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(To understand this blog entry and get more detail, visit Ahmed's blog .) From TechEd Sun City to TechEd Durban, all is about to change. Bigger venue! More attendees! More sessions! More depth! More vibe! However, without you, there is no TechEd :-) I'm sure you're looking for more topics. This year we're doing it with 70 developer breakout sessions across all TechEd tracks. That's excluding Chalk and Talks, labs and other sessions. ...
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It occurred to me that I have not blogged much about TechED. Firstly my role - I am no longer the primary owner of the developer tracks at TechED. Eben is. I am, however, the secondary owner, and very much involved with the process of selecting sessions and recruiting speakers. This posting is a bit long, but I wanted to share some information on where we are - and why! A little background TechED has always been held at Sun City. This has resulted, due to capacity limitations, that we could only...
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During the BizTalk 2006 R2 drill down I have 'fortunately' had an opportunity to check-out the latest service guidance from the Microsoft patterns and practices team. WOW ... there has been major innovations. If you are developing ASMX or WCF services, make sure that you install the relevant guidance packs, i.e. Web Service Software Factory: Modeling Edition - February 2008 Web Service Software Factory: Modeling Edition Source Code - February 2008 WCF Security Guidance Package The documentation...
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After an interesting dinner with Willie and Ruari, talking about the South-Africa technology communities, what we are doing and could be doing, I came home and was on the verge of slotting in my 3G card and checking "email" just before mid-night. Both Willie and Ruari know just how tired I was last night, after not sleeping much during the BizTalk boot camp this week, because I was the zombie trying not to fall of my chair. I would like to apologise to both Ruari and Willie for being in...
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I arrived in JHB yesterday morning at 7:45. I was strangely not surprised at the roadblock outside the airport and the traffic running from the Airport to the ITI offices, but did however realise I don't miss a moment of it. Effectively I walk to work, as my office is 2 blocks down from my house. I had a few rushed but very productive meetings with Microsoft as well as internal ITI meetings that will be continuing today, addressing various issues. One of the people on my meeting list was Ruari...
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The Microsoft MVPs from South-Africa invite you to come and discuss the world of interoperability in the development environment. See SAArchitect for more details register for event here . Hurry seats are limited! Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!
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I joined Faritec as a SharePoint administrator in December 2007 having previously been employed at a large corporate in the financial services industry. Having done all the configuration and administration courses over the past 2 years and having worked with both WSS2 and MOSS 2007 for most of that time there is one thing that I've come to accept - there will always be another way to do anything you want to do with SharePoint. The trick comes in knowing where to look for information and what...
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Sorry Steven, stole this from you, but I found it very funny and applicable... Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!
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The most recent How Do I video was recently published. It covers adding a custom tool window into the IDE with its own toolbar. The example is simple (just a web browser) but it covers some of the main core concepts. Here's a screenshot: Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!
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“Interoperability – a difficult word to say, an easy concept to understand” The Microsoft MVPs from South-Africa invite you to come and discuss the world of interoperability in the development environment, exploring how we can integrate and interoperate with other technologies. The event will allow you to explore new ideas and solutions, collaborating with Microsoft Consultants, Community Leads and Microsoft Most Valuable Professionals (MVPs) from South-Africa who will be giving an independent and...
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Decided yesterday I needed to install VS2008 on by base machine so that I could do a spike on some new features. What a shitty idea that turned out to be. Outlook 2007 decided it didn't want to work anymore. Outlook would happily start in safe mode, but just would not start normally. So I tried tracing it, uninstalling all add-ins, used process explorer, searched google, etc... In the end I uninstalled VS2008, uninstalled Office 2007 then re-installed Office 2007...
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Continued from http://dotnet.org.za/willy/archive/2008/05/14/biztalk-bootcamp-day-3a-diary-nuggets-lab.aspx . We continued with Orchestrations. After today my brain really hurts suffering from absolute information overload with John not slowing down throughout the day ... anyway here we go with the notes on the theory and an orchestration lab: Orchestration Theory Orchestration Types Types include: Message Type, defining messages used by the process Port Type, defining port operations used across...
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As Hilton's blog indicates , we'll have the pleasure of chatting with legendary Brad Abrams soon, right here in Cape Town! He will be doing a talk on the planned ASP.NET MVC Framework for SADeveloper.net. Scott Guthrie explains the MVC pattern nicely over here . This is an exciting framework that might(!) remind you of Ruby on Rails . Some open source efforts to bring the rails mentality of CoC and DRY to the .net platform has been attempted before, most notably with the Castle Project ....
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That's right, the one and only Brad Abrams from Microsoft will be visiting us at the end of June and he'll be giving a talk on the upcoming Microsoft ASP.Net MVC framework . Here's Microsoft blurb on the MVC framework: ASP.NET MVC provides a framework that enables you to easily implement the model-view-controller (MVC) pattern for Web applications. This pattern lets you separate applications into loosely coupled, pluggable components for application design, processing logic, and display...
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So this week I am attending a deep dive course presented by John Callaway from Quicklearn . I must say the sesison is very informative and even though I have been using BizTalk for almost 8 years now I am still picking up lots of little pieces of fun things that I never knew about before. Little things that will make my life as a BizTalk developer much, much easier. This is the kind of content that us local BizTalk developers have been starved for; for such a long time. Thanks to Microsoft for bringing...