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Wed, Jul 29 2009 8:18

Send Sara Ford to Tech-Ed Australia, vote

An excellent opportunity has come up to get Sara Ford shipped down under to present at Microsoft Tech-Ed Australia! Sara put a petition video together which you can watch here . Afterwards head on over to the twtpoll and put your vote to good use by voting...
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Mon, Mar 30 2009 17:59

Australia’s very own Visual Studio Tools Product Manager is blogging – Welcome Joerg Lindner

So this is how we put Australia on the developer tools map!! Joerg Lindner, who recently joined us from Germany, is blogging – yeps, Australia’s very own Visual Studio Tools Product Manager is blogging. Needless to say, it’s coming on a good time, with...
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Wed, Jan 28 2009 8:33

Linked .Net Users Group - Deepen your Debugging: Tips and Tricks for the Visual Studio 2008 Debugger

One of the cool aspects of LinkedIn is that you can create groups - well, a group was created and we've rounded the 16,000 member mark (well done to Inbar Gazit , founder of the group). The group was previously known as the C# Professionals Group...
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Mon, Dec 29 2008 10:32

Visual Studio Developer Promotions!!

Developers, Developers, Developers!! Joerg Lindner sent me this link and i figured i’d share it with the rest of you! Microsoft just released their Visual Studio 2008 Developer Promotions website, which has some seriously good deals if you’re considering...
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Mon, Dec 15 2008 10:39

How do I - Visual Studio 2008 videos

Here's a good collection of "How do I" videos for Visual Studio 2008. Ranging from running tests, backing up TFS and how to use the VS2008 SDK, there's plenty to sink your teeth into. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-au/vsts2008/bb507749...
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Fri, Aug 15 2008 8:38

Visual Studio 2008 SP1 and .Net 3.5 SP1 released to RTM

I’m surprised that ScottGu didn’t post this news – but i guess he needs a well deserved rest after the work that’s been done with .Net 3.5 SP1. Anyways, the long awaited Visual Studio 2008 SP1 and .Net 3.5 SP1 has now finally reached RTM. .Net 3.5 SP1...
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Fri, Jul 25 2008 9:20

Visual Studio Gallery - addins, tools, templates etc for VS2005 and VS2008

I'm sure that for many people this isn't news but i figured i'd regurgitate it anyways as i seem to loose some of my tools whenever i move onto another project (as i'm mainly client bound) and keep forgetting where i got them from. So...
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Wed, Jul 2 2008 8:32

Visual Studio 2008 Extensions for Windows SharePoint Services – epic fail

I think it’s really about time that VS2008, which is the development flagship, gets up to speed and starts enabling developers! The push from MS has for a long time been 64-bit…go 64-bit OS…64-bit, 64-bit and then a bit more 64-bit. But where is the support...
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Wed, Jul 2 2008 8:03

Visual Studio SharePoint Tools Blog Launched…phenomenal!!

Yeps – as the title indicates a new blog has been launched over at MSDN! It’s good to hear that the Visual Studio Business Applications SharePoint Tools QA team has joined us in the blogosphere (phew, long name for that team!!). They are promising a range...
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Thu, May 29 2008 12:45

Visual Studio 2008 error notification...when not to make sense

A colleague of mine who's working on the same project as I am, got an error today in Visual Studio 2008 (when he was building the app) which just made a lot of sense...or..did it. Brilliant!!! "The operation completed successfully" is registered...
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Fri, Nov 23 2007 16:45

Visual Studio 2008 downloaded...time to play

Well, i've heard on the grapewine that the downloads for VS2008 was exceedingly slow - obviously because of the demand - and i also had 2-5b/sec transfer rates to it on the day it got released. Anyways, today i kicked off another download and it was...
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Wed, Oct 17 2007 15:12

Stacks and Stacks of free training

This here Stacks and Stacks of free training is beyond a doubt the best news i've had today. I took a look at the list of free e-learning material available and here's some of those that really jumped out at me: Clinic 7045: What's New in...
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Fri, Oct 5 2007 8:58

When a presentation goes so well i'm left speechless!

Last night I attended the Perth .Net Community of Practise 's event, presented by a friend of mine, Nick Randolph and it was a brilliant presentation. Nick presented on Visual Studio 2008 and he simply keeps on improving. The presentation was so well...
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Sun, Sep 30 2007 21:50

Run IT on a Virtual Hard Disk

I don't know how often i've had to delay playing with a new piece of released technology, just because I was in the middle of another set of tests and simply didn't have the time to create my own virtual server environment again to accommodate...
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Thu, Aug 16 2007 8:06

VS2008 Beta 2 strange behavior resolved..

Shortly after blogging about a bug in the VS2008 Beta 2 release i received an email from Valentina Keremidarska from Microsoft, requesting some log files from the install. I'm happy to say that after a few emails back and fourth, where Valentina asked...
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Sat, Aug 4 2007 22:09

VS2008 Beta 2 strange behavior..

After getting hold of Microsoft Secure Content Downloader CTP i downloaded Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2 Team System and started installing it yesterday. It got interrupted twice, first by Trend and later by a Windows Update that decided it needed to restart...
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Sun, Jul 29 2007 21:51

Best way to get Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2 - Microsoft Secure Content Downloader 2007 CTP

I thought i'd bring this to peoples attention after having had some seriously slow speeds when downloading Betas from MSFT. Even via the MSDN subscriptions it can sometimes be extremely slow..and then if it fails you have to locate the download again...
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