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March 2007 - Posts

Saturday, March 31, 2007 2:54 PM

(Track Chuck) I have been found! - at Code Camp in Wagga.

The Telstra locator service has found me and as you can see i am now at Code Camp in Wagga. Last night was a hoot! After a nice swim with Glover most of the 180 code code campers gathered at the Montezumas. Today has had some great presentations with
Posted by Charles_Sterling | 2 Comments
Friday, March 30, 2007 12:30 PM

(Track Chuck) Part 1: I am lost and nobody can find me!

I have done 893KM so far and currently sitting in North Ryde with Frank . The Usergroup meeting in Newcastle was a lot of fun - we changed the topic slightly since Andrew is coming up to Newcastle next month to talk about new Vista opportunities.. As
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Thursday, March 29, 2007 12:16 AM

Track Chuck! (While driving to Code Camp and Hobart)

As you may have seen I am driving 4000+KM to Code Camp then Hobart . Saul, Dean, Mark and Mark from Power Business Systems have enabled their WAY cool Black Box Control to track me while I am driving the 4000+ kilometers. -Make sure and check out the
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Wednesday, March 28, 2007 1:30 PM

What's New in Windows Vista at the New Castle User Group March 29

If you live in Newcastle and would like to know more about Windows Vista the New castle users group tommorrow night would be a great way of getting started! We will kick off at 6:00pm at the University of Newcastle You can find the campus here And the
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Monday, March 26, 2007 12:16 PM

Webcasts on creating ASP.NET 2.0 Webparts

Last night mythbusters was a rerun -and an episode that didn't feature much of Kari Byron( dreamy sigh) so i decided to put together a couple of webcasts for Scotty . This three part Tutorial covers the steps for the architecture, security and components
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Monday, March 26, 2007 12:06 PM

Taking advantage of the Microsoft partner program and keeping cost down?

I just recieved an email from my blog that echoed a question i recieved 4 or 5 times at the ISV Summit: (shorted version) We are currently a Delphi software house that has just decided to go .NET. We currently develop a Win32 app that uses paradox for
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Monday, March 26, 2007 11:53 AM

Applied WPF Training April 23-27 Sydney

If you have been looking for some WPF training; Readify is delivering a course in Sydney 23-24 & 26-27 April called Applied WPF being taught by Ian Griffith of Pluralsight. The description of the course is: This training affords an in-depth view of
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Wednesday, March 21, 2007 4:29 PM

Search in Outlook 2007 not working on Vista

On my M400 i have two harddrives -both booting Vista and ONE -and only one- of them search wasn't working in Outlook 2007. In doing some looking around it turns out the event log was giving me a clue that the Gatherer wasn't working correctly: The content
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Wednesday, March 21, 2007 9:04 AM

New Blend Tutorials

In case you looking for a kick start for Blend. The Samples and Tutorials for Expression Blend have been updated with the following changes: The samples and tutorials now reflect the RC build of Expression Blend. Additional sources of tutorials and samples
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Tuesday, March 20, 2007 3:03 PM

Offshore tackle review: Braided Line

As indicated an earlier post braided fishing line is really only the way to go and having fished a couple brands like Berkeley Fireline, Powerpro , tuff line, bionic, spiderwire the types really are very different! Such as Fireline and Spiderwire aren't
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Tuesday, March 13, 2007 9:44 PM

Hobart Vista Launch!

Don't forget the the Hobart Vista Launch! To register please see: http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032329783&Culture=en-AU Tuesday, 3 April 2007 9:00 AM - Tuesday, 3 April 2007 1:45 PM Hobart Welcome Time: Tuesday, 3 April
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Tuesday, March 13, 2007 9:12 PM

Pimp my ride at Teched?

Last year at TechEd we did a team development project for the Smith Family . This year the TechEd folks asked me to look into doing something similiar this year. I did some thinking about it and thought what might be fun is redoing the look (user interface)
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Monday, March 12, 2007 12:15 PM

WCF Performance Tip

I just finished helping a customer where their WCF performance was ONLY on par with WSE. After a bit of slueth work it turned out to be in their implementation the WCF proxy was getting created (and destroyed) for every message. (Imagine open a database
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Thursday, March 08, 2007 12:52 PM

Manually Forcing an uninstall of the Team System Power Toys

A coworker had an issue with the lastest version of the Team System Power Toys in that it wouldn't install due to the previous version being broken and uinstallable. My advice to him (and my readers) if you run into this problem is: 1. Run Msiinv to determine
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Wednesday, March 07, 2007 4:15 PM

Visiting the Newcastle Coders Group March 29th

The Newcastle Coders Group had their first speaker cancellation today. This meant they were facing missing their first monthly meeting since their creation! This near disaster looks to be a blessing in disguise for me as they are discussing having me
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Tuesday, March 06, 2007 3:39 PM

Multiple monitors and WPF Xbap Windows Sidebar Gadget Issues

Good friend of mine and media center Guru Niall Ginsbourg recently had issues building his Windows Sidebar Gadget on a 64bit computer (but was working on a 32bit machine). Turned out he was doing an Xbap in an Iframe that played a video. On the 64bit
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Monday, March 05, 2007 8:29 PM

Testing WPF Applications

I was asked about testing Applications built with Expression, and I have to admit i don't know if any of the traditional Automation testing tools will work since WPF doesn't render with Windows Controls with an HWND. But since Expression is built on top
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Monday, March 05, 2007 6:30 PM

Driving to Code Camp and then Hobart!

In looking at the dates of the Hobart Vista launch and Code Camp i realized i "could" fit them both in-and see a bit of the Country side on the way-grin! So if there is somebody in the Gold Coast looking for a ride down shoot me a piece of email. Date
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Sunday, March 04, 2007 10:15 PM

Shadow Copy not working in Vista?

I was in Mackay last week and ran into a problem where it appeared shadow copy/restore wasn't working in Windows Vista during a presentation. After the presentation i played with shadow copy for a couple of seconds and realized the culprit was the fact
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Sunday, March 04, 2007 1:30 PM

Pat Helland back at Microsoft?

I have been trying to get ahold of Pat Helland at Amazon to keynote the Australian Architect Forum and just heard from the rumor mill that Pat Helland is returning to Microsoft! I have still not been able to get ahold of him to confirm (or deny) these
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Sunday, March 04, 2007 12:51 AM

Modifying the CreateUserWizard Control to Capture Additional Data

I needed a fast way of capturing some user data and started playing with the CreateUserWizard control to do this work for me...Turns out the hardest part was referencing the events and controls i have added. There is a help file on the topic of the referencing
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