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Published on 10 Nov 2006 by patl
I worked on this project for 18 months and am pleased to see that it now has some really great content. By sticky I mean that it keeps my son glued to the machine and that is a good enough sign for me. Some of the pieces of content he enjoys are Rags to Riches - Why do some people live on
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Published on 10 Nov 2006 by rogerw
Another varied and interesting conference day here in Barcelona has now finished and it was a day for doing different and new things. On the schedule today were the following: Asynchronous ASP.Net - this was a thought provoking presentation by Jeff Prosise on how Asynchronous ASP.Net technique
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Published on 09 Nov 2006 by rogerw
Well Day 2 has finished and yet more areas for me to investigate further are emerging. I seem to have an increasing number of things on my "to investigate" list as a result of the days sessions. I discovered some great technologies that I personally wasn't aware of.. T
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Published on 08 Nov 2006 by valerym
As things stand at the moment, the standard SQL adapter shipped with Microsoft BizTalk Server 2006 has been released with no support for any of the enhanced capabilities of the Microsoft SQL Server 2005 platform. The primary codebase of the adapter has been inherited from the previous version o
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Published on 08 Nov 2006 by patl
So Roger got to go to Barcelona on a TechEd jolly (boo hiss) and I am left at home . Well at least he is making good use of his time and telling us all about what he is seeing. His recent post talks of some cool features that seem to be targeted at the Orcas release of VS. Not sure when that is comi
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Published on 08 Nov 2006 by patl
I have been using WPF since February and consider myself to be more than proficient in all areas other than 3D. I get things done because through experience I know a particular approach that will work for the situation I am in or the problem(s) I am trying to solve. Recently there has been something
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Published on 08 Nov 2006 by rogerw
As many of you know "Orcas" is the codename for the next full release of Microsoft Visual Studio after Visual Studio 2005 SP1. Today at TechEdDevelopers 2006 here in Barcelona, I attended an interesting breakout session on the new enhancements for web developers that will be in
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Published on 07 Nov 2006 by rogerw
TechEdDevelopers 2006 has started and it is claimed to be the most well attended EMEA TechEd ever. Day One is over and I attended a variety of sessions over the day. Those that know me, will confirm that Data Access/SQL is not one of my specialist skills or are
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Published on 06 Nov 2006 by rogerw
Well I'm here in Barcelona on the eve of TechEd 2006. Although there is lots of new stuff around Windows Vista, Office 2007 and SharePoint 2007 at the moment there probably aren't that many truly new development technologies being announced. Even so it still should be an very
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Published on 06 Nov 2006 by barryd
Barry Dorrans will be presenting "Hacking Web Sites for fun and profit" at the December meeting of the Next Generation Usergroup, Oxford Branch. The session aims to cover the safety of your ASP.Net web sites by looking at parameter munging, cross site scripting SQL injection and informati
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Published on 06 Nov 2006 by barryd
Developer Day, the ever popular community event held at the Microsoft offices in Reading, has two Charteris Application Development Consultants speaking. Barry Dorrans will be giving a presentation entitled "Securing applications and communications in ASP.Net" which aims to provide you with recipes
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Published on 02 Nov 2006 by valerym
Since BizTalk 2004 Server platform was introduced a few years ago, Enterprise SSO Services were extended to act as a secure configuration store. The SSODB Credential Store database and SSO services can be used to maintain and access custom configuration properties securely. In fact, this is used by
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Published on 02 Nov 2006 by chriss
Barry Dorrans gave a talk on Asp.Net Membership and Tony Rogerson spoke on SQL Server.Absolutely brilliant night - have a look here for further details.Above is Tony Rogerson speaking on SQL Server. Anyone living near Oxford should get down to this user group if they want to be able to learn ab
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Published on 02 Nov 2006 by patl
Whilst trying to put together an example of a couple of WPF best practices I came across an annoying issue I have seen before and one I think worth highlighting. WPF provides 3 triggers types, DataTriggers for use in DataTemplates, EventTriggers for responding to events firing and Triggers for respo
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Published on 31 Oct 2006 by chrisdi
Diagnosing a bug in a SQL Server stored procedure recently I unearthed an interesting ‘feature’ of the CHECKSUM function which I couldn't find documented elsewhere. The stored procedure received some data as Unicode string arguments, and after some validation and processing stored it in tables defin
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Published on 31 Oct 2006 by chrisdi
Well, I've talked about doing it for some time... now some of my colleagues have taken away my remaining excuses (no time to set it up, etc etc) I can't avoid blogging any longer. Most of my work as a developer and architect is in the enterprise application integration arena, using Microsoft technol
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Published on 20 Oct 2006 by alastairt
As the title of this blog suggests this is my first ever one of these so bear with me it might take me a while to warm up! I work for Charteris an IT Consultancy that is about to celebrate its 10th birthday. I am a Principal within the business consulting arm of the company. I think I am right in sa
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Published on 17 Oct 2006 by patl
…well that was the idea. Every so often the Tech Team at Charteris get together to talk technology, software and other development related stuff. At the most recent of these “Tech Days” I was talking WPF and trying to get as much of the info out of my head and into everyone else&r
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Published on 13 Oct 2006 by chriss
Final details have been put together for the first meeting in Oxford. This should be a fantastic evening, and we've already had a huge response.Here are the details, along with the address:http://www.nxtgenug.net/ViewEvent.aspx?EventID=26Here is a link to some other upcoming events:http://www.nx
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Published on 08 Oct 2006 by rogerw
One of the continual issues in developing mobile enterprise applications has been the ability to create high quality reusable code as quickly as possible. In theory the same code should be modular enough to be used across a variety of mobile projects without having to constantly repea
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Published on 10 Nov 2006 by rogerw
I'm on my way back from TechEdDevelopers 2006 as my travel plans meant I had to leave early. I only caught one session this morning on SmartClients and the Composite UI Block. There were so many good topics and speakers that I experienced this week, so its difficult to pick out a
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Published on 11 Nov 2006 by valerym
I almost guarantee that you will not find this elsewhere on the web. Having stayed late in the office, I have been thinking about the easiest way of unit testing a BizTalk orchestration exposed as a Web Service. In particular, I wanted to be able to track all web service requests in their raw format
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Published on 14 Nov 2006 by alastairt
The use of a Project Office to assist in the successful implementation of a Project or Programme is a relatively new phenomenon. Its origins are from military projects post World War II. The construction industry was next to realise the benefits of Project Offices. Today contemporary Project Offices
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Published on 17 Nov 2006 by jamesc
Welcome to my blog. This is my first professional blog, that is my first blog that is associated with my profession. When it comes to work related disciplines I would consider myself more of a ranter that a blogger, so I am hoping that this new toy that has been kindly made available to me by our bl
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Published on 20 Nov 2006 by berntf
As with most of my gadget and computer investments it was lust more than a logically derived need. A friend of mine had been talking about it for 2 years and then he got himself an Apple Powerbook G4. It was just beautiful and I fell in love with it immediately. I craved one but couldn't re
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