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What a great evening two fantastic presentations, and what a fantastic turn out from over 100 sign ups to well over fifty people turning up with a few more IT Pros than normal, (come on guys and girls we really need a good showing way to many developers!)...
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Wow outstanding over 94 places taken up for tonight’s meeting. Good work all! That’s fantastic I look forward to meeting some new faces as well as seeing the familiar ones. Hopefully we have a few more IT Pro's tonight so we can finally give the Dev....
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Well worth checking out at the moment if your after any books etc as they have a load of deals on. i.e Windows Vista Resource Kit 2nd Edition at a discount of 32% of retail price http://www.microsoft-press.co.uk/scripts/product.asp?ref=880178...
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Hey guys, the video from Steve's talk is now available thanks to Ian Smith! I've embedded it below, but head over to the actual video page if you want to watch it in HD or download it in it's entirety. Main Video Page Vista Squad: Network Access...
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Hey guys, the video from Marcus' talk is now available thanks to Ian Smith! I've embedded it below, but head over to the actual video page where you can access the full file and in HD if you want to watch it offline. Main Video Page ADO.NET Entities...
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Has anyone else checked out the new website its stunning! http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2008/en/us/serverunleashed/default.html...
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Well I must say this seems to be the latest buzz word, everyone seems to be cashing in, almost as good as only 3% fat, sugar free etc only when you read the fine print do you notice that they have been very crafty in their names and discriptions. So just...
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Microsoft are holding a free event at thier London office on 17th July 2008 Simplifying Your Route to Windows Vista Deployment Aimed squarely at your companies Decision Makers with responsibility for Microsoft and/or Desktop Infrastructure. Microsoft...
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Interested in stats? Want to know more about how many visitors Vista Squad has? If so, drop me a line in the comments and I'll add you to the Google Analytics accounts for Vista Squad. Limited time only, buy one get one free! :) Don't...
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Steve's awesome demo of NAP is currently being dealt with by Ian Smith, our video extraordinaire, so for the time being, Steve has kindly emailed me the slides he used at the event. Hope you enjoy! Download Files Also, head on over to Steve's blog...
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Hey guys, the video from Giorgio's talk is now available thanks to Ian Smith! I've embedded it below, but head over to the actual video page where you can access the full file if you want to watch it offline. Main Video Page Building RIA for Desktop,...
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Well, our competition is now closed and we have our 4 winners! In no particular order: LimitedIntelligence for his sad tale of ergonomics and firing squads PhilH for the poem of poems William Hilsun for a joke that will never be forgotten Paul Gerber...
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Are available for download. :) I'm hoping to get Steve's slides shortly to finish the deal. See you guys on the 16th of July ! Giorgio's blog is: http://blogs.msdn.com/giorgio...
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Vista Squad "The Fellowship of The Ring" Wednesday 16th July Hey Everyone! The next Vista Squad meeting has been booked! 16th of July at the London Victoria offices of Microsoft with two great talks lined up. The lineup: LINQ TO XML (Mike Taulty, Microsoft)...
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It was a proud night for us at Vista Squad HQ when we heard news of our first members to join by way of Twitter ! For those of you who don't know Twitter is a relatively new player in the social networking revolution. Often described as micro-blogging,...
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I would like to take this opportunity to thank everyone for the great turn out last night, probably our biggest meeting to date. Also a big Vista Squad thanks goes to both Stephen Lamb and Giorgio Sardo for their great presentations, which were both entertaining...
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We at Vista Squad have 4 Technet Plus subscriptions to give away! To be inline for this competition, drop us a comment explaining to the Squad why you think you're deserving of a subscription. Something to make the community laugh is always a plus. :...
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The slides and the source code from the two demos by Marcus Tillett have been uploaded. Feel free to play as you want, any questions about the code or the presentation, please drop a comment on this blog and we'll get them answered. ADO.NET Entities...
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Vista Squad "The Wrath of Kahn" Wednesday 18th June Hey Everyone! The next Vista Squad meeting has been booked! 18th of June at the London Victoria offices of Microsoft with two great talks lined up. The lineup: Building RIA for Desktop, Web and Mobile...
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TechNet have just released a series of videos on Windows Vista on usability and deployment. The links are below and well worth checking out! Usability http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9033345 What’s new for users in Windows Vista http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9033346...
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FEST08 the annual NxtGenUG one-day event takes place at Microsoft Reading on Thursday 12th June. As ever it's going to be an action packed day with great content from the likes of Mike Taulty ,Oliver Sturm , Dave Sussman and other top speakers. ...
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Is up and on Vimeo.com . We've created a Vista Squad account so all our content will be going there from now on. Only thing I wish I could do is embed the video into the blog posts, would be pretty sweet. ***UPDATE*** Ian Smith, in the comments below...
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I have a free Technet Plus subscription up for grabs. If you're a member of the Vista Squad usergroup, drop me an email on ray@vistasquad.co.uk with your username, full name, telephone number and full address and I'll send one of my subscriptions...
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The boys at Vista Squad have been scouring the earth (ok the UK) for talented and interesting sessions to show the masses so here's a sneak preview of what we have confirmed for the rest of the year: 16th July Mike Taulty - LINQ to XML 20th August Mike...
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Thanks to the guys that attended our last meeting it was fantastic! We had nearly 35 attendees, lots of good banter, 2 stonking presentations (videos to be up soon) and a copy of Vista Ultimate given away :) So the next meeting Vista Squad "The Wrath...
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