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Friday, August 15, 2008 8:38 AM

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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Thursday, April 03, 2008 10:53 AM

Bill Ryan is ready to consult!

Bill Ryan [MVP], an overall great guy, professional and adept in all manner of technologies are taking the step into consulting. Bill's been reaping the rewards and gaining some valuable experiences, while working at Magenic as a principal consultant...
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Monday, February 25, 2008 5:51 AM

ASP.Net MVC Framework articles

Naturally being in the web industry you HAVE to subscribe to Scott Guthrie's blog. Lately he's been posting a lot of news on the ASP.Net MVC Framework - something I think has been missing from the .Net framework for a loooong time. As always,...
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Monday, November 12, 2007 10:00 PM

Free Code Focus magazine issue...

Excerpt: VSX CoDe Focus magazine is now online at http://code-magazine.com/focus/vsx . Microsoft sponsored this special edition of CoDe Magazine on the topic of VSX. The entire 76 page magazine is available online in multi-page HTML format and also as...
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Wednesday, October 31, 2007 5:56 PM

Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) @ Perth .Net Community of Practice

Tomorrow I'll be presenting on Windows Communication Foundation at the Perth .Net Community of Practice - My first presentation on .Net 3.0 and my second presentation at the user group. First one was on ADO.Net. Windows Communication Foundation (WCF...
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Tuesday, October 16, 2007 10:37 AM

Is a smart developer an efficient developer?

note: this is a poke at Nick Randolph .. Nick , watch this space :) VB.Net: Dim x As Integer C#: int x; what else is there..let me think.. VB.Net: While i < 100 i += 1 End While C#: while (i < 100) n++; i must admit, ensuring that you indicate this...
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Wednesday, October 10, 2007 9:54 AM

Multiple namespaces in a project

Here's a funny one - last night I had a chat to a new developer. He's throwing himself into .Net and leaving Java (good on him!). After having had a look at his code, which is generally sound, he has a LOT of projects. His response was "a...
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Thursday, October 04, 2007 7:57 AM

Microsoft is releasing the .Net framework source code

It's a milestone in development - finally, the source code for the .Net framework is being released. At 9am local Redmond time, Scott Guthrie made the announcement via his blog. Link to Releasing the Source Code for the .NET Framework Libraries -...
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Thursday, July 12, 2007 11:03 PM

Ozzie Rules Blogging : Release Candidate of Windows Presentation Foundation labs now available!!

Charles "Chuck" Stirling has just released a nice 3 part series of labs for WPF. After having a good read through them, i'm surprised in how much effort he must have put into these "manuals". If you haven't already had a read...
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Thursday, June 14, 2007 12:52 AM

I see things....

Lately i've seen a lot of "hysterics" from the Open-Source community about Ruby and how Ruby is going to take development to another level and how the Microsoft .Net platform is shaken and loosing followers. Haven't we seen this all...
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Wednesday, April 18, 2007 11:13 PM

Perth Central Tafe Presentation - Professional .Net Development

Today I had the longest presentation i've yet to do - nearly 4hrs long - for Perth Central Tafe, a tertiary educational institution. I broke the presentation down into 4 main groups: .Net Framework - Overview of a development platform ASP.Net - Working...
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Wednesday, April 04, 2007 12:04 AM

FeedGhost - When an application is cool to start with...

I must remember to thank Davo for putting me onto FeedGhost in his post earlier today . Well, i downloaded it and while it was installing (took a while cause i had tons of other stuff running - but i took the opportunity to actually take a look at the...
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Tuesday, March 27, 2007 2:12 PM

Is this normal, or am i being anal?

One of the tools i use is ReSharper - i love this tool and cannot...live...without...it.. A feature i really like is the code analysis bar on the right hand side of the code window. I especially love seeing the little square go green - and stay that way...
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Wednesday, March 21, 2007 2:31 PM

Hosted Team Foundation Server...

It's actually surprised me quite a bit that the results for searching for Hosted Team Foundation Server on Google or Live Search shows up nada..zip..zero.. I'm sure there's plenty of technical issues around such a service, but insofar as i can see it...
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Wednesday, March 21, 2007 12:50 PM

Bye to GotDotNet - or is it bye?

Shame on your MSFT!!! One of the best sites/communities at the moment found online, GotDotNet.com is being laid off. Microsoft's has decided to put it on the shelf as of July 2007. To me, it's a big hit but i do suppose I don't see the statistics behind...
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Saturday, February 24, 2007 6:50 PM

Perth Bloggers Call Out!!!

Nick Randolph decided to band the Perth bloggers together and form a World Domination Consortium - the aim is to take over the world, one blog at a time... ok, not really, but it had initially such an evil sound to it. But for real, he has just set up...
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Wednesday, February 21, 2007 4:48 PM

Code crunching getting boring? Spice up your code with coding4fun

Believe it or not, but i actually wasn't aware of MSDN's Coding4Fun site until this weekend - i was looking for some info and saw this MSDN site linked on Live Search and thought..hmmm...click click click..open in new tab.. A whole host of applications...
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Wednesday, February 21, 2007 4:39 PM

Reflector 5.0 has been released

It's here - Reflector 5.0 has been released and i'm sure a lot of people has been waiting patiently for it. On Lutz Roeder's site you can find links to Reflector and the different add-ins that's available. I'm not entirely sure but i don't think there...
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Monday, January 15, 2007 7:52 PM

C# Code tips #3, Strings

As most of us has figured out, string comparison is a performance bottleneck - so why do we do it? Well, data is most often in a humanly friendly format (eg. we can read it), and secondly we need to manipulate data to display to an end-user - both cases...
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Thursday, December 07, 2006 6:03 AM

major event for Western Australia "Camp Vista"

Together with Charles Stirling , David Lemphers , Michael Kleef , Mitch Wheat and the rest of the UG presidents here in Perth, we're trying to organise an event very much like Code Camp held in the eastern states (Wagga Wagga). Charles Stirling , the...
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