Gary Pretty

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Name: Gary Pretty
Date registered: March 10, 2008
URL: http://www.garypretty.co.uk

Latest posts

  1. Blend 4 Crashes on Launch (“Blend 4 has stopped working”) — October 5, 2011
  2. Telerik RadControls for Windows Phone 7 Giveaway! — May 5, 2011
  3. Using the RADJumpList from Telerik for Windows Phone 7 — March 6, 2011
  4. Christmas Presents App for Windows Phone 7 — October 16, 2010
  5. Bing Silverlight Control with the Bing Web Service Application — May 19, 2010

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  3. ASP.NET 3.5 Dynamic Data Tutorial Series – Part 1 – What is Dynamic Data and creating a basic dynamic data web site. — 13 comments
  4. Internet Explorer 8 Beta Problems — 12 comments

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Oct
05

Blend 4 Crashes on Launch (“Blend 4 has stopped working”)

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I had some trouble today with Blend 4 which was continuously crashing on launch, even after an uninstall and re-install of the program. Thankfully, I found a very helpful forum post on MSDN which helped me fix the issue. I have recently installed the Developer Preview of Visual Studio 11 and it turns out that …

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May
05

Telerik RadControls for Windows Phone 7 Giveaway!

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Telerik Windows Phone 7 RadControls

Update: Entry for this contest has now closed and the winner will be announced here shortly! Recently I have been using the fantastic RadControls for Windows Phone 7 by Telerik in my work on Windows Phone 7 applications.  The toolkit has been built from the ground up to provide controls and capabilities that are not …

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Mar
06

Using the RADJumpList from Telerik for Windows Phone 7

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A while back I downloaded the preview of the RadControls for Windows Phone from Telerik, a new set of controls built from the ground up to make the lives of developers creating apps for the platform easier. The list of controls that are included in the impressive pack include a Data Bound List Box, Date …

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Oct
16

Christmas Presents App for Windows Phone 7

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I have been incredibly busy the last few months and some of the things I have been working on are applications for Windows Phone 7. Today saw the publication of the first of my applications to the Windows Phone 7 marketplace, Christmas Presents. Christmas Presents is a simple but effective application that will allow you to manage all …

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May
19

Bing Silverlight Control with the Bing Web Service Application

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After reading Carl Dickinson’s post on Mando Group Labs about the Bing Silverlight Control, I wanted to give it a try myself. I decided to set about using the Bing Silverlight control to display available hotels from LateRooms.com.  LateRooms.com have an affiliate scheme that exposes the availability of hotels via XML feeds (you do need …

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Apr
29

The Silverlight Masterclass!

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The Silverlight Tour comes to the UK – and it’s called the Masterclass! This 3 day hands-on training with both designer and developer tracks looks awesome and (uniquely) has two expert trainers per course.  Currently scheduled in London, Manchester, and the Midlands for June, all courses also come with the chance to win an xbox …

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Apr
08

Silverlight and Windows Phone 7 Link Post

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With the recent announcements regarding Silverlight 4 and Windows Phone 7 Development, I thought I would share a few links to some sites I have found useful, both recently and in the past when starting to work with Silverlight and Windows Phone 7 dev using Silverlight. Windows Phone 7 Dev WP7 Panorama App   http://blogs.claritycon.com/blogs/design/archive/2010/03/30/building-the-elusive-windows-phone-panorama-control.aspx Twitter …

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Feb
26

Multi-Select List Box in ASP.NET MVC

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Recently I have been working on an MVC site using the Entity Framework.  I have some related entities in my EF model, as show below in the form of “Reader” and “Category”, and the relationship between them, i.e. many to many. When it came to proucing a view and action to perofrm the Create Reader …

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Jan
12

ASP.NET MVC – Passing ViewData to a MasterPage

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If like me you are using ASP.NET MVC for some of your web applications these days and use MasterPages within them, then you may have come accross the need to pass ViewData to the MasterPage.  For example, this might be for a dynamically generated navigation bar. When I first started using MVC, I simply passed …

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Oct
26

3 mobile broadband not working (“No Network”) on Windows 7…

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Well, we moved into our new house this weekend….so I am pretty tired.  I cannot believe how much stuff we have managed to accumulate over a relatively short period of time!  So, now we are living in our very own building site.   The front room is currently made up of some scaffolding, two garden …

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