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  • i-mate JasJar and .NET CF 2.0

    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...

  • Blog reading and SharpReader

    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...

  • PDC - Day 0

    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...

  • PDC here I come!

    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...

  • Moving from VB.netto C#

    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...

  • Indigo SDR

    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...
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  • Sportsdo

    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...

  • ASP.NET Threading Nasties

    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...
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  • Maven Traps

    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...
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  • New Technology Seminar (27th Apr)

    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...
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  • System.Threading talk in Manchester (9th Mar)

    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...
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  • System.Threading talk in Essex (4th Apr)

    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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  • SharePoint talk in London (15th Mar)

    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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  • Threading - IsBackground

    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...

  • System.Threading talk in Coventry (15th Feb)

    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...
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  • SharePoint talk in Horsham (10th Feb)

    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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  • Inserting Pictures using WordML

    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...
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  • Finding word styles fast

    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...
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  • ASP.net Button submission control

    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...
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  • Reporting Services security credentials

    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...
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