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January 2005 - Posts

Monday, January 31, 2005 7:50 PM

Code Camp goes down under and Joel Pobar to visit Australia!

Ever want to pitch a tent with Andrew ? Throw back a beer with Chuck (okay not that unusual an experience), argue the purity of conversions with Greg or discuss the internal workings of the common language runtime with one Redmond's top .NET Framwork
Posted by Charles_Sterling | 0 Comments
Monday, January 31, 2005 6:44 PM

Free Training: Advanced Creation of Web Parts for SharePoint Portal Server (Australia)

This session will explore how to use Microsoft Visual Studio .NET to create both client and server side Web Parts for SharePoint Portal Server. Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server provides a standard framework for the rendering of content, and interaction
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Friday, January 28, 2005 11:02 PM

Grabbing screenshots of the desktop with GDI+

I am playing with creating a previewer and needed to grab a picture of the desktop -after playing with the latest GDI+ class libraries i found Whidbey has introduced this this exact functionality! The following code draws the upper left 100 pixels of
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Friday, January 14, 2005 2:25 PM

TechEd Keynote Speaker -who do YOU want?

We are going through the list of potential TechEd keynote speakers and would like to include you folks to see who you would like: Some Suggestions thus far: Don Box Paris Hilton - Not if i have anything to do with it! Dr Harry Shum Helen Clark Afterburners
Posted by Charles_Sterling | 21 Comments
Thursday, January 13, 2005 2:32 PM

Changes/Increases to the Free ASP.NET Hosting in the MSDN Connections program

I just recieved a query about the limits of the free ASP.NET Hosting in the Australian MSDN Connections program and figured it would be worth posting that all members now receive the "Blue" level of hosting...-Based on feedback we are increasing these
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Saturday, January 08, 2005 9:11 AM

The ASP.NET Team needs your feedback on Masterpage Templates

Good Friend Brian Goldfarb is specing out the templates and the Masterpage samples you would like to see shipped with ASP.NET 2.0 So if you have an opinion and want it heard please post to his blog at: What would you want out of Master Page templates?
Posted by Charles_Sterling | 2 Comments
Saturday, January 08, 2005 12:56 AM

Upgrading Access Applications to managed code.

This has definitely been the hot topic for the week! -Over 4 questions in the last 5 days! The last customer I met with had a very rich UI, all the data already located in SQL, and the .NET framework already on the client machines but was still looking
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Friday, January 07, 2005 2:45 PM

Australia Day BBQ at Chuck's House! (Gold Coast)

Being true blue Australians and now proud Queenslander i thought what better way to celebrate Australia Day than a big barbeque! I haven’t set the menu yet but a WHOLE LOT of beer, BBQed dead animal flesh. Chips and Sangria for those of us more in touch
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Friday, January 07, 2005 2:03 PM

Hobart .NET User Group Inaugural Meeting

The Hobart .NET Users Group is a non-profit organization for learning and sharing ideas on .NET development. Technical experts from Microsoft, and the Hobart development community deliver presentations to highlight the latest in .NET advancements. Their
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Friday, January 07, 2005 1:06 PM

QMSDNUG JANUARY MEETING NOTICE

This month the Brisbane MSDN User Group , has a great meeting lined up. There are two presentations. Robert Crago will discuss programming Microsoft Agent and Angus Logan will provide an introduction to Microsoft Content Management System. Microsoft describe
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Wednesday, January 05, 2005 11:59 PM

Visual Studio 2005 Upgrading COM+ Components –closer!

I have been getting a lot of questions on Upgrading and thought I would check to see if the VS 2005 Upgrade Wizard is capable of doing COM+ objejcts as unfortunately the article What's New with the Visual Basic Upgrade Wizard in Visual Basic 2005 skirts
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Wednesday, January 05, 2005 7:52 PM

Congratulations to the 5 new Australian/New Zealand MVP's

Congratulations to the 5 new Australian/New Zealand MVP's - Well done Guys!! 1: Alister Jones: Visual Developer - ASP/ASP.NET 2: Philip Beadle: Visual Developer - ASP/ASP.NET 3: Dominic Ryan: Windows Server – IIS 4: Lukas Svoboda: Visual Developer - Solutions
Posted by Charles_Sterling | 1 Comments
Tuesday, January 04, 2005 11:01 PM

23 TechEd Australia Submissions to date and format change

I have changed the format of my teched submissions to use articles instead of blog entries to decrease the amount of traffic across folks RSS readers-per the request of the folks subscribing to my blog. Please find below the 23 submissions to date; this
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Tuesday, January 04, 2005 1:09 PM

I am a Technical GOD in technology ABC, am I the right stuff for TechEd Australia?

I just received a piece of email from MVP for Content Manager Server Angus Logan and that is NOT what he said -but rather he said: “ I would have liked to have done a presentation maybe something MCMS related but the ‘suggest session’ form said that you
Posted by Charles_Sterling | 1 Comments
Tuesday, January 04, 2005 9:40 AM

[Teched Sessions Suggestion] Avalon Presentation Framework for Windows Forms Developers

Below is a session submission for Teched New Zealand/Australia 2005 if you are interested in the other submissions or other details please see: http://blogs.msdn.com/charles_sterling/articles/345959.aspx Session Title: Avalon Presentation Framework for
Posted by Charles_Sterling | 2 Comments
Tuesday, January 04, 2005 9:34 AM

[Teched Sessions Suggestion] Mainframe Integration for Developers with Host Integration Server 2004

Below is a session submission for Teched New Zealand/Australia 2005 if you are interested in the other submissions or other details please see: http://blogs.msdn.com/charles_sterling/articles/345959.aspx Session Title: Mainframe Integration for Developers
Posted by Charles_Sterling | 2 Comments
Tuesday, January 04, 2005 8:52 AM

[Teched Sessions Suggestion] Microsoft Command Shell (or .NET Eye for the Sys Admin Guy)

Below is a session submission for Teched New Zealand/Australia 2005 if you are interested in the other submissions or other details please see: http://blogs.msdn.com/charles_sterling/articles/345959.aspx Session Title: Microsoft Command Shell (or .NET
Posted by Charles_Sterling | 3 Comments
Monday, January 03, 2005 11:01 AM

[Teched Sessions Suggestion] Mobilizing your Smart Client Applications

Below is a session submission for Teched New Zealand/Australia 2005 if you are interested in the other submissions or other details please see: http://blogs.msdn.com/charles_sterling/articles/345959.aspx Title : Mobilizing your Smart Client Applications
Posted by Charles_Sterling | 4 Comments
Monday, January 03, 2005 10:53 AM

[Teched Sessions Suggestion] Enterprise Resource Management with Active Directory

Below is a session submission for Teched New Zealand/Australia 2005 if you are interested in the other submissions or other details please see: http://blogs.msdn.com/charles_sterling/articles/345959.aspx Title: Enterprise Resource Management with Active
Posted by Charles_Sterling | 3 Comments
Monday, January 03, 2005 10:49 AM

[Teched Sessions Suggestion] Building Multi-threaded Mobile Applications

Below is a session submission for Teched New Zealand/Australia 2005 if you are interested in the other submissions or other details please see: http://blogs.msdn.com/charles_sterling/articles/345959.aspx Title: Building Multi-threaded Mobile Applications
Posted by Charles_Sterling | 2 Comments
Monday, January 03, 2005 10:47 AM

[Teched Sessions Suggestion] Smart Hosting for Smart Client Applications

Below is a session submission for Teched New Zealand/Australia 2005 if you are interested in the other submissions or other details please see: http://blogs.msdn.com/charles_sterling/articles/345959.aspx Title: Smart Hosting for Smart Client Applications
Posted by Charles_Sterling | 3 Comments
Monday, January 03, 2005 10:36 AM

[Teched Sessions Suggestion] Advanced Smart Client Deployment

Below is a session submission for Teched New Zealand/Australia 2005 if you are interested in the other submissions or other details please see: http://blogs.msdn.com/charles_sterling/articles/345959.aspx Session Title: Advanced Smart Client Deployment
Posted by Charles_Sterling | 3 Comments
Monday, January 03, 2005 10:33 AM

[Teched Sessions Suggestion] eXtreme .NET: Introducing eXtreme Programming Techniques to .NET Developers

Below is a session submission for Teched New Zealand/Australia 2005 if you are interested in the other submissions or other details please see: http://blogs.msdn.com/charles_sterling/articles/345959.aspx Title : eXtreme .NET: Introducing eXtreme Programming
Posted by Charles_Sterling | 4 Comments
Monday, January 03, 2005 10:28 AM

Teched Australia 2005 Session Input

The interest in TechEd Australia 2005 has been pretty incredible; I have already received over 10 submissions from local would be presenters. For 2005 I would like the TechEd Session Selection criteria much more a community driven process and thought
Posted by Charles_Sterling | 1 Comments
Sunday, January 02, 2005 9:34 PM

Volume Shadow Copy SDK

The typical method of accessing Volume Shadow Copy functionality is to use the WMI classes (listed below) but if you are a hardware vendor or just like writing device drivers then you will want access to the direct Win32 calls and I just tracked down
Posted by Charles_Sterling | 4 Comments
 
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