ASP.NET’s new MVC framework (currently at RC2 release ) makes syndicating your data ridiculously simple to implement. A Trivial Example For example, in a trivial blogging MVC site your ‘Home’ Controller may have a ‘Posts’ Action handler, so when you navigate...

I’ve recently been playing around with ASP.NET’s new MVC (Model View Controller) framework and have to say, its pretty cool. You can find MVC downloads, tutorials and other errata here . However, I ran into abit of a problem with MVC when using Silverlight...

Ever wanted to add your own methods to Object...or any other type for that matter? I've recently started playing around with Extension methods in C# and they're pretty damn cool. To add your own method to a Type: First create a static class...

Hosting Silverlight in SharePoint is actually pretty simple in its basic form. If you want more control over your Silverlight app within SharePoint there's always the excellent Silverlight Blueprints . The only prerequisite i'm aware of is that the IIS...

What is MVP? Model View Presenter (MVP) is a software design pattern which essentially isolates the user interface from the business logic. MVP is derived from the Model View Controller (MVC) pattern, and originally conceived by the renowned Agile...

Recently I've had to do a spot of Windows Mobile dev, part of which requires the mobile app to call a webservice, simple enough you may think. Well it is once you can figure out how to get the emulator to use the host network connection. So here's...

In my last post I explained (as countless other blogs have) how to install SmartPart on SharePoint and get a user control to display inside it. Now I'm going to try and give you a few pointers on some of the pitfalls involved in trying to get your WebPart...

It's a friday afternoon and I've just spent the better part of the day banging my head against SharePoint, so in a break from tradition I've decided to blog about how I got it working. For those who don't know, SmartPart is a funky little Web Part...

This is my new MSDN blog. Work/Life balance permitting (lol) I'll update this with dev hints, tips and tricks which will hopefully elucidate a few people.