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

Most commented posts

  1. Windows 7 RC Install – Expanding Windows Files Stuck at 21% – WAIT! — 158 comments
  2. WordPress CGI Error (The specified CGI application misbehaved by not returning a complete set of HTTP headers) — 15 comments
  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
20

Visual Studio 2010 and .Net 4.0 Beta 2 Download Available

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Visual Studio 2010 and .Net 4.0 Beta 2 has now been released to members of MSDN, with a public download available from Wednesday. Beta 2 brings many improvements to the table, including improvements in Sharepoint, WPF, ASP.NET, WinForms, as well as improvements to the core IDE and testing tools. I saw some of these IDE improvements at …

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Sep
25

Silverlight Coming to Mobile

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Ok, so this is not exactly a surprise to many people, but as posted on the Expression team blog, the Silverlight team have announced that Silverlight will be integrated into Windows Mobile 7, the reboot of the mobile OS from Microsoft. According to the Silverlight team, they are totally commited to having Silverlight work on …

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Sep
16

Scott Guthrie – Manchester – September 2009 – ASP.Net 4.0, MVC, Silverlight 3, VS 2010

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Scott Guthrie, Microsoft’s Corporate Vice Presedent and all round .Net Guru is coming to Manchester, UK, later this month to talk about what’s new with Visual Studio 2010, ASP.Net 4.0, Silverlight 3 and upcoming improvements to the MVC Framework! Seating for this event, entitled Guathon 2009,  is very limited and as such you can only join the …

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Sep
16

Resharper for Visual Studio 2010 Available!

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Ok, this one completely slipped by me! A while back I told you that JetBrains had a page on their web site stating that a preview of ReSharper for Visual Studio 2010 was on its way and that we would see it in June….but there was nothing.  Turns out it has been there since July in the …

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Sep
15

Outlook 2010 Features & Screenshots

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I have been using Outlook 2010 now since the start of the technical preview, which I was lucky enough to manage to be a part of, and I love it! So, for those of you not currently able to try this baby out, I thought I would share a few of the new bits of …

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Sep
14

SOLVED: Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 – Cannot Create The Window

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I am currently in the Microsoft Office 2010 tech preview and I must say that I am loving it!   What I did not love though was after installing Office 2010, my Visual Studio 2010 Beta stopped working, simply displaying the message “Cannot Create The Window”. Microsoft claimed not to be able to recreate the …

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Sep
05

IE8 – Intermittant “Internet Explorer Cannot Display The Web Page”

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For the last couple of weeks I have been experiencing this frustrating message, “Internet Explorer Cannot Display The web Page”, nearly everywhere I have been visiting.  Also, it seemed like the more I visited a web site, the more it would display this message! Anyway, I reached the end of my tether last night and decided …

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Aug
25

Entity Framework v2 Articles

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There has been a lot of information being passed around recently about the changes being introduced in the second major release of Microsoft’s Entity Framework, so I thought it might be a good idea to get a list of articles together on the subject that I have found useful. If you know of any more …

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Aug
11

Windows 7 Upgrade Corrupts / Removes .Net 4.0 and VS 2010 Betas

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The other day I performed an upgrade of Windows 7 RC to Windows 7 RTM using the workaround mentioned here, as this is not an option straight out of the box. I think I may have just stumbled across one of the reasons why. I have just noticed that my HTC Touch Pro hadn’t picked …

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Aug
07

Windows 7 RTM – Expanding Windows Files Hangs at 21% – WAIT!

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A while back I posted a message about the Windows 7 Release Candidate install appearing to hang whilst expanding windows files. Well, I just wanted to let you know that this also appear to be happening on Windows 7 RTM / Final. When the installation reaches the Expanding Windows Files stage at 21% (some people …

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