Update: Just to make sure everybody sees this - this issue has been solved, the info can be found in Robin’s comment below. Thanks, Robin! (Edit: These comments are lost due to changes of blog systems over the years.) I’m trying to go through this URL to activate the copy of Microsoft Reader installed on my laptop. I don’t see any problems until I get to the point where the activation process is actually running with the small progress bar… but every time I get this error message before …
At the London .NET User Group, I did a session last Thursday about validity checking. This was based on a library I had written a rather long time ago, and I promised to make not only the slides and samples from the session, but also the library itself available for everyone to download. So here it is.
The slides, the samples and the library including source code
I’m releasing the library itself under the GNU Lesser General Public License, which basic …
Microsoft’s Vista and Office 2007 launch is in Reading on the 19th and 20th, and I’m not going to make it after all… there’s a Developer Express company meeting that I’m attending at the same time. Too bad, because I’m missing out on all the freebies ;-) Another thing I’m missing is Zi’s geek dinner, which takes place on the evening of the 19th. There’s a little sign-up list that you need to get on, so make sure you do that if you are in Reading on the 19th. Have fun! …
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There it is. If you want to create multi-platform (currently Windows Forms and ASP.NET) applications fast, be sure to have a look at beta 1 of the eXpressApp Framework. Here’s the official announcement, which also has some information on pricing.
I have quite a few things lined up for 2007 so far. Of course I’m still — always — looking for other opportunities, so if you’d like me to to a session at your user group, conference or other event, please feel free to contact me! Here’s what I have so far:
Introduction to LINQ
.NET Language Integrated Query (LINQ) is one of the technologies that will be released in the next version of Visual Studio (Orcas). It promises to be an important new devel …
Maybe I’m not getting the joke, but it looks like the company New Standard Keyboards wants to sell us on keyboards that have a layout with keys in alphabetical order.
As I have blogged before, I’m using a keyboard in Dvorak layout with my desktop PC, and I have configured my laptop keyboard to Dvorak as well (I also swapped the keys around physically, which isn’t described in that article — I find it useful when I’m doing presentations and need to hit a certain key without actually having bot …
I recently saw a post in an MS newsgroup and as I had an example that I wrote earlier, I just thought I’d make it available. What this does is simple: it implements custom handling of the non-client area of a window. The non-client area is, normally, the area of a window that is not part of the client area (duh!), like that used for adornments, window buttons, borders, that kind of thing. While the user moves the mouse over a window’s area, Windows sends messages to figure out which part of the …
DDD 4 is over and as everybody has already blogged, it was a great success again (at least I haven’t seen anybody say anything else). The feedback form is up and if you were there, we’d really like you to fill it out — that way you can make sure it’s going to be even better next time! Another thing worth mentioning is the aggregation of DDD 4 related blog articles here — go have a look if you’re interested what others have to say. …