We kicked off our latest MSDN Roadshow tour with a first gig in Cardiff Bay on Monday. Next in the line-up is London on Friday, then Manchester, Glasgow and Newcastle. It looks like there's still some places left for all but the Manchester venue so if...

A long time ago, I wrote about my self-inflicted woes when I accidentally associated winword.exe as my zip file handler in Vista. Then last night I got a mail from Rob (sorry Rob, haven't got a link for you) saying that my post ranks fairly high in the...

Just noticed this: "Do not call the notifyScriptLoaded method from scripts that are embedded in assemblies. The script resource handler adds an instance of this call, and a second call will cause an error." having run into the error when playing...

I intended to cite references in an earlier post so apologies if this seems like a bit of an afterthought - it certainly isn't. These references provided the bulk of the information for my series of posts on building ASP.NET AJAX controls . First and...

Links to the other posts in this series In Part 7 we looked at how to wrap our client components into a server control that renders the markup and script required to deliver the UI and behaviours we want. Take a look at this page to see the control in...

There's been some discussion in our team over the last week or so about the philosophies of "Code to Live" and "Live to Code". In fact, I'd go as far as to say there's been some violent disagreement. I suppose such is inevitable when you attempt to pin...

Thanks to Scottish Developers for inviting me to talk at their event last night. I think the Rangers game kept a few folks away but for those that are interested the source code is here and the ASP.NET AJAX Controls stuff is here . I was discussing with...

Links to the other posts in this series This really is turning into a bit of a marathon - sorry about that. Here's the full source for my implementation of the VEMapControl (without any embedded resources - we'll get to that!): using S y s t e m ;...

Links to the other posts in this series In Part 3 we pretty much had the skeleton of a working control that would show an image in its default state and a Virtual Earth map centred at a specified location (presumably the location of the thing in the image...

From Brian Jones blog: Open XML Overwhelmingly Approved as an ISO / IEC standard (IS 29500): the end of the file formats war . It would be nice to think that all that surplus energy can now be channeled into looking forwards, developing the standard and...