Oct
16
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 …
May
19
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 …
Feb
26
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 …
Jan
12
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 …
Oct
20
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 …
Aug
07
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 result in more avenues to consider as opposed to narrowing down the …
Jun
29
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. I have to admit that, up until now, I have not really looked …
May
20
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 into practice. In this post I am going to look at one of the most …
May
09
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, but that seems to have been a long time coming. The wait may be …
Feb
19
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 Environmental Services are a domestic and commercial cleaning services company, who offer amongst other things …