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2016 12
- My top tips for a Successful Ignite Australia Session
- More Podcasting - this time for Office Developers
- Aussie IT Folk – Upskill and maybe win an XBox
- Excellent Xamarin session from dotnetConf
- Re-displaying the Consent Dialog in Graph Explorer
- //build/ is coming to Melbourne 26 May
- OfficeJS Snippet Explorer–Play with the new APIs
- Office Developer Hackathon in Melbourne May 11-12
- Office Developer Webinar Series
- CRUD with the Microsoft Graph
- Publish a static web site using Azure Web Apps
- Office Developer Webinar Series
2015 1
2014 2
2013 16
- 1000+ Unity Apps on Windows and Windows Phone
- Options for publishing Windows Phone beta apps and testing in-app purchase
- Sydney Opera House Hackathon Dec 7-8
- YOW! Conferences in Melbourne, Brisbane and Sydney
- Free Windows Azure Developer Camps in Sydney, Brisbane and Melbourne in November
- Great Windows Phone 8 Code Sample Hub
- Windows Phone 8 Update 3 Announced plus Windows Phone Preview for Developers
- Free Nokia Design/Developer Workshops in Sydney, Perth and Melbourne
- FranklySpeaking’s Back
- My Ignite Sydney Talk
- Windows Phone Game Developer Workshop in Sydney 24/25 May
- Windows Phone 8 Training Kit Updated
- IISExpress - Configuration file is not well-formed XML
- Adelaide Windows Phone 8 Training Days May 3 and 4
- Joining a Lync Webcast as a Guest
- Building a Windows Phone Transport App for NSW
2012 14
- Windows Phone 8 Development Internals book for only $10 - this week only
- More useful Windows Phone 8 Resources
- Windows Phone 8 SDK Available for Download
- Windows Phone 8 Training and Hands-On-Labs in Melbourne, Brisbane and Sydney
- Learn Azure and Save a Life
- Windows Azure - When do I use What?
- DDD Melbourne Announced for 28 July plus Call for Speakers
- Cool Azure InfoGraphic
- Excellent Windows Azure Intro Videos
- Win a Nokia 710 while Learning Windows Azure
- Windows Azure DevCamp in Sydney 19 June
- Microsoft Agile Tools Team doing Agile
- Scott Guthrie, David Campbell and Mark Russinovich at the Cricket
- Estimating and prioritising a product backlog in Sydney on 9 Feb
2011 30
- Australian and New Zealand SharePoint Conferences 2012 - Call for Speakers Closes 1 December
- Windows Azure BizSpark Startup Camp in Brisbane 2-4 December
- Free Art for your WP7 App
- SQL Server Denali Sydney Breakfast Briefing 1 December
- LightSwitch Star Contest - Win an ASUS Laptop
- Talking LightSwitch Shop with Richard
- SwitchedOn LightSwitch and Azure briefings for Wellington and Auckland
- SwitchedOn Briefing Slide Decks - LightSwitch and Azure
- LightSwitch and Azure Around Australia in October and November
- Azure Announcements at Build
- Cool LightSwitch Extensions from Aussie Developer
- Visual Studio 2010 Tips and Tricks Session
- TechEd 2011 Video Encoding Process and Status Update
- Visual Studio LightSwitch GDR for SQL Azure
- August 2011 Windows Azure Releases
- TechEd Australia Session Recordings and Decks
- TechEd Australia LightSwitch Decks and Resources
- LightSwitch Decks from TechEd NZ
- Windows Azure Toolkit for Social Games & Tankster Version 1.0 | Nathan Totten
- Document Creation and Conversion with the OpenXML SDK and SharePoint 2010 Word Automation Services – Part 2
- Counting the number of sections in an OpenXML Document
- Storytelling - A Moth-eaten theme
- More VSS to TFS Workshops this Month in MEL, SYD, BNE and Online
- TFS for VSS Users - 1/2 day training in Sydney
- Visual Studio 2010/.NET 4 Training Kit Updated
- AlphaJax Wins Onya Award
- LightSwitch Beta 2 Download and Training Kit
- Business opportunities in the cloud. NSW .NET breakfast seminar
- More Great Training in Sydney–Build a Web Application Dev Day
- Telerik running Seminars in Sydney in March
2010 12
- TechEd Australia URL Lists for downloading Videos and PowerPoint Decks
- Resources for Office and SharePoint Developers from my #APC2010 Session
- Frankly Speaking - Casting the Pod
- Australian Tech.Ed Locknote Factoids
- The Platform Story–now available as an animated Feature
- Guidance for developing applications for SharePoint 2010
- Training Kit Redux–More developer resources than you could shake a stick at
- Document Creation and Conversion with the OpenXML SDK and SharePoint 2010 Word Automation Services – Part 1
- TechEd Australia 2010 Call for Topics
- NXT2.0 Robot - The Journey Continues
- Test Post from Word 2010
- Lego Mindstorms NXT2.0 - TrophyBot
2009 33
- SharePoint Saturday Perth event
- SharePoint 2010 Extravaganza at SBTUG This Wednesday
- Turning off Proofing and Autocorrect in Word 2007
- Windows Mobile Development – Live Meeting and Competition
- New Aussie Community Blogger
- Developer training in Darwin in August
- I’m looking for a boss – is it you?
- Introduction to VS2010 and Framework 4.0
- TechEd ANZ Call for Content Closed
- Lighting up your Apps with Windows 7 - User Group Sessions
- Why should Partners come to TechEd?
- TechEd Registrations Streaming In
- TechEd ANZ Call for Content Update
- TechEd Online – Chat with Michael Kleef
- Free training in Sydney May 19-21. Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0
- Upgrade your MCP for only $25 US*
- Live Q&A with Scott Guthrie
- Launching a website from a button in Office
- Want to go to JAOO in Sydney or Brisbane next month?
- WPF in a box(s)
- Jeff (and Rocky) on Win7 Security – Webcast Friday 3 April
- CodeCapmOz April 4-5 – Speakers, Sessions, Social
- Great Azure Training in Sydney CBD Next Week (Free!)
- Tim Sneath : Announcing Family.Show v3 – Our WPF Reference Application
- More Virtual .NET Goodness with the LiDNUG
- VB6 Runtime Supported in Windows 7
- Un-Mapping Mapped Network Drives in VFP5
- Windows 7 on my Mac Mini
- Walking the Walk
- Looks like we got ourselves a convoy – Vodcast on VS2010 and .NET 4
- Ramp yourself up with Ramp Up
- CodeCampOz 2009 – April 4-5 - Registration now open
- Virtual Goodness with the Linked .NET User Group this Thursday
2008 61
- SharePoint Development – is it too easy?
- The King is Dead! – Long Live the King!
- New Melbourne User Group - Silverlight Designer and Developer Network
- Finding the Windows dpi setting in .NET
- Dave Does Data (or, "Maybe Pigs do Fly")
- My Spatial Data presentation at Ignite Spatial
- Events & more Events – a retrospective
- TechEd Attendance Competition Winner
- Visual Studio 2010 Info from the Horse’s Mouth – 14 Nov in Sydney and Online
- You want content? How about an Azure Services Training Kit? Azure Videos on Channel 9?
- FREE LINQ to SQL Training in Sydney Nov 8th
- He’s Arrived! Andrew Parsons has Entered the Building
- Demos Happen { Here } – State finals starting in Sydney tonight.
- TechEd Fever – Guess the number of paying attendees at TechEd Australia and Win!
- VSTO/OBA Thought Leadership and Clarity from Craig Bailey
- New Australian Windows Mobile Blog
- How do you become a "Successful Developer"?
- TechEd Technology Sneak Peek – tonight only
- TechEd Day 2 – The Conversation Continues
- Silverlight 2 Beta 2 Game
- Speaking at WDNUG next Wednesday
- Deploying VSTO v3 Applications - Session at our internal conference
- TechEd Day 1 - Developers, Developers, D-d-d-d-d-developers
- Tech.Ed US Day 0 - The Journey Begins
- Developing an add-in for multiple versions of Office
- WOW! It's the Technology of TechEd Track
- The Portal is Dead! Long Live the Portal!
- Content when you need it - Great training kits available
- Get twice as certified and help win your User Group $3000 worth of prizes
- OBA Sample Application Kits Release to Web
- Content from the SharePoint Forum now Available
- Got questions about Tech.Ed ANZ Tracks? Talk to the Track Owners.
- Community is where you make it
- Unable to customise context menus in PowerPoint 2007?
- Deploying VSTO 3 solutions
- More Office Developer Documentation
- Microsoft launches RoboChamps, a worldwide simulated robotics competition platform built on .NET
- Open XML Links - catching up.
- Office Object Model References on MSDN
- VSTO/VSTA Power Tools and Submitting Feedback on MS Products
- Visual Studio 2008 certifications demystified
- Machinations
- MS Press Online Store now open in Australia with discounts for UG members until the end of May
- US Tech.Ed Session Catalogues Live
- Sneak Peak ...
- Visual Studio 2008 Product Comparison Guide, v1.08
- Help us find this year's most Innovative Teachers
- Record your Demos Happen { Here } demo with Community Clips
- Speaking at the Perth SharePoint User Group - 20 May
- Off to TechEd Developers in Orlando
- Times Reader SDK Released
- Out of the darkness - Tech.ED New Zealand and Australia Track Owners
- Testing the Silverlight Streaming Publishing Experience
- SQL Server 2008 Certification Live Meeting (APAC Friendly Time)
- Holiday Toys from the Visual Studio Ecosystem Team
- More VSTS2008 Virtual Images on MSDN
- There's now a VSTO v3 Team Blog
- Another Aussie Success Story - Elcom's gone all 2008 on us
- SQL Server 2008 Readiness Events in Australia (and heaps more technologies too)
- Another HPC Webcast: Reservoir Simulation using Roxar's Tempest on Windows Compute Cluster Server
- Live Webcast: Windows HPC Server 2008 - New and Advanced Features (APAC-Friendly time)
2007 100
- Still doing Office 2003 Development? We've got you covered.
- Lots of Pre-Configured Virtual Machines for You to Use
- Visual Studio 2008 Training Workshop Recordings on Channel 9
- DotNet-U: Great training you can take and give
- VS2008 Certification Live Meeting - 24 Jan 2008
- New Visual Studio 2008 Virtual Labs
- patterns & practices - Two new guides available - Team Development and Performance Testing
- S+S Blueprint for Outlook
- Free eLearning Courses Available Online
- Australian Imagine Cup 2008 web site is now live
- Great Silverlight and OpenXML demos
- Windows Embedded Retail Seminars - Sydney and Melbourne
- MapPoint Web Services (and SQL 2k8 Spatial) Presentation for GITA
- MSDN Webcast: Building Spatial Applications with SQL Server 2008 (Level 300)
- MCT Community Summit in Sydney 29-31 Jan 2008
- .NET Framework 3.5 Namespaces Poster Available
- XNA Games Studio Express Events in Sydney and Melbourne this week
- Visual Studio Extensibility CoDe Focus Magazine Online
- .NET and VBA Interop
- Virtual Earth - Real Revenue - Workshop in Brisbane, Melbourne and Sydney
- What, more fishbowl movies?
- Illusions - How can this be true?
- Searching for Contacts in VSTO
- Recognising Talent
- Standing on the Shoulders of Giants
- Four more Fishbowl Videos
- NSW.Net Event - Directions in High Performance Computing: Sydney, Friday 21 September
- Funniest Home Videos - Oz Partner Style
- Office DevCons - Sydney (November 3-4) and San Jose (February 10-13)
- (fish)Bowling for TechEd
- ViaWindowsLive.com - for Windows Live Developers
- The Fishbowl Hits Keep On Coming
- OpenXMLDeveloper.org - for all your OpenXML Development Needs
- Mobile Development Community Sites
- SBS Technical Training - Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Adelaide, Perth
- More Videos from the Virtual Tech•Ed Fishbowl
- New TechTalkBlogs Editors
- Heaps Gooder Spelling in Live Writer
- Calling All Geek Girls
- *Tweet* - change editors!
- More Virtual Tech•Ed Videos Published
- Now you can create a connected services framework - BizTalk R2 Launch in Sydney September 14
- Sydney Business and Technology User Group this Wednesday
- Generating OpenXML Documents on the Server
- Free High Performance Computing/Compute Cluster Server Training in Sydney September 18/19
- Office DevCon in Sydney November 3-4 - Will you be there?
- Developer Readiness for Windows Server 2008
- Wow, Now I'm MCPD!
- Tech.Ed Australia Keynote posted at www.VirtualTechEd.com
- Free developer events in Sydney, Canberra and Melbourne
- OpenXML Explained Book - Hard Copy and Online
- New Non-Technical Blogs
- Tech.Ed Australia - Eval Forms
- Tech.Ed Australia - Update on US Tech.ed DVD
- VSTO Resources
- TeamPlain Evolved
- Team System Chat this Thursday August 2 - Now with APAC-Friendly Time
- Sponsor Cabana Sessions added to Commnet
- Learning Online with Virtual Labs - Microsoft Office Virtual Labs
- Tech•Ed Australia and New Zealand Session Schedules
- Learning Online with Virtual Labs - ASP.NET Virtual Labs
- Learning Online with Virtual Labs - Soup to Nuts Virtual Labs
- Learning Online with Virtual Labs - Microsoft Visual Studio Team System Virtual Labs
- Learning Online with Virtual Labs - .NET Framework 3.0 Virtual Labs
- Certification at Tech.Ed
- Learning Online with Virtual Labs - SQL Server 2005 Upgrade
- What version of TFS am I Running?
- Learning Online with Virtual Labs - Microsoft Search Solutions for the Enterprise
- Learning Online with Virtual Labs - Business Intelligence
- TechEd Day 3 - Behind the Scenes
- TechEd Day 2 - User Groups: Benefiting You and Our Community! Starting, Running, and Succeeding with Your User Group!
- TechEd Day 1 - Keynote
- TechEd Day 0 - ASP.NET Ajax Pre-Conference Session
- TechEd Day 0 - The Bag
- Sydney Business and Technology User Group First Meeting - it was HUGE!
- Sydney .NET User Group 16 May - NEW LOCATION AND TIME
- ReMix Australia Accommodation Deal
- Review - Wireless Presenter Mouse 8000
- Office Business Applications - Download or Free Hard Copy
- NSW.NET Speed Networking Event for Business Development Managers
- ReMix Australia Registrations Now Open
- MEDC Australia Site Live
- Making your MCP Transcript Public
- WPF? Pah!
- Enabling the Word 2007 Developer Tab
- ECMA Office Open XML Session at OzFox
- Microsoft Virtual Hard Disk Partners
- OzFox 2007 Kicks off in Sydney
- ASP.NET AJAX Online Training
- SharePoint and ASP.NET AJAX
- Great Media Centre Resources
- TechEd Thinking Part 3a - More Badge Fun
- TechEd Thinking Part 3 - What should we have on your badge?
- Sidebar Gadget from the Gadget Guy
- Juval Lowy does Sydney
- New SQL Server CE Portal
- Canberra VSTS User Group Rocks the House
- Australian ISV Innovation Days
- New VSTS/TFS User Group in Canberra
- The pyramid expands
2006 54
- TechEd 2007 Thinking Part 1
- Use the new Office Ribbon UI in your Applications Today!
- Teaching programming to primary school kids - Part 2
- How I learned to stop worrying and love the rebuild
- Make and Mend Day - Installation, Configuration and Celebration
- Thoughts and Links about the Ecma Office Open XML Formats
- Introduction to .NET presentations for DiData in Canberra
- New Books Arrive
- Teaching "Programming" to primary school kids
- I'm feeling so Web 1.0
- More Developer Evangelists Please!
- Read and write Office 2007 format files from versions of Office back to Office 2000
- Team System Chat Tomorrow
- Windows Vista Secrets
- VSTS Resource Guide for Developers and Architects
- Great bunch of ASP.NET Resources
- Ready Summit Thought Bubble Game
- Developer Tools Roadmap - Premier Account Briefing
- Building Applications that Integrate with Office
- User Interface Guidelines for Windows Development
- Using TFS from Visual FoxPro
- Great VSTO Resources
- The Haiku Hits Keep On Coming
- What does TechEd AU look like for me?
- Logo Generator
- Does this make me a Cabana Boy?
- Live Writer Beta is Out
- User Groups at Work
- Community Project at TechEd Australia is GO!
- The TechEd Developer Goodness just gets Gooder and Gooder!
- New ASP.NET 2.0 Web Parts Book from Darren Neimke
- TechEd Australia and New Zealand - Developer Tools Track - Draft Session Plan
- Software as a Service - Architectural Considerations
- Expression Web Designer CTP1
- Cavemen for PocketPC - these guys rock!
- What would make you come to Tech•Ed?
- 3 Days Vista Developer Training for AUD200
- Sun Developers Conference in Sydney - Part III
- Sun Developers Conference in Sydney - Part II
- Sun Developers Conference in Sydney - Part I
- Managing SQL Server Express
- Internet Safety for Kids
- TFS MSSCCI Provider Update
- OzFox Lite Rocks the house!
- FoxTabs on the front of FoxTalk
- How do I add rules to FxCop?
- Developing with Least Privilege
- 2-Day BI Workshops. Melbourne, Brisbane, Canberra, Perth and Adelaide
- Team Foundation User Admin Tool now works against the TFS RC
- Using TFS with Non-VS2005 Clients
- VFP Sedna March CTP Now Online
- 2-Day VSTS Training available in Sydney, Melbourne, Canberra and Brisbane
- TFS MSSCCI Provider Beta 2 Released and it works* with VFP
- Team Foundation Server MSSCCI Provider with VFP
2005 56
- Studying for another Beta Exam (71-536)
- Watching Webcasts in Half the Time
- Rehearsals for Ready! Launch Tour
- 71-528 Study Group Chats - Fourth Transcript Posted
- New Web Deployment Projects Add-in
- Bootstrapper Manifest Generator RTM Version Released
- Third Study Group Session Transcript Posted
- Using the AdRotator Class + Dynamic Image Generation in ASP.NET 2.0
- VFP Goodness Locally and Globally
- 71-528 Second Study Group Chat Session Transcript Posted
- New Machine Checklist
- 71-528 First Study Group Chat Transcript Posted
- First Beta Exam Study Chat Tonight (Sydney time)
- Home page for 71-528 Study Group
- Online Study group for Beta Exam 71-528
- Darwin on the origin of Support
- Dr Neil's Extreme .NET event back around Australia by popular demand - Discount for MSDN Connection Members
- Virtual Earth - Now available for Commercial Use
- PDC2005 Keynote - Search, RSS and Pretty UIs
- VSTO Session at TechEd NZ
- Adelaide Developer Passes 4 MCP Exams in 2 Days at TechEd on the Gold Coast!
- Aus-DotNet List moving Mail Servers
- MapPoint Web Service COM wrapper and VFP Sample
- Great new secure development resource from the Patterns and Pracrices group.
- HP 6365 in the USA - another blonde moment.
- Sydney Visual FoxPro User Group
- Testing BlogJet
- New VSTS Community Site
- Visual Studio 2005 Team System Beta 2 VPC Available on MSDN Subscriber Downloads
- NewsGator and VSTO Outlook Add-ins Do Mix Now
- NewsGator and VSTO Outlook Add-ins Don't Mix
- Why I Love Server-Side E-Mail (and contacts and appointments)
- Threading just got a whole lot easier with VS2005
- Celebrity Opportunity in Adelaide
- MapPoint Web Services Presentation and Code Posted
- Get into the Express Lane with Microsoft Visual C# Express
- WORKAROUND - VS2005 Beta2 Keyboard Stops Responding
- VSTS Webcasts Posted
- VC# Express Beta2 and MapPoint WebService (oh man!)
- New MSDN Article - Configuring ClickOnce Trusted Publishers
- Proposed MDEC Australia Agenda
- Why would you go to a User Group?
- CodeCampOz Day 0
- Register Visual Studio 2005 Beta 2, get a free online book from MS Press
- SQL Server 2005 Virtual Hands On Labs
- Visual FoxPro Survey
- MS eLearning available NOW! Start with 64-bit.
- SQL Server 2005 Webcasts in April
- Great article on Active Directory, ADAM and System.DirectoryServices
- Enterprise Library Webcasts
- Adding Ink Controls to .NET Applications
- Using MapPoint to implement a Geofence
- Greg Low's SQL 2005 for Developers Session now online
- ClickOnce Webcast Session Posted
- Another great week of webcasts
- Code Camp
2004 37
- Techno Holiday
- VFP Product Manager Ken Levy on Channel 9 (or, "The Second Most Common Question")
- More Office Development Resources
- VSTO 2.0 Demo Videos
- VFP 9.0 Released to Manufacturing
- Creating a SQLCLR SP in SQL2005
- Visual FoxPro - Do we still sell that?
- SQL Server 2005 Beta 2 Resource Kit Available in Australia
- ADNUG MEETING WED 8th December SA Innovation Centre AUDITORIUM
- VFP 9.0 release date
- OzFox Starts Tomorrow!
- ADNUG ACS badged .net training in Adelaide
- Building Windows Forms Webcasts.
- Visual FoxPro Articles
- Sydney VFP User Group Webcast Recording Now Online
- Sydney VFP User Group WebCast
- Training and More
- MSDN Updates in Western Sydney?
- Microsoft Speak
- VFP User Groups in Sydney and Melbourne, and even more VFP Stuff
- Pros and Cons of re-writing, or "If it ain't broke ..."
- Online Chat: Visual C++ 2005 Library and Runtime Enhancements (5am - 6am Sep 17 AEST)
- Online chat: Upgrading COM Applications to .NET with Visual C++ 2005 (5am-6am Sep 3 AEST)
- Route64 Comes To Sydney
- QMSDNUG August Meeting Notice
- Tech•Ed Channel9 Video
- Visual FoxPro 9.0 Beta Component Refresh available
- Behind the Scenes at Tech•Ed in Canberra
- ADNUG Whidbey-Fest
- Where's the Fox?
- Who is Australia's best IT employer?
- InfoPath Presentation at OpenPublish
- Great GIS Software - Sensational Platform
- OzFox 2004 Super Early Bird Discount Expiring Soon
- Windows XP SP2 Developer Implications Presentation and Code Posted -- ASP.NET 2.0 Presentations and Code Posted
- VSTO Webcasts
- Mmm - Alienware - mmm