Sentient thoughts about .NET
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Published on 03 Nov 2005 by jonathangreensted
Hi In preperation for my chalk and talk session at the Microsoft Launch 05 event next week I stated using my i-mate JasJar for CF 2.0 development and was initially extremely frustrated when I got the following error: “Installation error. Stop all applications and process, maximize availa
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Published on 12 Sep 2005 by jonathangreensted
OK, so today over lunch Mike Taulty and Benjamin Mitchell gave me a hard time about being behind on both reading and writing blogs. I tried to deflect this by pointing out Benjamin's choice of the pink PDC t-shirt created questions around his sexuality however his point was valid - I have
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Published on 12 Sep 2005 by jonathangreensted
OK, I'm here sitting in my room in the Renaissance Hollywood Hotel. Yesterday was spent getting here. A very early start to catch the 6.35 flight from Heathrow to Amsterdam to join the Microsoft PDC Jumbo to LA. The PDC Jumbo was due to leave Amsterdam at 11.15 however security look
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Published on 07 Sep 2005 by jonathangreensted
You've got to love those people at Microsoft. They've kindly invited me to attend PDC in LA next week as their guest. Something about a "key influencer" :-) So, next week I return to blogging possibly for one week only due to the madnesses of my regular work life juggling Sentient and Sportsdo activ
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Published on 28 Jun 2005 by jonathangreensted
I am currently working with a client who is transitioning from VB.net to C# and as part of my preparation for a conversion workshop I found this very handy resource: http://www.harding.edu/USER/fmccown/WWW/vbnet_csharp_comparison.html Thank you to Frank McCown for making this available. It is also i
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Published on 20 Apr 2005 by jonathangreensted
It's been a couple of week since I attended the Indigo SDR event in Seattle and my head is still buzzing with excitement about it. The SDR was the first time I've gone deep on what the Indigo team have been doing and I'm impressed, infact very impressed. The balance between capabilities, exten
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Published on 20 Apr 2005 by jonathangreensted
Over the past couple of months I have been focusing my time on creating a new business division within Sentient called Sportsdo. Our new Sportsdo division creates software for sports people which runs on SmartPhone and PocketPC. www.Sportsdo.info We have been through a very steep learning
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Published on 24 Feb 2005 by jonathangreensted
In our System.Threading talk we cover the impact of threading in an ASP.NET application and specifically how damaging to your applications scaleability it can be to call external systems with unpredictable performance characteristics. (eg. SQL-Server, WebServices, COM component, java, etc). The
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Published on 20 Feb 2005 by jonathangreensted
A friend of mine recently commented on the apparent stupidity of having a Milk Helpline listed on your regular bottle of semi-skimmed. To his surprise I told him this was a Maven Trap. The obvious next question is "What is a Maven Trap?" To answer this properly I decided to buy him a cop
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Published on 17 Feb 2005 by jonathangreensted
We are next running our very popular "New Technology Seminar" on Wednesday 27th April. http://www.sentient.co.uk/newtechnologyseminar.aspx Microsoft has kindly sponsered this event which means we can offer FREE entry for this time only. In the seminar we will be showing you how you ca
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Published on 17 Feb 2005 by jonathangreensted
VBUG (Manchester) in association with INETA have asked me to talk about System.Threading at their meeting on Wednesday 9th March. For more information please follow this link: http://www.vbug.net/events/default.asp?region=Manchester (too be listed soon) Hope to see you there. Jonathan PS.
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Published on 17 Feb 2005 by jonathangreensted
VBUG (Essex) in association with INETA have asked me to talk about System.Threading at their meeting on Monday 4th April. For more information please follow this link: http://www.vbug.net/events/default.asp Hope to see you there. Jonathan
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Published on 17 Feb 2005 by jonathangreensted
VBUG (London) in association with INETA have asked me to talk about SharePoint at their meeting on Wednesday 15th March. For more information please follow this link: http://www.vbug.net/events/default.asp?region=London Hope to see you there. Jonathan
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Published on 16 Feb 2005 by jonathangreensted
During my System.Threading talk last night one of the questions from the audience asked what the IsBackground property on the Thread classes was used for. The intellisense for this property says "Gets or Sets a value indicating whether or not the tread is a background
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Published on 08 Feb 2005 by jonathangreensted
VBUG (Coventry) in association with INETA have asked me to talk about System.Threading at their meeting on Tuesday 15th February. For more information please follow this link: http://www.vbug.net/events/default.asp?region=Leicester Hope to see you there. Jonathan
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Published on 08 Feb 2005 by jonathangreensted
VBUG (Horsham) in association with INETA have asked me to talk about SharePoint at their meeting on Thursday 10th February. For more information please follow this link: http://www.vbug.net/events/default.asp?region=Portsmouth Hope to see you there. Jonathan
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Published on 11 Jan 2005 by jonathangreensted
I've seen many, many requests on the Microsoft newsgroups asking how you can insert a picture into a Word document without saving it to the file system first. This example application described in this blog illustrates both methods for inserting a picture firstly using the Word object model (Inline
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Published on 07 Dec 2004 by jonathangreensted
In a recent project we had a scenario where we had to find all the paragraphs in a particular style eg. Heading 1, Heading 2, etc. to build a custom table of contents. My initial thought was to iterate over the document paragraphs looking for the particular style we were interested in. The code look
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Published on 24 Nov 2004 by jonathangreensted
I am often asked how to intercept the postback when an <asp:Button/> is clicked. The answer is not immediately obvious but once you know the trick it is very straight forward. What makes this tricky is that an <asp:Button/> renders as <input type="submit" ... /> which means
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Published on 23 Nov 2004 by jonathangreensted
A colleague of mine, Nick Francis, has just blogged about the importance of backing up your Reporting Services security key. http://www.sentient.co.uk/blogs/nickfr/2.aspx Without this important step you are in real trouble if someone changes the security credentials used by R