If you haven’t yet registered for the second DDD day to be held on 22nd October at Microsoft in Reading, then do it soon, as the event is almost at capacity.
Hope to see some of you there!
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Visual Studio 2005 RC
Visual Studio 2005 RC is now available to MSDN Subscribers. That’s all! :,,)
Want to dynamically load your two-way data bound templates rather than having to specify them inline? Well, unfortunately there’s no LoadBindableTemplate method in ASP.NET 2.0, but I’ve described a possible workaround at http://www.developerfusion.co.uk/show/4721/.
I also demonstrate how you can use this to load one portion of a two-way data bound template from one file (ie a common set of input … Read more “Dynamically loading an IBindableTemplate”
After some discussion over at the MsWebDev mailing list, I’ve now decided to launch an equivalent list for UK developers that want to discuss Windows Forms related and other .NET topics.
For more information, go to http://www.developerfusion.co.uk/mailinglists/winforms.aspx. Eventually we hope to offer NNTP and searchable Forum access to this courtesy of Community Server too.
Please spread the word!
I gave my first ever presentation yesterday at the London .NET User Group (held at Microsoft’s offices in London) on their “Open Mic” night yesterday. The talk was on “AJAX in ASP.NET” and I amazed myself and actually really enjoyed the experience! A number of people commented on my decision to write code as I talked in the demo (rather than … Read more “Talking at the London .NET User Group”
Microsoft have now announced the UK (non-volume licensing) pricing of Visual Studio – see http://msdn.microsoft.com/howtobuy/vs2005/subscriptions/Default.aspx and the following release dates:
MSDN Subscriptions – 17th/18th October (for downloads), and on December update CD’s.Volume Licensing – 1st week of NovemberRetail – 1st week of December
:,,)
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The end is in sight…
So… I’ve been somewhat busy recently! My Computer Science finals start this Saturday… and then a week later, my degree will all be over – one way or another! It’s been a great three years, but I’m really looking forward to being able to start work in the “real” world. Watch out, here I come ;-,,)
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!”
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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 🙂
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…”
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”
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!”