Bing Silverlight Control with the Bing Web Service Application
Wednesday, May 19th, 2010 Posted in .Net, C#, Silverlight | 2 Comments »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 ...
Multi-Select List Box in ASP.NET MVC
Friday, February 26th, 2010 Posted in .Net, ASP.NET MVC, ASP.Net, C#, Entity Fraemwork | 1 Comment »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 ...
ASP.NET MVC – Passing ViewData to a MasterPage
Tuesday, January 12th, 2010 Posted in .Net, ASP.NET MVC, ASP.Net, C# | No Comments »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 ...
Visual Studio 2010 and .Net 4.0 Beta 2 Download Available
Tuesday, October 20th, 2009 Posted in .Net, ASP.NET MVC, ASP.Net, Betas, C#, Entity Framework, Silverlight, microsoft, msdn, visual studio | 1 Comment »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 ...
BOOK REVIEW: Professional Refactoring in C# and ASP.NET (Wrox)
Friday, August 7th, 2009 Posted in .Net, ASP.Net, Book Reviews, C# | 1 Comment »Title: Professional Refactoring in C# and ASP.Net Publisher: Wrox Author: Danijel Arsenovski Even the most experienced developers can sometimes be found sat staring at their monitor trying to decide which way to implement a solution. Asking a fellow developer for input will probably ...
BOOK REVIEW: ASP.Net MVC 1.0, Problem – Design – Solution (Wrox)
Monday, June 29th, 2009 Posted in .Net, ASP.NET MVC, ASP.Net, Book Reviews, C# | 1 Comment »Title: ASP.NET MVC 1.0 Problem – Design – Solution Publisher: Wrox Authors: Nick Beradi, Al Katawazi, Marco Bellinaso It seems that recently every man and his dog have been talking about ASP.Net MVC and the many advantages it brings along with it. ...
TUTORIAL: Entity Framework v2.0 – Model First using Visual Studio 2010 and .Net 4.0
Wednesday, May 20th, 2009 Posted in .Net, ASP.Net, C#, Entity Framework, Tutorials, ado.net, visual studio | 6 Comments »Following up on my recent post about the improvements to the Entity Framework in .Net 4.0 this is the first in a series of posts examining some of the new features and showing you how to put some of them ...
Visual Studio 2010 Beta This Week?
Saturday, May 9th, 2009 Posted in .Net, Betas, C#, microsoft, visual studio | No Comments »So, I have my Windows 7 RC up and running and I am now itching to get hold of a beta of Visual Studio 2010. I held off downloading the Virtual PC CTP ion order to wait for an installable version, ...
Wheelie Bin Cleaning
Thursday, February 19th, 2009 Posted in C#, Expression Web, Uncategorized, web design | No Comments »Odd title you are thinking?? Well, I have gotten to thinking that I should write a post when I publish a new web site for any of my clients, so that I can get comments and feedback from you all. Lakemere ...
MSDN Roadshow 2008 Review and Useful Links
Wednesday, May 7th, 2008 Posted in .Net, C#, Silverlight, msdn | 2 Comments »Ok, so a few weeks ago I posted about my plans to attend the MSDN Roadshow 2008 in Manchester and I said that I would post about the event once I had attended. So as promised here is that very ...



