Hi All, If you’ve ever been curious about Domain Names, it might be worth a look at the Domain Name Tracking website. It’s got some handy domain tools like WHOIS lookup, a URI parser, and a way to look up second and third level extensions by country. and a handy […]
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If you use Team Explorer (or the TFS client components) and have to configure to connect using a proxy, you might find yourself a little stumped. Fortunately for us former Readify and current Microsoft TFS guru Grant Holliday provides excellent insight into how to solve this problem, via Stack Overflow. […]
Here is a quick guide to creating a bootable USB thumb drive or USB stick under Windows Vista, Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 (R2). This guide is intended to show you how to create a bootable USB drive, however it is advice only. Sanders Technology will not be held […]
I always love it when a functional language goes rogue! Widely speculated for a while now, Microsoft’s F# language has been fully released as open source following a post by Don Syme recently. It would seem that the F# compiler source code has been released under the Apache 2.0 licensing. […]
Recently, I’ve been mulling a concept very close to Test Driven Development (TDD) but with a surprising twist. As those of you who are familiar with the concept of TDD might be aware, TDD does not strictly advocate (in all cases) a test-first methodology, but rather speaks to the testing […]
Recently I put my mind towards developing a fairly light rules based utility for applying various logical patterns on top of some linear business data. Honestly, my initial thoughts were “oh no, not another boring rules based implementation” because we (ought to) know how boring that can be – and […]
Introduction Now if you are like me, you’ve probably had some interest in POCO (plain old CLR objects) objects for at least some time. They are an invaluable tool in the distributed systems and service oriented architecture areas, but up until now they’ve been inaccessible for those designs. In a […]
Recently I answered a question on Stack Overflow where someone was interested in mapping a character to an Enum value. Obviously this isn’t something naturally possible with Enums, so I proposed the following solution. I’ve previously blogged about a generic approach to working with Strings and Enums here. If we […]
Hi Everyone, Well, I said I’d do it, and I will be – I’ve spent several hours putting together a sample DB and solution which demonstrates how to support Entity Framework (v4) POCO objects serialized in and out of WCF Services. In a word, it’s going to be a lengthy […]
You might find this information handy if you work with Windows Services, and wish to grant some basic permissions to user accounts. In my scenario, I wanted to be able to list the status of several key Windows Services used in my overall architecture (for a diagnostic website/control panel) and […]
Someone kindly posted this excellent flowchart in Stack Overflow which helps to identify the most appropriate WCF Service bindings to use in a solution. There’s another version located here: http://architectopia.blogspot.com/2008/01/wcf-binding-decision-chart.html Not a bad little reference chart!
Just a quick word to point out that the most recent version of the ADO.NET Entity Framework Feature Community Technology Preview 4 was released recently (on the 13th of July) and is worth a look if you are using the Entity Framework in any meaningful fashion. Check back soon, we’ll […]
It’s been a while since I last put together a decent post – apologies – I’ve been quite literally up to my neck in computer components, outfitting some new hardware. This has killed a lot of my free time while I research and consume the latest information on hardware. You’d […]
Hi There! It’s been a busy time, and I realise I’ve been a bit remiss in getting some new posts up on the site. In recent weeks, I’ve been considering migrating away from the rather limited Windows Live platform and onto my own custom blog (or Word press etc). For […]
So by now you must have read that Microsoft’s Visual Studio 2010 has been released to market. What you may not necessarily be aware of are the different “flavours” of Visual Studio. The 2005 Edition of Visual Studio comprised of Professional, Tools for Office and Team Suite (Architect, Development, Database […]