Nigel Parker's Outside Line
Juxtaposing the web, media and mobile for New Zealand developers.
Microsoft MAX
Check out Microsoft MAX a photo sharing peer-to-peer sample application that uses Windows...
Author: nparker Date: 09/13/2005
Regional Director Side Meeting at PDC.
I'm at PDC and I had a chance to spend an insightful day and night at the Region Directors side...
Author: nparker Date: 09/13/2005
Off to PDC 2005 - Stay In Touch!
I'm flying out to PDC tonight and right now is the first chance I've had to think about it and get...
Author: nparker Date: 09/10/2005
Scoble interviews Bill Gates
Scoble interviews Bill Gates - https://channel9.msdn.com/Showpost.aspx?postid=111598 This posting is...
Author: nparker Date: 09/08/2005
Introducing Microsoft Dynamics™
Today at the Microsoft Business Summit in Redmond, Bill Gates introduced Microsoft Dynamics™, The...
Author: nparker Date: 09/07/2005
MSDN Flash Volume 9, Number 17 - September 5, 2005
Jarvis Cocker, epitomised Tech.Ed New Zealand 2005 for me in the following simple verse:"The dust...
Author: nparker Date: 09/04/2005
Tech.Ed New Zealand Presentations Available
We have released presentations/ and some code samples from Tech.Ed NZ here...
Author: nparker Date: 09/01/2005
Tech.Ed Podcasts!
We have podcasts from NZ... thanks Chris XNA - Tony Goodhew (.wmv, 119MB) *NEW Windows Communication...
Author: nparker Date: 08/31/2005
Tech.Ed Day 3 Is Ready To Go!
For those that where at the TechFest party last night will contest that it was "one of the best"...
Author: nparker Date: 08/30/2005
New Zealand Tech-Ed 2005 Rolling Thunder...
I just got an email from Jay Roxe saying he's in town an looking forward to watching the all black...
Author: nparker Date: 08/27/2005
Student Day Rocked! Tech Ed is Set To Fly!
I was just reading Betsy's post from student day... and I though I'd share with you a teaser from...
Author: nparker Date: 08/26/2005
The First Community Technology Preview (CTP) of Enterprise Library for .NET Framework 2.0 is Now Available!
The First Community Technology Preview (CTP) of Enterprise Library for .NET Framework 2.0 is Now...
Author: nparker Date: 08/26/2005
TechEd is upon us... let me tell you the place's to be!
Hi there... guess why I've been so "dark" for the last couple of weeks? All the fun begins with...
Author: nparker Date: 08/24/2005
SQL Server 2005 Hands on Learning - 9 Free Courses!
So you haven't tried out SQL Server 2005 yet? Well now you have no excuse!...
Author: nparker Date: 08/22/2005
VS2005 Update - What You Have Been Waiting For!
This https://blogs.msdn.com/somasegar/archive/2005/08/22/451026.aspx is quite possibly one of the...
Author: nparker Date: 08/22/2005
Visual Basic 6.0 ADO & Transmogrification For The Masses.
Are you familiar with Bill Vaughn and the Hitchhiker Guide books? Bill has published an article from...
Author: nparker Date: 08/18/2005
MSDN Flash Volume 9, Number 16 - August 16, 2005
I read a great quote last week "If technology doesn't work like magic its probably...
Author: nparker Date: 08/16/2005
Resources for Visual Studio 2005 & SQL 2005
Sean asked me to compile a list of resources for Visual Studio 2005/ SQL 2005 so since I did the...
Author: nparker Date: 08/10/2005
Half-Life
A number of the developers for Valve Software, makers of the wildly popular Half-Life series of...
Author: nparker Date: 08/08/2005
Kit's CLR Slides & Demos
Kit George from the Common Language Runtime team is here doing the CLR Compatibility presentation....
Author: nparker Date: 08/08/2005
More SQL 2005 smarts...
My computer crashed a moment ago... I hadn't saved the SQL 2005 project I had been working on. When...
Author: nparker Date: 08/03/2005
Where is the Closest Starbucks to the Golden Gate Bridge?
Hi there I flew back from San Francisco this morning at 5am and have finally caught up enough to go...
Author: nparker Date: 08/02/2005
Are you ready for SQL Server 2005?
With SQL Server releasing on the 7th of November 2005, now is the optimal time to become hands on...
Author: nparker Date: 08/01/2005
Congratulations Aftermail
Congratulations Aftermail for winning the innovation award for ISV's at the recent Microsoft...
Author: nparker Date: 07/17/2005
New Logos for DPE
The Developer and Platform Evangelism group that I work in at Microsoft has got new logo's. Sanjay...
Author: nparker Date: 07/17/2005
Tech.Ed New Zealand - Early Schedule.
I have been frantically busy over the last two days attempting to close off the first cut of our...
Author: nparker Date: 07/14/2005
Farewell to the Lions.
Last week Rod Drury thanked the lions for their time in Wellington. I went to the game in Auckland...
Author: nparker Date: 07/09/2005
WeFly247 we've got it so you can go get it!!
All you need to get started with Visual Studio 2005....
Author: nparker Date: 07/06/2005
Visual Studio Team System Grok Talk at TechEd 2005 in Orlando.
Chris Menegay (Microsoft Regional Director from Dallas, USA) presented a 10 minute Grok Talk on...
Author: nparker Date: 06/27/2005
James Newkirk's tool for migrating NUnit unit tests to Visual Studio Team System.
James Newkirk, creator of NUnit, is working on a tool for migrating NUnit unit tests to Visual...
Author: nparker Date: 06/25/2005
Microsoft Update v6
Microsoft Update v6 is now available. The new Microsoft Update combines the old windows update and...
Author: nparker Date: 06/25/2005
Longhorn, IE7 and RSS
I'm excited by all the announcements regarding Longhorn, IE7 and RSS. "We are betting big on RSS"...
Author: nparker Date: 06/25/2005
Visual Studio Team System Slide decks from Tech-ed Orlando
The Visual Studio Team System Slide decks from Tech-ed Orlando are now available for download....
Author: nparker Date: 06/19/2005
New Zealand Visual Studio Team System Competition
I have been busy today finalising the Visual Studio Team System Competition... We racked our brains...
Author: nparker Date: 06/09/2005
PodAttack on Don Box at TechEd 2005
PodAttack on Don Box at TechEd 2005 watch this great little video.
Author: nparker Date: 06/09/2005
Microsoft Integration Technologies: When to Use What
A question I have been asked allot recently is "When to use what?". Microsoft has released a number...
Author: nparker Date: 06/07/2005
Darren Neimke... Microsoft Office Information Bridge Framework... This weeks .Net User Group Meetings
Darren Neimke is coming to New Zealand to talk at the .Net User group Meetings this week (Tuesday in...
Author: nparker Date: 06/05/2005
BizTalk 2006 will make it to CTP next week.
Scott Woodgate has confirmed that BizTalk 2006 will make it to CTP (Community Technology Preview)...
Author: nparker Date: 06/02/2005
The ASP.NET Roadshow the videos are now available!
The ASP.NET Roadshow the videos are now available! The roadshow was put on by the product team to...
Author: nparker Date: 05/31/2005
Mike Roberts and CruiseControl .Net
I have been looking into CruiseControl.NET and I stumbled across this post from Mike Roberts. I met...
Author: nparker Date: 05/15/2005
Get the Guidance Automation Toolkit for Visual Studio 2005 Beta 2
So you've got your copy of Visual Studio Beta 2... Go and get yourself the Guidance Automation...
Author: nparker Date: 05/12/2005
Update on the Visual Studio Team System Product Line.
Now that we have shipped Visual Studio Beta 2, I wanted to take some time to update you on the...
Author: nparker Date: 05/12/2005
Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team System Beta 2 - Get It Now !
If you didn’t sign up for this at the Connect event… your copies are already on the way. You can now...
Author: nparker Date: 05/11/2005
Tech-Ed 2005 Get It Now!
Let's try this again... for some reason the server ate the post I did on Saturday! The early bird...
Author: nparker Date: 05/08/2005
Tell me more about Visual SourceSafe 2005 Beta 2.
So you just found out that Visual SourceSafe 2005 Beta 2 has been released and you'd really like to...
Author: nparker Date: 04/25/2005