RE: What would you ask Satya?

2014-04-08 Thread Andrew Coates (DPE AUSTRALIA)
Sent from the new Officehttp://office.com/preview From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Andrew Coates (DPE AUSTRALIA) Sent: Wednesday, 26 March 2014 11:21 AM To: g...@greglow.com; ozDotNet Subject: RE: What would you ask Satya? Thanks Greg – I

RE: Spreadsheets and data

2014-03-30 Thread Andrew Coates (DPE AUSTRALIA)
Another option is to use Excel Web Serviceshttp://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/office/ms546696(v=office.14).aspx to expose cells (and ranges) as inputs and outputs. Means you can leave the calculation stuff in Excel (which can be updated by the domain expert without needing a coder to

What would you ask Satya?

2014-03-25 Thread Andrew Coates (DPE AUSTRALIA)
If you had an opportunity to ask Satya Nadella a question in front of several thousand developers, what would you ask him?

RE: [OT] Noise cancelling earphones for a quiet programming environment?

2014-03-25 Thread Andrew Coates (DPE AUSTRALIA)
...@ozdotnet.commailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Andrew Coates (DPE AUSTRALIA) Sent: Tuesday, 25 March 2014 5:52 AM To: g...@greglow.commailto:g...@greglow.com; ozDotNet Subject: RE: [OT] Noise cancelling earphones for a quiet programming environment? Bose

RE: What would you ask Satya?

2014-03-25 Thread Andrew Coates (DPE AUSTRALIA)
with us? Seriously though, can we change the name of Legacy apps to something a little less negative? Just because we are still writing non Windows 8 Store apps doesn't make them Legacy. Then again, maybe hes seen my code? ;) thanks, Stephen On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 10:56 PM, Andrew Coates (DPE

RE: What would you ask Satya?

2014-03-25 Thread Andrew Coates (DPE AUSTRALIA)
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RE: [OT] Noise cancelling earphones for a quiet programming environment?

2014-03-24 Thread Andrew Coates (DPE AUSTRALIA)
Bose++ I've had the over ear type for years (QC2, followed by QC15) and have just bought a pair of the in-ear QC20. I can't recommend either of these options highly enough. While they're not cheap, they are awesome. This week I'm cutting code in a room with up to 10 people having interesting

RE: Favicons

2014-02-27 Thread Andrew Coates (DPE AUSTRALIA)
There's always http://ie.microsoft.com/testdrive/Browser/IconEditor/Default.html as well - online icon editor/creator. Cheers Andrew Coates, ME, MCPD, MCSD MCTS, Developer Evangelist, Microsoft, 1 Epping Road, NORTH RYDE NSW 2113 Ph: +61 (2) 9870 2719 * Mob +61 (416) 134 993 * Fax: +61 (2)

RE: Windows Phone list?

2014-01-20 Thread Andrew Coates (DPE AUSTRALIA)
Cool – will also promote to the Windows Phone Developer Community (http://wp.msdeveloper.com.au) Cheers, Andrew Coates, ME, MCPD, MCSD MCTS, Developer Evangelist, Microsoft, 1 Epping Road, NORTH RYDE NSW 2113 Ph: +61 (2) 9870 2719 • Mob +61 (416) 134 993 • Fax: +61 (2) 9870 2400 •

RE: Download BizSpark Older Licences Software

2014-01-12 Thread Andrew Coates (DPE AUSTRALIA)
Adding Esther, our BizSpark Evangelist. Doesn't look like she's back on deck until next Monday though. Cheers Andrew Coates, ME, MCPD, MCSD MCTS, Developer Evangelist, Microsoft, 1 Epping Road, NORTH RYDE NSW 2113 Ph: +61 (2) 9870 2719 * Mob +61 (416) 134 993 * Fax: +61 (2) 9870 2400 *

RE: Building simple maintenance web form

2013-11-19 Thread Andrew Coates (DPE AUSTRALIA)
Have a look at LightSwitch - http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-US/vstudio/ff796201. Awesome for maintenance screens. Cheers. Andrew Coates, ME, MCPD, MCSD MCTS, Developer Evangelist, Microsoft, 1 Epping Road, NORTH RYDE NSW 2113 Ph: +61 (2) 9870 2719 • Mob +61 (416) 134 993 • Fax: +61 (2) 9870 2400

RE: Future of .NET

2013-08-22 Thread Andrew Coates (DPE AUSTRALIA)
The MS Team have released a pretty comprehensive White Paper talking about the role of .NET: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/dotnet/archive/2013/07/16/responsible-for-a-million-dollar-software-project-but-don-t-know-where-to-start.aspx http://www.microsoft.com/net/nettechnologyguidance

RE: .Net based Email Newsletter

2013-06-12 Thread Andrew Coates (DPE AUSTRALIA)
+ 1 for buy over build Have a look at Campaign Monitorhttp://www.campaignmonitor.com/ too. Cheers Andrew Coates, ME, MCPD, MCSD MCTS, Developer Evangelist, Microsoft, 1 Epping Road, NORTH RYDE NSW 2113 Ph: +61 (2) 9870 2719 ∙ Mob +61 (416) 134 993 ∙ Fax: +61 (2) 9870 2400 ∙

RE: Powershell script ?

2012-09-29 Thread Andrew Coates (DPE AUSTRALIA)
Yup, pretty cool stuff. OT, I did find it amusing that a German company called their product MP3day ;) Cheers, Andrew From: Greg Low (GregLow.com) Sent: 29/09/2012 4:02 PM To: Andrew Coates (DPE AUSTRALIA); 'ozDotNet' Subject: RE: Powershell script ? Magic

RE: Powershell script ?

2012-09-28 Thread Andrew Coates (DPE AUSTRALIA)
Hi Greg, There's an excellent bit of freeware called, from memory, MP3Tag that can do exactly this (and lots more besides). http://www.mp3tag.de/en/ Cheers, Andrew From: Greg Low (GregLow.com) Sent: 29/09/2012 12:35 PM To: 'ozDotNet' Subject: FW: Powershell

RE: Win8 Release Preview

2012-06-06 Thread Andrew Coates (DPE AUSTRALIA)
I'm not sure I get the yearning for a start menu. Maybe I use it differently from others, but the metro screen lays out my commonly used apps nicely, and anything else I need I can find just by typing the first couple of letters of its name. The metro screen comes to the front when I hit the

RE: Colour Returns to Visual Studio 11 User Interface

2012-05-09 Thread Andrew Coates (DPE AUSTRALIA)
Check out Find Commands - it adds a tab to the ribbon where you can do exactly that http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/support/office-ribbon-find-commands-FX101851541.aspx Cheers Andrew Coates, ME, MCPD, MCSD MCTS, Developer Evangelist, Microsoft, 1 Epping Road, NORTH RYDE NSW 2113 Ph: +61 (2)

RE: Powerpoint pain

2012-04-12 Thread Andrew Coates (DPE AUSTRALIA)
Ctrl+A then Ctrl+Space usually works for me (as it does in Word) Andrew Coates, ME, MCPD, MCSD MCTS, Developer Evangelist, Microsoft, 1 Epping Road, NORTH RYDE NSW 2113 Ph: +61 (2) 9870 2719 • Mob +61 (416) 134 993 • Fax: +61 (2) 9870 2400 • http://blogs.msdn.com/acoat From:

RE: Win 8 Tablet gestures

2012-04-03 Thread Andrew Coates (DPE AUSTRALIA)
That's not the case on my W510 - I can certainly swipe down from the top with the mouse. Of course, ALT+F4 also works. Andrew Coates, ME, MCPD, MCSD MCTS, Developer Evangelist, Microsoft, 1 Epping Road, NORTH RYDE NSW 2113 Ph: +61 (2) 9870 2719 * Mob +61 (416) 134 993 * Fax: +61 (2) 9870 2400 *

RE: The cost of putting small websites online

2012-04-02 Thread Andrew Coates (DPE AUSTRALIA)
plug If you're an MSDN subscriber, then you get Azure usage as part of that subscription. You can host multiple web sites on a singe Azure instance. In fact, what you might want to do is have 2 extra small instances running multiple web sites so you've got the umpteen 9's SLA. /plug

RE: The cost of putting small websites online

2012-04-02 Thread Andrew Coates (DPE AUSTRALIA)
? -David Burela On 2 April 2012 16:58, Andrew Coates (DPE AUSTRALIA) andrew.coa...@microsoft.commailto:andrew.coa...@microsoft.com wrote: plug If you're an MSDN subscriber, then you get Azure usage as part of that subscription. You can host multiple web sites on a singe Azure instance

RE: The cost of putting small websites online

2012-04-02 Thread Andrew Coates (DPE AUSTRALIA)
, I've put it on my list of things to learn, right after Db. http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/13639/Db-The-Future-Is-Coming http://thenextlanguage.net/ I'm really excited about the possibilities of Db, especially the tooling. On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 12:15 PM, Andrew Coates (DPE AUSTRALIA

RE: Win 8 Tablet

2012-03-29 Thread Andrew Coates (DPE AUSTRALIA)
I have one of these: http://www.amazon.com/Wacom-Cross-Executive-Pen-UPCROSS2/dp/B0002FHEWA Looks smart and worked a treat on my WinXP, Vista and Win7 Tablets. I don't have a Win8 machine with active digitiser as yet (but I expect I will). rant I love pen input. I'm a bit concerned that as a

RE: Microsoft Build Conference

2011-09-12 Thread Andrew Coates (DPE AUSTRALIA)
Keynotes streamed live, sessions available on demand soon after is my understanding. All available from http://www.buildwindows.com/ Cheers Coatsy -Original Message- From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Tony Wright Sent: Monday, 12

RE: Editing DOCX (mail-merge) and DOCX - PDF

2011-08-21 Thread Andrew Coates (DPE AUSTRALIA)
G'day Les, Document creation (including complex mail merge) is simple with the OpenXML SDK and conversion to PDF is easy with Word Automation Services in SharePoint 2010. I did a couple of posts on it back in the day. Document Creation and Conversion with the OpenXML SDK and SharePoint 2010

RE: [OT] Lightweight laptop for dev and demos

2011-05-08 Thread Andrew Coates (DPE AUSTRALIA)
and demos And you just need one of these inside it :-) http://www.crucial.com/store/listmodule/SSD/~524288~/list.html Regards, Greg -Original Message- From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Andrew Coates (DPE AUSTRALIA) Sent: Friday, 6 May

RE: [OT] Lightweight laptop for dev and demos

2011-05-05 Thread Andrew Coates (DPE AUSTRALIA)
I've just ordered a Lenovo x220 (http://www.lenovoblogs.com/designmatters/2011/03/thinkpad-x220-you-sexy-beast/) - they claim 23hr battery with the additional slice battery (15 hr without) Corei7 + 8GB + 320GB + 3yr onsite + IPS (720p) + WWAN + UltraBay + Slice Battery Just waiting for it to

RE: [OT] Lightweight laptop for dev and demos

2011-04-05 Thread Andrew Coates (DPE AUSTRALIA)
I'm looking with some interest at the Lenovo x220 (and x220t) - seems to tick all the boxes and they reckon 23 hr battery with the extra 6-cell! From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Stephen Price Sent: Wednesday, 6 April 2011 12:29 AM To:

RE: OOXML to PDF Converter

2010-07-04 Thread Andrew Coates (DPE AUSTRALIA)
SharePoint 2010 standard and above will do this for you using Word Automation Serviceshttp://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee558278.aspx. One alternative to the Apose.Words server I've played with is Ericon's XF Rendering Serverhttp://www.ecrion.com/Products/XFRenderingServer/Overview.aspx,