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Based on the excellent article from Stephen Toub , I was inspired to write a Shockwave Flash preview handler. Basically, it's just a plain UserControl which hosts the ActiveX wrapper for the player. It works from both Outlook 2007 and Windows Vista. The installer is attached.

Based on the excellent article from Stephen Toub , I was inspired to write a Shockwave Flash preview handler. Basically, it's just a plain UserControl which hosts the ActiveX wrapper for the player. It works from both Outlook 2007 and Windows Vista. The installer is attached.

First of all what does it look like to talk to nearly 2000 people? Well here is a picture I found on flickr of 900 people... yup I'm in there #9 top row. Think double this and we will be just about there! It was all of you that made this event so successfull, THANKS! Darryl did a great job of MC'ing...

I just planned my time for the rest of Feb and March and I am overwhelmed by how much work I have left to do. But there is light at the end of the tunnel, on the 24th of March I am flying my family to Europe for a month long holiday! I am going to be blogging infrequently over the coming weeks sorry...

I flew back into NZ on Tuesday morning suffering badly from food poisoning, it hit me just after I lay down to sleep on the flight home. I don't know where I got it from but it really hit me for 6 I am only just now recovering! I chose to stay home Tuesday and did not attend an "Adobe Tricks of the Trade...

I'm starting my long flight home from Seattle to Auckland. Please join me for another long convoluted post about this week abroad all written and linked while disconnected from the Internet ;) Each year technical Microsoft staff that are based out in the field fly to Seattle to attend a week long technical...

Wow... what a ride! Darryl and I have been humming and we got there with some kick ass sidebar gadgets for NZ! Thanks to everyone involved. If you have Vista try them for yourself if not watch this little video I just put together! ENJOY Coverage so far today... Peter Griffen - Breakfast Brent Colbert...

A few people have asked if we are going to be selling the worlds first copy of Windows Vista in New Zealand like we did for Windows 95. The answer is ABSOLUTELY! Where & When? Date: Monday 29th/ Tuesday 30th January 2007 - Remember Monday is a day off work, Auckland Anniversary day. Time: 10pm-2am...

I've spent several hours testing the RC build of VPC2007 and I'm still experiencing erratic mouse behavior where the mouse seems to "skip" (disappear and reappear during movement). In the beta, this was caused by my Intel Centrino 915 chipset (Dell D810 running Vista Ultimate RTM) and...

We just uploaded to our corporate site a small sample we created for the Windows Vista Launch in Colombia, showing some features in Windows Communication Foundation, Windows Workflow Foundation and BizTalk Server 2006. The sample showcases a simple business scenario that uses features like WCF self-hosted...