[Event] MSDN UNPLUGGED Dunedin – February 2009

February 2009 MSDN UNPLUGGED Dunedin – Take your Applications to the Cloud and Beyond – PDC, Visual Studio, Azure, Office 14 and Windows 7
Time: Wednesday, 18 February 2009 4:00 p.m – 5:30 p.m.
Welcome Time: 3:45 p.m.
Scenic Circle Southern Cross Hotel
Speight Room
Cnr Princes and High Streets
Dunedin
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Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0 Overview

Visual Studio 2010 and the .NET Framework 4.0 mark the next generation of developer tools from Microsoft. Designed to address the latest needs of developers, Visual Studio and the .NET Framework deliver key innovations in the following pillars:

Democratizing Application Lifecycle Management
Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) crosses many roles within an organization and traditionally not every one [...]

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Register Now for the 2009 Microsoft Imagine Cup Competition

Imagine Cup is a competition held by Microsoft every year to encourage the students all around the world to use technologies to solve real world problems.  The competition have a different theme every year, and this year, the theme is:
Imagine a world where technology helps solve the toughest problems facing us today.

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Microsoft Technical UNPLUGGED Sessions (Dunedin)

In September and October, Nigel Parker will present MSDN UNPLUGGED sessions created specifically for web focused developers to “get ready” for what is coming next. Nigel will discuss readiness and enhancements with Internet Explorer 8. Nigel will introduce Silverlight 2 and WPF 3.5 for developers focused on service enabled rich client development and then lead [...]

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Internet Explorer 7 freezes at startup? | How to disable add-ons for IE7

Last Friday I went to a friend’s place to take a look of their computer because they think it have viruses on it.  Their computer wasn’t as bad as I thought……but then again the computer was quite fast; so having a few viruses / Trojans running at the background probably won’t make much difference [...]

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[University of Otago] Firefox’s Proxy Auto Detection Problem in Vista

The ability for web browsers to automatically detect proxy settings is really useful when you have to switch between multiple networks all the time.  With Internet Explorer, proxy settings are being detected in both XP and Vista, but things aren’t going so well with Firefox!  If you are using Vista and Firefox happens to be [...]

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Imagine Cup 2008 – Vote for your favorite team!

I still remember the times we had in Auckland last year when we competed for the Microsoft Imagine Cup NZ Final…although its nearly one year on…but to me, it feel like everything just happened yesterday

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Microsoft’s DEV JAM 2008 (13th of March) @ the University of Otago

DEV JAM is Microsoft’s yearly orientation event that starts on the 4th
of March. The Microsoft Academic Team Paul, Ryan and Tarryn will be
visiting the Otago Campus on the 13th this month. This year the event
is focused on showcasing some of the new technologies including
gaming, user experience and streaming videos. There will also [...]

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Internet Explorer 8 Beta1 pass the Acid2 Test!

I’ve downloaded and installed the Internet Explorer 8 Beta1 (IE8 Beta1) this afternoon…the interface looks very similar to IE7 (of course), with a few enhancements (E.g. the Zoom feature)…

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Setting the StartUp Project in Visual Studio 2008

Q. Say you have a Solution in Visual Studio with a few Projects…and you’ve finished debugging with the first one…how do you move on and debug your next Project?

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2008 Summer Road Trip – register now! – Dunedin 18/02/2008

Summer is here! And with it is coming new technology from Microsoft that will affect how we design and build infrastructure and applications.Come and join [...]

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Service Pack 1 for Office 2007

Looks like Microsoft is giving us “an early present” by releasing the SP1 for Office 2007 before XMAS The first service pack for Office 2007 is suppose to be out on the 11th of December…but the link doesn’t seem to be working tonight
Check out this link: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/default.aspx
At the [...]

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The Quick Access Toolbar in Office 2007

Lately I’ve been busy learning Office 2007. So far I’ve finished Excel and I am now half way through Word 2007. Currently I am planning to finish PowerPoint, Publisher and Outlook before Christmas.
I am learning these things for two reasons: 1st: we can’t get away from Microsoft Office…its everywhere! [...]

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Introduction to Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) Presented by Ivan Towlson

http://dot.net.nz/Default.aspx?tabid=1&mid=388&ctl=Detail&xmid=1767&xmfid=2
Introduction to Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF)
Dunedin 28/11/2007
Gather at 5:30pm, starting at 6:00pm (finishing 7:30pm)
Catering: Pizza and drinks will be served prior to the presentation commencing.
Door Charge: FREE
Venue: Centre for Innovation, University of Otago (downstairs seminar room), 87 St David Street

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All sorted for the ChCh Boot Camp!

I have to say this is the first time I’ve ever done any planning for my trips I’ve always thought it will take a long time to plan for a trip, and its impossible to do it within a day or two, but this time I’ve proven that planning could be a [...]

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Christchurch Code Camp Boot Camp Nov 3-4

Chaks and I will be going down to Christchurch on 2nd of Nov to take part in the NZ Dot Net User Group’s Boot Camp. One of the best thing about this Boot Camp is that a lot of people from the industry and even Microsoft are coming to give us a presentation on [...]

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Launchy – Quicksilver for Windows

Quicksilver is one of my favorite apps on the Mac platform, but what about Windows? Is there anything we could use on Windows that acts more or less the same as Quicksilver on the Macs? Well, it turns out that there are quite a few! I personally prefer Launchy, which is an [...]

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How to extend Vista’s trial period to 120 days.

If your friends are still not sure whether they should get Vista or not, then you can tell them to use Vista as a trial and experience this great OS themselves. But the initial trial period is only 30 days, and for some, that’s not enough, so what can we do? Reinstall every [...]

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A lap around Visual Studio 2008 – Dunedin .Net User Group

A lap around Visual Studio 2008

Dunedin 11/10/2007

Gather at 5:30pm, starting at 6:00pm (finishing 7:30pm)
Presented by Darryl Burling | Developer & Platform Strategy Group |
Microsoft New Zealand Ltd
Explore all the new Visual Studio 2008 features, from language
enhancements; improved designers; Web and smart-client development
tools; to Visual Studio Team System, a suite of software lifecycle
management tools [...]

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Dunedin Microsoft Student Day

The Dunedin Microsoft Student Day was held in room 2.20 in commerce building on Tuesday…and it was a huge success! The turn out rate was quite good; more than 50 people have turned up for the event…which is not bad consider this is the first time we have this in Dunedin.

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