Author: james.crowley

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ASP.NET Software Engineering

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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Developer Community

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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Developer Community

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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C# Software Engineering

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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IIS Software Engineering

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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Developer Community

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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Developer Community

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 ;,,)

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Developer Community

UK Events on Developer Fusion

I’ve *finally* gotten around to creating a UK events listing on Developer Fusion – you can check it out at http://www.developerfusion.com/events/. If you know of any other upcoming UK events, then let me know. I haven’t quite got the submission system up yet, but you can just drop me an email and I’ll add them.

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General Computing

£16,000 worth of Microsoft software for only £199!

This isn’t a new programme, but it seems a lot of people have never heard of this, so here goes….

If you are a *UK* organisation that sells Microsoft products, or provides solutions based on Microsoft products and technologies to third-party customers, then you can qualify to purchase the Microsoft Action Pack for £199. You just need to be a … Read more “£16,000 worth of Microsoft software for only £199!”

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Information Security & Privacy

High-level IE 6 vulnerability found

Julien McArdle posts here about a very high level Internet Explorer vulnerability – affecting IE 6 with Windows XP SP2. I sure hope MS gets a patch out quick – this one is of the “delete all files in the windows directory” level… Nice 😐

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Information Security & Privacy

Microsoft AntiSpyware Beta 1 is released

It seems the first Microsoft AntiSpyware beta has been released – you can get it here. This is the first public preview since Microsoft aquired GIANT’s anti-spyware technology. It’s looking good!

You can read more about it on the winsupersite.

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ASP.NET Software Engineering

Tree structures in ASP.NET and SQL Server

I’ve just posted my latest article on Developer Fusion – Tree structures in ASP.NET and SQL Server, which takes a look at how you can store tree structures in SQL Server – and then doing something useful with them such as creating a web-directory like interface such as the one below.

I’d really appreciate any comments you might have …! … Read more “Tree structures in ASP.NET and SQL Server”