job in pulling together the resources and references for SL3, see http://timheuer.com/blog/archive/2009/03/18/silverlight-3-whats-new-a-guide.aspx

I've put the slides up at http://cid-d03fa499b14904f9.skydrive.live.com/browse.aspx/Presentations

A great question was asked with about Roles Based Navigation

A question was asked if it was possible for the navigation framework to operate in a similar fashion to ASP.NET Sitemaps, exposing navigation links based on the roles the authenticated user belongs as per ASP.NET sitemaps and Security Trimming. For now this is not a part of the .NET RIA Services Framework, but is something that is under consideration.

Also given a brief discussion on the CSLA Framework - then check out http://www.lhotka.net/weblog/OverviewOfCSLANET36ForWindowsAndSilverlight.aspx

Cheers Dave

ISV Sales and Marketing Workshop in conjunction with AIIA and Carpe Diem in Melb March 18th

dglover — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 02:08:33 GMT

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 Room, Microsoft,
4 Freshwater Place
Southbank, VIC, Australia

Workshops will be run at Exhibition Room, Microsoft, 4 Freshwater Place, Southbank, Vic 3006.

Select from 5 different topics over 2 days.
Workshop features
1. Selling solutions
2. Building sales pipelines
3. Improving customer satisfaction
4. Word of mouth marketing
5. Win major opportunities

About Carpe Diem
Carpe Diem delivers a range of seminars relating to strategy, marketing and sales, with a reputation for its customised work with the Microsoft Partner community in Australia and New Zealand. Bruce Rasmussen, Carpe Diem's Managing Director, is highly acclaimed within the community and his team of industry experts brings combines best practice and 60 years of strategic planning, marketing and sales experience to provide theoretically grounded, yet highly practical information from people who "know the ropes". Bruce recently presented at Microsoft's Worldwide Partner Conference in Houston, Texas, where his session received the 4th highest feedback from attendees - out of over 200 sessions at the conference.

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

dglover — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 07:56:20 GMT

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 and Breakfast
9:00 AM	75	10:15 AM	Azure Services Platform Overview
10:15 AM	15	10:30 AM	Break
10:30 AM	75	11:45 AM	Introduction to Windows Azure
11:45 AM	60	12:45 PM	Lunch (Provided)
12:45 PM	75	2:00 PM	Introduction to SQL Services
2:00 PM	15	2:15 PM	Break
2:15 PM	75	3:30 PM	Introduction to .NET Services
3:30 PM	15	3:45 PM	Break
3:45 PM	75	5:00 PM	Introduction to Live Services
Day #2
8:30 AM	30	9:00 AM	Breakfast
9:00 AM	75	10:15 AM	Building Services for Windows Azure
10:15 AM	15	10:30 AM	Break
10:30 AM	60	11:30 AM	Lab: Windows Azure (3)
11:30 AM	60	12:30 PM	Lunch (Provided)
12:30 PM	75	1:45 PM	Building Applications using SQL Data Services
1:45 PM	15	2:00 PM	Break
2:00 PM	60	3:00 PM	Labs: SQL Data Services (3)
3:00 PM	75	4:15 PM	Building Applications using the .NET Service Bus & Workflow Service
4:15 PM	15	4:30 PM	Break
4:30 PM	60	5:30 PM	Labs: .NET Service Bus, .NET Workflow Service
Day #3
8:30 AM	30	9:00 AM	Breakfast
9:00 AM	75	10:15 AM	Identity and the .NET Access Control Services
10:15 AM	15	10:30 AM	Break
10:30 AM	60	11:30 AM	Labs : Access Control Service
11:30 AM	60	12:30 PM	Lunch (Provided)
12:30 PM	75	1:45 PM	Building Mesh-enabled Web Applications
1:45 PM	15	2:00 PM	Break
2:00 PM	60	3:00 PM	Labs: Live Framework & Live Services (3)
3:00 PM	15	3:15 PM	Break
3:15 PM	75	4:30 PM	Building applications for the Azure Services Platform
4:30 PM	30	5:00 PM	Wrap-up & Next Steps

Dave Glover "Down Under (Oz)" : ASP.NET

Visual Studio 2010, Fx 4 Beta 2 Training Kit

Experience the Zermatt region, Switzerland, with this Windows 7 Touch Solution, inc the help of Silverlight and Deepzoom

Going to PDC09 then keep an eye out for Birds-of-a-Feather

You can find more information at www.pdcbof.com and follow them on twitter at http://www.twitter.com/pdcbof

WebsiteSpark Program has launched

WARDY IT Solutions win Microsoft Data Management Partner of the Year

Getting started with Windows Mobile 6.5 Widget Development

Readify to run .NET Developer Training in Darwin!!

CodeCampSA is happening the weekend of July 18-19th 2009

Application Architecture Guide 2.0

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

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

Perth SDDN .NET RIA Services Event Follow up

Silverlight Alexandria Line of Business Framework Hobart Update

ISV Sales and Marketing Workshop in conjunction with AIIA and Carpe Diem in Melb March 18th

Melbourne: Business Edge Workshops

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

Training Workshop Agenda - 3-day

Day #1

Day #2

Day #3