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TechEd Australia is here!

I stopped in at the XBox welcome party on the way home from work and everything's looking really good! Beer, pizza, hotdogs, XBoxes and even a Monster Truck! what more could a couple of thousand geeks want?
There was a $2000 challenge put out to anybody that could beat the Australian Halo 2 champion.

Only thing I couldn't see while looking around was an MSDN Connection Lounge. What's happenned to MSDN Connection in Australia?

VS2005 Web Projects

Scott Guthrie has been posting some excellent content around the new structure for asp.net web projects in VS2005, and also how to manage it effectively.

(via Scott Guthrie)

Some techniques for better managing files in VS 2005 Web Projects
There has been a lot of online discussion lately about the new web project system that is being introduced with VS 2005.  My goal with this post is to explain a little more about what it is, and provide some background as to the features it provides and the motivation we had in introducing it.

Using IIS with VS 2005 and the new Web Project system
A number of people have asked me questions through my blog over the last few days about how VS 2005 uses and handles IIS (especially in cases of nested applications and virtual directories).  This blog entry provides more information on how this works, and hopefully clears up a few questions people might have.

Some techniques for better managing files in VS 2005 Web Projects
I’ve seen several questions come up in the last few days regarding techniques for structuring project layouts with web projects in VS 2005.  In particular, I’ve received several good questions asking for ways to manage large image directories as well as temporary storage directories underneath web project roots.  One goal with both questions has been to find ways to avoid these files from showing up in the VS web project solution explorer and cluttering up the web project view, as well as to avoid having these files/directories be prompted to be added to source control during check-in (note: you can just unclick having these files added to source control – but having to-do so can be a pain).

Scott's not coming to TechEd Aus, releases Biztalk Loadgen tool

Unfortunately Mr Biztalk, Scott Woodgate, has had to pull out of TechEd Aus/NZ 2005. What a shame! I was looking forward to his presentations, but I'm sure Biztalk Bill Chesnut will do an admirable job taking over his sessions.

Scott has also announced the release of the load generation tool MS use internally to test Biztalk.

(via Scott Woodgate) 

We finally released the BizTalk Server 2004 Loadgen tool.  Lots of folks want to put load on their BizTalk Servers and I couldn't count the number of people who continue to write single-threaded load generation applications and wonder why we don't perform (its because you aren't putting enough simultaneous load into us by serializing the input at the client end).  Enough of that, let's give you a copy of the loadgen tool that we use internally for testing so you can use the same thing. The loadgen tool can exercise a variety of adapters, has an extensible framework for you to add your own, xml configuration and is generally pretty cool.  As I said we use it for all kind of internal performance testing and now you can get access to it right here.

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Tech.ED Party at Movie World!

The Tech.Ed Party should be awesome this year! - and guaranteed to be warmer than last year :) See you there.

Tech.Ed 2005 Closing Party

Let your hair down as you enter the world of fun, fantasy and movie mayhem in the heart of Warner Bros. Movie World. A BIG night of entertainment awaits you. The action kicks off at 6.45 pm with nibbles and drinks followed by a great choice of entertainment including rides, a Matrix show and a live band and dance party. It's bound to be the BIGgest night of Tech.Ed 2005, so make sure you're a part of it.   When & where: Thursday 1 September 2005, 7:00-11:30pm Movie World, Gold Coast

Chester Releases MCMS Manager 4.0

Chester has released version 4 of his awesome Content Management Server tool, MCMS Manager. This utility provides the functionality that is lacking in the OOTB Microsoft product that some of my users have been crying out for. Features like placeholder content searching and template and resource gallery item usage are really handy for site auditing and maintenance. Previous versions have only been able to run on the MCMS server, but now Chester is using web services to allow it to be used remotely. Well done Chester!

(via Chester)

I want to thank everyone for helping me to make it as a stable version. Also I've added Page properties editor with this release. Hope to see more feedback! You can download it from here. For more information check MCMS Manager Site.

MCMS Manager 4.0

Sauce Reader for sale

Anybody want to buy the product and source code for an awesome RSS Aggregator? even though it's written in Delphi :)

(from Sauce Reader Weblog) 

The Sauce Reader product and source code are for sale!

Synop has closed for business. We're very proud of all we've accomplished both internally and by working closely with our customers and users. We appreciate all your interest and support.

Sauce Reader product and source code are for sale!

New Blog Host

Thanks to Donny Mack of dotnetjunkies, I've now got a blog running on the Community Server engine. Here's hoping this change will inspire me to blog more than I have in the past.

Previously I was being hosted on Blogsome.com, a WordPress site. It gave you a lot more flexibilty with the site layout, but everyone I know uses aggregators and never sees the original site anyway.

Feedburner is the best way to subscribe to my blog in an aggregator. Point to http://feeds.feedburner.com/DaveAdamson and you should get hold of it no matter where I am.