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mikeuk

Name:	mikeuk
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Last Seen:	659 days, 11 hours, 12 minutes ago
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Was .NET all a mistake?

published 657 days, 40 minutes ago posted by

mikeuk 659 days, 11 hours, 12 minutes ago

It is time to reconsider the recent past and ask the question "was .NET just a forced detour on the road to another technology?" (more)

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Dynamic Programming in MSDN Magazine

published 839 days, 22 hours, 43 minutes ago posted by

mikeuk 840 days, 12 hours, 54 minutes ago

Now online - the February issue of MSDN magazine which majors on dynamic programming in C# and F#. (more)

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tags: MSDN Magazine

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A better framework - ClientUI

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mikeuk 848 days, 12 hours, 10 minutes ago

ClientUI takes the WPF and Silverlight framework and extends it into something more logical and unified. You really can write a single program that targets both and makes use of the Model-View-ViewModel paradigm. (more)

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tags: clientui, WPF, MVVM

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Using the ADO.NET DataSet Designer

published 855 days, 23 hours, 50 minutes ago posted by

mikeuk 857 days, 10 hours, 18 minutes ago

The DataSet designer is useful even if you don't want to work with an external database. However it does raise some difficult questions of how to work using strong typing. (more)

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tags: Database

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First steps with Silverlight 4 - very basic

published 867 days, 7 hours, 5 minutes ago posted by

mikeuk 870 days, 6 hours, 47 minutes ago

With Silverlight 5 looking like a reality sometime next year and Microsoft seeming to reaffirm its commitment to the whole Silverlight project now is a good time to find out what it offers. While others are singing the praises of HTML5 and comparatively weak web development environments, you can discover that Silverlight really does bring desktop development to the Web, not to mention Windows Phone 7. (more)

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Mono for Android beta now open for all

published 871 days, 3 hours, 8 minutes ago posted by

mikeuk 872 days, 6 hours, 19 minutes ago

The Mono for Android or MonoDroid beta is now open for anyone who wants to use it and provides a way for any .NET programmer to create Android apps without having to learn Java. This could be the route to phone apps that .NET programmers have been waiting for and it gives them a much more certain market than Windows Phone 7. This said the big problem is that MonDroid, even though it uses open source Mono, is going to be a commercial product. (more)

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tags: Mono, Android

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Processing XML documentation

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mikeuk 872 days, 7 hours, 26 minutes ago

Processing XML documentation - it really is a good problem to solve using XSL. But if you really have to, there are tools such as Sandcastle that will do the entire job for you. (more)

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tags: XML documenation

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Client, server and Ajax events - WebUI Studio

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mikeuk 872 days, 7 hours, 29 minutes ago

One of the big problems in building a web application is in making communication between the client and server seem easy and natural. Intersoft has a clever approach to implement client server event handling and we take a look at how this works as part of the Web Essentials library. (more)

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tags: Events

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C# auto documentation

published 889 days, 22 hours, 22 minutes ago posted by

mikeuk 892 days, 7 hours, 11 minutes ago

C# has a built-in XML documentation system that can help you create and maintain a reference document to the classes and methods used in your application. It isn't the only documentation you will need, but it's a good start. (more)

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tags: C#, XML documenation

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Linq and XML

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mikeuk 900 days, 8 hours, 50 minutes ago

XML, which is all about tree structures, and Linq, which is all about querying collections, might not seem to fit together but they work together just fine. (more)

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Silverlight 5 Beta announced

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mikeuk 905 days, 2 hours, 48 minutes ago

During the keynote at Microsoft’s ‘Firestarter’ event in Redmond, Scott Guthrie announced a beta of Silverlight 5, which will be available in Q2 of 2011. The promised features include graphics acceleration and a new trusted mode in browser application mode. (more)

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tags: Silverlight 5

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The Classy Cast

published 905 days, 7 hours, 38 minutes ago posted by

mikeuk 906 days, 7 hours, 22 minutes ago

This C# puzzle brings out the differences between static and dynamic typing. Read it, see if you can solve it, and decide which approach to avoiding the problem fits in with your view of object-oriented programming. (more)

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tags: C#

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XML in C#

published 905 days, 7 hours, 38 minutes ago posted by

mikeuk 906 days, 7 hours, 24 minutes ago

.NET has some really easy-to-use facilities for creating and editing XML. Many of these facilities were introduced to make Linq to XML work better but you can make use of them in more general situations. (more)

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tags: XML

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Basic Dialog boxes

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mikeuk 906 days, 7 hours, 25 minutes ago

Dialog boxes are everywhere – but what is the best way to implement them in .NET? We take a look at how to organise things to create a custom dialog box in Visual Basic .NET A very basic look at how best to implement custom dialog boxes in VB. (more)

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Getting started with Bing Maps AJAX Control 7.0

published 914 days, 3 hours, 3 minutes ago posted by

mikeuk 915 days, 8 hours, 16 minutes ago

The all-new Bing Maps Ajax API is faster and more efficient - but it is has a different interface and isn't backward compatible. If you want to get started using it - read on. (more)

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tags: Bing maps API

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WPF Data grid to CSV and HTML the easy way

published 925 days, 12 hours, 35 minutes ago posted by

mikeuk 926 days, 8 hours, 54 minutes ago

The WPF DataGrid can be a difficult beast to tame but it has a lot of built in power and once you get to understand the way that it works it can save you a lot of code and a lot of time. Converting its contents to CSV or HTML is a common requirement and there is a nice trick to doing the job using the Clipboard and a WPF command. (more)

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tags: DataGrid

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Async, Await and the UI problem

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mikeuk 936 days, 11 hours, 7 minutes ago

The new async/await asynchronous programming facilities in .NET solve one of its long standing problems - how to write and an elegant application that uses the UI correctly. (more)

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tags: Async, UI, await, Threading

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Class and struct - Programmer Puzzles

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mikeuk 939 days, 8 hours, 12 minutes ago

This C# puzzle shouldn't be difficult as long as you are secure in your understanding of class and structs. See if you can spot the danger as soon as you read it. (more)

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C# Bit Bashing - The BitConverter

published 954 days, 6 hours, 43 minutes ago posted by

mikeuk 954 days, 15 hours, 14 minutes ago

Is C# a high-level or a low-level language? One way of answering this contentious question is to simply find out how it deals with bits. (more)

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tags: bit manipulation

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Silverlight Sorting Lab

published 955 days, 2 hours, 48 minutes ago posted by

mikeuk 956 days, 8 hours, 26 minutes ago

A sorting lab implemented in Silverlight may not sound interesting but when you see it in action and read about the difficulties of getting the threading right you have to think again. (more)

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tags: SORTING

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mikeuk

Was .NET all a mistake?

Dynamic Programming in MSDN Magazine

A better framework - ClientUI

Using the ADO.NET DataSet Designer

First steps with Silverlight 4 - very basic

Mono for Android beta now open for all

Processing XML documentation

Client, server and Ajax events - WebUI Studio

C# auto documentation

Linq and XML

Silverlight 5 Beta announced

The Classy Cast

XML in C#

Basic Dialog boxes

Getting started with Bing Maps AJAX Control 7.0

WPF Data grid to CSV and HTML the easy way

Async, Await and the UI problem

Class and struct - Programmer Puzzles

C# Bit Bashing - The BitConverter

Silverlight Sorting Lab

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