Dave Glover "Down Under (Oz)" : Office

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

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

Office 2007 Service Pack 2 (SP2) Ships

dglover — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 04:24:13 GMT

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 for PDF and XPS!!

For more detail check see http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=B444BF18-79EA-46C6-8A81-9DB49B4AB6E5&displaylang=en

Yup can find out what’s been up dated at http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=B444BF18-79EA-46C6-8A81-9DB49B4AB6E5&displaylang=en

Btw, depending on size of your inbox allow for few minutes while the file store format is updated!!

Cheers Dave