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I downloaded the newExpression Encoder 2 Beta so I could encode some videos for Silverlight Streaming today and noticed a few differences. I did notice a change to the output aswell which will affect the manifest.xml file.  I used to … Continued

I wanted to play with the Silverlight Streaming Server control that’s part of the Live Tools for Visual Studio. When i went to run my application I got the following error: Sys.InvalidOperationExceptoin: DownloaError error#1001 in control ‘SilverlightStreamingMediaPlayer1’: AG_E_UNKNOWN_ERROR I tried … Continued

If you’ve been using the Windows Live Tools for Visual Studio, the February 2008 CTP has been released.  See the notes here: https://connect.microsoft.com/content/content.aspx?ContentID=7901&SiteID=505&wa=wsignin1.0 So what’s different? Messenger Chat Control has been added Depenency on ASP.Net 3.5 Extensions has been REMOVED. … Continued

This marks our 400th blog post! Since the 6th August 2006 we’ve now done 400 blog posts.   So to mark our 400th blog birthday, here’s a recap and figures on us in our last 100 blog post days. There were … Continued

If you want to use the AJAX Control Toolkit there’s a few steps for using it. Download from here: http://www.codeplex.com/AtlasControlToolkit/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=11121 Run the AjaxControlExtender.vsi file and choose the languages etc you want to install Add it to your tool box…Right Click … Continued

For those who’ve read my tweets lately, I’ve spent a bit of time on the mix site watching videos of the sessions..very addictive by the way.  Also came across the list of worldwide ReMix events here: http://www.visitmix.com/2008/Worldwide/ Good news for … Continued

Well I’ve been back home a week now.  Hasn’t taken any effort to get used to working from home again.  Not missing the long daily bus rides, queues of people, loud office talkers etc. I wil miss the lunch options … Continued

Check out how the Japense pour the perfect beer..

One of our friends just got back from a ski trip to Japan..I know, some people have all the fun. When he was there he took a panaromic shot and was showing off the pics to us the other night.  … Continued

After seeing the amazing demo at Mix08 this week I decided I needed to play with this. Checkout my collection of photos from our trip to Thailand last year: http://thailand.soulclients.com So what do you need to do to make this? … Continued

To serve up Silverlight2 in IIS you need to add the MIME type “application/x-silverlight” for extension “.xap” otherwise your page looks very blank

Chris Pendleton announced the upcomming release of a Silverlight Virtual Earth Control with Seadragon technology at Mix during his VE presentation. Check out the presentation, little preview towards the end with integration of other deep zoom images and video. Also … Continued

As i flew into Sydney early and fly out late on my lunch trip, I decided at the last minute to buy a Virgin Blue Single Entry Lounge Pass, which all sounded good in theory…get power, internet and food as … Continued

I’ve lived in Brisbane so long I ran outta lunch spots so I decied to start on Sydney ones..and flew down for the day for lunch.  Well it’s a great line I’ve been using to explain my trip away today … Continued

After watching all the cool new stuff in IE8 and excited about the JavaScript performance improvements I thought I would I would install it today. After checking out that most sites built for IE7/FF2 combo rendered fine I flicked over … Continued

If you’re like us, and couldn’t make it to Mix in Vegas this year, you don’t have to completely miss out.  Check out http://visitmix.com/ and you’ll have access to lots of videos of sessions.  Keep an eye on http://sessions.visitmix.com/ for the sessions, … Continued

Office Live Workspace Beta was made available in Australia the other day.  I’ve been using google docs for awhile and found it a good way to share docs, spreedsheets etc with remote teams/clients and also a way to get to … Continued

Moved our mail over to Live Mail this morning.  So we’re now using Custom Domains (Admin Centre) , Live mail and the Outlook Connector to access our mail. After it’s all setup it’s pretty seemless.  When sending mail through Outlook … Continued

Was playing with Linq to XML today and wanted to do an orderby based on one of the fields in the xml file. It’s a bit different to SQL as the orderby goes between the from and the select. My … Continued

Seems as though the Girl Geek Dinners in Sydney made it into “the news”.  Check it out here: http://itnews.com.au/News/71327,girl-geeks-meet-for-international-womens-day.aspx. If you’re in Sydney on the w’end make sure you check out their “Dinner 01 – Picnic in the park”..details here: … Continued

We received news today that old versions of Virtual Earth will be retired this year. We had already been told that Version 2 was being switched off come March 31st but the news today is that Versions 3,4 and 5 … Continued

I needed to write a sql statement in SQL2000 that took a string containing all the values i wanted to match IN a parameter, but the parameter is an integer. Essentially, I wanted to write SELECT * FROM Foo where … Continued

For those fortunate enough to be going to Mix in Vegas this year, there’s a bunch of Live Services sessions you should check out: Developing with Windows LiveWednesday, March 5 3:00 PM – 4:15 PM, Delfino 4003Speaker(s): Angus Logan, Miguel … Continued

If you’re after an evaluation developer account so you can use the Virtual Earth and MapPoint APIs, just request a developer account here: https://mappoint-css.live.com/mwssignup/

Installed ASP.Net 3.5 Extensions Preview today to use in a project and had some fun working out where the dlls were now living. Finally found them in C:\Program Files (x86)\Reference Assemblies\Microsoft\Framework\ASP.NET 3.5 Extensions Also remember, after switching your System.Web.Extensions and … Continued

It’s been a few months since the last update, so here’s the stats for January and February New Articles Who’s Online Integrating MapPoint Web Service with Virtual Earth 6 Client Side Clustering Invoking server side code using AJAX Part 2 … Continued

The first release is out of the community project on codeplex to give native JavaScript Intellisence to Virtual Earth inside Visual Studio 2008. http://www.codeplex.com/VEJS Essentially this is a little bit of documentation code that you reference during development for intellisence … Continued

Boy has this month just flown by!  Just a few of the highlights: My MVP expertise was changed from Live Services to Live Services Platform Microsoft Australia User Group site was released We did more travelling this month visting Sydney … Continued

I always get caught by this..so time to write myself a note.  I’ve installed Visual Studio 2008 Team Suite and i go to connect to TFS but the menu options are missing..what did i forget to do? Just need to … Continued

We’ve been working away on the new version of the Microsoft Australia Find a Partner site and it has now been released! So’s what’s new since the last version?  The key features that the end users i.e. YOU see are: Upgraded … Continued