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  1. Apple's Mobile Me == Windows Me (well the logo at least)

    http://bbits.co.uk/blog/archive/2008/06/09/apples-mobile-me--windows-me-well-the-logo-at.aspx

    Apple's Mobile Me == Windows Me (well the logo at least) Jun 09 Apple just announce MobileMe for push email, contacts and calendars for data in the cloud.  Interesting stuff - but the logo?  Hmmm.....   ==   Cheers Ian Technorati Tags: MobileMe,Windows Me …

    27 days ago
  2. Bridging Web Service Calls in Silverlight

    http://bbits.co.uk/blog/archive/2008/06/06/bridging-web-service-calls-in-silverlight.aspx

    For security reasons, the Silverlight version 2 runtime restricts access to certain classes of URLs from the WebClient and HTTP classes in the System.Net namespace.  The main requirement is that the services you want to use should implement either crossdomain.xml (which is the Flash policy file) or …

    27 days ago
  3. Simple FriendFeed C# User Control

    http://bbits.co.uk/blog/archive/2008/06/06/simple-friendfeed-c-user-control.aspx

    Simple FriendFeed C# User Control Jun 06 We use a simple Friend Feed user control on our home page.  We have found this a great way to share "filtered" information that is relevant to our customers.  What we have done is created a FriendFeed account called bbits, which we share things into (via …

    27 days ago
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    Routing and DynamicData

    http://csharpbits.notaclue.net/2008/06/routing-and-dynamicda...

    I'm posting on this so it's where I can find it easily again and also because I think Routing is really neat. Some useful links regarding Routing: Mike Ormond's using ASP.NET Routing independent of MVC Ian Blackburn's passing of parameters to the aspx page Enjoy.

    6 days ago in C# Bits by sjnaughton · Authority: 4
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    Mike Ormond's Blog

    http://blogs.msdn.com/mikeormond

    More on ASP.NET Routing While I've been sunning myself on a Greek Island (Kefalonia - very nice, especially the baclava), Ian has taken my post about using ASP.NET Routing independent of MVC a stage further by including the passing of parameters to the aspx page.

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    Mike Ormond's Blog

    http://blogs.msdn.com/mikeormond

    While I've been sunning myself on a Greek Island (Kefalonia - very nice, especially the baclava), Ian has taken my post about

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    Zero Bug Bounce

    http://dotnet.org.za/pieter/archive/2008/04/30/zero-bug-boun...

    We have reached the ZBB (Zero Bug Bounce) milestone on our project today. Absolutely fantastic work by a fantastic team. Thanks to: Clive Vermeulen (The penguin's father) Luke Ryan (The penguin's son) Angela Knight Phillip Lee (Father to be)

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    Zero Bug Bounce

    http://dotnet.org.za/pieter/archive/2008/04/30/zero-bug-boun...

    ZBB (Zero Bug Bounce)

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    Microsoft’s live maps upgrade is a downgrade in the UK - developers are fuming

    http://www.itwriting.com/blog/?p=572

    looked in some of the demos as Mix08. That said, Microsoft can fix this easily by removing the redirect. This is an integration issue. If Microsoft-Yahoo becomes a reality, I wonder what other such issues will cause developers to fret? Thanks to Ian Blackburn for the link.

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    MS Visual Studio 2005 Toolbox and CompositeControl - Not The Best Of Friends

    http://harindaka.blogspot.com/2008/01/ms-visual-studio-2005-...

    class to inherit from in Asp.Net 2.0, that makes life so much simpler (no more EnsureChildControls(), etc.)"...... At least that's the first impression you get when you dig into articles published on the web regarding the new CompositeControl class. Click here

    178 days ago in Harindaka's Home · Authority: 2
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    TransactionScope Considered Useless

    http://www.distribucon.com/blog/PermaLink,guid,3ea39673-29e4...

    connections won't enlist in the transaction when using TransactionScope. To make matters worse, TransactionScope behaves differently when using MSSQL 2005 and MSSQL CE. So much for the ubiquitous advice of  using TransactionScope in unit tests. My advice? Feel free to use TransactionScope if you will only ever hit MSSQL 2005 on the backend. Even then, I would triple check that it works properly because I have lost all faith in this class. As for me, I plan on ignoring this class

    229 days ago in Dan Miser by dmiser · Authority: 10