Had a look through our logs to find the 6 most popular blog entries of 2006. Seems like ppl are interested in virtual earth, elections and turning off sticky keys… 1.Clustering a million points on Virtual Earth using AJAX and .Net … Continued
Merry Christmas everyone. It’s been a busy and fun year in the world of software development. I’ve upgraded to Vista, Office 2007, IIS7, SQL 2005, .Net2, built a media centre and found Virtual Earth and AJAX all in one year! … Continued
Sorting a datatable…just one of those things i always end up looking up… Just set the default view sort string….e.g. DataTable dt; dt.DefaultView.sort = “CreateDate desc”;
Always one I have to look up….but if you’ve got an xsd it’s really simple to turn it into a class. Just use the xsd.exe tool. Options i usually use are: /c (to generate classes) /l:CS (class in c#) /n:somenamespace /o:outputdir … Continued
I recently finished up with an Australian company developing an advanced prototype for fleet tracking / reporting. As part of the project I had to propose a mapping technology. Out of all the options available Virtual Earth is feature rich, … Continued
Santa’s sled in the form of a courier driver dropped off my xmas present early on Friday. The Dell 24″ is the pick of the developers monitors at the moment. A screen resolution of 1920×1200 is perfect for visual studio. … Continued
Been using a little tool called Fiddler to inspect and play wth HTTP traffic. I love tools that make things simple for me, and this thing has proven to be super simple to use. Been using it mainly for inspecting … Continued
I’ve just finished up with the project I was working on and come January will be ready for a new challenge. If anyone knows of, or is planning, a really challenging project using Virtual Earth, AJAX, .Net2 and SQL server … Continued
This one always gets me…and have to look it up. To dynamically add a web user control do use: LoadControl(“control.ascx”)
Needed to apply mulitple css classes to one element today. Pretty easy once you know it’s just space delimited e.g. <DIV class=”greenbox clearfix”> </DIV>
Had a problem where i had 2 floating divs inside a container box that had a visible border. It wasn’t forcing the container box height correctly. Found the solution here..(thanks to Holly ‘n’ John) To summarise…the CSS class you need … Continued