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December 2006 - Posts

Monday, December 18, 2006 12:59 PM

28002 Error Unknown with Team Foundation Server while installing SP1

I was just chatting with Dave Glover and he mentioned he had just finished upgrading our Team TFS Server to SP1 . Unfortunatley his first attempt failed the error: " 28002 Error Unknown" - of course naughty ole Dave hadn't read my post about Backing up
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Sunday, December 17, 2006 11:05 AM

Getting Microsoft XNA Game Studio Express running on Vista

After the Xbox team visited i have been dying to try out Microsoft XNA ...Unfortunately i don't have an XP computer and XNA doesn't run on Windows Vista- Or does it? So i downloaded C# Express and Microsoft XNA and tried the installs - not surprisingly
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Sunday, December 17, 2006 9:47 AM

The Marlin are here -and so are the storms! (Offshore Fishing)

In the last three days over 80 marlin have been caught with one boat hooking 30 in a day! These aren't huge fish, going from 20-50KG but still beats the heck out of working -which is exactly what i have been doing the last three days -sigh. So what am
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Sunday, December 17, 2006 9:34 AM

Visual Studio SP1 Release (w/ Performance improvements for Team Foundation Server)

I have been working with a couple of folks on Team Foundation Server and just wanted to let them know we just released Service Pack 1 for Team Foundation Server and the rest of the Visual Studio versions Friday evening. In addition to the description
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Thursday, December 14, 2006 12:53 PM

TFPT Error: Unable to determine the workspace

When invoking TFPT you might get one of the errors: Unable to determine the workspace Unable to determine the source control server To get around this try invoking tfpt from within a directory that is already mapped to Team Foundation source control.
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Wednesday, December 13, 2006 6:12 PM

Last Brisbane Infrastructure Group for the year: Vista Media Centre

We just finished off the last MSDNUG of the year last night. While i might be biased it was one of the best! - Joel Pobar rocked the world of concurrancy... In either case it looks like the guys at BIG are to trying to one up Joels effort with Windows
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Wednesday, December 13, 2006 6:00 PM

The dates for PDC07 have just been announced

PDC is the biggest developer event that Microsoft holds. Its on once every two years and is usually where all the big announcments are made and lots of cool technology gets shown for the first time. Its back again in 2007 in Las Angeles on October 5-7.
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Wednesday, December 13, 2006 5:38 PM

Darwin Windows Vista Developer Session Invitation

We invite you to attend a briefing on the Office 2007 & Windows Vista Developer Vision which will examine how Windows Vista and Microsoft Office enables developers to create engaging, visually stunning user interfaces that makes applications more
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Wednesday, December 13, 2006 5:22 PM

Web 2.0 Where is it?

Just read David Lemphers blog: Urghh!! It's not Web 2.0! It's Marketing List Nxt! I agree that most of the Sites labeled Web 2.0 are not exactly mind altering and most cases a couple of smart guys could bootstrap a “Me Too” working copy of them in a month
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Wednesday, December 13, 2006 11:20 AM

Team Foundation Questions

I was at a customer site yesterday and they raised a couple of questions i thought people would be interested in: Q. What is the recommended h/w architecture required to drive their needs: A. Please see the following site for guidance on Team Foundation
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Monday, December 11, 2006 9:49 PM

Dogfooding File Size distribution

One of my customers was asking how well we handled large files at which point, i pointed him to our Dogfooding numbers. Unfortunately these post don’t contain file sizes and dropped Brian a piece of mail asking for the size distribution (Where else but
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Monday, December 11, 2006 9:38 PM

Visual Studio Team Foundation Source Control Best Practices

I recieved some email: Subject: Visual Studio Team Foundation Source Control Best Practices Hi Charles, We’re in the process of migrating from sourcesafe to Team Foundation Source Control and I have some questions regarding branching and merging for feature
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Monday, December 11, 2006 7:12 PM

Lots of Team Foundation Server Questions (and answers)

I received some questions from a local and very sophisticated development shop asking about Team Foundation Sever and figured if these guys were asking these questions almost certainly other people would be was well. Their Questions: 1. What is Team Server?
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Friday, December 08, 2006 9:36 AM

I meet fishing legend Peter Pakula

Last night at the local fishermans get together one of the greatest Australian icons in game fishing, Peter Pakula gets up and does a presentation on the proposed closures of Moreton bay (which extends well into the Gold Coasts Broad Water ). After the
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Thursday, December 07, 2006 1:47 PM

Reminder Gold Coast Usergroup Tonight: David Lemphers on Robotics!

Gold Coast User Group December 7th Topic: Robotics “Crazy Melbournite Dave Lemphers approached in a dream by none other than Number 5 (Short Circuit) to go forth and build a robot lovechild of 80’s pop rock references (Mr. Roboto – Styx) & .Net, discover
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Wednesday, December 06, 2006 9:16 PM

Camp Vista for Western Australia

I have been working with Kleef , Lemphers and the local user group group presidents to bring to you "Camp Vista". In the tradition of code camp the Western Australia usergroups are getting together for a day of fun...Which I have have been referring to
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Wednesday, December 06, 2006 2:51 PM

Microsoft Expression Blend Webcast

I have been dying to do a Webcast on Expression Blend since we changed the user interface and today i finally got my chance! In this webcast i walk through some of the new user interface, animation and finish with Visual Studio Integration.... -All this
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Tuesday, December 05, 2006 11:33 AM

Windows Presentation Foundation for the Macintosh (WPF/e)

During my many Windows Presentation Foundation sessions i have noted that we would have versions of WPF that is available for non windows machines! Well a beta of this is now finally available: WPF/E” (codename) Software Development Kit (SDK) Community
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Tuesday, December 05, 2006 11:23 AM

New Expression Product Announced: Expression Media

I have been using the three expression products for a while so the Expression announcements didn't come as any surprise- as a matter of fact got into a little bit of trouble when i lent Mitch Denny my computer for the ready Summit Expression Web Expression
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Monday, December 04, 2006 4:26 PM

DIY Marlin teasers (Offshore Fishing)

While tournament fishing in Sydney we always ran two sets of teasers on either side of the boat. Teasers are like very large lures run without hooks used to attract fish. Since moving to Gold Coast I have not been running teasers due to the cost but after
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Monday, December 04, 2006 2:19 PM

Imagine Cup is officially open!

The Imagine Cup 2007 is a skills contest designed to recognize students who demonstrate excellence in a diverse range of technical and artistic pursuits, and seeks innovative contest entries that address the competition theme. The Contest consists of
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Monday, December 04, 2006 12:20 PM

Windows Vista Presentation in MacKay February with MITN

I have been working with Geoff Fleming at MITN and he is keen to have me up to do a Windows Vista presentation. Right now we are still trying to figure the date, time and location but are looking at: Feb 22nd for Breakfast or Feb 23 for breakfast or evning
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Monday, December 04, 2006 12:02 PM

Gold Coast User Group December 7th Topic: Robotics

“Crazy Melbournite Dave Lemphers approached in a dream by none other than Number 5 (Short Circuit) to go forth and build a robot lovechild of 80’s pop rock references (Mr. Roboto – Styx) & .Net, discover his trials / tribulations and overall delight
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Saturday, December 02, 2006 2:41 PM

Gold Coast Fishing report (From hot to cold)

The Last two weeks have gone from feast to famine as the larger pelagics are just starting to move in to the area. Last week we caught a nice Wahoo, a huge snapper, a giant Barred cod (20KG) and lots and lots of Taylor with two of the boats near by getting
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Saturday, December 02, 2006 2:25 PM

Bought Visual Studio 2005 Professional and want to use Team Foundation Server?

I have had two customers with the same story: their purchasing manager bought the entire development team Visual Studio 2005 Professional and now they want to start using Team Foundation Server. What do they need to do in terms of technology and licensing
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Saturday, December 02, 2006 1:38 PM

Windows Vista and Office 2007 in Townsville with ACS -Feb 22

The ACS crowd in Townsville have invited me come up and present. The topic this time will be: "An overview of Windows Vista and Office 2007" Date is tentatively Feb 22nd and at the normal ACS meeting location: Morely Funeral home at The Lakes (Cnr Hugh
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Friday, December 01, 2006 7:35 AM

Using the TFS MSSCI Provider with PowerBuilder only checking in 25 files per changeset

If you are using the TFS MMSSCI Provider with powerbuilder you probably noticed your checkins are being added in changeset increments of 25 files. To explain, if you have 100 files in your check-in you will see 4 changesets for that "one" checkin. To
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Friday, December 01, 2006 10:34 AM

Office 2007 & Windows Vista Launch in Darwin

This is still VERY much draft but here is what we were thinking: Feb 15 2007 at Sky City Darwin we will do an all day Office 2007 Windows Vista Launch. 9:00 am Launch of Office 2007, Exchange and Windows Vista Keynote Address See how Windows Vista, the
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Friday, December 01, 2006 7:17 AM

Visual Studio Team System Web Test control buttons disabled (continued)

Last week i posted the likely cause of Visual Studio Web Test buttons being disabled was running under Vista and not forcing the Administrator account. Since then i have gotten email from a couple of folks indicating they are on XP and this is happening
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