Ever tried to apply a background image to a table row (TR) and it looks all pretty in FireFox but gets applied to each cell in IE? I’ve been pulling my hair out trying to apply a background image to … Continued
Ever use a repeater or a grid view an can’t remember how to append some other string to the databound value and finding it hard to search for? I always forget the syntax for this one..don’t know why, it’s just one of … Continued
I can’t believe 1/4 of the year has gone by already! It’s been a fun and exciting month for us…so what have we been up to: We finished our Aussie Usergroup tour, with sessions 8 and 9 at the Gold … Continued
9 presentations, 8 cities and 9 giant tennis balls later, we’ve concluded our series of SQL Spatial and Virtual Earth talks. There were a few questions that kept occuring around the funding for our “tour”. We paid for all the flights, … Continued
It will be my first MVP summit next month. The summit is at Microsoft Campus in Redmond Seattle. The event sounds pretty cool with presentations and social activities. So to contribute I teamed up with the event organisers to create … Continued
We went to the Heroes Happen launch event today in Bribane. We thought we’d be funny and go dressed up as “super heroes” Batman and Batgirl. We got lots of weird looks and people wanted to have their photo taken with … Continued
We have both been invited to the Heroes Happens event in Brisbane this Wednesday. As MVPs we will be answering questions on Visual Studio and SQL 2008 around the place. But why not make it a *super* event we said… … Continued
Ever wanted some Geeky Girls to speak at your event and didn’t know where to find them? I found a post here: http://coffee.geek.nz/2008/03/23/registered_com.html about geekspeakr.com. To quote: What is geekspeakr.com We help you find technical women to speak at your events. … Continued
Have had “fun” with the SilverlightStreamingMediaPlayerl today..haven’t found the solution..just all the symptoms. So i’ve got a SilverlightStreamingMediaPlayer, I’ve set it to point to an application on Silverlight Streaming, with autoplay OFF so it doesn’t start playing as soon as … Continued
After touring the country, this week we are visiting the Brisbane SQL User Group to give our presentation on SQL 2008 Spatial and Virtual Earth. This is our 9th and final performance of this talk around Australia. Make sure you pay attention … Continued
The Expression team have posted about how to manipulate collections within the Silverlight 2 multiscaleimage control. So what a great time to revisit my little sample code and make some improvements. Let make sure we have mouse, mouse wheel, keyboard, … Continued
We presented our SQL Spatial and Virtual Earth talk at the Gold Coast .Net SIG last night. On the drive down to Bond Uni we were thinking if we got 6 people in the audience on the Thursday night before … Continued
So it seems I’ve been tagged by 2 white rabbit’s…Frank Arrigo and Catherine Eibner. Must say when I was in school I always put chain letters in the bin, but it’s a bit harder when there’s notes on your blog… So … Continued
After installing IE8 I broke Virtual Earth on my laptop, even after rolling back I still could not view a page with the Virtual Earth control on it – I would get a javascript error with the control. Since IE7 … Continued
I had someone read my Live Alert article today and ask me where to get the webservice from. They are listed here: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb259725.aspx Message: http://services.alerts.live.com/axis/services/Message?wsdl Subscription: http://services.alerts.live.com/axis/services/Subscription?wsdl
This week we are visiting the Gold Coast .Net User Group to give our presentation on SQL 2008 Spatial and Virtual Earth. Location Details: Bond University, Theatre 3 (Building 6 Level 3 Room 29) Start Time: 6pm SQL Spatial with … Continued
This month’s CoDe Focus magazine was an issue all about Windows Live. It’s a great resource for Windows Live information with articles in Virtual Earth, Messenger, Live Search, Live ID, Quick Apps etc. John and I made an appearance in … Continued
I downloaded the newExpression Encoder 2 Beta so I could encode some videos for Silverlight Streaming today and noticed a few differences. I did notice a change to the output aswell which will affect the manifest.xml file. I used to … Continued
I wanted to play with the Silverlight Streaming Server control that’s part of the Live Tools for Visual Studio. When i went to run my application I got the following error: Sys.InvalidOperationExceptoin: DownloaError error#1001 in control ‘SilverlightStreamingMediaPlayer1’: AG_E_UNKNOWN_ERROR I tried … Continued
If you’ve been using the Windows Live Tools for Visual Studio, the February 2008 CTP has been released. See the notes here: https://connect.microsoft.com/content/content.aspx?ContentID=7901&SiteID=505&wa=wsignin1.0 So what’s different? Messenger Chat Control has been added Depenency on ASP.Net 3.5 Extensions has been REMOVED. … Continued
This marks our 400th blog post! Since the 6th August 2006 we’ve now done 400 blog posts. So to mark our 400th blog birthday, here’s a recap and figures on us in our last 100 blog post days. There were … Continued
If you want to use the AJAX Control Toolkit there’s a few steps for using it. Download from here: http://www.codeplex.com/AtlasControlToolkit/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=11121 Run the AjaxControlExtender.vsi file and choose the languages etc you want to install Add it to your tool box…Right Click … Continued
For those who’ve read my tweets lately, I’ve spent a bit of time on the mix site watching videos of the sessions..very addictive by the way. Also came across the list of worldwide ReMix events here: http://www.visitmix.com/2008/Worldwide/ Good news for … Continued
Well I’ve been back home a week now. Hasn’t taken any effort to get used to working from home again. Not missing the long daily bus rides, queues of people, loud office talkers etc. I wil miss the lunch options … Continued
Check out how the Japense pour the perfect beer..
One of our friends just got back from a ski trip to Japan..I know, some people have all the fun. When he was there he took a panaromic shot and was showing off the pics to us the other night. … Continued
After seeing the amazing demo at Mix08 this week I decided I needed to play with this. Checkout my collection of photos from our trip to Thailand last year: http://thailand.soulclients.com So what do you need to do to make this? … Continued
To serve up Silverlight2 in IIS you need to add the MIME type “application/x-silverlight” for extension “.xap” otherwise your page looks very blank
Chris Pendleton announced the upcomming release of a Silverlight Virtual Earth Control with Seadragon technology at Mix during his VE presentation. Check out the presentation, little preview towards the end with integration of other deep zoom images and video. Also … Continued
As i flew into Sydney early and fly out late on my lunch trip, I decided at the last minute to buy a Virgin Blue Single Entry Lounge Pass, which all sounded good in theory…get power, internet and food as … Continued