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Thursday, April 27, 2006 1:55 PM

VS 2005 Spellchecker

Great little tool for people like me who just can spell and who run versions of VS 2005 above express (i.e. that are extensible) Click here for details Click here for bigger image
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Tuesday, April 25, 2006 1:59 PM

A Great Summary of our Recent Express Announcements – Awesome stuff

Here is a great link that covers off the Lego Mindstorms announcement (that I’ve already blogged about ) and a whole lot more. If you missed the news on the web the MakerFaire has been going on and there is lots to see ( 1 , 2 ). The Coding4Fun site and
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Tuesday, April 25, 2006 1:41 PM

LEGO Mindstorms SDK for .NET 2.0

Way cool – you can use the Express tools to control a LOGO Mindstorms robot... I wanted an excuse to get one of these for work! http://msdn.microsoft.com/coding4fun/lego/lego_intro/default.aspx As an aside we have also now confirmed that the Express tools
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Sunday, April 16, 2006 7:11 PM

A Good Post on Migration from David L

All about keeping skills current and getting ready for the change.... http://blogs.msdn.com/davidlem/archive/2006/04/13/575344.aspx We have great case study comming up in NZ in a few weeks time about one sites effort to migrate to ASP .NET it's a good
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Wednesday, April 12, 2006 7:48 PM

ASP .NET Overview Video Series - Must Watch Content

These how do I videos are so good that you’ve just got to look at them if you want to get started: http://msdn.microsoft.com/asp.net/learning/learn/newtodevelopment/default.aspx As an aside… Before I joint Microsoft when I lived in the UK I used to site
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Wednesday, April 12, 2006 7:44 PM

Scrum for Team System Released by Conchango

Conchango are a leading SI in the UK and they have just released a plug-in for Team System that supports Scrum as an Agile process – very, very cool… I used to work at Conchango as their Principal Architect and I led their charge to becoming the UK ’s
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Wednesday, April 12, 2006 7:43 PM

Team System On-demand Videos – Feature Walk Through

Anyone who reads this blog will know I’m a team system fan - I just think it’s a great tool for the development team – it helps so much in managing the overall SDLC and what’s more it’s got a very, very solid roadmap from up it will just keep getting
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Wednesday, April 12, 2006 6:11 PM

Our Next Big Technical Event - Strong Registrations - Get in quick

We have already seen high levels of interest for our next big technical event with record first day registrations… Looks like it could be another sell out (I know that’s not technically true as it is free, but you get my drift). Find out more visit http://www.microsoft.co.nz/events
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Tuesday, April 11, 2006 7:43 PM

Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Office – Excel Hand-on Labs

Three cool hands-on labs for outlook development with VSTO: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=C54B03C8-EE57-4B18-B496-8EE09319E5CD&displaylang=en Lab 1 – Connecting Data and Controls in an Excel Workbook Lab 2 – Using Controls
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Monday, April 10, 2006 7:40 PM

Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Office Snippets – Outlook add-in support

Well the title says it all really if you are building outlook add-in with VSTO then you should download these: http://msdn.microsoft.com/office/understanding/vsto/training/snippets/default.aspx
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Monday, April 10, 2006 7:38 PM

Code Snippets Galore

We have published a whole bunch of code snippets to make your life easier for C# - these are all very cool and I’d recommend installing them if nothing else other then to see how they work… http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/downloads/codesnippets/default.aspx
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Saturday, April 08, 2006 7:45 PM

Xenon 2 on VPC – Well Really DOS games on VPC

I loved this game and just noticed this post – not sure there is a whole lot of value in re-highlighting it other than a little nostalgia… http://blogs.msdn.com/virtual_pc_guy/archive/2006/04/07/566280.aspx Actually this blog has a whole log of old games
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Saturday, April 08, 2006 7:37 PM

ASP .NET ATLAS - Great Overview Video from ScottGu

This stuff is just cool, our AJAX framework ATLAS ( http://atlas.asp.net ) is a great toolset for rich web applications. This short video from Scott Guthrie (his blog is outstanding) shows a simple scenario… http://download.microsoft.com/download/8/5/8/85803fdd-fe9a-4783-ab37-e0c565172ffd/asp_net_atlas.wmv
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Saturday, April 08, 2006 7:35 PM

Wisdom Teeth out – At Home looking after my Wife

It’s a pretty quiet week-end for me – my wife’s just had her Wisdom Teeth pulled out and she’s recovering at home – so I’m looking after her. So while she has been sleeping I thought I would have a look at some of our new content on the various MSDN sites
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