Karl Seguin, a .net developer for Fuel Industries has written an excellent series of posts on modern development techniques. Examples are based on .net and associated open source and commercial tools and utilities but the theory is great reading for any developer. A lot of what is covered I will be bringing into my talk [...]
Continue readingIf you’re running visual studio in Parallels you can set it up to deploy to a virtual directory in IIS then make that site accessible to OS X. This is great for when developing web services or remoting in .Net with Flex Builder in OS X. You can also assign an alias to your windows [...]
Continue readingI’ve just written a new tutorial on NHibernate (an Open Source OR Mapper for .Net). As ususal any feedback much appreciated.
Continue readingAs anyone who regularly reads this blog will know, I’ve been looking into Silverlight of late. Nothing commercial as yet, just to fulfill my own geeky interests (if anyone is looking for Silverlight development get in touch). Throughout this experimentation and research I’ve also discussed Silverlight with other developers and designers from various small and [...]
Continue readingContinuing from my previous post on learning Silverlight (sorry for the VERY long delay i’ve been very busy lately)… 5 – The tools (cont) Okay so downloads required were as follows: Silverlight Runtime .NET Framework 3.0 Visual Studio Orcas Visual Web Developer 2008 – due to the massive download required i opted for the Express [...]
Continue readingScott Guthrie just announced the next beta of Visual Studio 2008 and .net 3.5, this is a big release and details some great new features. Check out his blog postd and give it a try. I have been playing with the beta1 and Silverlight and am thoroughly impressed see my findings here and i’ll be [...]
Continue readingAfter my initial enthusiasms about Silverlight along came proper work and other such distractions and I somewhat halted my research. However I’m doing a brief presentation on it at a new tech user group in Southampton (12th July) and so thought best to brush up on the latest – nothing like last minute preparation! I [...]
Continue readingThis week I am on a training course titled “Creating engaging user experiences with Microsoft Expression” “Delivering Rich Online Experiences Using Miscrosoft Expression, ASP.Net, AJAX and WPF” (edit: surprisingly I couldn’t remeber the exact title without the material in front of me, this is now the real course title and a better indication of the [...]
Continue readingEvery time I’ve tried to install VS.net 2003 I’ve had to deal with this error, the solution is out there on many other sites but thought I’d put it here for my own reference. Often when trying to create a web project in VS.net you’ll get the error: “Visual Studio .NET has detected that the [...]
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