Matt Evans's Weblog

With the RC release of LightSwitch 2012, some users have noticed data load (the "red x") problems when using Chrome (and very old versions of Firefox). The underlying issue is how Chrome asks for data and how the OData libraries that LightSwitch...

The typical coding experience in a Lightswitch app revolves around the objects you've created -- your tables, your screens, queries, and so on. When you click "Write Code" in our design experience, there is a rich and strongly typed programming experience...

Fiddler is an indispensible tool for troubleshooting client/server communications, especially when your next best option is running the client under a debugger, or trying to glean info from IIS logs. The WCF Binary Inspector for fiddler is a great...

There's not a lot of easy-to-come-by-knowledge on how ASLR works or what it does, so to save people some effort, I'll place some links here: http://www.nynaeve.net/?p=100 http://www.blackhat.com/presentations/bh-dc-07/Whitehouse/Paper/bh-dc-07-Whitehouse...

I've recently become involved in testing the Document Management features in Axapta. This is a pretty powerful subsystem for integrating external structured and unstructured data and document types with the in built ERP system. There are two sides...

So I listen to music at work a bunch via headphones (here in Fargo, we've got cubes, not individual offices). I use my laptop as my "fluff" machine - that is, i listen to music, read mail, do office stuff, write up bugs, web surf (gasp!), etc from it...

A coworker here was thinking about getting an iPod Nano. My best friend ordered one the day they were announced and I got to see it a bit this weekend. Side note - we were at a resturant and I was playing with it, and the waitress came over to talk to...

Suppose that I've got an instance of SQL server setup for testing, and I've programmatically created databases on this instance, but never cleaned them up. This can leave you with hundreds of databases that you'll never use again, and there's no reason...

Suppose I have a notion of a User Account in my application, and I want to allow 3rd parties to tie that user account to one or more objects in an external directory/authentication system. Let's say, for the sake of argument, that I'm going to use...

So I was thinking about something or other today and wanted to refresh my mind on the details of it. I know that i had visited a site on exactly the topic at hand sometime recently. This happens pretty often. I think browser bookmarks are next to useless...

My wife, mother in law, father in law, and sister in law all grew up using Macs. I grew up using various unix machines. I had to say that I was excited, if for no other reason than family tech support, to see that OS9 would be leaving our home and theirs...