Over the past few days I have been travelling around the country by car, something I have not done for a while, preferring the train. It was a good chance to try out a couple of gadgets. One I have had a for a while, my HTC Touch Cruise phone, but the other was new a Pure Highway DAB car radio. So what did I learn? The …
Read MoreI have been building a webpart that needs client side validation. I kept getting the error: "Unable to find control id txtNotes referenced by the 'ControlToValidate' property" Now most of the posts say just use the command to get the 'real' ID at runtime this.rfvNotes.ControlToValidate = …
Read MoreUpdate 29 Mar 2010 - See this post for some updated usage notes I have been looking at Fitnesse.NET for a while; if you have not come across this testing tool I cannot recommend Gojko Adzic book highly enough; an excellent real world introduction to Fitnesse.NET. For me, the problem with Fitnesse is that it's WIKI …
Read MoreI see that the registration (and hence session voting) has opened for the free community conference SQLBits III, I can't make it as it is the same day as Alt.Net. However, I really do recommend this event if you ever work with data (some of you do that don't you?)
Read MoreThe July edition of the Team System power tools have just been released. To pick out just one of a great set of tools - have a look at the Alert Editor, a really easy way to wire up external events handler to do things when TFS events occur.
Read MoreThanks to everyone one who attended my session at the Leeds SQL User group on Visual Studio Database Edition and to UPCO for hosting the event. The slide stack is available on the Black Marble web site
Read MoreThe Alt.net summer conference is now full after about 24 hours and that is with a larger capacity venue than the last one. Told it would be fast
Read MoreRegistration has opened for the Alt.UK Summer conference. If the first UK Alt.net conference event is anything to go by it will fill up fast, so don't hang around if you are interested
Read MoreI was trying to publish a .NET 3.5 WCF service to a network share e.g.\myserversharefolder_to_holdservice and got the error "The specified file could not be encrypted" for all the files. I changed to a publish to the local disk it published fine, so what caused that? As part of some security impact modelling …
Read MoreThis months meeting of the XPClub is on Wednesday. It is a general group chat about refactoring, branching and merging. This is a free event, usually with a few free beers, at the usual time & location, 7pm at the Victoria Hotel in Leeds, so hope to see you there
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