Dave Glover "Down Under (Oz)" : Services

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

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

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

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

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

dglover — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 09:12:20 GMT

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 ago Microsoft introduced .NET 3.0 and with it, it's four pillars - Windows Communication Foundation (WCF), Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), Windows Framework (WF) and Windows Cardspace. In "Back to Basics", we present 3 detailed sessions on 3 of these topics - WCF, WPF and WF.

If you've never used these Technologies before or would like to re-acquaint yourself with them, this is the session to attend.

If you are planning on coming, please RSVP to help us organise drinks and catering.

To register, simply send an email to info@victoriadotnet.com.au. It is a FREE event and there is no charge for attendance but space is limited so you'll need to let us know you're coming so we can make sure there's space. If you do not wish to receive event notification mails in the future, simply send a mail to info@victoriadotnet.com.au with the word Unsubscribe in the subject.

The user group has a Twitter account. You can follow the happenings in the group at http://twitter.com/vdnug/a>

The Victoria .NET Dev SIG usually meets on the second Tuesday of every month to discuss developer related .NET topics. Victoria .NET also runs an Office and SharePoint group called MOSSIG (that meets on the 4th Wednesday of every month) and a SQL SIG (that meets 12:30-2:00pm on the 2nd Monday of each month) to discuss topics related to SQL Server development and a new Silverlight Developer and Designer Network user group

Windows Live got a serious social makeover – see http://home.live.com

dglover — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 07:52:50 GMT

If you thought that Windows Live was a bit of a yawn then you’ve not seen the latest incarnation, it’s got way more integrated and socialized, added in concepts of social feeds, networks, sharing, update notifications etc, the networking has taken off like wildfire, so be in to win and get connected!! Check out the Windows Live Team Blog for more info and check out the blog item on privacy and permissions.

The Windows Live Beta clients are great, new IM Client, Writer, Photo Gallery, Mail (with integrated Calendar support) available at http://www.windowslive.com/ComingSoon

http://Skydrive.live.com now offers 25 gig free of charge space, max file size is 50mb, but there are plenty of file splitters around for larger files:)

http://Photos.live.com is very cool and the slide view is beautifully implemented with Silverlight, the frame seems to pick up in the dominate colour in the photo, to great effect, upload is drag and drop simple with the uploader addin.

Windows Live Activities off your Windows Live “Profile” page – hooks up you flickr piccies, blogs, twitter feeds etc in to a unified “What’s new” feed – again well implemented!!

Updated mobile support at http://mobile.live.com – see http://windowslivewire.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!2F7EB29B42641D59!28656.entry?sa=411864678 for more info.

http://office.live.com – two free offerings:-

Office Live Workspace (SharePoint in the cloud and very cool)
and Office Live Small Business (but limited to a handful of countries at the moment)

All this have been well integrated in to http://home.live.com.

From a developer perspective check out Live Services SDK - http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb264574.aspx

and the article on wikipedia is not bad – slightly out of date in places – see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Live_Services

Cheers Dave

PDC and Windows 7 goes “Boy Band” and “So you think you can dance”, ya gotta watch!!

dglover — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 10:01:59 GMT

Check out the video at http://channel8.msdn.com/Posts/PDC-2008-is-cominghellip-and-I-canrsquot-wait/

And if you haven’t registered for what will be the biggest and most exciting Professional Developer Conference to date then get yourself to http://www.microsoftpdc.com and we’ll see you there!!

Cheers Dave

Australian Teched 2008 Session Listing available at...

dglover — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 10:11:30 GMT

I've been asked this a couple of times over the last few days so I thought it might be useful to blog it locations.

You can find the current session list at https://aunz.msteched.com/au/public/sessions.aspx

Cheers Dave

MS Press Books Discount (May 2008, Australia) Available via your User Group Leader

dglover — Mon, 05 May 2008 09:09:34 GMT

Tania Netterfield our Partner Account Manager for CPLS (Certified Partner for Learning Solutions) as asked if we could blog, it looks to be a great kickoff offer so if you are after a MS Press book or two then check out www.mspress.com.au

To help us launch the Store during the month of May we've created a special User Group Members offer of 50% discount on all books on the site.

Some of the great advantages of www.mspress.com.au include:

Express delivery
Competitive pricing
Easy Keyword Search facility
Latest titles and Books of the Month
Large inventory
Newsletter sign-up

And until the end of May on www.mspress.com.au

All User Group Members will receive a 50% discount by using this Code at Checkout - ask for the discount code from your user group leader
Plus go in the draw for a chance to win an XBOX by providing feedback on the site

We are planning to keep improving the site in the future and I'll keep you updated as these improvements are made.

Cheers Dave

Great session at MIX on RESTful Services and WCF

dglover — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 07:06:53 GMT

see http://sessions.visitmix.com/ and search for session T01, titled "Creating a RESTful API with WCF, it's focused on the newly released developer APIs for http://MySpace.com.

see http://Developer.myspace.com and http://RestChest.com - the RestChess site has the demo code shown in the session and it's well cool!!

Cheers Dave

Dave Glover "Down Under (Oz)" : Services

Visual Studio 2010, Fx 4 Beta 2 Training Kit

Application Architecture Guide 2.0

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

Perth SDDN .NET RIA Services Event Follow up

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

Training Workshop Agenda - 3-day

Day #1

Day #2

Day #3

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

Windows Live got a serious social makeover – see http://home.live.com

PDC and Windows 7 goes “Boy Band” and “So you think you can dance”, ya gotta watch!!

Australian Teched 2008 Session Listing available at...

MS Press Books Discount (May 2008, Australia) Available via your User Group Leader

Great session at MIX on RESTful Services and WCF