Just downloaded the final release of MSN 7 and was pleasantly surprised to discover that the “What I’m Listening to” feature even works with iTunes – cool! In addition there’s now an option to displays the contact’s images in the main list, so I’ve got another chance to spot the contact I’m looking for – the majority of which generally … Read more “MSN 7 – “Listening to” feature works with iTunes!”
Author: james.crowley
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I’m a Visual Basic MVP!
I’ve just heard I’ve been awarded Microsoft MVP Visual Developer – Visual Basic, which is absolutely great!! Thanks everyone 🙂
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ASP.NET “Page Not Found” when pages exist…
I hit a strange problem today when I started getting the ASP.NET 404 error page whenever I tried to access my ASP.NET pages through IIS – whilst any non-ASP.NET pages in the same directory worked fine. After a bit of digging, it turned out that this was caused by me fiddling with the site’s “home directory” in IIS – I’d … Read more “ASP.NET “Page Not Found” when pages exist…”
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OPML Feed for UK Developer Blogs
We’ve now got over 90 UK developer blogs being archived on Developer Fusion, so I’ve now put up an OPML feed so you can easily add these to your own aggregator. See http://www.developerfusion.co.uk/blogs/archive/ for the blog archive, and http://www.developerfusion.co.uk/blogs/list.aspx for the list of blogs being aggregated, and the OPML links.
If you’ve got a blog that’s not listed there and … Read more “OPML Feed for UK Developer Blogs”
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Students: Get your entries in for the Imagine Cup!
If you’re a student, and haven’t already checked out the Imagine Cup, then its definitely worth a look – for one thing, you could win $25,000 in the top prize for the Software Design Challenge! Any student who registers before April 1st will get a FREE copy of Visual Studio .NET 2003 Academic Edition, plus free membership of theSpoke Premium. … Read more “Students: Get your entries in for the Imagine Cup!”
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Dynamically loading ASP.NET 2.0 “Bindable” templates
Update: See http://weblogs.asp.net/james_crowley/archive/2005/09/06/424539.aspx
Just found out that ASP.NET 2.0 doesn’t support dynamically loading “bindable” templates from a file; you’re restricted to writing them inline. In other words, if you’re using a FormView or DetailView control, and plan to use the new two-way data binding features, any use of LoadTemplate is out of the window. Plus the BindableTemplateBuilder (for creating a … Read more “Dynamically loading ASP.NET 2.0 “Bindable” templates”
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Free UK Developer Job Listings
Just thought I’d post to let people know – I’m about to start listing UK Developer Jobs on Developer Fusion. If any of you have an open position that you need filled in the UK – and would like some free advertising, then please drop me a line, and we can get the job listed. Note that if you’re from … Read more “Free UK Developer Job Listings”
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Gen ”05 University Tour
Gen ’05 is a series of events Microsoft are running at Universities around the UK for students with an interest in technology. In February, they’ll be visiting
- London
- Birmingham
- Leeds
- Hatfield
Check it out at http://www.microsoft.com/uk/academia/gen05/
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Converting VB.NET code to C# (and back again) – V2
I’ve just updated the VB.NET -> C# and C# -> VB.NET code converter on Developer Fusion – a large number of bugs have now been squished! Check them out at http://www.developerfusion.com/utilities/
The utility uses the conversion code from the #develop IDE, and any bugs we come across I’ll be fixing and integrating into the #develop code too. Let me know … Read more “Converting VB.NET code to C# (and back again) – V2”
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Permanent 301 Redirect with QueryString in IIS
If anyone’s ever tried to move domain, you’ll know its a pain. One way to make things a little easier is to provide an automatic 301 redirect from your old domain to your new one – this marks the new destination as a permanent change, and will generally be picked up by search engines.
IIS provides an easy way to … Read more “Permanent 301 Redirect with QueryString in IIS”
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Scott Guthrie in London (17 Feb)
Scott Guthrie is in London on 17 Feb to give an MSDN Technical Briefing on “Introducing ASP.NET 2.0”. If there’s a “father” of ASP.NET, Scott Guthrie’s the guy! You can register at https://msevents-eu.microsoft.com/cui/EventDetail.aspx?culture=en-GB&eventid=118753660 – I imagine the places will go fairly quickly.
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UK Bloggers on Developer Fusion
It’s been an amazingly productive day! We’re now also aggregating RSS feeds from a whole host of UK developers – you can view them here . The list was predominently stolen from Tim Sneath’s list of .NET bloggers – but if I’ve missed anyone, please do drop me a line.
I’ll stop shamelessly promoting my site now – honest ;,,)