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Comments turned off
Dur to the huge amount of comment spam I've had over the last couple of days I've temporarily...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 10/29/2006
ASP.Net Atlas Extensions 1.0 Beta available now
Over the weekend I needed to install the ASP.Net AJAX extensions (formally known as Atlas) on my...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 10/29/2006
NZ SQL Server Code Camp - registrations now open
The good folk running the New Zealand user groups have opened registration for the New Zealand SQL...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 10/24/2006
Dynamic languages in VS and .Net?
Interesting to see that we've just hired John Lam. Soma reports: I am excited to announce that John...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 10/23/2006
I dont see the NZ live.com content! Help!
Westie posted a comment asking where the live.com content is for NZ. Rather than burying it in a...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 10/19/2006
IE7 RTM's! - I told you it was coming soon
Today the Internet Explorer team released the RTM release of IE7 for Windows XP. Go get it now! As...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 10/19/2006
IE7 - Are you ready?
IE7 will be released this month - as in the next couple of weeks! Internet Explorer 7 brings the...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 10/16/2006
The (tidal?) wave is almost upon us...
The IE team have announced that the next version of IE will be out this month (although an exact...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 10/09/2006
Live.com - NZ Status update
Since my last post on where live.com was at in NZ was a while ago I thought I'd post an update. The...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 10/05/2006
Interested in running a User Group? Run one already?
Nick Randolph, the Aussie currently seconded to New Zealand, has recently taken over the Microsoft...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 10/05/2006
Windows Live Mail updated
Just last night I showed the Nelson .Net User Group the new Live mail interface, and I see that...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 10/05/2006
Auckland, Hamilton and Christchurch.Net User groups done
I'm now in week three of my New Zealand user group tour. So far, there have been lots of questions...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 10/02/2006
Visual Studio Orcas September CTP now available
Today we released the latest update of the Orcas CTP. This is a much fuller release than the last...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 09/29/2006
Visual Basic 2005 Power Packs - now available
If you are a VB developer - and particularly if you are moving (or considering moving) from VB6 to...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 09/21/2006
Coming to a .Net User Group near you soon...
If you go to a NZ Dot Net User group, then I'm coming to your group. I'm visiting all the .Net User...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 09/12/2006
Live.com is out of beta!
This morning the live.com team finally took the "beta" tag off live.com. That means we are now...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 09/11/2006
New Zealand content now in Live.com directory
After much waiting with baited breath, the live.com team finally released the update I've been...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 09/09/2006
Security of gadgets in the Vista Sidebar
I get a few questions about security of gadgets in the Vista Sidebar. Brian Teutsch, PM on sidebar...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 09/04/2006
NBlogr - ASP.Net ATLAS blogging engine
Ivan - our local Atlas expert has been busy putting more effort into the Atlas based blogging engine...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 09/04/2006
Vista RC1
Yup, its official. Lukas blogged it, Mauricio blogged it, Nigel blogged it, JB blogged it and now...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 09/04/2006
Make your own games for the XBOX 360
This came through a couple of weeks ago (before Tech Ed anyway), but I'm just getting to it. You may...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 08/28/2006
Microsoft Office and ODF
When I did my presentation on Open XML File Formats at TechEd someone asked me afterwards something...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 08/25/2006
New Windows Vista security blog
I was just looking at Jeff Jones' security blog and noticed this post where he links to a new blog...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 08/25/2006
Tech Ed 2006 Summary
Its a few days in coming, but here is my summary of Tech Ed 2006. I spent quite a bit of time...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 08/25/2006
Internet Explorer 7 Release Candidate 1 released
Overnight we released the Release Candidate of Internet Explorer 7. You can get it from...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 08/24/2006
Live from LiveWriter
I've finally managed to get around to installing LiveWriter. LiveWriter is a installable piece of...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 08/24/2006
Tech Ed New Zealand Presentations hit the web
The first batch of Presentations from Tech Ed New Zealand have hit the TechEd NZ website. More are...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 08/24/2006
Richard McManus interviews George Moore
Richard McManus was at Tech Ed this week and interveiwed George Moore - GM of Live.com. Richard asks...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 08/23/2006
Introduction to live.com Video
While at Tech Ed I shot a short video introducing live.com, what you can do with it and I also...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 08/23/2006
RadioNetwork Gadgets for Live.com
The RadioNetwork (the guys who operate ZM FM, Newstalk ZB, Classic Hits, Flava and a number of other...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 08/22/2006
Open XML File Format sample applications
I've just finished my last presentation for Tech Ed 2006 (phew). At the end of my presentation I...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 08/22/2006
How to add the Weather gadget to live.com
Someone asked me today how to get the Weather gadget on to live.com if your locale is set to New...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 08/22/2006
Tech Ed Day 2 - I love feedback
Day two has just finished for me. The party went well, everybody I spoke to was enjoying themselves...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 08/22/2006
Tech Ed Day 1 - Live Contacts and my summar
What a day! Tech Ed has started with a roar. Its been a busy day with lots happening - in fact I was...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 08/21/2006
Looking to deploy your app to Vista? Dont use MSDE!
If you are using MSDE in any applications that you want to have running on Windows Vista, you'll...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 08/15/2006
Jesper isn’t coming, but...
Jesper has blogged that he won't be coming to Tech Ed in New Zealand, Australia or Japan this year....
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 08/13/2006
Tech Ed – your planning helps us – and you!
This is the editorial for this edition of the MSDN Flash which will go out early next week. It's...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 08/10/2006
While I was sleeping, local.live.com for NZ has had an update!
Somehow I missed this, I didn't see an announcement about it, but a few months ago when NZ coverage...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 07/28/2006
New Live sites
Yesterday we released the live gallery. The live gallery is going to be the consumer facing version...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 07/25/2006
Microsoft Virtual PC is now free
A while ago we announced that Virtual Server would be released free of charge to anyone with a MSDN...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 07/12/2006
New Zealand now on the Live.com Map
The good folks running the live.com site have released an update last week. There are two things I...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 07/10/2006
Add your feed to live.com via a single click of a (image) button
Do you have an RSS feed on your site? - Assuming you have a website... If so - why not make it easy...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 07/03/2006
New Zealand Gadgets for Live.com
There are some developers who are busy behind the scenes creating Gadgets for Live.com....
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 07/02/2006
Atlas Resources
I thought after Tathams tour of New Zealands User Groups and the upcoming Atlas tour of the regions...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 07/02/2006
IE 7 Beta 3 for XP Released
I missed this due to my mostly disconnected state during the weekend, but on Friday (our time) we...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 07/02/2006
Tech Ed – Sold Out
Today is the last day of Early Bird registration for Tech Ed 2006 and we’ve sold the event out. Yup...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 06/30/2006
.Net Compact Framework SP1 Released
The .Net CF team released Service Pack 1 for .Net Compact Framework version 2.0 last week. This...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 06/25/2006
.Net Framework 3.0 June CTP released
We released the .Net Framework 3.0 June CTP today. This is the first release of the WinFX framework...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 06/25/2006