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Thursday, April 29, 2004 12:21 PM

Australian Cebit 2004 - ISV Partners at Microsoft Booth

At the upcoming Cebit show in Darling Harbour, Microsoft will have a booth. The booth will include many ISV partners :Tuesday May 4Wednesday May 5Thursday May 6Beacon ITGreen SoftwareAcazeBNSBNSBNSVertiklsBond WirelessElcomAston Business SolutionsAston
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Tuesday, April 27, 2004 5:10 PM

Archive available for past Aussie MSDN Flash Newsletters

You would think this would be a no-brainer, but we have only just recently made available an archive of past MSDN Flash newsletters. When I asked the question why it has taken so long, and why the archive doesnt include *ALL* of the past newsletters,
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Tuesday, April 27, 2004 5:01 PM

Aussie May MSDN Update - Double Header in Office Systems Development

We’ve got so much info for you in the May MSDN update that we’ve decided to make it a double-header. Microsoft Visual Studio Tools for Office (VSTO) combine the productivity and power of Visual Studio® .NET 2003 and the Microsoft .NET
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Tuesday, April 27, 2004 4:28 PM

MSDN Connection Welcome Pack Update

The amount of support for MSDN Connection has been phenomenal. The buzz is definitely out there! This has also meant that there have been some delays in sending welcome packs out. The plan at the moment is that everyone should have a welcome
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Thursday, April 22, 2004 9:27 PM

My Dream App

You may not know this , but I am a passionate AFL fan. I also love my XDA II. The dream is to combine these two passions. I have a vision of an app (ideally .net compact framework based) that i have on my XDA II which does
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Thursday, April 22, 2004 9:16 PM

Wollongong .Net User Group - Meeting Thursday 22nd April

Do'h - I just realized the Wollongong .NET User Group are meeting tonight. Have a great meeting guys. I hope Jim made it Agenda: 1. Welcome of the User Group by Dean of Faculty of Informatics, Prof. Joe Chicharo 2. Introduction of Wollongong .NET
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Thursday, April 22, 2004 9:04 PM

Sydney MDC Summary

I haven't had a moment to write about the recent MDC, but I've found some stuff from attendees & speakers http://www.splatt.com.au/blog/ <--- attendee Mick Stanic (aka SplaTT) http://www.demotelco.com/fb/splatt/ps/JOURNAL/VIEWWEBSITE <---
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Wednesday, April 21, 2004 4:39 PM

t2

another test Posted from my XDA II
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Wednesday, April 21, 2004 4:36 PM

XDA II test blog post

reinstalled my blogging client onto my XDA IIthis is a test post Posted from my XDA II
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Monday, April 19, 2004 11:36 PM

Canberra .NET Developers User Group - Meeting Thursday 22nd April

The Canberra .NET Developer User Group are getting together this week  The meeting will be held on THURSDAY 22nd April (but normally the third Thursday of the month) from 16:30 to 18:00. Agenda: 20 mins - Pizza, Coke and Networking 45 mins
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Monday, April 19, 2004 11:32 PM

Sydney .NET User Group Meeting on 21st April, 2004

The next Sydney .NET User Group Meeting is on this week. The folks are talking about combining Exchange Data, SQL Data and SQL Reporting Services. Come see a code packed session that will show how to extend the out-of-the box features of Reporting
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Monday, April 19, 2004 11:24 PM

Australian MDC : One More Sleep

One more sleep before the Australian MDC at the Sheraton on the Park in Sydney.We plan to have wifi access for all delegates, so bring your tablets/laptops/wifi-enabled pdas!Most of the Microsoft Developer team will be there, so make sure you pop
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Sunday, April 18, 2004 6:25 PM

Back to Work -- Big Week Ahead

Phew, that break of mine seems to have gone by pretty quickly! It was a nice break, but I have been struggling with the flu for the whole time. It's been pretty horrible - I feel like I have coughed up a lung. Sorry Jason - I think you got your
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Thursday, April 08, 2004 8:51 PM

On Vacation

I'm on vacation for the coming week. No blogging from me. But, I'll have my XDA II and I will be posting photos to my moblog. See Ya!
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Wednesday, April 07, 2004 7:22 AM

Windows XP Service Pack 2: Webcast Overview for ISVs

This is worth attending. even if the time is a bit nasty for the folks downunder.  Tony is an Aussie. He is a great speaker. You are invited to attend an informational webcast for Independent Software Vendors on Friday, April 23rd at 12:00 (PST)
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Tuesday, April 06, 2004 11:22 PM

Channel 9 is alive

After much speculation and wondering, Channel 9 is alive. Channel 9 is a new way for Microsoft to communicate with the developer community in a human voice and to share another side of Microsoft.  On a daily basis it will feature an
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Monday, April 05, 2004 9:00 PM

Shared Source Initiative: WiX Code Release to SourgeForge

On Monday, April 5, 2004, as part of the Shared Source Initiative, Microsoft releases the source code for the Windows Installer XML (WiX) developer tool to SourceForge under the IBM Common Public License or CPL. The WiX project is the first Shared
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Monday, April 05, 2004 8:45 PM

Who said this?

Pop quiz - who delivered these fantastic zingers..... "Probably the most dangerous and powerful industrialist of our age." (Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates) "Ballmer and Butt-Head." (Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and Gates) "A giant hairball." (Microsoft's
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Monday, April 05, 2004 5:14 PM

ASP.NET Site of the Day -- Quickflix

A new DVD rental site has entered the market - Quickflix Some of the good things about the development: Most Application blocks with heavy reliance on Patterns from the MS site. Windows 2003 and SQL 2000 with SQL Reporting Services
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Saturday, April 03, 2004 8:03 AM

Microsoft reaches settlement agreement with Sun

This morning I woke up, check the news and saw that Microsoft and Sun Microsystems announced that they have entered into a broad technology collaboration agreement and have settled all pending litigation between the two companies.  Elements
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Friday, April 02, 2004 10:35 PM

MSDN Connection - Free Hosting Offer

I've been asked by a few folks when does the free ASP.NET hosting offer kick in for the foundation MSDN Connection members. Well, the current plan of record is that we will launch the site in May 2004. Right now we are doing some final system testing
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Friday, April 02, 2004 7:05 PM

Hello to my Moblog

I finally get around to setting up a moblog.  I'm using a free service from textamerica. It's really easy to setup and use. Lots of predefined templates and layouts. Very slick. And here's the connection - it is an ASP.NET site! To use, it's
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Thursday, April 01, 2004 9:14 AM

Sydney Deep .NET User Group : Meeting Tonight

A plug for my friends at SDNUG - they are meeting this evening when: Thursday, 1 April 2004, 6.00 pm - 8.00 pm topic: SQL Server Reporting Services by Chris Masters Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Reporting Services is a comprehensive, server-based reporting
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Thursday, April 01, 2004 7:01 AM

Office Development Handbook

Andrew Parsons writes about an upcoming Office Development Handbook that we commissioned and he has written. The plan is to distribute as part of the upcoming May MSDN Update, as well as with the June issue of Australian Developer Magazine. I've had
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