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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

Today i had to filter an xml document based on the start value of an attribute and it took me ages to work it out as before i’d always done exact matches.  Plus couldn’t find any egs where they used … Continued

1:30 youtube video showing how to find australian places and street at mygeoland.com. Shows off the 3D mode of Virtual Earth.

mygeoland.com, the new way to search for places in Australia. Powered by Virtual Earth 3D and customised by Soul Solutions for Australia we believe it is the simplest, fastest and coolest way to find a street, suburb or place in … Continued

Got asked to work out the number of lines of real code in our project today.  Came across a pretty cool tool called slick edit – Free gadgets that plug in to VS2005.  There’s a few gadgets there but i … Continued

Well i’ve been working from home for 2 weeks now.  I must say that overall I am enjoying it. I thought that not being on a bus for 2 hours every day would be a good thing…but i’ve realised it … Continued

So lately I’ve been converting some SOAP WebServices to Rest webservices.  There’s lots of papers on REST but atm there’s no real standards, just guidelines.  As far as i can tell, it’s just passing data using HTTP. So if i … Continued

Some interesting videos from the developers of Virtual earth V4 (3D) http://www.on10.net/Blogs/laura/virtual-earth-3d-the-next-dimension-in-search-well-at-least-the-third-dimension-/ http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=254128 I need to get myself an xbox controller!

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….