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Visual Studio 2008 featuring Client Application Services

One of the neat features that Windows Forms developers get with the .NET Framework 3.5 and Visual Studio 2008 are the Client Application Services. As both Brad and Daniel have posted about these services piggyback off the ASP.NET 2.0 services for authentication, authorisation and personalisation. In...

Posted to Nick's .NET Travels (Weblog) by nick on 08-29-2007
SharePod != iTunes Slayer

Recently a friend of mine showed me this cool little tool for bypassing Apple's "iPods shall only sync with 1, and only 1, iTunes instance" (honestly what a dumb constraint) called SharePod . The user interface is quite intuitive (read simple) although it's a bit weird that you can't...

Posted to Nick's .NET Travels (Weblog) by nick on 06-10-2007
What .NET Framework Version am I running?

Someone on the Stanski mailing list recently asked about a particular version of the .NET Framework (v1.1.4322.2379 which seems to almost be MIA and almost no useful information on Google). What came out of the conversation are a couple of applications/tools. The first is a free .NET version checking...

Posted to Nick's .NET Travels (Weblog) by nick on 05-04-2007
VB9 Features

I've just noticed, care of Bill and Beth , that the VB9 features article has been updated as of February this year. After a quick scan there are some clear changes that look great (and some that don't)! Object Initializers Dim c as New Country With { .Name = "Palau", .Area = 458, .Population = 16952...

Posted to Nick's .NET Travels (Weblog) by nick on 03-25-2007
Snippets and Stored Procedures

Mitch has posted a simple snippet that shows how you can work with stored procedures in C#. I figured that I'd firstly translate this to VB.NET: ' Execute a stored proc to read data Using conn As New SqlConnection(connectionString), _ cmd As SqlCommand = conn.CreateCommand() cmd.CommandText = "ProcName...

Posted to Nick's .NET Travels (Weblog) by nick on 03-25-2007
I'm an Idiot!

Stephen are you happy now? I'll start by saying that while I might be an idiot I think that Stephen's comment was just childish. Judging by his resume (which came up with "page not found" the first time I clicked the link .... what server is it running on btw?) I understand that his background is firmly...

Posted to Nick's .NET Travels (Weblog) by nick on 03-23-2007
Java is no more open source than .NET

This afternoon I found myself reading an article at The Spot 4 SAP entitled SAP Mobile Engine . Leaving aside the fact that the article hasn't been written very well at all I want to comment on their continual reference to the Java platform as an "open source technology". Now the last time I checked...

Posted to Nick's .NET Travels (Weblog) by nick on 03-16-2007
Perth .NET Community of Practice - meeting this thursday

As Brian points out Code Camp Oz is just around the corner but if you can't make it to Wagga Wagga to see my session on the Microsoft Sync Services then head along to the Perth .NET Community of Practice meeting this thursday. Details as follows: Details are Date: Thursday 1st March 2007 Time: 5:30 PM...

Posted to Nick's .NET Travels (Weblog) by nick on 02-26-2007
.NET User Group Caffeine Hit

Sorry about the late post about this, but tomorrow will be the first gathering of the Perth Caffeine Addicts - only kidding (well except for the Perth and the Caffeine bits). One of the best things I did when I was in NZ was attend Mauricio 's Geekzone weekly coffee group and I thought the concept could...

Posted to Nick's .NET Travels (Weblog) by nick on 02-19-2007
Keyboard shortcuts in Visual Studio 2005

I was just reading Jason McC's Weblog and he points out that the are some great wallcharts available for download that cover a large proportion of the keyboard shortcuts for different profiles (you can get the list of downloads here ). Unfortunately even in a book dedicated to Visual Studio 2005 such...

Posted to Nick's .NET Travels (Weblog) by nick on 02-08-2007

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