Archive for the ‘Development’ Category

Tab controls on web pages

Sunday, October 7th, 2007

With the recent surge in AJAX enabled web sites I have to wonder if web user interfaces are still as intuitive as they were when we simply had to fill in a form and press the Save or Submit button. Nowadays user interfaces, like the one pictures below from Community ...

Silverlight 1.1 UserControl C# template code does not follow best practices

Thursday, September 20th, 2007

Why does the Microsoft Visual Studio team not follow the best practices internally? When creating a Silverlight 1.1 UserControl under Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2 it generates the following code by default. System.IO.Stream s = this.GetType().Assembly.GetManifestResourceStream("Project1.UserControl1.xaml"); this.InitializeFromXaml(new System.IO.StreamReader(s).ReadToEnd()); Most developers would realise that this is ...

Building data interfaces for .NET

Friday, September 7th, 2007

Just a quick reminder for the free SA Developer .NET event tomorrow, the 8th September 2007, on building .NET data interfaces. The talk will be held in the Microsoft auditorium in Bryanston and presented by André van Rensburg. There are tons of resources available on how to access ...