Paul Andrew

Technical Product Manager for Office 365 at Microsoft

Where in NZ is the most .NET?

In New Zealand May is .NET Framework Survey month. I thought it would be interesting to find out...

Author: Paul Andrew Date: 05/09/2004

My Travelling Brother

My brother is still travelling around the south of France and he's posted some photos.

Author: Paul Andrew Date: 04/29/2004

Microsoft New Zealand Security Summit

Well it's finished. I had a great time travelling to Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch meeting...

Author: Paul Andrew Date: 04/29/2004

Microsoft New Zealand Security Summit is next week

And we're pretty busy getting ready for it. My session is the last one of the day and I'm talking...

Author: Paul Andrew Date: 04/21/2004

Why Whitehorse designers are not using UML

Today I read Keith Short's why Whitehorse is not using UML? In it he describes why the Whitehorse...

Author: Paul Andrew Date: 04/18/2004

Pocket PC or tricorder

Made in Wellington, you can purchase this ummm.... digital camera which records the exact location...

Author: Paul Andrew Date: 03/27/2004

The User is Online - Be Responsive

I’ve used a personal computer for a while now, and I think I’m a fairly experienced user...

Author: Paul Andrew Date: 03/15/2004

Microsoft New Zealand Security Summit

There's going to be lots of .NET developer content at this 1 day free security summit at the end of...

Author: Paul Andrew Date: 03/13/2004

An hour a day saved

I've just started using Lookout and I swear I'm saving about an hour a day by not having to search...

Author: Paul Andrew Date: 03/13/2004

.NET User Group Tour of New Zealand

I'm travelling around New Zealand currently with Adam Cogan Microsoft Regional Director from...

Author: Paul Andrew Date: 03/02/2004

New Zealand MSDN Flash newsletter

Here's an alternative publishing of the latest MSDN Flash newsletter. This is just the local content...

Author: Paul Andrew Date: 02/27/2004

Patches from Windows Update available on CD

I just found this, you can order the patches on CD that otherwise would have to be downloaded from...

Author: Paul Andrew Date: 02/18/2004

My Team is Hiring a .NET Developer Specialist

My group at Microsoft in New Zealand is hiring a Community focussed .NET Developer Specialist. A...

Author: Paul Andrew Date: 02/17/2004

Get ready for Wide Bay

I'm sitting in a presentation about Itanium hardware from a hardware vendor. He just told us that...

Author: Paul Andrew Date: 02/11/2004

MDI Application in .NET with combining menus

A user on my local .NET mailing list was having trouble with MDI child menus not combining, so today...

Author: Paul Andrew Date: 01/14/2004

Starting Point for .NET Framework Memory usage queries

Question: If, as part of our ASP.NET code, we create references to COM objects, do the (native)...

Author: Paul Andrew Date: 01/13/2004

Places to find .NET sample code

When I'm looking for a sample of how to do something in .NET there are many places to look, I use...

Author: Paul Andrew Date: 01/09/2004

Help, I'm off topic

Can anyone tell me how to stop my inane useless off-topic posts ending up on the main page? Pardon...

Author: Paul Andrew Date: 01/08/2004

Google yourself

Once in a while you should do a google search on yourself. In the town where I grew up there was a...

Author: Paul Andrew Date: 01/08/2004

Handling My Email In .NET Code

I was thinking about improving some of my email inbox processing recently and I spent some time...

Author: Paul Andrew Date: 12/16/2003

Developer Support in New Zealand

This is where I'm pasting various ways for developers in New Zealand to get help for their work....

Author: Paul Andrew Date: 12/02/2003

Borland C# Builder and Visual Studio .NET Whidbey happy together

Thanks Dogg for the comment on my side-by-side issue earlier today. I now have Visual Studio .NET...

Author: Paul Andrew Date: 12/02/2003

Borland C# Builder

I've been using Borland C# Builder a bit this week. I was getting an unknown error 0x80131044...

Author: Paul Andrew Date: 12/02/2003

Model Based Development and the Microsoft System Definition Model

Today I read the CBDI's review of the Microsoft Whitehorse technologies shown at the Professional...

Author: Paul Andrew Date: 12/02/2003

Next Weeks Road Show

This week I'm preparing a demo for a roadshow next week in Wellington and Auckland which will also...

Author: Paul Andrew Date: 11/28/2003

Smart Client Training

I'm on a short smart client training course in Singapore, here's the view from the training room....

Author: Paul Andrew Date: 09/10/2003

I got a day off

So that was the best TechEd I've ever been to. TechEd 2003 New Zealand is finished and what an event...

Author: Paul Andrew Date: 08/24/2003

Heading North to TechEd

It's a beautiful sunny day in Auckland today.  I'm up north here for last minute preparations for...

Author: Paul Andrew Date: 08/14/2003

TechEd 2003 New Zealand

So I'm going to TechEd New Zealand.  This year I have cleverly avoided any speaking positions which...

Author: Paul Andrew Date: 08/12/2003

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