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Microsoft Certified Partner Soul Solutions
Author: Soul Solutions Created: Wednesday, 7 November 2007
Blog entries, announcements, tips, articles etc. on Windows Live Services

By Soul Solutions on Friday, 25 July 2008

Back in March I had an article on Live Search published in Code-Magazine. I’ve finally gotten around to publishing on our site. You can check it out here.

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By Soul Solutions on Tuesday, 8 July 2008

Today we received confirmation that we had achieved Microsoft Certified Partner with Information Worker Solutions Competency (Data Visualisation Specialist) for our work with Virtual Earth.

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We thought we’d see who else is in the same area and had a look at the Partner Finder, and it looks like we’ll be the first Data Visualisation specialists in Australia.

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By Soul Solutions on Monday, 16 June 2008

With Roger’s Demos Happen {Here} Competition in full swing, I thought a new article to help get your videos in might help a few people.  So I’ve created a new article on how to upload videos to Silverlight Streaming using Expresion Encoder 2 and the Silverlight Streaming plugin.  Check it out here.

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By Soul Solutions on Monday, 26 May 2008

BronwenWeeGo We've been a bit lax in our blogging the last week...mainly because we were travelling around for Remix Australia.  For those who missed out you missed an awesome event! So I'll use this post to give my highlights of the events and to answer some of the common questions we were getting from you all around the ASP.Net Virtual Earth Control and the upcoming Contoso Bank Quick App.  We had a great time and it was really good for us both to be allowed to show some unreleased bits for the first (and 2nd if you were in Melbourne) time ever!

 

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By Soul Solutions on Wednesday, 14 May 2008

BronwenWeeGo Remix is coming to Australia - double strength.  There are 2 separate events in Australia this year. 20th May in Sydney, and 22nd in Melbourne. We're presenting a couple of demos at both events in the Windows Live session with Angus Logan. 

I'm speaking at REMIX. Are you?

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By Soul Solutions on Wednesday, 14 May 2008

johnWeeGo I posted my first dev article on liveside.net on the weekend, it all about making a panorama, using deep zoom, virtual earth and silverlight streaming.

Today I checked the reports on usage:

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5,644 hits on the sample application in a few days! That could have been my entire server's bandwidth for the month (50GB).

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By Soul Solutions on Tuesday, 13 May 2008

  We were invited to present a guest lecture (2hrs) at QUT today on Web Applications in the Real World.  Our brief - show some cool demos and tell some stories about working in the real world.  Read More »

By Soul Solutions on Wednesday, 7 May 2008

BronwenWeeGo All of a sudden my project stopped autogenerating the designer.cs files for all my page and controls in my Visual Studio 2008 project.  Apart from being really annoying it's just WRONG!

 

No matter what i did it wouldn't fix the designer.cs file.  So I started down the track of regenerating the files in a new project and then it happened again!

So I tried deleting the designer.cs file and right clicking on the page and choosing "Convert To WebApplication".

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By Soul Solutions on Thursday, 1 May 2008

BronwenWeeGo.jpgBlogging has been a bit light on this month. As you may have noticed we spent a lot of time travelling this month.  We discovered it takes as long to get from Brisbane to Montreal as it does to get from Montreal to Seattle. So a summary of what we got up to this month.

By Soul Solutions on Wednesday, 2 April 2008

johnWeeGo.jpgIt has gone in a blur but it was exactly one year ago I was awarded an MVP for my community service to Windows Live Developers. Always fun to be awarded on April Fools Day. The name has changed, I'm now a Windows Live Platform MVP.

Since then we have had several releases of Virtual Earth (and PetaBytes of new data), a VE exam released, QuickApps with sample code to learn from, ASP.NET 3.5 controls and many a name change. 

I kept busy building the http://viawindowslive.com community site that so many of you have now contributed to with fellow MVP Bronwen Zande. We presented at various events in Australia, recently we travelled around Australia presenting 9 session on Virtual Earth and SQL 2008 Spatial. I took on the role of Moderator for the Read More »