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January 2006 - Posts

Tuesday, January 31, 2006 7:45 PM

Cairns Visual Studio 2005 Hands On Training Day Feb 4th

Visual Studio 2005 - SQL Server 2005 Hands on Training Day. Presented by Cairns Software Developers Forum and International .NET Users Association (INETA) and Microsoft Join us to celebrate the launch of Visual Studio 2005! Microsoft® Visual Studio® 2005
Posted by Charles_Sterling | 2 Comments
Tuesday, January 24, 2006 2:38 PM

Jan CTP of Expression Interactive Designer (Sparkle) is Available!!!!

One of my favorite parts of doing Windows Presentation Foundation (Code Named Avalon) presentations is showing off the Expression Interactive Designer (ie Sparkle) This way cool tool makes creating XAML a breeze and lets you do it with very powerfull
Posted by Charles_Sterling | 0 Comments
Monday, January 23, 2006 3:47 PM

Australia Security Interchange Registration -Now Open!

As i posted earlier we will be offering a free evening Security Event for the community. We now have the dates and locations finalized and are now taking registrations -so get in early Please feel free to forward this along! Security Interchange bought
Posted by Charles_Sterling | 2 Comments
Monday, January 23, 2006 12:17 PM

New Zealand User Group Web Casts

I just learned the New Zealand User groups have been archiving many of their presentations in on demand web cast format! If you want to watch them check out: http://msevents-as.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?EventID=120466606&EventCategory=3&culture=en-NZ&CountryCode=N
Posted by Charles_Sterling | 0 Comments
Monday, January 23, 2006 11:44 AM

Code Camp Bike Road Trip blog roll

Listing the folks interested in doing a road trip to Code Camp from the post i made asking for people that are interested Brisbane Andrew Dugdell http://blogs.virtualserver.tv/blogs/dugie/ Andrew.Dugdell@clariti.com.au Charles Sterling http://blogs.msdn.com/Charles_Sterling
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Monday, January 23, 2006 11:18 AM

Bike to Code Camp (Brisbane to Wagga)

Are there any other bikers looking to do a road trip to Code Camp? If so post a comment and i will add you to the Motor Cycle Code Camp road trip blog role (or drop me a line at chass@microsoft.com ) Chuck PS i might not be able to do this if Code Camp
Posted by Charles_Sterling | 0 Comments
Monday, January 23, 2006 10:50 AM

Sssshhhh....It is a secret -Code Camp New Zealand

MVP's and Super Star New Zealanders Peter Jones and Kirk Jackson are thinking about organizing code camp New Zealand ! They are just kicking around ideas but looking at Date - TBD! In Porirua (near Wellington ) If you would like to help them please contact
Posted by Charles_Sterling | 0 Comments
Saturday, January 21, 2006 12:39 PM

Enterprise Library for .NET Framework 2.0 - Now released

I was at Dialog Thursday and the question was raised when would Enterprise Library for .NET Framework 2.0 be released and i indicated then "a couple of days" well that is time is NOW! You can download it at: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/?url=/library/en-us/dnpag2/html/EntLib2.asp
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Thursday, January 19, 2006 7:38 PM

SQL Downunder Podcasts

Greg Low has put together a great resource on the topic of SQL Server: SQL DownUnder which he defines as: SQLDownUnder is a podcast for the community of professionals using SQL Server TM . Experiences with SQL Server Service Broker and Dynamic Management
Posted by Charles_Sterling | 0 Comments
Thursday, January 19, 2006 6:40 PM

SQL Server Integration Services - Very Cool (Ready Launch Web Casts)

Just sat in a presentation on SSIS by Peter Myers and must admit it was WAY cool and I definitely want to play more with this technology now! Now i wish i hadn't focused only the developer sessions at launch....If you made this same mistake you can still
Posted by Charles_Sterling | 0 Comments
Thursday, January 19, 2006 10:32 AM

Go LIve License for WWF and WCF

Just in time for Craig's WCF visit and Hands On Traing We have just announced a "Go Live" licenses for the Windows Workflow Foundation Beta2 Runtime ( WF ) and Windows Communication Foundation Beta2 Runtime (WCF Download the WF & WCF B2 runtimes from
Posted by Charles_Sterling | 0 Comments
Wednesday, January 18, 2006 9:05 PM

Adelaide SQL and VS Launch 2005 Webcast snippets

Heres snapshots of the Adelaide SQL Server 2005 and Visual Studio 2005 community launch, the keynote, and a few of the sessions. Frank's there , so's Jeff and Dave Glover is featured twice! Spot David Lemphers in there too talking about DLINQ to everyone
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Wednesday, January 18, 2006 3:05 PM

My WPF/Sparke Abstract for Code Camp

Come see how Windows Vista is fundamentally different from earlier versions of Windows, Windows Vista introduces development advances that help developers create next-generation applications that take full advantage of Windows Vista, including: · WinFX:
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Wednesday, January 18, 2006 11:14 AM

Jeff Beehler to Visit Australia March!!! (TFS LPM)

Long time friend Jeff Beehler and Lead Program Manager in charge of Team Foundation Server will be visiting Austratlia to celebrate the launch of TFS! I am currently accepting requests for having him do customer visits, user groups etc His current schedule
Posted by Charles_Sterling | 4 Comments
Wednesday, January 18, 2006 11:08 AM

Code Camp Australia 2006

That's right the best Australian developer conference of the year is back! Mitch and Greg have just opened up the request for papers so if you have a topic you want to see or would like to present please visit: http://www.codecampoz.com/
Posted by Charles_Sterling | 0 Comments
Tuesday, January 17, 2006 4:07 PM

Sydney Patterns and Practices Summit email mistake

Just wanted to apologize for the email we just sent for the Patterns and Practices Summit... In that email we list the speakers in the email as being: Alan Cooper Chris Sells Anders Hejlsberg Unfortunately this not correct - Luckily we have talent every
Posted by Charles_Sterling | 0 Comments
Monday, January 16, 2006 5:11 PM

Next Security Summit Coming to a City near you March

This is is still preliminary information and we dont have the registration links yet but again "Fore warned is Fore armed" Will post final information in two weeks *************** Security Interchange bought to you by Microsoft. Maybe you’re a seasoned
Posted by Charles_Sterling | 0 Comments
Monday, January 16, 2006 1:06 PM

Crazy Feb Schedule with Craig McMurtry

In Feb I will be "going dark" for a several days when I am on the Road with Craig McMurtry and wanted have an easy place for people to "find" me... Feb 13-17th WCF ISV training North Ryde Feb 15 Sydney User Group Presentation – Andrew Coates to chaperone
Posted by Charles_Sterling | 0 Comments
Monday, January 16, 2006 12:30 PM

Free WinFX/WCF Hands On training Feb 18th (Sydney Only) -Registration NOW OPEN

The registration site is finally LIVE -Special thanks to Adam Cogan for putting me up while visiting! Registration site http://msevents-as.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=120466486&Culture=en-AU for agenda Event Abstract Please Join Charles
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Friday, January 13, 2006 11:15 AM

A tool for converting Subversion, CVS and RCS to Team System

Looks like Component Software just released Converter for Subversion, CVS and RCS to Team System.... http://www.componentsoftware.com/Products/converter/download.htm If anybody has tried it love to hear your thoughts Chuck
Posted by Charles_Sterling | 0 Comments
Friday, January 13, 2006 10:55 AM

Reading Text files and learning about VS 2005

Recieved this Query on one of the alia's i am on and thought other folks might be interested in the answer: Hi guys, I am learning how to use VB .Net (haven't-programmed-for-ten-years-way), as there has been huge interest in it from the students at my
Posted by Charles_Sterling | 0 Comments
Thursday, January 12, 2006 11:58 AM

Beta TFS Add in for VB/VS 6.0 now Available

If you are still doing VB 6 development or tasked with upgrading VS 6.0 projects this download Enables Visual Studio 6.0 to use Team Foundation Server Version Control. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=32202966-EF04-442F-8C5C-88BDF15F551C&displaylang=e
Posted by Charles_Sterling | 0 Comments
Monday, January 09, 2006 4:23 PM

Ximage Saga Finishes

The last post I indicated none of the applications were happy as they were now all sitting on the wrong drive letter I eventaully remapped the drive letters but this wasn't easy as easy as right click on the drives in the MMC and rename due to the fact
Posted by Charles_Sterling | 0 Comments
Monday, January 09, 2006 11:08 AM

Ximage Success!

Per my last Ximage post i was going to sysprep the OS and create a new Image...Unfortunately it didn't go well at all. I sysprepped the OS on the partition i wanted to replicate (Sysprep /Reseal) Booted a drive that could run Ximage Created an image of
Posted by Charles_Sterling | 0 Comments
Monday, January 09, 2006 11:00 AM

How to perform an FDISK /mbr in Windows XP /Windows 2003

Playing with Ximage on a bare drive and realized it doesn't set the Master Boot Record (Fare enough it doesn't know which partition to set it to) after looking around for a while i found the way to do this in XP and Windows Server 2003 is to: My Computer
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Friday, January 06, 2006 10:59 AM

My first Ximage image -almost...

I am so close with my Ximage partitions working i can taste it! I got the WAIK installed onto a computer that didn't have VS 2005 Ran Ximage.exe /capture g: c:\tfs.wim "TFS Image" (g: is a bootable drive system volume) Two hours later i had my working
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Thursday, January 05, 2006 3:31 PM

DO NOT INSTALL XIMAGE/WAIK ON A VS 2005 COMPUTER

DO NOT install WAIK on a functioning VS2005/TFS RTM computer… The .NET FX version WAIK uses will fail during install and leave VS 2005 unusable. Note: You can fix the computer with a repair of the .NET Framework 2.0 but you probably have better things
Posted by Charles_Sterling | 5 Comments
Thursday, January 05, 2006 1:56 PM

Visual Studio 2005 Partner License FAQ

From Michael Bronsdon, Developer Tools November 30, 2005 Can also be found at: http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=126616&SiteID=1 or to download in word format: http://steve.yi.members.winisp.net/documents/MSDN_Visual%20Studio%20Transition%20FAQ.DOC
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Thursday, January 05, 2006 1:52 PM

New WinFX discusion site

If Avalon is your thing you might want to join Deepak's new site: http://groups.msn.com/WinFXDownUnder -Just the list of his articles and samples are worth joining! Chuck
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Wednesday, January 04, 2006 1:18 PM

(Sydney Only) Free training on WCF -Possible DATE CHANGE! FEB 20 or 21st??

The press folks in Redmond have asked that we hold off on the press meetings meaning we might be able to do this training Feb 20 th or 21 st if the computer lab is available…I am checking the availability for the Lab but was curious what are the preferences
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