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MEDC Australia Site Live
The Australia and New Zealand mobile and Embedded Developers Conference (MEDC) is on in Sydney on...
Author: Andrew Coates [MSFT] Date: 04/04/2007
Making your MCP Transcript Public
One of my colleagues pinged me yesterday asking how someone could prove to their employer that they...
Author: Andrew Coates [MSFT] Date: 04/03/2007
WPF? Pah!
I'm sitting in Joseph Cooney's (excellent) session on WPF at CodeCampOz, and it seems to me that the...
Author: Andrew Coates [MSFT] Date: 04/01/2007
Enabling the Word 2007 Developer Tab
One of the things that took me the longest to do when I was prepping for my OzFox Session was also...
Author: Andrew Coates [MSFT] Date: 02/28/2007
ECMA Office Open XML Session at OzFox
[Update - Fixed link to presentation. Thanks yag] Last night I delivered my session at OzFox -...
Author: Andrew Coates [MSFT] Date: 02/26/2007
Microsoft Virtual Hard Disk Partners
I've been at a couple of sessions this week where this has come up (ISV Innovation Day and OzFox)....
Author: Andrew Coates [MSFT] Date: 02/26/2007
OzFox 2007 Kicks off in Sydney
I'm sitting in the keynote of OzFox, Australia's FoxPro Conference. Craig's kicking things off and...
Author: Andrew Coates [MSFT] Date: 02/24/2007
ASP.NET AJAX Online Training
Via Brian Goldfarb.Microsoft Learning have just released Clinic 5230: Developing Enhanced Web...
Author: Andrew Coates [MSFT] Date: 02/22/2007
SharePoint and ASP.NET AJAX
I had some great questions after my session at the ISV Innovation Day in Melbourne yesterday. One...
Author: Andrew Coates [MSFT] Date: 02/22/2007
Great Media Centre Resources
Tomorrow, during the Melbourne leg of the ISV innovation days, I'm going to be talking about some of...
Author: Andrew Coates [MSFT] Date: 02/20/2007
TechEd Thinking Part 3a - More Badge Fun
I've had some great comments on yesterday's post about the TechEd Badge. As well as his comments...
Author: Andrew Coates [MSFT] Date: 02/20/2007
TechEd Thinking Part 3 - What should we have on your badge?
I'm sitting down with Tania, the event owner for TechEd Australia and we're puzzling over what...
Author: Andrew Coates [MSFT] Date: 02/19/2007
Sidebar Gadget from the Gadget Guy
As Frank posted, Australia's Gadget Guy, Peter Blasina, now has a Vista Sidebar Gadget. The guys at...
Author: Andrew Coates [MSFT] Date: 02/15/2007
Juval Lowy does Sydney
Apart from presenting Readify's WCF Masterclasses in Melbourne (last week) and Sydney (this week),...
Author: Andrew Coates [MSFT] Date: 02/13/2007
New SQL Server CE Portal
Nick Randolph just pinged me to tell me about a new portal he's set up for people using SQL Server...
Author: Andrew Coates [MSFT] Date: 02/11/2007
Canberra VSTS User Group Rocks the House
It's 8am and I'm sitting in the inaugural meeting of the Canberra VSTS User Group. The turn-out is...
Author: Andrew Coates [MSFT] Date: 01/23/2007
Australian ISV Innovation Days
Dave, Dave, Chuck and I have been working with Luisa Pagliarini and were asked to put together the...
Author: Andrew Coates [MSFT] Date: 01/18/2007
New VSTS/TFS User Group in Canberra
I got this note from Nils today. See you there! I’d like to make you aware of the new Visual...
Author: Andrew Coates [MSFT] Date: 01/10/2007
The pyramid expands
Darren's been tagged and, in turn, has passed it on to me. When I was chatting a couple of weeks ago...
Author: Andrew Coates [MSFT] Date: 01/03/2007
TechEd 2007 Thinking Part 1
TechEd 2007 is happening in Australia (on the Gold Coast) August 8-10 and in New Zealand (in...
Author: Andrew Coates [MSFT] Date: 12/22/2006
Use the new Office Ribbon UI in your Applications Today!
One of the first things that happens when a new version of Office appears is that people start to...
Author: Andrew Coates [MSFT] Date: 11/29/2006
Teaching programming to primary school kids - Part 2
We had our second meeting of the School Programming Club last Monday. As the boys want to write an...
Author: Andrew Coates [MSFT] Date: 11/29/2006
How I learned to stop worrying and love the rebuild
One of the questions I get from time to time is "don't you get tired of rebuilding your machine all...
Author: Andrew Coates [MSFT] Date: 11/27/2006
Make and Mend Day - Installation, Configuration and Celebration
I recently upgraded my Toshiba Tecra A7 to the RTM versions of Vista and Office 2007, and have been...
Author: Andrew Coates [MSFT] Date: 11/26/2006
Thoughts and Links about the Ecma Office Open XML Formats
While on the Ready tour, I've had lots of interest about the session I'm doing on the Ecma Office...
Author: Andrew Coates [MSFT] Date: 11/23/2006
Introduction to .NET presentations for DiData in Canberra
I had a great time yesterday presenting to some of Dimension Data's customers in Canberra. This is...
Author: Andrew Coates [MSFT] Date: 11/22/2006
New Books Arrive
Update - Andrew and Nick reminded me that their book arrived (thanks Andrew - Nick I still need it...
Author: Andrew Coates [MSFT] Date: 11/20/2006
Teaching "Programming" to primary school kids
I had a phone call last week from the head of the learning centre at my kids' school. The learning...
Author: Andrew Coates [MSFT] Date: 11/20/2006
I'm feeling so Web 1.0
I can't believe I haven't claimed this blog on Technorati before now. Here's my Technorati Profile.
Author: Andrew Coates [MSFT] Date: 11/18/2006
More Developer Evangelists Please!
As part of the developer keynote on the Ready tour, I've been introducing myself and my role at...
Author: Andrew Coates [MSFT] Date: 11/09/2006
Read and write Office 2007 format files from versions of Office back to Office 2000
One of my sessions at the Ready summit is about how developers can take advantage of the new...
Author: Andrew Coates [MSFT] Date: 11/09/2006
Team System Chat Tomorrow
If you're up at 5AM Sydney time tomorrow (9 Nov), Join members of the Visual Studio Team System...
Author: Andrew Coates [MSFT] Date: 11/07/2006
Windows Vista Secrets
Tim Sneath, one of the Windows Vista Technology Evangelists, has a great series going on his blog -...
Author: Andrew Coates [MSFT] Date: 11/02/2006
VSTS Resource Guide for Developers and Architects
This is a centralised resource guide for developers and architects interested in evaluating Visual...
Author: Andrew Coates [MSFT] Date: 11/02/2006
Great bunch of ASP.NET Resources
ASP.NET 2.0 ASP.NET Quickstart Tutorialhttps://www.asp.net/QuickStart/aspnet/doc/whatsnew.aspx...
Author: Andrew Coates [MSFT] Date: 11/02/2006
Ready Summit Thought Bubble Game
Over on TechTalk Blogs, new Guest Editor and fellow Ready Summit Speaker, Mitch Denny, has thrown...
Author: Andrew Coates [MSFT] Date: 10/22/2006
Developer Tools Roadmap - Premier Account Briefing
Update - Trouble seems to be publishing to FTP sites through my new ISA server at home. Presentation...
Author: Andrew Coates [MSFT] Date: 10/20/2006
Building Applications that Integrate with Office
Show #7 of The Microsoft Developer Show, on building applications with VSTO is now live on The...
Author: Andrew Coates [MSFT] Date: 09/26/2006
User Interface Guidelines for Windows Development
I get this question a bit, and it was asked again today on the Stanski list: "Where can I find UI...
Author: Andrew Coates [MSFT] Date: 09/26/2006
New Team Foundation Server Mailing List in Australia
Grant Holliday sent me a note last night announcing that he's set up a new mailing list to deal with...
Author: Andrew Coates [MSFT] Date: 09/17/2006
Using TFS from Visual FoxPro
Eric Lee, Product Manager for Team Foundation Server, has been in town for a couple of days after...
Author: Andrew Coates [MSFT] Date: 08/30/2006
Great VSTO Resources
Following my TechEd session in Auckland, and in anticipation of my TechEd session in Sydney. All via...
Author: Andrew Coates [MSFT] Date: 08/21/2006
The Haiku Hits Keep On Coming
Tech•Ed looms ever nearerConsumes all my timeSee you on the other side If you need a...
Author: Andrew Coates [MSFT] Date: 08/18/2006
What does TechEd AU look like for me?
A few others have posted their TechEd schedule, so I thought I'd pop mine up too. Easy to read huh?...
Author: Andrew Coates [MSFT] Date: 08/18/2006
Logo Generator
I had to go (dot) one better than Frank :)
Author: Andrew Coates [MSFT] Date: 08/16/2006
Does this make me a Cabana Boy?
[Update - fixed the DDLS link and added Cabana session titles for all sponsors] [Update 2 - changed...
Author: Andrew Coates [MSFT] Date: 08/16/2006
Live Writer Beta is Out
There's a new off-line blogging tool in town. Frank's blogged about it, so have Jeff, Tristan and...
Author: Andrew Coates [MSFT] Date: 08/15/2006