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Thursday, May 31, 2007 9:45 PM

Getting ink recognition working in WPF

Been a while since i have done any inking code and since Windows Vista makes these type of applications possible without the need for a tablet pc i decided to take a look at how to create these applications with Windows Presentation Foundation. Turns
Posted by Charles_Sterling | 4 Comments
Sunday, May 27, 2007 6:50 PM

Visual Studio 2005 Deep Dive Training in Brisbane

Anthony just brought to my attention that July 2nd -4th the Microsoft readiness team is running the Visual Studio 2005 Deep Dive training here in Brisbane. I highly recomend this course for anyone responsible for installing, administering and customising
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Friday, May 25, 2007 5:23 PM

Microsoft Developer Usergroups in Asia

Just looking at some of the INETA membership numbers and found it interesting that Australia has the 3rd largest number of usergroups and 5th largest number of members. I can not really imagine what a South Korea usergroup must be like with 40,000 attendees
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Friday, May 25, 2007 1:47 PM

Auscert Recap (and a joke)

All week i have been with the security experts from around the world at Auscert . Without Jesper it was a little like Peanut Butter with no Jelly but must admit the weirdest thing was how the attendees are now treating Microsoft. -The last three years
Posted by Charles_Sterling | 1 Comments
Friday, May 25, 2007 11:21 AM

Bummed out-no PDC

Looking at the PDC site i see with no great surprise we rescheduled PDC. The reason i say with no great surprise; PDC has always been about future technologies and with all the releases we just had: Vista, Office 2007, Silverlight, 20 new Windows Live
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Friday, May 25, 2007 10:37 AM

TFS Guide now available and VSTS team looking for different types of customizations for TechEd.

You may remember Jeff when he came out. He is doing a talk on customizing VSTS and looking for different ways development shops customize it and real world references...I offered to compile the list from Australia/New Zealand so if you have one feel free
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Thursday, May 24, 2007 10:24 AM

WMF Export/Open will not be available in Expression Design

In my blog post: Easily create cool XAML objects from the WMF files/Clipart collection i wrote how cool it is to open and export clipboard files in Expression Design to XAML. Unfortunately I was running Beta1 and according to the development team in RTM
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Wednesday, May 23, 2007 2:26 PM

Easily create cool XAML objects from the WMF files/Clipart collection

Joseph just pointed a very cool feature of WMF files i didn't know about - you can export them to quite granular XAML objects! All you have to do make this happen: In Expression Design File > Open. Then File > Export. Save as type XAML. -Open this
Posted by Charles_Sterling | 3 Comments
Tuesday, May 22, 2007 4:07 PM

In Melbourne May 31st with New Horizons

I had so much fun at the last New Horizons Visual Studio 2005 event they invited me back to do another - this time in Melbourne! Not certain exactly what I will be doing- which is the great thing about not using any slides you are always ready-grin! But
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Tuesday, May 22, 2007 3:36 PM

The largest Mind Mapping Software Co. for the Macintosh is a company based in Logan QLD! (and goes WPF)

I get this email from Joseph that this guy from a major ISV wants to know more about WPF. In talking to him, turns out three times a week i have been driving by www.nova-mind.com on my way in to work and they are the largest supplier of Mind Mapping Software
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Sunday, May 20, 2007 11:39 PM

Thumbnails for video in WPF

I received a question: How do you show thumbnails of the video ahead of time? Interestingly silverlight if you set the AutoPlay property to "False" it automatically does this for you. But in a XBAP or a Windows WPF application you need need to have a
Posted by Charles_Sterling | 1 Comments
Wednesday, May 16, 2007 10:49 PM

TechEd Project Oops (Looking for an Australian Based Graphic Designer)

I just finished a conference call with the core TechEd project team when Dan Green pointed out a small...er large, er HUGE hole in my plan. This TechEd project is about raising environmental consciousness through the use of compelling and user interesting
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Wednesday, May 16, 2007 1:04 PM

Sharepoint Case Study presentations -with Breakfast!

Find out how Queensland organisations are implementing Sharepoint and the latest Microsoft collaboration solutions to add value to their businesses. The Microsoft Spotlight program 2007 is a competition amongst the Queensland Microsoft Partners to develop
Posted by Charles_Sterling | 1 Comments
Tuesday, May 15, 2007 4:02 PM

Developer Positions Available in Brisbane

I have two friends heading up development teams in Brisbane looking for some some A list developers-both senior and junior openings. The First is at a large ISV called * Citect on a very large SCADA product called Ampla where you will be working with
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Tuesday, May 15, 2007 2:25 PM

14 year anniversary today!

Nope not with Microsoft ( I have been married to MSFT for 15 years)but rather to my lovely wife Maria Del Pilar (aka Pilar). After watching the movie Alfie and reading some of the recent Readify blog posts i realized i have a pretty good thing going and
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Tuesday, May 15, 2007 12:39 PM

Free Instructor led WPF Hands On Lab -Update

I have had a lot of interest in my post: Free day long instructor led Windows Presentation Hands on lab Most of the interest has been expressed as "Chuck Save me a seat" type of interest and it is pretty clear choosing the attendees is going to be a big
Posted by Charles_Sterling | 1 Comments
Monday, May 14, 2007 9:27 PM

Writing a Windows Sidebar Gadget in Silverlight-dead simple!

After my forays into writing Sidebar gadgets with WPF using Element host i have to admit i was not looking forward to tying it with silverlight. The fact i started by downloading a couple of existing samples -that all failed didn't really boost my confidence
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Monday, May 14, 2007 4:50 PM

Virtual CD-ROM Control Panel on Vista

I have been accessing my MSDN ISO's using a little Utility called: Virtual CD-ROM Control Panel for Windows XP Unfortunately it doens't really play that well on Vista....That said you CAN use it -with only two gotchas. The first it must be run as administrator.
Posted by Charles_Sterling | 1 Comments
Saturday, May 12, 2007 11:09 AM

Orcas Install Woes -and Success

I have been building my Xbap and Silverlight applications in Visual Studio 2005 with the Visual Studio 2005 extensions for .NET Framework 3.0 (WCF & WPF) and figured since these older bits wouldn't render an XBAP application that you have set the
Posted by Charles_Sterling | 1 Comments
Friday, May 11, 2007 12:07 PM

Remix Australia missing agenda content

I have had a couple people ping me about the session agenda at remix as it is noticeably missing from the site: http://www.microsoft.com/australia/remix07/agenda.aspx While it isn't all locked down it will be close to the following: Design Track ยท Australian
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Thursday, May 10, 2007 8:52 PM

Perth's June Developer Usergroup-and their "Secret Presenter"

If you haven't seen Nicks blog Secret .NET Developer he indicates they are having a "Secret" presenter June 7th and I thought I would share 10 more hints for their mystery person: 1. Quite skilled at collecting garbage(?!) 2. Loves looking at reflections
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Thursday, May 10, 2007 4:35 PM

TechEd Application Proof of concept

Joseph Cooney has been working with me on that Pimping the Environment for TechEd (grin) project i have been waxing on about and threw together a very rough proof of concept for the "room" experience...I am guessing this room's rough wire frame look is
Posted by Charles_Sterling | 2 Comments
Tuesday, May 08, 2007 9:02 PM

Free day long instructor led Windows Presentation Hands on lab

I have had several people contact me about doing another WPF F Hands on lab - but cover more information and in more cities. Well i have been working with the best of the best to do just this! Namely: Joseph Cooney (QLD) Paul Stovell (Flying to Vic) Deepak
Posted by Charles_Sterling | 1 Comments
Tuesday, May 08, 2007 5:37 PM

Going to the Sharepoint USergroup meeting tomorrow

If you live in Brisbane and interested in Sharepoint check out the Sharepoint Usergroup. The meetings are second Wednesday of the month (tomorrow) and run from 12:00pm to 1:00pm. They meet at Microsoft - Level 9 1 Eagle Street Tomorrow's topics are: Office
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Thursday, May 03, 2007 2:16 PM

VSTS Usergroup May 4 Brisbane

Not to be missed! "Using TFS to support long-running deployment projects " Maroochy Shire Council is one third of the way through deployment of a new records and document management system, a project that is planned to take another two years. This session
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Thursday, May 03, 2007 1:58 PM

IBM Usergroup last Tuesday

I presented at the IBM Usergroup Tuesday morning and have to admit this was one of the most professional Usergroup i have ever been to -and would recommend anybody with IBM software or hardware investments this is definitely a good group to belong. There
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Thursday, May 03, 2007 1:28 PM

Coolest looking sharepoint site around...Australian Architect Forum Website

Wow the web devs Alex Ouretskias and Daniel Colarossi at SDM did an amazing job on the Australian Architect Site. If you have a second make sure and check it out: http://www.architectureforum.net.au/ Big thanks to Elaine at SDM and Jorke from Webcentral
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Thursday, May 03, 2007 1:12 PM

Australian Architect Content Nominations- Consolidated

Has some new additions and hopefully will get Suns nominations soon too. Object Consulting Nominations St George Bank Packaging Story (from a solution architect perspective) Software Factories (our project experience of smart client and web services sw
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Wednesday, May 02, 2007 3:19 PM

Getting IIS to Serve XPS documents

Most of the morning i have been playing with some of the OpenXML functionality -specifically XPS documents and wanted to share my creations. Unfortunately after dropping my new creation in the WWWroot directory of the team webserver and pointing my browser
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