Welcome to World IPv6 day, which is being held today, June 8th, 2011. Just what is World IPv6 day? Today industry leaders will switch parts of their infrastructure over from IPv4 to IPv6 in a move designed to increase awareness of the impending migration to the new protocol. Why now? […]
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In case you hadn’t already heard, Microsoft have released a comprehensive set of new web development features and tools designed to enhance rapid web application development in the form of Web Matrix. Today’s article will focus on Internet Information Services (IIS) 7.5 Express, which is a “light” version of Microsoft’s […]
Following on from the controversy in April this year of software maker Red Gate’s baffling decision to rescind the gratis (free) nature of Lutz Roeder’s tremendously popular .Net CLR Decompiler, .Net Reflector (which Red Gate acquired in 2008), a number of projects have sprung up to fill the gap in […]
Coming across my desktop today.. and courtesy of a posting on Slashdot.. comes a very interesting article which documents how Windows Vista and later versions of Microsoft Windows uses network location awareness and the Network Connectivity Status Indicator (NCSI) to determine aspects of your computer’s networking configuration. From the article: […]
So this is a pretty short (but hopefully useful) post to show you how to add to a list of “trusted servers” much alike Internet Explorer’s trusted sites options. In short, adding the address of servers allows the browser to “pass through” your user’s credentials when it tries to resolve […]
If you are migrating projects from previous versions of Visual Studio, you might intend to upgrade the project files to be compatible with Visual Studio 2010, but you may not want to necessarily upgrade to the latest version of the .Net Framework (v4.0) until you have properly tested compatibility. Fair […]
If you’ve ever wanted to have an installation of Team Foundation Server 2010 use a standalone or existing instance of SharePoint Server (2010) then you’ve likely needed to install Extensions for SharePoint on the MOSS server. If, like me, you encountered the following error whilst trying to configure the extensions […]
Hi there. Renamed in the .Net Framework 4.0 from “ADO.net Data Services” to the new – more snappy – “WCF Data Services”, today I’m going to take a closer look at what drives this latest version. If you look at the release notes there are a number of additions (as […]
The IEEE Society and Internet Society of Australia (ISOC-AU) are presenting two free public seminars on recent developments in the Internet sphere including the “Kill Switch” used in Egypt and Libya, Wikileaks and beyond. This should prove a very timely event, given the recent developments concerning the Internet, and I’m […]
There are two sites I own which use the very nice BlogEngine.net blogging engine, and over time they’ve been constantly harassed by increasing amounts of spam comments. Usually the sort of nonsensical garbage which is just trying to link harvest or some other mundane and stupid way to boost external […]
Recently, I’ve come to find a lot of spare time on my hands and today I decided that I’ve been sitting on the sidelines long enough; it’s time I got my head into the various APIs and pricing models involved in “Cloud Computing”. There’s a good reason I’ve been waiting […]
Recently I alluded to writing a series of posts on the Entity Framework Futures, now referred to as the “Microsoft ADO.NET Entity Framework Feature Community Technology Preview 5“ which could really, really use a cool codename. Introduction If you’ve been following along on the Windows Workflow Rules Engine series of […]
A little late, but better late than never – the Entity Framework CTP 5 was released last month before Christmas, and now that I’m back, I’ll be doing a series of posts on Code First and CTP 5. This is mainly to test out the new Object Validation which currently […]
Hi there and happy new year. 2011 promises to be quite an interesting year, and I hope that I can continue to contribute here at Sanders Technology. To kick off the new year, I decided to revisit the Windows Workflow article I started late last year. A little while ago […]
Today I was having an off-topic discussion with my wife who is not amused at the number of potential employers who don’t really seem to understand the QA/Test Lead role (duties and responsibilities) and the number of job ads posted which significantly maim it into other roles. It made me […]