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Recently a local SA Developer .NET community member reported an issue installing SQL Server 2008 Express as it required the as yet unreleased .NET Framework 2.0 SP2. I have explained the dependency in my post over here . Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!
Yes after they promised earlier this week its finally available for download. See my post over here for all the details. Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!
I haven't even had Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2 for more than a day and I've found a compiler bug already. My Compact Framework 2.0 project compiled just fine under Visual Studio 2005 against the .NET Compact Framework 2.0 (build 2.0.6129.0) and it even worked using Visual Studio 2008 Beta 1 against the .NET Compact Framework 3.5 Beta 1 (build 3.5.7066.0). So I was quite surprised when I got the following compilation error against the .NET Compact Framework 3.5 Beta 2 (build 3.5.7121.0): error...
The Community-Credit forums has a discussion currently underway on the topic of Microsoft Surface Computing. I was busy responding to the thread when I thought, hey this is blog post worthy, so here it is. I must say that I'm very impressed with Microsoft's surface computing initiative but I wonder how fast and prolific its adoption will be. Its great to see that the technology is built on the stock standard Windows Vista platform and I presume its using Windows Presentation Foundation to...
Its great when you provide feedback to Microsoft and it gets heard. In April I suggested that the MSDN Community Distribution program should include beta and CTP content as they are typically the bandwidth killers for developers in countries like South Africa. So the June 2007 CD is coming with a DVD packed with CTP goodness. The June 2007 CD contents includes: 7 tracks for beginners using Visual Studio 2005 Express and covering topics such as object oriented fundamentals, Windows Forms based user...
Just a quick reminder to all in the Johannesburg area that Mario Lionello will be presenting a talk for SA Developer .NET on the .NET data binding interfaces tomorrow night, Wednesday the 13th of June 2007, at Torque IT in Rivonia. If you haven't done so already, please RSVP here . As always I'm looking forward to the talk as well as meeting up with the community. If anyone still wants copies of the MSDN Community CDs please either bring blanks CDs, an external hard drive, flash disk or a...
The AJAX Control Toolkit team have released an update to their powerful toolkit for ASP.NET AJAX. According to this post by Kirti Deshpande it only contains bug fixes and feature additions to the existing controls. New controls are currently being worked on and will be included in a later release. You can check out the release notes and play with the updated controls over here and download the updated build here . Technorati tags: ASP.NET AJAX , AJAX Control Toolkit Share this post: email it! | bookmark...
The Microsoft .NET Framework 3.0 redistributable has been failing to deploy through Windows Update (with the error code 0x643) on my work Windows XP machine for quite some time now and I was just not bothered enough by it to find out exactly why. I had tried all workarounds as suggested on the MSDN forums as well as using the pre-release uninstall utility recommended by the release notes to no avail. So I decided to take a deeper look and downloaded the redistributable manually and analysed the output...
I've been asked by a few people recently how to embed and access resources in an assembly. And yes your .NET executable (.exe file) is actually an assembly. First you will need to embed the resource inside the assembly. In Visual Studio this is very easy. Simply select the file in the Solution Explorer and goto the Properties window and set the Build Action to Embedded Resource . Visual Studio will automagically embed the resource into the assembly at build time. The name of the embedded resource...
As a developer that grew up on Delphi 1.0 through Delphi 7.0 I am a little saddened at what has happened to Delphi as a product. I recall the local Borland Delphi 8.0 launch where they touted that Delphi was now a first class citizen on the Microsoft .NET Framework 1.1 and that their product releases would coincide with the framework releases. Unfortunately this didn't seem to materialise as I waited at least a few months for updates to Delphi 8.0 to support service pack 1 of the .NET framework 1...
Looks like I found a bug in the Compact Framework 2.0 SP2 today. I had created a custom attribute derived from the System.Attribute class. There wasn't anything really special about it other than that it had a constructor taking in an enumeration. See the following code snippet: public enum Bar : byte { A, B, C } [AttributeUsage(AttributeTargets.All)] public sealed class FooAttribute : Attribute { public FooAttribute(Bar bar) { } } [Foo(Bar.A)] class Program { static void Main( string [] args) {...
The XNA team has released a refresh update to XNA Game Studio Express 1.0 and XNA Framework 1.0. You can find the download links here . If any Johannesburg SA Developer .NET community members would like a copy of XNA Game Studio Express 1.0 Refresh on CD, please contact me and we can arrange. The refresh includes the following previously announced changes: XNA Game Studio Express Windows Vista is now fully supported You can now add icons to XNA Game Studio Express Games. Incrementally deployment...
During the SA Developer .NET TechReel session I arranged tonight, Andre and I observed that Martin Grayson had a very cool Vista Sidebar gadget installed called Daily Dilbert. So being a fan of Dilbert I tracked it down. You can get the gadget from here and read a very cool article by the author on the making of it here . Note that the source code is available as well. Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!
I happened to stumble upon the blog of Mike Taulty and the following three very interesting articles on how LINQ actually works. The first article looks at Lambda expressions and introduces the interface IQueryable<T> which inherits from IEnumerable<T> and Expression property to represent the expression tree ( Expression<T> ). The second article explores the IQueryable<T> interface a bit more and applies it to a simple array of integers to explain the concepts. The third article...
After months of testing Microsoft's freely available game development product has gone gold according to the team blog entry . At the same time the XNA Creators Club subscription was added to the Xbox Live Marketplace enabling hobbyist and indie game developers to start testing and sharing their creations on the Xbox 360 platform. Built on top of Visual Studio 2005 C# Express Edition and the Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 this is surely the best game development platform currently on the market...
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