Archive for the ‘Development’ Category
Friday, June 13th, 2008
If you are busy trying to develop using Microsoft Silverlight 2 beta 2 and Microsoft Expression Blend 2.5 June Preview you might have encountered errors while working in Blend such as The TypeConverter for "DataGridLength" does not support converting from a string. although Visual Studio doesn’t ...
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Tuesday, June 10th, 2008
When Microsoft released Silverlight 2 beta 1 they included a really cool control called the System.Windows.Controls.WatermarkedTextBox control. It lived in the assembly System.Windows.Controls.Extended.dll and was included in your XAP file when you did a build. However in Silverlight 2 beta 2 the one control that didn’t make it was the ...
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Saturday, June 7th, 2008
Microsoft earlier this week announced at Tech-Ed North America 2008 that Microsoft Silverlight 2 beta 2 will be available for download this week. The new Silverlight 2 beta 2 control updates the version number from 2.0.30226.2 to 2.0.30523.6. This release is expected to break compatibility with Silverlight 2 ...
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Tuesday, March 11th, 2008
One of the guys on the official Silverlight community forums posted an interesting question, namely how does one change the currently visible UserControl in a Silverlight 2.0 application. To put things in context the new Silverlight 2.0 project template creates two classes for you: a System.Windows.Application derived class named App ...
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Friday, February 8th, 2008
How many times have you tried to design an efficient database table design in SQL Server only to stumped with the problem of storing pure date values. Yes the currently released versions of SQL Server (up to 2005) don't support a pure date only data type. Note that SQL Server ...
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Friday, November 16th, 2007
Jonathan Allen and Chad Boyd have interest blog posts on the new SQL Server 2008 compression features. Row level compression drastically reduces the meta-data needed for variable length columns. Instead of storing the length of each field in 2 bytes, it now takes a mere 3 bits. Fields themselves ...
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Wednesday, November 14th, 2007
Thanks to Dariel Solutions who are bringing Juval Lowy out to South Africa to present a 5-day master class. Juval is recognised by Microsoft as a Software Legend and one of the world's top .NET experts. For those that are not so lucky to be able to make it ...
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Wednesday, November 14th, 2007
Local mobile innovation company, Red Five Labs, has today released a beta 1 build of their of implementation of the .NET Compact Framework 1.0 which runs on Symbian S60 3rd edition devices like the Nokia N95 series of mobile phones. This is an important product for enterprise developers that ...
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Thursday, November 8th, 2007
Angus Logan, Senior Technical Product Manager for Windows Live, just announced on his blog the first CTP for a cool set of add-ins for Visual Studio 2008 (formerly code-named Orcas) for getting started with Windows Live in your own applications. Windows Live™ Tools for Microsoft® Visual Studio® are ...
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Tuesday, October 30th, 2007
Sometimes Microsoft knows how to screw things up. Not only were the Visual Studio 2008 (code-named Orcas) Beta 2 Virtual PC (VPC) images rather excessively large for the average South African developer to download and too big to fit onto a single DVD for community distribution, but now they are ...
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