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!”
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”
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”
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/
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”
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”
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.
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 ;,,)
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.
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!”
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 😐
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.