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This post may seem a little old-fashioned nowadays, considering that most developers are looking at WPF and binding to objects rather than the good ol' DataSet, but I found out about this only today and I can see a few projects in my future where it could come in handy. Y'know how the DataSet class has...
Just got back from our two-night stay in beautiful Sydney, where we finally did the bridge climb we got from my folks last Christmas. That's the Sydney Harbour Bridge , for those who didn't realise. The day started with us walking from our hotel ( Citigate Central Sydney - highly recommended!) across...
I was chatting to my boss today and discovered that he'd never heard of choko. Surprised, I mentioned it to my co-worker Julie, and discovered that (although she'd heard of it) she didn't know what it was either! Suddenly I was struck by the notion that I'd slipped into some parallel...
To make things simpler for our end-users, we have a report in Reporting Services that queries the ReportServer database and presents the users with a simple list of reports. We call it "Report Portal", and it's a lot simpler than the Report Manager UI that you get by default. Something...
My WPF version of Comicster is coming along leaps and bounds, thanks mostly to the helpful folks over on the MSDN WPF forum . Today I was toying around with DataTemplates for ListBox items, and I wanted to include a Hyperlink (like a LinkLabel for us WinForms folks) in each item. My template looks something...
Well, the SharePoint APAC Conference is done and dusted, and both Pete and myself really enjoyed it. Well worth the money that the company paid. ;) Last night's conference dinner was a real event. I expected to turn up to a series of trestle tables and a choice of beef or chicken, but instead they...
Well, live from the Novotel on Darling Harbour anyway. Just completed day one at the APAC SharePoint Conference along with Pete, and I have to say that it was a very enjoyable day. Our day started before sunrise so we could catch the red-eye to Sydney. In fact, Pete had to travel 45 minutes from Corowa...
Andrew today was asking my advice on which GPS unit to buy. Andrew: TomTom has a better interface, but Road Angel has the blackspots, red light cameras, and stationary speed cameras on it Me: Geez it must be heavy Just wanted to share that. :)...
Have you noticed that all the sample applications for Windows Presentation Foundations have non-standard user interfaces? None of them that I've seen have standard menus or toolbars. They all strive to be "different", shunning the traditional "File" menu. This is not a bad thing in...
Last night's meeting of the Albury/Wodonga .NET User Group featured Microsoft's Ron Dunn, who came up to demonstrate SharePoint, and more specifically custom workflows. An hour and a half is, of course, way too short a time to cover any part of SharePoint with any depth, and we had a sizeable percentage...