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Virtual Earth - Now available for Commercial Use
Steve Lombardi’s VE Session has just finished and contained some cool announcements. Now...
Author: Andrew Coates [MSFT] Date: 09/13/2005
PDC2005 Keynote - Search, RSS and Pretty UIs
I’m sitting in the overflow room at PDC with Chuck watching the keynote (well, most of it at...
Author: Andrew Coates [MSFT] Date: 09/13/2005
VSTO Session at TechEd NZ
At TechEd in Auckland I delivered DSK312 – Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Tools for the Office...
Author: Andrew Coates [MSFT] Date: 09/07/2005
Adelaide Developer Passes 4 MCP Exams in 2 Days at TechEd on the Gold Coast!
I was chatting with Rob Farley at TechEd and he casually mentioned that he’d signed up for a...
Author: Andrew Coates [MSFT] Date: 09/07/2005
Aus-DotNet List moving Mail Servers
I just spoke to Dr Pete (Stanski), who runs the Aus-DotNet mailing list and, as per his note to the...
Author: Andrew Coates [MSFT] Date: 09/07/2005
My session at TechEds NZ and Australia
I'm speaking in Auckland and on the Gold Coast next week at TechEds. I’m doing a SQL2005 demo...
Author: Andrew Coates [MSFT] Date: 08/24/2005
MapPoint Web Service COM wrapper and VFP Sample
I've been talking about this for a while, and I've finally uploaded a COM wrapper around the...
Author: Andrew Coates [MSFT] Date: 08/21/2005
Free MCP Testing at TechEd Australia
I only found out today (yes, maybe I have been living under a rock) that you’ll be able to do...
Author: Andrew Coates [MSFT] Date: 08/17/2005
Great new secure development resource from the Patterns and Pracrices group.
This just in from Brian Goldfarb: J.D. Meier and team have been busy at work building awesome...
Author: Andrew Coates [MSFT] Date: 08/16/2005
HP 6365 in the USA - another blonde moment.
Susan is not the only one to have a blond moment with a phone recently. I brought my iPAQ 6365...
Author: Andrew Coates [MSFT] Date: 07/31/2005
Sydney Visual FoxPro User Group
I’m sitting in the Sydney VFP User Group – Michael Brazel is explaining the intricacies...
Author: Andrew Coates [MSFT] Date: 07/31/2005
Testing BlogJet
Following Dave and Mitch’s lead, I’ve installed BlogJet. We’ll see how it goes.
Author: Andrew Coates [MSFT] Date: 07/26/2005
New VSTS Community Site
Team System RocksSeveral Microsoft RDs, MVPs, and others involved in the VSTS online community have...
Author: Andrew Coates [MSFT] Date: 07/25/2005
Visual Studio 2005 Team System Beta 2 VPC Available on MSDN Subscriber Downloads
Update – Rob Caron has just posted that this is now available to MSDN Professional,...
Author: Andrew Coates [MSFT] Date: 07/25/2005
NewsGator and VSTO Outlook Add-ins Do Mix Now
This morning, I posted this note saying that Newsgator and VSTO2005 Outlook add-ins can't coexist,...
Author: Andrew Coates [MSFT] Date: 07/24/2005
NewsGator and VSTO Outlook Add-ins Don't Mix
UPDATE - Newsgator have now fixed this with 2.5.11.xx I use NewsGator for all my RSS reading needs,...
Author: Andrew Coates [MSFT] Date: 07/24/2005
Why I Love Server-Side E-Mail (and contacts and appointments)
I'm on holidays in Far North Queensland (I got special permission from my wife to come to the...
Author: Andrew Coates [MSFT] Date: 07/08/2005
Threading just got a whole lot easier with VS2005
One of the great new components in VS2005 is the BackgroundWorker component, which makes writing...
Author: Andrew Coates [MSFT] Date: 06/26/2005
Celebrity Opportunity in Adelaide
I've spent the last couple of days with the one and only Dave Glover at some Indigo training being...
Author: Andrew Coates [MSFT] Date: 06/22/2005
MapPoint Web Services Presentation and Code Posted
Last week I was in Canberra presenting at the Lunchtime and Late Afternoon sessions of the User...
Author: Andrew Coates [MSFT] Date: 06/21/2005
Get into the Express Lane with Microsoft Visual C# Express
Get into the Express Lane with Microsoft Visual C# ExpressBy Andrew Coates MCSD. Developer...
Author: Andrew Coates [MSFT] Date: 06/20/2005
WORKAROUND - VS2005 Beta2 Keyboard Stops Responding
I was presenting to the Canberra Avanade .NET developers last Wednesday and was bitten (again) by...
Author: Andrew Coates [MSFT] Date: 05/20/2005
VSTS Webcasts Posted
I know what I'm going to be doing for the next little while ... VSTS Webcast Series The following...
Author: Andrew Coates [MSFT] Date: 05/08/2005
VC# Express Beta2 and MapPoint WebService (oh man!)
I'm currently working on an article introducing C# Express edition for one of the local developer...
Author: Andrew Coates [MSFT] Date: 05/04/2005
New MSDN Article - Configuring ClickOnce Trusted Publishers
One of the neat things ClickOnce allows you to do is deploy a ticket with the app that gives it more...
Author: Andrew Coates [MSFT] Date: 05/02/2005
Proposed MDEC Australia Agenda
We're well into the planning phases for MDEC2005 in Melbourne (June 20) and Sydney (June 22). Here's...
Author: Andrew Coates [MSFT] Date: 04/30/2005
Why would you go to a User Group?
Recently I was asked, what is it that developers get out of belonging to a User Group? I listed...
Author: Andrew Coates [MSFT] Date: 04/28/2005
CodeCampOz Day 0
What do you get when you add 200 Geeks to a town like Wagga Wagga? CodeCampOz, of course. I got into...
Author: Andrew Coates [MSFT] Date: 04/23/2005
Register Visual Studio 2005 Beta 2, get a free online book from MS Press
Microsoft Learning has partnered with the Visual Studio team to provide developers with additional...
Author: Andrew Coates [MSFT] Date: 04/20/2005
SQL Server 2005 Virtual Hands On Labs
Are you ready to experience SQL Server 2005? Announcing the launch of the SQL Server 2005 Virtual...
Author: Andrew Coates [MSFT] Date: 04/04/2005
Visual FoxPro Survey
I received this note from Ken Levy this morning. The Visual FoxPro Team at Microsoft invites you to...
Author: Andrew Coates [MSFT] Date: 04/03/2005
MS eLearning available NOW! Start with 64-bit.
Are you a busy professional software developer? Do you want to set your own schedule for learning...
Author: Andrew Coates [MSFT] Date: 04/03/2005
SQL Server 2005 Webcasts in April
Discover how Microsoft SQL Server 2005 offers database developers the optimal combination of a...
Author: Andrew Coates [MSFT] Date: 04/03/2005
Great article on Active Directory, ADAM and System.DirectoryServices
I got sidetracked today on some Active Directory stuff and came across this great article by Klaus...
Author: Andrew Coates [MSFT] Date: 03/22/2005
Enterprise Library Webcasts
As David Hayden notes in this post, the Patterns and Practices team has a series of webcasts about...
Author: Andrew Coates [MSFT] Date: 03/20/2005
Adding Ink Controls to .NET Applications
Last Friday (Redmond time) there was a Webcast that I really wanted to see on using the InfiNotes...
Author: Andrew Coates [MSFT] Date: 03/20/2005
Using MapPoint to implement a Geofence
Chandu Thota (of BlogMap fame) has a link to an MSDN article on implementing a Geofence with...
Author: Andrew Coates [MSFT] Date: 03/20/2005
Greg Low's SQL 2005 for Developers Session now online
Greg Low's record breaking Security Summit session on SQL2005 for Developers is now available for...
Author: Andrew Coates [MSFT] Date: 03/08/2005
ClickOnce Webcast Session Posted
My Security Summit session on Deploying Applications with ClickOnce is now available to view online...
Author: Andrew Coates [MSFT] Date: 03/08/2005
Another great week of webcasts
Not great times for Aussies (although they will be recorded), but this series seems like it's well...
Author: Andrew Coates [MSFT] Date: 01/18/2005
Code Camp
Mitch Denny and Greg Low have proposed a Code Camp (that's not a link to this Code Camp's schedule -...
Author: Andrew Coates [MSFT] Date: 01/17/2005
Techno Holiday
I'm on holiday - each couple of years, all my immediate family converge on Melbourne to see my...
Author: Andrew Coates [MSFT] Date: 12/27/2004
VFP Product Manager Ken Levy on Channel 9 (or, "The Second Most Common Question")
Apart from the most common question I get asked about VFP, the next most common question I get is...
Author: Andrew Coates [MSFT] Date: 12/20/2004
More Office Development Resources
While I'm on the topic of Office Development, I've just been reminded of a series of Office...
Author: Andrew Coates [MSFT] Date: 12/20/2004
VSTO 2.0 Demo Videos
I've been meaning to blog about this for ages, but better late than never I guess. One of the...
Author: Andrew Coates [MSFT] Date: 12/20/2004