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 …
Category Archive: .Net
May
05
Telerik RadControls for Windows Phone 7 Giveaway!
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 …
May
19
Bing Silverlight Control with the Bing Web Service Application
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 …
Apr
29
The Silverlight Masterclass!
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 …
Feb
26
Multi-Select List Box in ASP.NET MVC
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
ASP.NET MVC – Passing ViewData to a MasterPage
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 Download Available
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 …
Sep
25
Silverlight Coming to Mobile
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 …
Sep
16
Scott Guthrie – Manchester – September 2009 – ASP.Net 4.0, MVC, Silverlight 3, VS 2010
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 …
Sep
16
Resharper for Visual Studio 2010 Available!
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 …