March 2009 - Posts
I noticed recently that the Edit and Preview views in Live Writer weren’t actually reflecting the formatting of a post when it arrived on my blog. This seemed a bit strange as it had certainly been fine in the past. I tried refreshing my blog theme but
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Thanks to everyone who came along to my Live Framework session at DevWeek, a much bigger audience than I expected for the final session on the last day (of sessions at least). The best place to get you started is http://dev.live.com/liveframework . I’ll
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Thanks to everyone that came along to my ASP.NET Roadmap session yesterday at DevWeek . I’ve attached a copy of my slides or you can browse the deck below from Slideshare.net. I’ll follow up with some blog posts over the next week or two with sample code
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If you’re having some trouble getting the ASP.NET AJAX 4.0 Preview setup working (the ReadMe is a little ambiguous), Wally McClure has a very helpful post on the subject . For the benefit of the spiders, you could be seeing either of these errors: Sys.WebForms.PageRequestManager
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And I’ve just installed RC2 for my session next week :-( Time to uninstall / reinstall - that’s becoming a bit of a mantra… ASP.NET MVC 1.0 Download Link Technorati Tags: asp.net , mvc
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Nice article on Silverlight for PHP Developers which I had a (very) small hand in. I notice that a few copy typing errors have been introduced in the publication process affecting some of the code samples. I’ll try and get them sorted out. Technorati
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I hadn’t seen this before so apologies if it’s old news but Microsoft Live Labs have an AJAX implementation of their Seadragon technology (the technology that goes by the name of Deep Zoom in Silverlight). The experience (for me at least) isn’t quite
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Quite a few people started reporting having issues connecting to Cassini earlier in the week. I’ve seen blog posts , tweets and internal mail threads as people who had a working environment one day found the could no longer connect the next. The solution
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Given the success of my “new” Media Center I thought it deserved a little more money spending on it to avoid the “Media Center would like to change channel to record xxxx” scenario. Prescribed: Dual tuners. Dual tuners allow you to either watch one channel
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There I was considering whether a series of introductory blog posts on ASP.NET MVC was called for (yes, I know there are various videos and tutorials on www.asp.net but somehow they never seem to answer all the questions I have) modelled around building
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Maybe it's just me but every time I come to do this (usually about every 6 months as I build an ASP.NET demo) I run into problems so I thought I'd give an example here so I can use it again in September :-). Imagine I have a page that displays a list
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Boxed myself into a bit of a corner with that last one and DDD Scotland doesn't have an animal logo :-( I'll be there talking about ASP.NET 4.0. Looking forward to it! Technorati Tags: asp.net , ddd
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Technorati Tags: ddd , event , developer , taunton
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I see NxtGenUG are branching out again with a new region centred on Hereford. First meeting will be on 17th March from 7pm 'til 9pm in the Shirehall, Union Street, Hereford HR1 2HX. Speaking will be Guy Smith-Ferrier with a session on "Visual Studio 2008
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Leave a comment that demonstrates you were there. First come first served (I only have one). Just make sure the comment clearly demonstrates you were there (did I say something stupid? (probably), what did the demo app do? etc). Then drop me an email
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