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This has been a long time coming. I remember several months ago trying to get my hands on anything related to dotnetcpu, tinyCLR and SPOT seemed almost impossible.

Nick's response: Yes indeedee, can't wait for programmable watches which render using WPF.

I hate to nitpick, but that is what I do :-)
Tools for WF are RTM so that doesn't count on your list... :-p
(if you change it to WCF though, it'll be fine)

Nick's response: Glad someone's keeping me honest!!

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Thanks for the plug, Nick. Regarding the RSS implementation, let's just say it's still early steps trying to help others in the business and our agency to understand the importance and usefulness of RSS. It's also about helping them to increase their technical capabilities.

It's not easy but I will keep pushing for greater RSS integration and awareness in our other campagins. Thanks for your support and interest.

I'm on your IM list if you and your lovely lady need relief from the heat ;o)

Most users won't have 'Hide protected operating system files' turned off.

Over the last couple of days I have been putting together some sample code that will significantly reduce

There really isn't much else we can do but stand up, admit me were wrong, do the right thing by cancelling the patent, and apologize.

As for OTB, what specific features were you looking for that aren't included but that are included in BlueJ? If you have feedback, please let us know at http://msdn.com/feedback where you can submit a bug or suggestion at any time and have it be triaged by the appropriate team.

Thanks,

-Dan

Late last year I posted about my frustration with the betas of OneCare and the Windows Mobile Device

I was suitably impressed that Dan provided feedback to my previous post re the patent around the Object

Can't believe I beat Nick to the punchline!:

http://mitch-wheat.blogspot.com/2007/01/vs2005-cheat-sheets.html

;)

blog bits The community is buzzing (like a swarm of angry hornets) about the new Community Server Licensing

Nick Randolph just pinged me to tell me about a new portal he's set up for people using SQL Server CE

A new blog post rating widget from Clarke Scott, distinctive because it lists the avatars of the 5 most

A while ago I blogged about Clarke 's latest site, Blogarate (also of Whooiz ); well this week I noticed

Thanks for the mention Nick :)

Great to catch up today, and I'm looking forward to catching up at some of your User Group Caffeine Hits. Being a caffeine addict it's a necessity :)

Rich

It's amazing how coffee can be conducive to community. Community is about sharing, it's about developing

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I think that Rob missed my point in his post . I was actually commenting that I was surprised as to how

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The ever-involved Nick Randolph has gone one step further again and set up a virtual community for SQL

Nick Randolph decided to ban the Perth bloggers together and form a World Domination Consortium - the

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FYI, it is the same NETCF from the January CTP

SoftTeq partner, fellow Perth-ITe and co-ordinator of the Perth .NET Community of Practice , Alastair

Forget about using Sandcastle from the command-line. Go get the Sandcastle Help File Builder from codeplex.com

http://codeplex.com/shfb/

This is similar to the NDoc GUI and works just as well. I've gone one step further and created a MSBuild Task so that I can use the SHFB in my automated builds.

Hey Nick you mean this one!:

http://mitch-wheat.blogspot.com/2006/06/visual-studio-2005-icon-library.html

I think I beat you to it. You really must start reading my blog ;)

Our Parabuild support automatic version generation out of the box:

http://www.viewtier.com/products/parabuild/new_in_parabuild_3_0/software_build_management.htm

Regards,

Slava Imeshev

When I was looking after the build process I wrote a nant task that essentially checked out the version file (VSS - the version file was shared across all of the projects so only one file needed to be changed) located the version number then incremented either the build or revision number (depending if a new build or revision is being done) then checks the file back in. It would do this as the final step AFTER the build is built so that any changes to code from that point on are being made to the new version. Worked quite well...

The whole build process has evolved (?) since then and is primarily done via cruise control. A step backwards perhaps but the Nant scripts now modify each file (TFS) from a variable in the script. (Manually modified in the script as required) I prefered the Nant task but I don't look after that process now and the build process has been a moving target.

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In my last post I left you hanging to see what would happen when I created a new .sync item from the

As I have an extra day here in Seattle following the MVP summit I decided to wander around town and explore

As I indicated in a previous post we have recently moved away from SourceSafe and started using Subversion.

Since the first coffee meeting I have been hassling Alan to start blogging. After migrating the user

Creating your own logging infrastructure isn't such a pain if you use the TraceListener class from the Smart Device Framework as a base class. It works in pretty much the same way as the .NET Framework. It's even easier if you use the TextWriterTraceListener.

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If you are looking at the Microsoft Sync Services which is likely to be part of Visual Studio Orcas you

Yes, we're pretty quiet on the product front because we've been so busy with consulting work. However, we do have a range of new products that will be released this week, along with SDF 2.1. You heard it here first!

I'm glad to hear from various sources that the weekly coffee gathering we started a month or so ago is

New project dialog for VSD in Orcas

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Sweet! My girlfriend will be happy to hear that :)

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Nick Randolph's been a busy bee lately - from looking at his recent post count he's been extremely busy.

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In my previous post I wasn't that positive about the new mobile browser, Deepfish , that Microsoft Research

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Yesterday I downloaded the latest version of Skype (the next version talks about being able to invite

Great Idea Nick,

My wife and I use a combination of Yahoo Voice, Skype and MyTel VOIP.

We have a Billion VOIP capable ADSL modem, this is great as you can plug two regular telephones into it and make VOIP and if needed regular PSTN calls.

For Australian STD calls we use MyTel, as their calls throughout Australia are only 10c unlimited anytime. Then we use either Skype or Yahoo Voice for International calls depending on which country we are calling. My wife is Vietnamese and find Yahoo Voice is the cheapest at about 10c a minute, which is quite expensive if you compare this to calling other countries, but cheap when you compare it with other VIOP providers with most of them being around 65c per minute.

Nick is a stingy bugger for sure..he hehehe...just said that because i know the pingback will show him

If I'd bother to do a Google search before announcing the Skype Challenge I would have noticed that Nicholas

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In a flash back to a couple of years ago I decided to find my old Dell Axim X30 and see whether it was

In a flash back to a couple of years ago I decided to find my old Dell Axim X30 and see whether it was

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I saw this post across on the Modaco feed referencing a product called Palringo and despite a number

It's now the 5th day since I announced my attempts at the Skype Challenge and by all accounts I feel

Dude, that number is not  the truth. Click on the download and you'll see the real size ;-)

Continuing on from previous post regarding the issues with OneCare , Trend and VPNs I have run into another

Having beta tested the first version or so of OneCare I had almost given up hope of Microsoft releasing

I discussed this with Amanda Silver a month ago and wrote up my findings at http://devauthority.com/blogs/jwooley/archive/2007/03/14/32407.aspx. In short, if you have option infer off and option strict off, your your values will automatically be turned into object types. VB will then try to duck type your properties and may cause unexpected results. If you keep option strict on (as you should), option infer will work more as expected.

One of the posts I was reading earlier today pointed me to Oscar Trimboli's blog on Unified Communications,

Hi all. It's rainy and miserable in Sydney, which means one thing - blog postings galore!! As the Australian

Hi all! The Imagine Cup SD Final is not so far from now and the announcement of the finalists has begun.

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Topic: A look at the Expression Suite Date: Thursday 3rd May 2007 Time: 5:30 PM Location: Excom Education

> Tim posts on why he doesn't see the value in

> Cloud-base applications while he sees value

> in having Cloud-storage (eg Amazon Simple

> Storage Service (S3)).

Oh, I do see the value, and said this in the post. Easy collaboration, zero install, for starters. It's just in the context of office apps (excluding email): the current offerings aren't particularly useful to me.

>This means that you can be sitting in an airport lounge or at an Internet kiosk and still have your favourite in-the-cloud application.

Nick, do you ever do this for say word processing or spreadsheet work? I often work in airport lounges using my laptop, but rarely use an internet kiosk.

>I went through the process of setting up yet another account - why can't more of these services use existing account infrastructure like Google, Yahoo or Windows Live accounts?

You might like to fix your blog :-) I had to create a new account in order to comment.

Are you here at Mix?

Tim

This post follows on from my previous comments on the Orcas Beta 1 The first thing you will need to do

This post follows on from my previous comments on the Orcas Beta 1 The first thing you will need to do

Today has been incredibly frustrating. With Bill's help I was able to work out some of the issues

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I finally got around to grabbing Dave's slides (see attachment) just in time for today's session - only

Just a reminder about a couple of events: Today: Perth .NET Community of Practice has its monthly meeting

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Hi Nick

Did you try the advanced settings in the firewall or the connection tool to see if that would help

chuck

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ISO Buster (Smart Projects) is great.

http://www.isobuster.com/

There is another Subversion integration plugin for Visual Studio - VisualSVN - which displays status in Solution Explorer always up to date.

http://www.visualsvn.com/

I meant to post this earlier this week but only just found the photo on my HTC Vox : The weekly coffee

If you haven't seen Nicks blog Secret .NET Developer he indicates they are having a "Secret" presenter

Over on Nick Randolph's and Chuck's blogs there's a little secrecy going on about next months

In my previous post I covered a number of the nice features of the HTC S710 (ie the HTC Vox). I did allude

Over the last week or so a number of us here at Intilecta have been plugging away at an issue with the

In my previous post I linked to a recent podcast I did with fellow Perth MVP Brian Madsen. Following

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Darius has posted that the next meeting of the Western Australia Mobility User Group is going to be on

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Recently I posted about the WA Mobility User Group and their June meeting scheduled for this monday

Last week I posted that the WMDC had replaced ActiveStink and that your should upgrade to the latest

Nick Randolph posted a post-presentation follow-up to the Joel Tobar event at the Perth .Net Community

In the days of ActiveSync (which means before I upgraded to Vista), I could connect my mobile device

In a previous post I discussed some of my reservations regarding the small form factor Tablet PCs and

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I've mentioned in a previous post t that HTC are continuing to innovate with the HTC Touch and the

Thanks for taking the lead on this I'm sure we can make this a great space.

Looking forward to joining you and getting others involved as well.

Nick Randolph has just taken over 160sqm of office space in the Perth CBD area (1 minute walk from the

Bronwen already has a name... Silicon Beach!

hmm... that actually draws up a different image involving *** implants. Maybe its a guy thing?

thx nick

silverlight and sharepoint make an awesome combination

My response...

Last night Shane Morris gave his "age of user experience" presentation to the Perth .NET Community

A while ago I posted about the Microsoft Mobile Development Handbook that Andy, Daniel and Peter wrote

I've been secretly reading Alex's blog for a while, mostly because he seriously cracks me up

The language debate

I have been a bit remiss for not having congratulating the winners of the Australian Imagine Cup competition

From Mauricio's post I just signed up for and downloaded a new IM/Skype client for my Windows mobile

At the end of last month I posted that we were setting up a co-working space here in Perth. Well, a lot

Congratulations Nick, that's great progress!

Thanks for the heads up on that Nick.  I'm a big fan of Pocket PC.  Will be checking this out soon.

Regards

Al.

Ever wondered why your device prompts you when you attempt to run an application? Or perhaps what those

Last night I arrived in Seoul to help judge the finals of the software design invitational as part of

Spyware Sucks is pleased to announce that in conjunction with the official release of the Me.dium add

The Korean solution is not actualy software design, it's a GUI, spiced with voice recognition that not actually works... POOR!!! Even, the glowe isn't their work. So, I have to ask myself, how the Koreans who do not know english at all did translate the "software design"?!?

> Now I'm presuming that old versions of MSBuild will simply ignore these new attributes and elements?

No, it's a lot worse. These tags are not backwards compatible, MSBuild (2.0) and VS 2005 both will no longer accept the project/solution.

...or just use VS2008 and ditch VS2005 from your machine for ever :)

Agrh, damn you LOLCODE - whilst I'm definitely no convert I thought this a fitting title for this

Agrh, damn you LOLCODE - whilst I'm definitely no convert I thought this a fitting title for this

During installation of VSTS 2008 BETA 2 Team Explorer, the setup may fail with following error: “Microsoft

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A couple of weeks ago I posted about my latest device, the HTC Touch, in which I covered the unboxing

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I'd like to address some of the issues you bring up...  

First, we definitely have folks working successfully with SQL Server Compact Edition.  Can you give more details about the problems you are encountering?

Secondly, it's important to realize that the edmx (designer) file is really just used at design time.  The runtime still uses three separate files (one describing the database schema, one describing the conceptual model and one giving hte mapping between the two).  Those files can be compiled into an assembly as resources or can be delivered individually, so that there can be significant separation between your classes which are built around the conceptual model and the metadata that describes your database (which does, as you say, change at a different rate).

- Danny

Couldn't agree more Nick. I really want to upgrade to Vista, but given all the problems and irritations I've heard about it, just doesn't seem worth the pain.

Might wait for the next OS, but will it be any better?  

It's about time MS's developer division asserts itself against  sales and marketing again!

Did you have the Office 2003 installation files cached on your hard disk, or did you choose to delete them after the install?

No, inserting the disc in the drive wasn't enough.  I had to take ownership of the mapisvc.inf file in order to get the update to install, too.  Now that the install has been successful, should I give ownership back to SYSTEM?

From the makers of the " Smart Devices Framework " the team at OpenNETCF Consulting have launched

Hi Nick,We've also got the Sydney Business & Technology User Group on Facebook:

www.facebook.com/group.php

We'd love to see you there once you make it over to these Eastern shores.

Cheers,

Craig

In my previous post I commented that VB is coming of age in Visual Studio 2008 with better support for

I'd never noticed it because 90% of the time we'd been using this on booleans, but of course, when used on a String, that wasn't going to be empty, the behaviour became obvious.

A while ago I mentioned that MSDN has a series of "How Do I?" videos on a range of topics and

I've been a fan of Windows Mobile devices for the last couple of years for the sole reason that the

Also see: blogs.technet.com/.../detection-and-deployment-logic-update-for-ms07-052.aspx

Can you change the link for Peter Griffith to www.adnug.com/contact.htm.

Thanks for listing us.

PG

pgriffit@senet.com.au

Hey Nick,

When looking at the full list of developer UGs its amazing to see the community interest keeps growing.

New groups form and evolve from small meeting up to large gatherings, with both national and international speakers.

The Perth .Net Community of Practise has definitely grown over the last couple of years, thanks to the hard work put in by both yourself, Mitch and Alastair.

The work you've done for the group has put Perth on the map in Australia and I hope that it'll continue to grow.

Great Works guys!

Hi Nick - I've shared the same pain both in Google mobile apps + aussie data charges.

You're probably after 'Live Search for mobile'

http://wls.live.com/

Grant

Continuing my reading of The Architecture Journal (following yesterday's post ) I was a bit taken

Couldn't agree more with you Nick!

Seriously, who cares about the implementation details?

And WinForms isn't the only option - web forms will do just fine :)

A recently conducted survey by Markitecture discussed here at Mobility Today provided some interesting

A recently conducted survey by Markitecture discussed here at Mobility Today provided some interesting

I think the three pillars are OK.  I don't necessarily agree that 'Latest Technology' is a pillar, but I definitely agree with the SKU issue.  I can buy the Dev edition for $2,200, but to get some modeling and testing tools, it costs me over $10,000?

I think extensibility should be one of the pillars as well.

Some statistics on the evolving smartphone market....

Here's a bit of a what's on in Perth this week in the IT scene (feel free to leave comments about

Following my recent post about Perth IT events, I was asked to help promote the following by Hemal on

Hey Nick!!!

Yes, last night was absolutely brilliant!

Even though i've been playing with VS2008 for quite some time now, there was definitely a few new things there for me.

Great work Nick!

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Following a growing trend of geek coffee groups Craig and I had the first Sydney geek coffee yesterday

Alex Henderson has taken over running the get together. See: http://blog.bittercoder.com/

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We've had this discussion before, and for someone who finds it a waste of time, you sure jump all over it everytime you get a chance!

As Nick mentions on his site, i do love poking him about on his love for VB.Net...I can't really

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oh no he didn't.... a two parter.

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That's ridiculous! If you read the whole article, where he clearly explains the source of his 'slur' (a John Lennon song, quickly followed by something from the COmmitments), it's fairly clear that he's not being defamatory at all.

Yesterday I caught up with Finula Crowe who is currently the Wave 2008 Community Launch Leed for Microsoft

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I LOVE O v3! As part of my demos for Graham Seach's Office DevCon , I've developed a VSTO v3 Outlook

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Welcome to another action packed week of mobility here in (not so) sunny Sydney! On the back of a successful

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Last night I attend the Sydney Windows Mobile User Group which I can only describe as having the highest

A week or so ago I got my latest development device, the HTC TyTnII . Since then I have moved networks

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I think the Mark 1 street directory is superior to both.

All your costs are upfront, usually around $10. No access costs.

Bit bulkier to carry but much quicker to use.

Driving directions are not included, however the user can combine it with an invention called a ballpoint pen, and produce driving directions on-the-fly.

Geek Coffee Sydney - Wednesdays @ 1pm

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If you recall about a week ago I posted about Google's entry into the mobile phone space. I guess

I've not really had a lot of time to grok the SDK, but it's a Java-based API.

On the Android dev list, there's a lot of discussion about .NET/Mono support with obviously very strong advocates for and against it.

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Nick

What you need to install the HTC Home Customizer from PocketEmu Software. (http://www.pocketemu.com)

From the Info Page

The HTC Home Customizer v1.0 is an application which lets you completely customize and backup/restore your HTC Home Plugin settings.

   * Customize the look of your plugin from 4 different appearance options.

   * Save appearance settings to a custom Theme list.

   * View and download extra appearances directly to your device through the app.

   * Create a custom weather database to select cities from instead of the default list.

   * Change all plugin options including tab ordering.

   * Backup/restore of the HTC Home Plugin (contacts, launcher, weather and settings) and HTC Home Customizer settings.

I had the frustrating experience of having a new WM6 device ( HTC Touch ) developing a problem synching

In an attempt to avoid travelling during the silly season I am making a quick trip to Perth in the first

So a number of days after Microsoft released the much anticipated Visual Studio 2008 I'm still trying

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Oh boy do I hear ya! Another thing that annoys me is that you have to use a Windows machine to do the downloads because the downloader is an ActiveX component! As you said, it's just a single use case of downloading a bunch of files so why the platform lock-in?!

My main machine these days is a Mac (yep, I do device dev under a VM and it works a treat) and I have to fire up Parallels or remote desktop into a server to do any downloads.

There's something ironic about MSDN Subscriber Downloads making Virtual PC for Mac available, but you need access to a Windows PC to get it.  

<gripe>

Oh don't get me even started about the download manager. I don't understand at all why Microsoft require any 'management' of their MSDN downloads server side. Any functionality they receive from using the new Akamai download manager can be provided by other technologies without significantly limiting the client side.

Quite frankly it should just be a matter of selecting and saving the download, a simple paradigm exists for this and why should that change? IMHO the client - not the server - should be responsible for the download management and thats exactly the reason why capable tools such as GetRight, FDM etc were created. We don't need another separate tool that only fulfils half the functionality of the others and breaks too!

</gripe>

I have to say I agree totally. I gave up after 4 failed attempts.

But I looked on msdn subscriptions this morning and I now see it is there.

Nick,

Sorry that you are having problems with the DM manager. We are working over Thanksgiving and a patch will be applied at 6PM PST on 11/22.

Please let us know if this addresses your dropped download problem.  

I don't know where did you find that sh*t, but I just went to MS site and VS 2008 was there. Downloaded it via good old HTTP. No problems =)

I&#39;ve just posted across on the Silicon Beach House blog that there are now a couple of vacancies

Howdy! Just found your blog. It appears that I can only comment on your latest entry. While I am not currently interested in a Perth beach house, I'll respond here. My point is to thank you for your other excellent posts. I'm currently very interested in everything Windows Mobile. The information you've shared has been exremely helpful.

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I touched down in Perth around mid-day on Saturday and have enjoyed a good dose of Perth sunshine ever

I touched down in Perth around mid-day on Saturday and have enjoyed a good dose of Perth sunshine ever

From your puzzled look this morning when I said hello to you at Tiger Tiger could either mean you were contemplating the finer points of ByteMe, body clock was still 7am Sydney-time...or just plain 'who the $%^# is this guy?' :)

Yup - pretty annoying. Tying the IDE XML comment-generation and compiler XML doc file generation into the same setting is a bit WtF!

So, my VB.NET developers are left with two options:

Option A - Harder to produce useful class / method comments.

Option B - Slower compile time.

Neither are very attractive.

Option C - GhostDoc www.roland-weigelt.de/ghostdoc

The support for VB.NET is "experimental". I'm not sure what that means but the tool is fantastic way to quickly building up documentation.

Today I was sifting through some of my back-logged email and noticed an announcement about a beta version

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This morning I received the following enquiry regarding my experiences with the Imagine Cup (Software

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Nice but you can check out G.ho.st at http://g.ho.st its more mature webos I think...

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In Paul's defence, he has offered to present later in the year, when he has less on his plate.

It is slightly annoying when this happens (especially as Perth gets less 'circuit' presenters compared to the eastern states), but we all have to earn a buck, so I understand when people have to pull out.

Of course, everyone was looking forward to Paul's session on WPF databinding as it seems to be one of a few hot topics atm.

As Nick mentioned, Michael Minutillo graciously agreed to move his session forward a month, as did Davis Shields who will be presenting in March.

More on User Groups

Following some recent thoughts I&#39;ve had on this subject I noticed that Rod Drury over in NS has similar

Hi Nick, this blog entry has caused quite a stir! :)

From my understanding, there are some things that you mention here that are either incorrect, or, if not wrong, then certainly misleading.

In one sense, it is perfectly reasonable to link Paul with Readify - he's one of our brightest young guys :) - but I think that it is somewhat implicit in your entry that the decision to 'pull' Paul was a Readify one and one which was based on a scheduling issue.  This was not the case.

I'm sure that a conversation with Paul about this would clear things up as to why he was forced to withdraw 3 weeks out.

You well know that we (Readify) have always supported the community when the opporutnity arises - heck, even I've done a Perth UG presentation! :-) (actually, on that, here's a tip for anybody who is planning to travel from the east coast to do a UG talk, remember when you go out for a couple of beers that midnight Perth time is probably more like 3AM for your local body clock :-))  

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Ok, so my User Group Frustrations post caused quite a bit of a stir which I guess in hindsight I should

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Thanks Nick!

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I too would be interested in a way to add comments to code.

The way that Crucible does it is quite cool:

www.atlassian.com/.../crucible

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If it's developer training you want, check out the following - covers .net 3.5, OO, enterprise library, etc:

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One of the big things that I forgot to point out in my previous post on WebGuide for Windows Media Center

With all the (hopefully) positive feedback around those people luck enough to be able to run SP1 there

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Hey, I'm still a little concerned that my bank considers "Date of Birth" a security question.

I've got 1000 Skype minutes (or is it 2000?) on Three. I don't use it because if I used Skype on my phone then It would count as data. I'm using JasJam still. My wife has a three skype phone but she's put her postpaid sim in it and I dont think it gives her skype. She doesn't use it mainly as she doesn't use skype. (ie no contacts to call)

Looking forward to seeing how the Xperia pans out. Might upgrade phone then

I use skype on my Nokia E65 on the Three network quite often. It's integrated quite well into the Three's network, with a landline gateway for voice calls.

The skype mobile application runs on the E65, and when you want to make or receive a phone call, it redirects you to a landline number to make the call, just like a normal mobile phone call. So instead of a scratchy VoIP connection, you get normal phone call quality. I've called overseas to Malaysia, and get reasonable quality, with about 500ms voice lag.

Three requires you to be on a data plan for the mobile app to communicate with the skype server to see who's online, but you don't get data usage fees for actual phone calls.

And I've also gone a month without a mobile phone, or any form of mobile communication. Liberating, but also quite isolating at the same time. :(

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Hey Nick,

You've been tagged.

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Hi Nick

You should have dropped me an email and I'd have sent you a nice pic of my shiny new iPhone, date rollers and all!

+ at least with WM,  we get a nice tool to take a screenshot :-)

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Excellent post. Could not have said it any better myself. Hat's off to a post well said.

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I feel for you Nick - it showed so much potential, but really never took off. It sucks that you lost so much money on it.

I'm really upset that this didn't work, especially during the last couple of months where the place really started feeling like a co-operative office.

It really is a shame.

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As I mentioned before I was invited to write the chapters of Team System in the book Professional Visual

You're such a tease Nick

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I've not yet checked the sites, but the UX-driven concept of the taskforce sites reminds me a little of Get Satisfaction (http://getsatisfaction.com/).

Call me a cynic, but that seemed no different to any other 'spin' press release.  On second reading it seems to say that CXC are going to run nsquared's payroll and nsquared will help CXC keep their systems running!

Boy, I really am a cynic! I've got to lay off those fruit loops for breakfast!!

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Nick stop bashing the iphone until you have owned one! ;)

I think it might be somehow related to how and from where the program is load into memory or it might just be some broken OS dependencies that the OEM needs to test against before users can isntall this update.

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[NB: Kudos for this post needs to go to Greg and Andrew who actually solved this issue] The MultiPoint

Great hack. However, I ran into problems. It goes through the motions of installation and a progress bar shows up with about 80% complete. But it then barfs with a message that looks like this:

"The installer has encountered an unexpected String installing this package. This may indicate a problem with this package. The String code is 2356."

Need help! Thanks in advance.

Managed to get past that error noted above.

The key to that is:

After editing in Orca, simply hit enter and then click the save button and exit Orca.

If you (like me) clicked anywhere else in the left bar and then hit save, the saved .msi does not run (and oh! don't know if this matters, but do not rename the file either).

Hi Indie Joe,

It sounds like your MSI has become corrupted during the patching process.  MSDN specified error 2356 to be "Could not locate cabinet in stream", so I'd recommend trying the patch again.  To be safe, download the original MSI installer file again and try to patch that one - its possible the original file you used was already corrupted.

Good luck!

Greg

One of the trends that I’ve seen over the last week or two is the growing number of previously loyal

It's not too late Nick! get a refund, then click here: store.apple.com/.../iphone

:D

If you cut my arm, I'd bleed Microsoft blood but this is an area where sadly, they just don't get what's required.

I've had a number of Windows mobile devices and moving to an iPhone was simply a breath of fresh air by comparison. Setup experience for me was:

1. Plug in phone

2. Choose some simple options from iTunes (including this now becoming my iPod replacement)

3. Choose what I wanted to sync

and it's worked ever since.

My installation experience for Windows Mobile has always required some combination of black magic and voodoo to get anything working.

Everything I've found hard about using the iPhone has turned out to be me looking for a harder way to do things because of my Windows-mobile background.

I'm not alone. I heard this time and again while at TechEd Barcelona two weeks ago. Every time I was sitting at a table of Microsoft Regional Directors and a phone would ring, iPhones would appear. You couldn't find a more MS-oriented set of people but they understand the difference.

Apple seem to have also won the mind-share battle again. Every time I see a new mobile Internet service now (ANZ, QANTAS, etc, etc.), it mentions iPhone support specifically.

When has that ever been the case for Windows Mobile, even given how long it's been available?

And this is the only time in the last upteen years when I've been seriously looking at buying a Mac so I can do native iPhone development.

I decided that I would once again brave running the PDC Windows 7 build on my Toshiba M700.&#160; Unlike

I got my iPhone back in April. And apart from the lack of copy and paste, it's great.  I echo what Greg said.

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That's quite cool.  I'm using a similar thing for TFS.  It's a 3 color USB powered light (you can see a crappy picture of it at www.codeplex.com/buildmonitor).

Having the light go red when a build breaks often results in non-tech people asking what's wrong.  Results in a real quick turnaround on build breakages :-)

As opposed to some of the other continuous integration feedback devices, the build board tells you what’s wrong, who’s fixing it and who broke it.  

Suitable for large or active teams with a lot of projects and/or lots of developers.

Displays multiple project breakages and build progress. Its’ easy to read from 40 meters.  

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Today at Geek Coffee we were considering what the next big killer mobile application is going to be.&#160;

tee hee! talk about "killer" app...  assuming the app can still run.  maybe get a second iPhone as backup for running Return to Sender.

And if your iphone is stuffed and you're returning it ... how are you going to run this application?

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At the last couple of Mix events Microsoft has been talking about having a version of Silverlight for

I'm interested in this extensibility story too.

I'm not expecting the market place to allow widgets that deploy CABs from external servers.

If they did it would seem to rather weaken their response as to why widgets must be deployed via the marketplace (security etc), as any bad bits could be pushed into the "uncontrollable" CAB file.

I'm wondering if another scenario would be to package up your widget as a *.CAB instead of a *.widget file. If you deployed this from your own server it could install the ActiveX control and a custom setup.dll could directly launch wmwidgetinstaller.exe to install the embedded widget file).

You would probbably loose the ability to publish via the market place, as again I assume they won't accept such a CAB for publication. But it may be a scenario for line of business / inhouse developments.

I've started porting Chris Craft's 30 days of windows mobile apps to widget form (windowsmobileapps.codeplex.com) but am quickly getting to the ones which will require access to GPS / phone functionality.

Nick Randolph wrote a good example of utilizing ASP.NET AJAX 4 (pre-release), ADO.NET Entity Framework

Having shown how easily you can build a widget that wires up some data using Entity Framework, ADO.NET

In my previous post I talked about the ColourPicker, the ProgressBar and the OpenSaveDialog controls

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That's right..

Just like $.get cannot working.. :)

that's a very useful note..

You can also find it in the media here:

www.gizmodo.com.au/.../what-the-f-is-going-on-in-this-windows-mobile-developer-video

You fail to mention that while Marcus discusses using gestures, it's only mentioned in a native context.  Capturing WM_GESTURE in managed code is very, very difficult.  It's certainly not something a junior or even mid-level developer is going to achieve.  We're working on a managed wrapper at OpenNETCF, but it's even going to take us a couple weeks of work.

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NIce article. Really nice! But i think that you could give some more info on a couple of points. However, keep on developing your great site! :)

Hey great tips indeed. I will surely apply it soon!

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I only wish I had found it sooner.

I added your blog to bookmarks. And i'll read your articles more often!

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I'm fairly confident the reasons for WM failing to attract users and developer are many fold. Off the top I can think of:

Users:

- Poor experiences with badly designed and built apps meant any that did try it weren't motivated to come back.

- Issues with apps not playing nicely with their desktop equivalents.

- Desktop apps not running on their phones - "It's all just Windows" mentality.

- Platform/applications/functionality not promoted to users so didn't know what missing or what to ask for.

- Users didn't know where to go to get apps? (or even that they were available?)

- Often poor installation experience of apps when people did get them.

Developers:

- The vast array of different hardware (Including buttons, keyboards, screens) making it hard(er) to write an app which will run on all devices.

- Developers were told that developing for mobile was the same as developing for desktop it isn't!  When they found out it was different they were put off.

- Home developers were prevented from building apps by the requirement of Visual Studio Professional edition.  Much too expensive for someone who is just a hobbiest.

- Lack of a high profile market place for apps.

- A focus on business users by MSFT meant that personal users were often overlooked by developers as well.

and lots more...

In my previous post I talked about Microsoft and the enterprise and how it had help shape Windows Mobile

I ran into the same issue.  We worked around it by making all of our custom properties extension methods.  Kind of defeats the purpose of ORM though :)

In my previous post on Getting Started with OpenGL on Windows Mobile I talked about taking the existing

In my previous post, OpenGL ES Wrapper- Your First Application , you would have seen that we were creating