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Thursday, November 30, 2006 4:16 PM

Reminder VSTS User Group Tomarrow Morning (Dec 1st)

The Queensland VSTS Users Group is based in Brisbane and will meet for a breakfast session on the first Friday morning of each month. Brekkie is available from 7:30am with the actual meeting running from 8am to 9am. The first session is focused on driving
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Thursday, November 30, 2006 1:52 PM

High res version of my WPF Windows Vista Gadget in Visual Basic Web Cast

I had several people request a higher res version of my webcast. -Okay most people were complaining about the current version, but in either case you can get a higher resulotion version at: http://203.147.133.54/chass/wpf_gadget.wmv
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Thursday, November 30, 2006 1:34 PM

Piers Anthony switches to Linux?

I just finished a book by one of my favorite light fantasy authors Piers Anthony . And noticed in the authors note Piers wrote: "I had decided to change from the Windows computer operating system to Linux," Oh no! What was I going to do? Stop reading
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Tuesday, November 28, 2006 10:11 PM

Another tool for administering Team Foundation Server Security

I just saw our Team Foundation Server MVP from Israel released another administration tool for Team Foundation Server -and it looks really good! TFS Permission Manager 1.0
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Tuesday, November 28, 2006 4:51 PM

Visual Studio Team System Web Test control buttons disabled

If you are having issues with your VSTS web test buttons being disabled it is very likely you are running under Windows Vista and -not forced Visual Studio to run in the Administrator context...To do this all you have to do is click on the Visual Studio
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Monday, November 27, 2006 6:05 PM

Video: Writing a Gadget in Visual Basic and Windows Presentation Foundation

In case you would like a video of my previous blog post: Writing a Gadget in Visual Basic and Windows Presentation Foundation You can find it at Channel9 at Video: Writing a Gadget in Visual Basic and Windows Presentation Foundation
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Monday, November 27, 2006 2:09 PM

Writing a Gadget in Visual Basic and Windows Presentation Foundation

Karsten wrote a great sample on getting a gadget working in Windows Presentation Foundation . Unfortunately if you are starting from scratch there are a lot of pieces needed to get this working ; so i thought i would rewrite his sample in VB -and supply
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Wednesday, November 22, 2006 9:23 PM

Create a magnifier by painting the Desktop into your form

Had a question about how to create an application magnifier and was amazed at how easy it was to get a prototype working! Depending on what you consider lines of code it is about 3 lines! Dim g As Graphics = Me .CreateGraphics() 'Get the Graphics context
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Wednesday, November 22, 2006 2:32 PM

How to convert flash files to XAML

If you have been playing with Sparkle and wanted a way to bring in Flash files in XAML then today is your lucky day as Mike Swanson just released SWF2XAML . For download directions see: http://www.mikeswanson.com/SWF2XAML/
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Wednesday, November 22, 2006 12:40 PM

How to boost TFS performance under a VM - By Dugie

While at the recent Windows Vista Launch i had a bunch of questions on Team Foundation Server under a VM....Many of which dealt with performance which i immediately dumped on Dugie. Dugie is also known as Andrew Dugdell , the local VM guru, MVP and local
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Wednesday, November 22, 2006 12:23 PM

Impersonation in ASP.NET

I have a coworker who was trying to get impersonation working in ASP.NET and indicated despite setting the Web.config to impersonate: < identity impersonate = " true " userName = " Guss " password = " Password " /> and he indicated "IT" didnt' seem
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Monday, November 20, 2006 9:23 PM

Dec 1: Visual Studio Team System/Team Foundation Server User Group meeting

Based on the strong interest shown by the Brisbane developer community during the VSTSTechBrekkie series ( www.vststechbrekkie.com ), I am pleased to announce the formation of the Queensland VSTS Users Group. The Queensland VSTS Users Group is based in
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Monday, November 20, 2006 5:49 PM

Learning a new technology

One of the more common questions i get asked at User Groups and events is how can i learn Technology WPF/ASP.NET/XXX/.... My stock answer is to pick small project or application and dedicate couple of days driving it to completion. I not am retracting
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Monday, November 20, 2006 1:56 PM

2007 Australian Architect Forum Content

In my previous post I mentioned a conference we are helping ACS and Object create an Architecture event called: Australian Architect Forum . One thing we would like to determine is what content Australian Architects are interested in. As i mentioned before
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Monday, November 20, 2006 1:28 PM

Australian Architect Forum May 2007 -Looking for Feedback!

Solutions Architecture is clearly the hot topic right now. –Being one the most requested topics at TechEd, the Patterns and Practice event was also one of the year’s best events. Unfortunately the Patterns and Practice event team isn’t going to be able
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Monday, November 20, 2006 10:34 AM

Running Team Foundation Server under a virtual enviroment

Good friend of mine Brian Randell builds alot of the Microsoft Team Foundation Server hands on labs and launch demos all of which run under Microsoft Virtual Server...He saw my email i sent to the development team: Microsoft Recomending AGAINST running
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Sunday, November 19, 2006 8:14 PM

Windows Vista: how do i login as Administrator?

Question on the Australian DL: Could someone please tell me how i login as Administrator it says i am a Admionistrator, but when i try and do things that require Admin rights, I get a msg box saying i need to login as Admin? To Login as administrator
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Friday, November 17, 2006 9:44 PM

Team Foundation Server Version Control for Powerbuilder

One of my customers are using Power Builder to do their development and wanted to know about support for using Team Foundation Server Version Control for Powerbuilder. Unfortunately despite it working and Ed Hintz actively fixing powerbuilder bugs this
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Friday, November 17, 2006 7:29 PM

Fishing Pictures (Offshore Fishing)

I just realized i had over 100 comments on my blog that i needed to approve/read. -oops sorry about that! In either case many of them were for me to post some of my fishing pictures.... Fair warning many of these photos are pretty big! Baramundi from
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Friday, November 17, 2006 6:11 PM

Creating a report in Team Foundation Server based on Labels?

In a recent meeting I was asked: I want to be able to report on what objects where changed since the last label I am pretty certain labels are NOT in the data warehouse. The easiest method would be to create a report using the TFsVersionControl database
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Friday, November 17, 2006 5:50 PM

Microsoft Recomending AGAINST running TFS under a virtual enviroment?

In the server planning document we state: Virtual PC Team Foundation Server servers will operate correctly on a Virtual PC or a virtual server. However, this configuration is not recommended for production environments. It can be used in evaluation or
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Friday, November 17, 2006 12:44 PM

Webcasting Questions (Windows Media Encoder)

A question came in from my blog post on Windows Media Encoder : I'm quite new into recording screenvideos. I am a teacher in denmark and would like to be able to create video tutorials (with sound) for my pupils and other teachers. Currently I am running
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Friday, November 17, 2006 12:16 PM

Ipaq 3650 worth anything?

Remember back when Compaq used to sell Ipaq's? Well i have one of the originals a 3650 complete with with an additional sleeve for accessing PCMIA cards. The battery is dead but the device still works like a champ...The question becomes: is this device
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Friday, November 17, 2006 11:26 AM

Windows Vista on MSDN Downloads

While i was Melbourne Wednesday i mentioned to a couple people Windows Vista would be on MSDN Subscriber downloads this week. Just wanted to let everybody know we are uploading them now and depending on the server you hit may only see the 64bit version
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Thursday, November 16, 2006 3:39 PM

Pelagics not quite here yet- but fishing is picking up (offshore fishing)

Before heading down to Melbourne for the Ready Summit I managed to sneak out for quick trip Sunday. Rumor had it there were a couple of little black Marlin on the 50 meter line and Wahoo in close so Glen and myself put out some 18knot lures and started
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Thursday, November 16, 2006 2:46 PM

Our Foster Kids go home

It was pretty sad day at the Sterling family yesterday. After 4weeks, while i was at the Ready Summit in Melbourne, the boys were able to be reunited with their mom. In their situation the conditions of custody were met so no additional court hearings
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Thursday, November 16, 2006 1:48 PM

Scripting the Addition of User Accounts to Team Foundation Server

I had a question from one of the Queensland customers about scripting the addition of Users to a TFS Server and indicated i didn't know but would look into it.... My first thought was to use Windows Security Groups and adding users to these groups, but
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Friday, November 10, 2006 9:24 AM

Generating Word Documents Server side for Client Viewing

Just had this question from a coworker: They need to render a word 2000 document on the server with no client side intervention. I have done this in the past using XSL:FO, but I'm sure that there is a better way. I have also found using a COM object,
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Thursday, November 09, 2006 12:37 PM

SQLCLR Doesn't support all of the .NET Framework classes

I had some friends run into a lot of challenges trying to write a utility that converted/persisted PDF files into a SQL 2005 Database using assemblies hosted inside of SQLCLR. Turns out they were running into a limitation in SQL I didn't know about -That
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Thursday, November 09, 2006 12:05 PM

Yeah 4:36AM Windows Vista goes to Manufacturing!

While not up on MSDN dowloads yet Windows Vista Build 6000 went to manufacturing early this morning! http://msdn.microsoft.com/windowsvista/
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Wednesday, November 08, 2006 6:58 AM

Windows Media Encoder and Media Encoder Studio Edition not supported on Windows Vista-Yet

You may have noticed my webcasts have dropped off/stopped lately -it is because i don't have a Windows XP machine any more and unfortunatley the tool i have been using for creating web casts Windows Media Encoder doesn't work on the Vista RTM builds.
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Tuesday, November 07, 2006 3:11 PM

Favorite TechEd Speaker (Ross Brown) to Join this months Brisbane Developer User Group!

One of my favorite Teched speakers, Ross Brown QUT just agreed to join this months MSDN User Group I have updated my previous post to inlcude Dr Brown's BIO in the agenda: http://blogs.msdn.com/charles_sterling/archive/2006/11/06/game-developers-here-november-28th-for-brisbane-user-group-confirmed.asp
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Tuesday, November 07, 2006 9:38 AM

New Windows Embedded Products available

The Windows Embedded family of products consists of Windows Embedded CE, Windows XP Embedded and Windows Embedded for Point of Service. These operating system technologies have been deployed in demanding environments, and are at the forefront of providing
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Tuesday, November 07, 2006 7:31 AM

Office 2007 is released to manufacturing!

Congratulations to the office development team i just heard they released to manufacturing last night.... More information soon to be posted at: http://www.microsoft.com/business/launch2007/default.mspx
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Tuesday, November 07, 2006 7:19 AM

Visual Studio 2005 Tools for the 2007 Office System has been released to the web

If you want to do Office 2007 development this is a must have! Brief Description Install VSTO 2005 SE to create new application-level add-ins for six applications in the 2007 Microsoft Office system and five in Microsoft Office 2003. Use managed code
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Monday, November 06, 2006 8:55 PM

Even the luckiest gets skunked once in a while(Offshore Fishing)

Yesterday (October 5th) i decided to head out to a set of reefs called the 24's (they are in 24 fathoms of water) and fish a big ball of bait that is "Always" there. Since they are "always" i didn't even bother brining any bait with me. The run out was
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Monday, November 06, 2006 8:04 PM

Game Developers here November 28th for Brisbane User Group - Confirmed!

Dr Brown, Jason and Zsolt are keen to present at the user group! At this point their agenda is in the formatives stages but current thinking is: · State of the Gaming Market - Dr Ross Brown (15 minutes) · What is the state of the games industry in Australia/Queensland?
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Monday, November 06, 2006 7:40 PM

Creating new TFS reports

Is the TFS Database(s) schema documented and how do I create new reports? The seven TFS databases created by Team foundation Server should not be used directly for reporting but rather the TFS Data Warehouse is created for this purpose. Team Foundation
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Monday, November 06, 2006 4:21 PM

Which version of VS is needed to modify the Team Foundation Server Process Templates

One of the local government branches had some questions on Team Foundation Server and I thought others might benefit from the answers here is the first: 1. What version of Visual Studio is required to modify the process template? No specific version of
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Monday, November 06, 2006 1:32 PM

GeForce 7600 now working with Vista RTM candidate build 5840

In my post GeForce 7600 fast beautiful but not working with Vista Release Candidate Builds i mentioned having issues with my Gigabyte Video Card on Vista RC1 I also never got the Realtek audio working with the speaker jacks. I just wanted to assure folks
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Monday, November 06, 2006 10:41 AM

TechEd 2007 Musings (Andrew Coates to own Content)

If you plan on going to TechEd in 2007 here on the Gold Coast and have views/requests for what the content should look like Andrew Coates is the man on point and waiting for your email: acoat@microsoft.com I just chatted with him and his first thoughts
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Wednesday, November 01, 2006 10:26 PM

We are finally foster parents – What an ordeal!

For the past year we have been trying to become foster parents and it finally happened two weeks ago and man what an ordeal. This all came about when Pilar (my wife) indicated she was getting bored and would like another child…oops! I reminded her that
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