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Thursday, August 31, 2006 7:48 PM

Interop Toolkit Video (Visual Basic .NET to Visual Basic 6.0)

At TechEd I did a presentation on 5 toolkits with 7 demos to help Visual Basic developers extend their Visual Basic 6 applications and skills to Visual Basic .NET. You can watch the whole video but it is pretty low quality -I plan to use media encoder
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Thursday, August 31, 2006 1:52 PM

I now have sound from my Vista RC machine

Saturday after TechEd I built an AMD Dual Core computer 64 bit machine and after a couple hickups with the video got everthing working -except for sound! I am using a very nice Gigabyte Motherboard with built-in Realtek sound unfortunately Vista RC decided
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Wednesday, August 30, 2006 11:40 PM

Visit to Somerset College (Are kids really changing?)

I don't know if it is because i am old, the times have changed, this is a different country, the fact i grew up in a hick town or the school i just visited was abnormal but my recent visit to Somerset college to present an Xbox360 clearly illustrated
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Wednesday, August 30, 2006 11:32 PM

Renato Haddad to Present at the Brisbane User Group Oct 17th

One of the worlds experts on the Datagridview MVP from Brazil Renato Haddad will be presenting at the Brisbane User Group Oct 17th...This one is not to be missed! If you would like to come along please RSVP to Greg Low at Greg.low@readify.net
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Wednesday, August 30, 2006 2:18 PM

Gold Coast User Group this evening!

If you are in the Gold Coast area this horrible wet evening join us at the Gold Coast User Group meeting where Shea and Anthony will redeliver their Code Camp presentation. Note location change! “A day in the life of a VSTS Developer” by Shea Strickland
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Wednesday, August 30, 2006 1:15 PM

Web 2.0 meets Windows Meda Center with Xbap

My last couple of presentations i have mentioned how media center enabled content/applications are huge new opportunity. A couple of interesting data points on that topic: 60% of all PC's shipped in the US are shipping with Media Center By 2008 there
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Tuesday, August 29, 2006 11:09 AM

4 More Audio Sessions from TechEd

I know Teched is over but i still have a couple more webcasts and Audio tracks to upload...this is the end of the Audio Tracks but i still have 3 more sessions with full video. Enjoy! Steve Riley: Windows Vista networking and IPsec improvements Steve
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Tuesday, August 29, 2006 9:28 AM

Top rated Teched speaker Pod Cast: Don Vilen

SQL Down Under show 18 with guest Microsoft SQL Server engine team product manager Don Vilen (recorded at TechEd Australia) is now available for download from www.sqldownunder.com .
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Monday, August 28, 2006 5:53 PM

...do they really care?

Reading Michael Kleef’s blog “do they really care?” ; i will never forget the time I was flying with Matty and he is bragging about his super dooper “indestructible” Samsonite while we are waiting for the luggage to come out. After all the rest of the
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Monday, August 28, 2006 5:05 PM

Sessions still getting uploaded into Comnet for TechEd

I have had a couple people ping me about the slide decks from Teched and Michael will be posting to Comnet this week....If there is interest from non attendees TechEd for this content let me or Michael know. In case you have forgotten the Comnet URL is:
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Monday, August 28, 2006 3:05 PM

GeForce 7600 fast beautiful but not working with Vista Release Candidate Builds

Over the weekend i built an AMD AM2 X2 Dual core 64 bit computer and had planned on using one of the nicest video cards i have ever seen a Gygabyte GeForce 7600 GS for pushing around Windows Presentation Foundation apps. The reason i say nicest was construction
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Sunday, August 27, 2006 11:19 PM

Two more podcasts from Teched

Now that TechEd is done and dusted, Ron , Greg , Paul and i should be able to post the rest of the content we recorded. I have three more sessions to convert/transcode and thought rather grind through the 90/minutes per session i would build out a machine
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Friday, August 25, 2006 5:45 PM

Teched Audio Track: Getting Started with Exchange 2007: Simple Installation, Setup and Administration Scenarios

Getting Started with Exchange 2007: Simple Installation, Setup and Administration Scenarios
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Friday, August 25, 2006 5:39 PM

Teched Audio Track: How to deploy Server and Domain Isolation with Windows IPsec

How to deploy Server and Domain Isolation with Windows IPsec
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Friday, August 25, 2006 5:21 PM

Audio track from Teched: Steve Riley Windows Vista System Integrity Technologies

Windows Vista System Integrity Technologies
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Friday, August 25, 2006 5:09 PM

Two More Webcasts from TechEd

I have a two more sessions for your viewing pleasure! Leveraging your Visual Basic 6 Investments in Visual Studio 2005 Panel Discusion on Web VNext
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Friday, August 25, 2006 10:43 AM

Paul Andrews on Windows Workflow Foundation

I caught up with Paul Andrews after his session on the topic of the client experience for Workflow. Hope you enjoy! Paul Andrews on the user experience for Workflow
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Friday, August 25, 2006 10:11 AM

TechEd Webcasts also Streamed

Big thanks to Jorke at WebCentral , in addition to letting us use the server the WMV's and WMA's are hosted on Jorke has posted the content to their Media Server for streaming! To see/hear all the content in a big loop simply go to the following URL.
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Thursday, August 24, 2006 9:08 PM

Steve Riley on Windows Vista at Teched Webcast

I have just started uploading this session so it won't be available for another hour but it was definitely great session and the section on Internet Explorer protected mode is worth the download! Windows Vista System Integrity Technologies
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Thursday, August 24, 2006 8:49 PM

5 Great TechEd Sessions -in Audio format

As promised i have some great sessions -and in audio for your listening pleasure! Ten things you need to know to about Windows Server "Longhorn" Deploying Windows Vista: Everything You Need in One Hour Image Engineering: Creating Your Perfect Desktop
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Thursday, August 24, 2006 3:30 PM

Two new Webcasts on Windows Presentation Foundation and Windows Live

We got two more webcasts for your viewing pleasure! #1 Nigel Parker with the best Windows Presentaiton Foundation Introduction i have ever seen! #2 An Introduction to building Windows Live Gadgets by George Moore (yes LOTS of Audio Casts coming soon!
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Thursday, August 24, 2006 3:08 PM

Podcast with Paul Glavich and Jorke Odolphi

Pretty interesting listening particularly the parts about diagnostics http://weblogs.asp.net/pglavich/archive/2006/08/24/ASP.NET-Podcast-show-_2300_67-_2D00_-Interview-with-Jorke-Odolphi.aspx
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Wednesday, August 23, 2006 2:34 PM

Podcasts versus Webcasts from Teched

I just saw the post Day0 TechEd a view from Outside and the comment was made we should have more podcasts then webcasts due to bandwidth constraints. I totally agree as a matter of fact when scheduling this streamed content i have about 200% more audio
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Wednesday, August 23, 2006 2:16 PM

Three WebCasts from Teched

While transcoding the sessions from today i have managed to uploaded three of the sessions from Monday! Hope you enjoy! Scott Gutherie Building Web Applications Part I Scott Gutherie Building Web Applications Part II Windows Presentations All Demo Sessio
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Friday, August 18, 2006 9:33 PM

Visual Basic 6.0 not installing on Windows Vista Beta 2.0

I had planned on doing my Teched Presentation on Windows Vista but had a rude shock that Visual Basic 6.0 wouldn't install in either of my Vista machines. Since the setup was failing immediately i suspected it might have something to do with the JVM dependency
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Friday, August 18, 2006 8:30 PM

TechEd Webcast "Lessons Learned Shipping TFS" by Jeff Beehler

I have had a couple people request Jeff Beehler come back for TechEd just to redeliver his "Lessons learned shipping TFS" presentation. Unfortunately this isn't going to happen, but I did have the audio feed from his presentation in Brisbane and married
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Friday, August 18, 2006 8:04 PM

TechEd Session Picker by Bill McCarthy

Our very VB MVP and Teched speaker has written a very cool offline teched Session picker and news reader all built on the one click deployment ! I would recomend checking it out! http://www.totalenviro.com/TechEd2006/index.htm If you are running Windows
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Friday, August 18, 2006 2:20 PM

Turkish Wrestling in loincloths at Teched?

In David's MSDN Flash he mentioned Coates and myself would be re-enacting a traditional Turkish wrestling contest(see below). Now i have nothing against the Turkish - heck i eat Turkish bread everyday but anybody who knows Coates (aka the Cabana boy )
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Friday, August 18, 2006 11:57 AM

Webcasts/PODCasts from TechEd

For the folks that cannot attend TechEd we have some great news for you! I am working with Ron Jacobs, Greg Low, Paul Glavich, Windows Media Encoder and a JVC handycam to deliver over 20 of the sessions and interviews for your "viewing" pleasure. These
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Thursday, August 17, 2006 9:57 PM

Issues with Teched Comnet on Vista computers (or other SLOW Websites)

Had some folks playing with my Windows Sidebar Bar and they indicated Comnet was running very very slowly... Turns out: " Vista's TCP autotuning is having an issue negotiating with some routers and load balancers." To work around this at a command prompt
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Thursday, August 17, 2006 9:38 PM

Getting Expression Interactive Designer running on later builds of Vista

I am running Vista build 5520 (and loving it finally) but had a problem installing Expression Interactive Designer. The error you would get was: "You Need to have the July 06 CTP of the .NET Framework 3.0 run-time components installed before installing
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Thursday, August 17, 2006 8:57 PM

The Worlds Simplest Windows Sidebar Gadgets for Teched

For TechEd we just needed a couple links to web pages and thought –what a great use for the Windows Sidebar!
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Tuesday, August 15, 2006 8:57 PM

Gold Coast User Group meeting "A day in the life of a VSTS Developer" August 30

Shea Strickland and Anthony Borton will be presenting their code camp presentation: "A day in the life of a VSTS Developer" It will be held at the Griffith Gold Coast Multimedia Building, from 6.00pm to 8.00pm on Wednesday 30th August. The room is G23_2.07A.
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Tuesday, August 15, 2006 7:30 PM

A First Look at IIS 7.0 with Eric Deily in Brisbane August 25th

Eric Deily Program Manager for IIS 7.0 is coming out for TechEd Australia and has graciously agreed to come up to Brisbane for walk through of IIS 7.0. IIS 7.0 is taking the next big step in terms of extensibility, unification with ASP.NET, improved diagnostics,
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Monday, August 14, 2006 9:37 PM

Jesper Not Going to be here for Teched

In my ask the expert posts i mentioned my good friend Jesper was going to be here for Teched...that is unfortunately not going to be the case. So if you were waiting until TechEd to say goodbye this security icon you might want to drop him a note at his
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Saturday, August 12, 2006 8:42 PM

Offshore Fishing on the Gold Coast with a downrigger

I went out today with one of my regular fishing buddies Iain Burnell to try out my new toy a Cannon Unitroll downrigger . We started out day fishing with our tried and true method of drifting livebait, squid and pilchards down a burley trail and were
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Saturday, August 12, 2006 8:28 PM

Teched Session: Visual Studio: Leveraging Your Visual Basic 6 Investments with VB 2005

In my post Teched Session: Visual Studio: Leveraging Your Visual Basic 6 Investments with VB 2005 I mentioned not doing the session on the Interop Toolkit as it wasn't available. Well I got a copy from Paul Yuknewicz and I have definitely revised my plans
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Friday, August 11, 2006 8:12 AM

Salmon Fishing Report July 19-21

I went back to Seattle for a technical conference called Tech Ready which coincided with the opening of Salmon fishing and of course I could not let this opportunity pass me by. Turns out a good buddy, Jesper Johansson had bought a salmon fishing boat
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Wednesday, August 09, 2006 1:22 PM

Free Infocard Hands On Lab in Sydney August 28th

Following on with the tremendous success of the free WPF hands On lab we are following up with another on Cardspace (formerly known as InfoCard) For more details please see: http://www.ddls.com.au/marketing/microsoft/HOLs/cardspace/
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Tuesday, August 08, 2006 1:47 PM

Teched Session: Visual Studio: Leveraging Your Visual Basic 6 Investments with VB 2005

At Teched 2006 I am delivering a session called: "Visual Studio: Leveraging Your Visual Basic 6 Investments with VB 2005" This session focuses on solutions for migrating large forms-based line-of-business applications from VB6 to VB .NET and provide prescriptive
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