Andrew Coates ::: MSFT
It's all about community!
SQL Server 2008 Certification Live Meeting (APAC Friendly Time)
I was in a meeting today with Tania Netterfield and she shared some certification plans with me that...
Author: Andrew Coates [MSFT] Date: 01/15/2008
Holiday Toys from the Visual Studio Ecosystem Team
Especially now that Ken's on the team, I have a real interest in the cool stuff people do by...
Author: Andrew Coates [MSFT] Date: 01/15/2008
More VSTS2008 Virtual Images on MSDN
Matt Nunn sent this round recently - a couple of additions to the many Virtual Images you can...
Author: Andrew Coates [MSFT] Date: 01/15/2008
There's now a VSTO v3 Team Blog
And it's where the VSTO2003 blog used to be :). Christin Boyd has posted a welcome message and...
Author: Andrew Coates [MSFT] Date: 01/15/2008
Another Aussie Success Story - Elcom's gone all 2008 on us
Another place heroes happen ...Craig's finally announced the results of his labour over the past...
Author: Andrew Coates [MSFT] Date: 01/15/2008
SQL Server 2008 Readiness Events in Australia (and heaps more technologies too)
Greg beat me to it. The Australian Partner Readiness site has three great SQL2008 sessions listed...
Author: Andrew Coates [MSFT] Date: 01/15/2008
Another HPC Webcast: Reservoir Simulation using Roxar's Tempest on Windows Compute Cluster Server
February 14, 2008, 3:00am Sydney Time Join us for an exciting webcast specific for the Oil and Gas...
Author: Andrew Coates [MSFT] Date: 01/09/2008
Live Webcast: Windows HPC Server 2008 - New and Advanced Features (APAC-Friendly time)
January 16, 2008, 12 Noon Sydney TimeLook -no slides - just kick the tires! Want to find out what's...
Author: Andrew Coates [MSFT] Date: 01/08/2008
Still doing Office 2003 Development? We've got you covered.
While I love talking about the great developer experience in Office 2007 and VSTO v3, I acknowledge...
Author: Andrew Coates [MSFT] Date: 12/29/2007
Lots of Pre-Configured Virtual Machines for You to Use
Continuing the trend of making it easy to get your hands on a pre-configured environment to help...
Author: Andrew Coates [MSFT] Date: 12/19/2007
Visual Studio 2008 Training Workshop Recordings on Channel 9
In September, we recorded the sessions from a full 5-day Visual Studio 2008 Training Workshop. These...
Author: Andrew Coates [MSFT] Date: 12/19/2007
DotNet-U: Great training you can take and give
We had the pleasure last week of hosting Doug Turnure, the Developer Evangelist from Atlanta,...
Author: Andrew Coates [MSFT] Date: 12/19/2007
VS2008 Certification Live Meeting - 24 Jan 2008
Via the irrepressible Trika: Microsoft Certification for Developers Join the Microsoft Certification...
Author: Andrew Coates [MSFT] Date: 12/19/2007
New Visual Studio 2008 Virtual Labs
Back in June and July, I did a series of posts about the great Virtual Labs that are available for...
Author: Andrew Coates [MSFT] Date: 12/19/2007
patterns & practices - Two new guides available - Team Development and Performance Testing
As one of the pillars of Visual Studio Team System, I always talk about the guidance, both built...
Author: Andrew Coates [MSFT] Date: 12/18/2007
S+S Blueprint for Outlook
From Khawar Ahmed on the OBA Blog: One of the OBA related news at TechEd Developer Barcelona was...
Author: Andrew Coates [MSFT] Date: 12/18/2007
Free eLearning Courses Available Online
I'm on the way to Redmond (about an hour out from San Francisco) and clearing my backlog of "Blog...
Author: Andrew Coates [MSFT] Date: 12/18/2007
Australian Imagine Cup 2008 web site is now live
This just in from Nick Ellery: Imagine Cup is the world’s premier technology competition for...
Author: Andrew Coates [MSFT] Date: 12/18/2007
Great Silverlight and OpenXML demos
I've been meaning to blog about this for ages. Darko Jovisic, a Developer Evangelist from Croatia,...
Author: Andrew Coates [MSFT] Date: 12/18/2007
Windows Embedded Retail Seminars - Sydney and Melbourne
Don Kerr just sent this through (he, Nelson Lin and and Dave Glover are presenting): Get the...
Author: Andrew Coates [MSFT] Date: 11/21/2007
MapPoint Web Services (and SQL 2k8 Spatial) Presentation for GITA
I'm in Perth as a result of GITA inviting me to speak at their Seminar and Workshops. I presented on...
Author: Andrew Coates [MSFT] Date: 11/21/2007
MSDN Webcast: Building Spatial Applications with SQL Server 2008 (Level 300)
The word's getting out there (a little too slowly for my liking, but anyway ...): SQL Server 2008...
Author: Andrew Coates [MSFT] Date: 11/15/2007
MCT Community Summit in Sydney 29-31 Jan 2008
Sharmilla sent this through today. Microsoft proudly presents its first MCT Community Summit 2008 in...
Author: Andrew Coates [MSFT] Date: 11/15/2007
.NET Framework 3.5 Namespaces Poster Available
This just in from Paul Andrew. We just completed the .NET Framework 3.5 update to the Commonly Used...
Author: Andrew Coates [MSFT] Date: 11/14/2007
XNA Games Studio Express Events in Sydney and Melbourne this week
A couple of great XNA Games Studio Express events this week in the MS offices in Sydney and...
Author: Andrew Coates [MSFT] Date: 11/12/2007
Visual Studio Extensibility CoDe Focus Magazine Online
I was chatting with Ken Levy a couple of weeks ago about what he's up to now (he works for the...
Author: Andrew Coates [MSFT] Date: 11/11/2007
.NET and VBA Interop
I got a nice note from Joe Hanna of vantage IT today following my presentation at the Office DevCon...
Author: Andrew Coates [MSFT] Date: 11/07/2007
Virtual Earth - Real Revenue - Workshop in Brisbane, Melbourne and Sydney
Great workshops in the MS offices next week Topic: Virtual Earth - Real Revenue Where: Microsoft...
Author: Andrew Coates [MSFT] Date: 11/07/2007
What, more fishbowl movies?
The last batch of Virtual TechEd Fishbowl movies from TechEd Australia have been posted. Check 'em...
Author: Andrew Coates [MSFT] Date: 11/07/2007
Illusions - How can this be true?
Michael's twirling dancer link generated a lot of chatter, but this one seems even less fathomable...
Author: Andrew Coates [MSFT] Date: 11/07/2007
Searching for Contacts in VSTO
I LOVE VSTO v3! As part of my demos for Graham Seach's Office DevCon, I've developed a VSTO v3...
Author: Andrew Coates [MSFT] Date: 10/31/2007
Recognising Talent
<disclaimer>If it's not obvious from the content, I have a personal interest in this...
Author: Andrew Coates [MSFT] Date: 09/25/2007
Standing on the Shoulders of Giants
26-Sep Updated table formatting "If I have seen a little further it is by standing on the shoulders...
Author: Andrew Coates [MSFT] Date: 09/24/2007
Four more Fishbowl Videos
The Virtual TechEd Fishbowl Editors have been at it again. Four more great videos. The Wide Ranging...
Author: Andrew Coates [MSFT] Date: 09/19/2007
NSW.Net Event - Directions in High Performance Computing: Sydney, Friday 21 September
Hear Frank Chism, world expert in high performance computing, discuss the future of cluster server...
Author: Andrew Coates [MSFT] Date: 09/19/2007
Funniest Home Videos - Oz Partner Style
Great initiative from Christian Longstaff and the local Partner Team Following the success of...
Author: Andrew Coates [MSFT] Date: 09/19/2007
Office DevCons - Sydney (November 3-4) and San Jose (February 10-13)
As I posted previously, Grahame Seach is pulling together the community Office DevCon in Sydney this...
Author: Andrew Coates [MSFT] Date: 09/18/2007
(fish)Bowling for TechEd
Two new videos from the Virtual TechEd FishBowl. While you're at it, check out the BuilderAU video...
Author: Andrew Coates [MSFT] Date: 09/12/2007
More Great .NET 3.0 Training in Australia
I just got this note from Faith Rees about some exciting .NET 3.0 training being conducted by our...
Author: Andrew Coates [MSFT] Date: 09/11/2007
ViaWindowsLive.com - for Windows Live Developers
Tatham and Dr Neil alluded to it in their fishbowl interview, and now Anna's been plugging it too....
Author: Andrew Coates [MSFT] Date: 09/10/2007
The Fishbowl Hits Keep On Coming
More great work from the Virtual TechEd Team. Check out the new videos from the Fishbowl: Tablet...
Author: Andrew Coates [MSFT] Date: 09/09/2007
OpenXMLDeveloper.org - for all your OpenXML Development Needs
As you might expect, there's been a bit of discussion on the internal aliases about the results of...
Author: Andrew Coates [MSFT] Date: 09/05/2007
Mobile Development Community Sites
Soon to be East-Coastian Nick Randolph has just posted pointing to some great Windows Mobile...
Author: Andrew Coates [MSFT] Date: 09/05/2007
SBS Technical Training - Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Adelaide, Perth
Via Wayne. The Microsoft Small Business Server 2003 R2 Readiness program is a Microsoft initiative...
Author: Andrew Coates [MSFT] Date: 09/04/2007
More Videos from the Virtual Tech•Ed Fishbowl
A bunch more of the videos from the Virtual Tech•Ed Fishbowl on the Gold Coast have gone up....
Author: Andrew Coates [MSFT] Date: 09/04/2007
New TechTalkBlogs Editors
In my farewell post to the previous Editors of TechTalkBlogs, I dropped five hints about the next...
Author: Andrew Coates [MSFT] Date: 09/03/2007
Heaps Gooder Spelling in Live Writer
Tired of squiggly lines under correctly spelt words like colour and flavour (not to mention anything...
Author: Andrew Coates [MSFT] Date: 08/31/2007
Calling All Geek Girls
Over at TechTalkBlogs, Bronwen has put out a call for all geek girls to contact her (now I'm going...
Author: Andrew Coates [MSFT] Date: 08/30/2007