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October 2005 - Posts

Sunday, October 23, 2005 10:53 AM

What does a Developer Evangelist do?

A lot of people ask me "What does a developer Evangelist do": my stock answer is an accurate but not very helpful "Raise developers satisfaction and perception of Microsoft" So for my first blog entry i am including a trip report of my first .NET tour
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Sunday, October 23, 2005 10:51 AM

Dive (B)Logging

Way behind on my dive (b)logging! S olitary Islands Oct 2 nd Big Cat Reality Nov 12th-14 th Byron Bay Julian Rocks Nov 20 th North Stradbroke Nov 21 st Solitary Islands . Oct 2 nd I went to Coffs harbor and dove the famous South Solitary Islands. I must
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Sunday, October 23, 2005 10:48 AM

Gold Coast Boating

Living on the water on the Australian Gold Coast it seemed a moral imperative to get a boat for beach hopping, fishing and just tooling around. The first step was determine my bargining position. With this information in hand i visited the local Rivera
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Sunday, October 23, 2005 10:45 AM

I take up sport!

One thing about Australians is they love their sport and after living here 3 years I thought it was time I joined in…Of course this begged this first question of “which sport”. I must admit a couple immediately came to mind such as “AV enhanced yoga”
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Sunday, October 23, 2005 10:44 AM

Merging my private blog and work blogs

The intent was for me to keep my professional blog and personal blog in two seperate locations....unfortunately have not been maintaining this one enough to justifty this extra overhead the spoke had turned off the account...nearly losing all my posts<gasp>
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Friday, October 21, 2005 11:39 PM

WebCasts Update #2 - Audio Gremlins vanquished

From my first Usergroup webcast attempt I have organized three more Webcasts through WWEvents/Livemeeting and by accident determined much of the phone noise was being caused by the MCI phone bridge not Live meeting. I also found out that WWEvents stops
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Friday, October 21, 2005 10:00 PM

Teched Content Owner for 2006

I must admit the last four years has been a learning experience but it is time to pass the reins to somebody else -& this year's victim is none other than our very own Michael Kleef …so if you have any content requests like 10 sessions on building
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Friday, October 21, 2005 5:48 PM

Nick Weinholt is still alive!

Just heard from my buddy the performance master Nick Weinholt and he is almost done with his 6 month tour around Australia! He is just pulling out of Esperance and plans on being in Melbourne for his Spirit of Tasmania voyage Nov 16 and being back home
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Friday, October 21, 2005 5:41 PM

Upgrading painting from VB6 to .NET

I had the opportunity to play with the source code of a large accounting package written in VB 6 with good friend Andrew Parsons and we thought “what the heck wonder how hard it would be to upgrade to .NET”. We kicked off the Upgrade wizard and went to
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Saturday, October 15, 2005 12:58 PM

WebCast #1 Summary (and apology)

Saturday @ 11:00am we kicked off our first WWEvents hosted Webcast of the Melbourne User Group in preparation for doing realtime webcasting of all the local launch events, pertinent DPE deliveries and enable the webcasting of all our local user groups
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Friday, October 14, 2005 1:53 PM

A Geeks Halloween Party!

Halloween is only once a year or is it?.... Please join the Sterlings at a pre-Halloween Halloween party Oct 22nd. Email me at Chass@microsoft.com for directions, RSVP's etc Chuck
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Thursday, October 13, 2005 4:37 PM

XAML "Game" Written at Bond University

As promised here is the code I wrote at the Gold Coast User Group: This code displays the score on the button, launches the timeline below that is the XAML which contains the definitions for the two buttons, the timeline and the triggers for the timelines
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Thursday, October 13, 2005 11:32 AM

Darwin Launch Nov 15th

I have scratched out the abstract for the Nov 15 presentation at CDU below but if you want more information please see: http://www.aususergroups.org/Default.aspx?alias=www.aususergroups.org/oug or email Craig at odnugnt@technicaone.com ********************************************************
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Wednesday, October 12, 2005 5:01 PM

Australian Community Launches of VS 2005

If you run a user group or other Developer gatherings and are interested in doing something around the Launch of VS or SQL 2005 contact David Lemphers at davidlem@microsoft.com he is trying to arrange adding you to the list below and getting somebody
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Tuesday, October 11, 2005 10:14 PM

XAML Code for QUT Lecture Oct 11th

< Window x:Class = " Window1 " xmlns = " http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/avalon/2005 " xmlns:x = " http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/xaml/2005 " Title = " AvalonApplication1 " > < Grid Background > < Viewport3D > < Viewport3D.Camera
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Tuesday, October 11, 2005 4:15 PM

Visual Studio 2005 Team System with Anthony Borton

After my last post about Webcasts i have had a couple more volunteers and Anthony will be doing his Team System presentation next Tuesday 6:00pm via web cast! For what is it worth Anthony has been playing with VSTS before Beta 1 and will probably be Queenslands
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Monday, October 10, 2005 6:35 PM

Two of the Australian User Groups being webcasted this month

We are scheduled to run two of the user groups as web casts: The first is Melbourne Oct 15 doing New Features in VB and C# http://msevents-as.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?EventID=120464716&EventCategory=2&culture=en-AU&CountryCode=AU
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Monday, October 10, 2005 3:19 PM

Teched Australia Hands On Labs available for download

In case you didn't see this we have put all the Teched hands on labs for download: Administering and Managing your Microsoft SharePoint Technologies ASP.NET 2.0 Data Access ASP.NET 2.0 Membership, Login Controls, and Role Management ASP.NET 2.0 Profiles
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Monday, October 10, 2005 10:41 AM

Release Candidate or Beta2?

After a discussion with the folks on the list i thought it might be interesting to jot down when to use Visual Studio Beta 2 (B2) over the Release Candidate (RC) Why Beta2: 1. WinFX / Vista tools are synced with this build 2. Somebody mentioned looming
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Friday, October 07, 2005 3:55 PM

Installing Visual Studio 2005 on Vista -SQL Express Failing

If you are installing Visual Studio 2005 and have already gotten around manaully installing MSXML 6 from the \WCU directory beaware you also need to manaully install "SQL Native CLient" to get SQL Express running...(needed for personalization in ASP.NET
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Friday, October 07, 2005 3:11 PM

Visual Studio & SQL Server 2005 Launch dates in Australia

Hello Australia, We are looking to do the launch the of Visual Studio & SQL Server 2005 on the following dates across Australia Cairns Nov 2nd << Me Townsville Nov 3rd <<Me McKay Nov 4th <<Me Adelaide 22 Nov Rockhampton 24 Nov <<Me
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Friday, October 07, 2005 1:25 PM

Productivity study for VB2005 and ASP.NET 2.0

We're executing a productivity study that's designed to measure how much more productive developing in VB2005 and ASP.NET 2.0 than developing in VB6 and ASP is. The study is being executed by contract through VeriTest and is expected to be completed in
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Tuesday, October 04, 2005 3:10 PM

Upgrading VB6 Richtextbox

Recieved the following question: Can anyone tell me what to use as a work around for the span and upto methods in VB6. These seem to be missing in VB.NET The First chunk of code below is VB6 filling a richtextbox called rtbEdit; the keyup event is finding
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Tuesday, October 04, 2005 11:30 AM

WinFx my experiences so far...

I installed WinFX on two clean XP computers and a Vista computer the same time 5 days ago. 0. The Vista OS install was a piece of cake and is running fine... the only hiccups being the dodgy video drivers I am using to force aero. http://blogs.msdn.com/charles_sterling/archive/2005/09/30/475322.aspx
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