There was fantastic stream of thought on Twitter last week about UX & UI Design; all started thanks to this tweet by @kellabyte, a Canadian developer with an uncanny knack for stirring up the masses and making them think. What followed was a torrent of ideas on how to improve user experience, user interfaces & …
Monthly Archive: October 2010
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Oct 14 2010
Silverlight 4 Clock
I was trying to get my Development Environment up & running the other day with Silverlight 4. It turns out that the Silverlight debug runtime isn’t actually part of the standard client, or the Silverlight 4 Tools for Visual Studio. Thanks to this thread I discovered The “Silverlight managed debugging package” is part of the …
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Oct 12 2010
InstallUtil, Windows Services & ProjectInstallers with App.Config Settings
We had a situation in work where we needed to make service installation a more configurable process. So a very simple example, In order to install a .NET Windows Service we need to provide it with a username & password that the services will run as. We can either provide that information at installation time, …
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Oct 10 2010
ASP.NET MVC 3 Beta & Razor View Engine
ASP.NET MVC 3 Beta & Enhancements to the Razor View Engine was announced by Scott Gutherie last week. The Beta release also includes, New View Helpers, Unobtrusive JavaScript, Integration with the NuPack Package Manager and some other bells and whistles. So lets take a look inside and see what we can do.
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Oct 05 2010
Bad Timing & The Mysterious AWS XML Exception
Server Time Mis-configured, Amazon Web Services S3 .NET SDK has a bug in it, Vague XMLExceptions that don’t make sense. Sometimes karma is just going to get you. There’s no point fighting it. A series of events & issues just come together in cosmic bliss guaranteed to completely wreck your weekend. We rolled out some …
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