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With the launch of V4 of Virtual Earth we have put together a simple wiki open to anyone over at ViaVE. http://viavirtualearth.com/wiki/AllPages.aspx The idea is that all those little cool snippets of code go some useful and the power of … Continued

Was having trouble opening some web apps today due to the fact that VS2005 has gone to web projects.  Kept getting “unable to open project” and “project of incorrect type” messages. Ended up installing VS2005 Web application project patch which … Continued

Head on over to local.live.com and see Virtual Earth in 3D!! V4 of VE was just released and feature a 5.5mb plugin for full 3D rendering. I’ll post more as it comes to hand. Very cool stuff.

Had to share this comment i got on my going-away card on Friday… “A good female programmer.  Like Bigfoot and the Loch Ness monster, no reliable sightings existed until now – which means I can die happy” Must say it … Continued

I start a new contract working here on Monday, so today is my last day at SIS.  As i swiped my bus ticket this morning it made me think that one of the great things about working from home will … Continued

Was reading this article on E-voting in the US and made me think back to our recent state election in qld and how nice it’d be to just vote online or just use some sort of computer system at the polling … Continued

Embed configuration management functionality into a .NET Framework application. (Refer System.Configuration namespace) • Configuration class and ConfigurationManager class • ConfigurationSettings class, ConfigurationElement class, ConfigurationElementCollection class, and ConfigurationElementProperty class • Implement IConfigurationSectionHandler interface • ConfigurationSection class, ConfigurationSectionCollection class, ConfigurationSectionGroup class, and ConfigurationSectionGroupCollection class • Implement ISettingsProviderService … Continued

Yesterday we started our performance testing of our latest application and found one query taking 16 sec to execute. Using a combination of SQL profiler and JetBrains dotTrace (I blog on that later – it deserves it) We narrowed the … Continued

Just announced that a new major release of virtual earth will happen on the 7th of November. No details of the changes yet but it is a good thing that the guys let us know so we can be prepared … Continued

Well i got my new 9400 Dell lappy. Only problem is,  has the 9300, which from the outside looks pretty much identical, and we both have tech ed backpacks so the chances of us taking the wrong lappy is kinda … Continued

Implement .NET Framework interfaces to cause components to comply with standard contracts. (Refer System namespace) • IComparable interface, IComparable Generic – V2 • IDisposable interface – version breaking change to add this to a class• IConvertible interface – converts objects to value type• ICloneable interface … Continued

Improve type safety and application performance in a .NET Framework application by using generic collections. (Refer System.Collections.Generic namespace) all V2 classes pretty much impmented as generic versions of the 1.1 classes.  Faster because there is no boxing/unboxing• Collection.Generic interfaces • Generic Dictionary … Continued

Manage a group of associated data in a .NET Framework application by using collections. (Refer System.Collections namespace) • ArrayList class – implements IList• Collection interfaces   ICollection – defines size, enumerators, and syncronisation of collections  IComparer – used with Array.Sort and Array.BinarySearch.  Allows customisation of … Continued

Manage data in a .NET Framework application by using .NET Framework 2.0 system types. (Refer System namespace) • Value types (bool, byte, char, decimal, double, enum, float, int long, sbyte, short, struct, uint, ulong, ushort)  • 2 categories – structs  ( numeric types, bool, user defined) – … Continued

I now face the problem of contact on 4 different instant messenger clients….MSN Messenger, Google Talk, Skype and now ICQ (for my new job).  I started looking at Meebo which allows me to log into 3 of the 4 at once without … Continued

To add an attribute by code in Infopath:   IXMLDOMNode expressionBox= _document.DOM.selectSingleNode(“//someNode”); IXMLDOMNode disableEditing; node2 = _document.DOM.createAttribute(“disableEditing”); node2.text = “yes”; addressNode.attributes.setNamedItem(node2);

I installed Vista RC2 when it was first released and have been struggling with performance using a Dell 9300 with1GB RAM, 7200 HDD, 2Ghz M cpu, 6800go GPU. Today my new RAM arrived from AusPCMarket – 2 sticks of Corsair … Continued

We came across a problem with InfoPath 2003 the other day.  We use a lot of expression boxes to display read-only data, and happened across the fact that we can select them, type in them, and then save the data … Continued

Testing the child blog feature….

In less than 2 weeks I start a new contract where everyone works from home.  So i’ve started preparing myself for it… I’ve bought myself a few things…1. Logitech 350 usb skype headset to talk to my new workmates2. Dell … Continued

I purchased a Logitech headset today and enabled vista speech recognition.  It is very cool and yet a little bit frustrating.  Unfortunately although I can start a new blog entry completely using my voice I couldn’t Dictates directly into the … Continued

For those who don’t know…the main expressway for Brisbane peak hour traffic has been closed.  Read more about it here.  Because my bus seems to use the roads everyone else does it too  a few hours to get to work … Continued

IIS7 provides a tighter integration with ASP.NET that will let us do some very cool things like friendly urls, file security etc. In order to get DNN to run I had to make a few changes: 1. Turn on IIS7. … Continued

We went out to Beaudesert today to take some action shots of the RTCB motorX. I was itching to use the built in movie maker in Vista RC2 so check it out courtesy of YouTube. See the photos here.

Went to the 2nd VSTS Tech Brekkie today.  Greg did a great session on Introduction to Visual Studio Team Edition for Database Professionals.  As usual he did a great session.  The db stuff is looking pretty cool esp the testing etc.  … Continued

Saw this on news.com. http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,20555319-13762,00.html Funny how some people will follow instructions that are obviously incorrect and the instinct to live doesn’t kick in.

I downloaded, installed and transfered all my bugs from excel to a proper bug tracker today in 15mins flat. The application is called BugTracker.Net, it’s free, and runs in IIS using SQL server for the database. Installation couldn’t have been easier. … Continued

So i’ve gone and knocked my ipod cable out when it was connected to the pc…when it has the “Do not diconnect” message on.  Normally this is ok..but on this occasion it was busted.  Tried replugging in and everything i … Continued

Been having some “issues” trying to serialize datetime fields from infopath to SQL2005.  The problem lies in the serialization expects a fully qualified datetime value including locale e.g. 2006-09-20T01:56:45+10:00.  However, Infopath, and XML in general doesn’t record the local e.g. … Continued

Bit rusty on the old xsl transforms…but i had a case today where i needed to add a namespace to search one file, but my output file i need to not have that namespace.  It’s actually really easy, once you … Continued