Commercial Software Engineering Team Africa
Dev Idol: Cast your votes now!
The deadline for submitting presentations has passed and its time to vote for your favourite...
Author: southafrica Date: 10/13/2010
Dev Idol comes to Tech·Ed!
Do you have what it takes? Dev Idol is coming to Tech·Ed Africa, do you have what it takes to be our...
Author: southafrica Date: 09/29/2010
Application Lifecycle/Tester Training with VS2010 and TFS
Minor Update – There is a 10% discount if you book before Oct 10, and some additional...
Author: southafrica Date: 09/28/2010
Internet Explorer 9 Beta Impressions
There’s a lot of great buzz around in the media about the launch of the Internet Explorer 9 Beta...
Author: southafrica Date: 09/16/2010
Designing UI for Visually Impaired Users
Designing UI for visually impaired users is quite a challenge – how do you put yourself in someone...
Author: southafrica Date: 08/03/2010
Devs4Devs is back in Johannesburg!
It’s been a while since we ran our last Devs4Devs event, but it’s coming back! Devs4Devs is - to...
Author: southafrica Date: 07/29/2010
DevDays 2010 Lite – East London
The East London developer community and Microsoft are teaming up to bring the best of our DevDays...
Author: southafrica Date: 06/23/2010
MVP Chats: Get Answers to your tough technical questions!
Microsoft is running a series of online chat sessions with MVPs across a range of technical topics...
Author: southafrica Date: 06/18/2010
Yes! - Search in Add Reference Dialog, Get the Pro Power Tools for VS2010
A picture says a thousand words. Check out this “Add Reference Dialog:/ If you look at the top...
Author: southafrica Date: 06/08/2010
DevDays 2010 Guest Blog Post: Dave Russell
Dave was a presenter in our community slot at DevDays 2010 where members of the community had 20...
Author: southafrica Date: 05/28/2010
DevDays 2010 Guest Blog Post: Daniel van Wyk
Daniel is a software developer with 3fifteen based in Cape Town and was one of our presenters in the...
Author: southafrica Date: 05/28/2010
DevDays 2010 Guest Blog Post: Robert MacLean
Besides being a Twitter fiend, Robert is a technology specialist with BB&D in their research and...
Author: southafrica Date: 05/28/2010
DevDays 2010 Guest Blog Post: Brent Samodien
Brent is a regular speaker at community and Microsoft events and always entertains with jokes and...
Author: southafrica Date: 05/28/2010
DevDays 2010 Guest Blog Post: Nick Goossens
Nick Goossens is a developer and architect at Open Box Software working primarily with web...
Author: southafrica Date: 05/28/2010
DevDays 2010 Guest Blog Post: Tim Keller
Tim (no, I’m not related to Brian) Keller hails from Cape Town and describes himself as “a...
Author: southafrica Date: 05/28/2010
DevDays 2010 Guest Blog Post: Ahmed Salijee
Ahmed is a stalwart at Microsoft South Africa and is pretty much a part of the furniture. He’s...
Author: southafrica Date: 05/28/2010
DevDays 2010 Guest Blog Post: Hilton Giesenow
Hilton Giesenow is a familiar face (and voice) in the South African development community. Hilton is...
Author: southafrica Date: 05/28/2010
DevDays 2010 Guest Blog Post: Brian Keller
Brian was another one of our international guests taking on the long trip from Microsoft HQ in...
Author: southafrica Date: 05/28/2010
DevDays 2010 Guest Blog Post: Bart De Smet
It was great to have Bart over for DevDays this year all the way from Redmond. We all enjoyed his...
Author: southafrica Date: 05/28/2010
DevDays 2010 Slides, Demos and Videos
Now that DevDays 2010 is over (we had another excellent event in Durban at the Sun Coast Casino)...
Author: southafrica Date: 05/28/2010
Add New Item – item not available in 2010
A couple of weeks ago, we ran a Silverlight course using Visual Studio 2010. At some point, you had...
Author: southafrica Date: 05/26/2010
SA Developer Event: Brian Noyes in Johannesburg
The Johannesburg chapter of SA Developer .NET is hosting Brian Noyes, Chief Architect of IDesign,...
Author: southafrica Date: 05/06/2010
DigiGirlz Day – Coding with Kodu
Recently, Tina Erwee, one of my colleagues in Microsoft Consulting Services ran a session for Women...
Author: southafrica Date: 04/22/2010
Silverlight Event
We’re hosting a full-day Silverlight event at Microsoft in early May: Building Rich Internet...
Author: southafrica Date: 04/15/2010
Developer Manager’s Breakfast
As part of our celebrations of the launch of Visual Studio 2010 and Team Foundation Server 2010...
Author: southafrica Date: 04/15/2010
Silverlight 4: RTM!
Silverlight 4 is gets a really nice launch at DevConnections 2010 in Vegas. You can watch the...
Author: southafrica Date: 04/14/2010
Visual Studio 2010 Available to Students through MSDNAA and DreamSpark
Visual Studio 2010 and .Net Framework 4.0 RTM is finally here! and is now available to students...
Author: southafrica Date: 04/13/2010
Tagxedo: a ridiculously cool cloud word generator - built in Silverlight*
Somewhere in the ether, a developer called Hardy Leung got inspired and then got creative. He's come...
Author: southafrica Date: 04/12/2010
The app is slow to start-up
Recently, I had an ISV phone me up telling me about an experience they had with a reporting...
Author: southafrica Date: 04/01/2010
Getting started with Windows Phone 7 Development
I presented a session at Devdays on Windows Phone 7 Development. I promised to provide the relevant...
Author: southafrica Date: 04/01/2010
Wrap up of DevDays Johannesburg and Cape Town
DevDays in Johannesburg and Cape Town were an absolute blast last week! Now that I’ve recovered and...
Author: southafrica Date: 03/31/2010
Windows Phone 7 Series – the eagle has landed
So whilst we were all settling in for supper, ScottGu was unveiling a host of hot hot dev &...
Author: southafrica Date: 03/16/2010
Office 2010 Road Show – Slides and Code Samples
Last week I presented an Introduction to Office 2010 Development as part of the Office 2010 Channel...
Author: southafrica Date: 03/08/2010
DevDays 2010 is here!
It’s coming! Our DevDays registration website is up and running! We’ve got some great sessions lined...
Author: southafrica Date: 02/25/2010
Vegas, Windows Phone 7 Series and MIX10
It’s almost that time of year where we make the latest and greatest announcements for all...
Author: southafrica Date: 02/18/2010