We moved all of our source control to Team Foundation Server 2010, just after it was launched; and have been more than happy with it. Now we have started working on a number of projects based on Windows Mobile 6.5, unfortunately the mobile 6.5 tools are not supported by VS ...

In April I attended a seminar run by the Intellectual Property Office, about IP protection here at the Coventry University Technology Park. I was told during the reception that the BBC were recording interviews for a radio program and asked, by a client, if I would be willing ...

After many years I have finally ended up using an ORM in a production application I have been using Entity Framework 4 and have been very pleased with the breadth of features, however I have noticed one very annoying bug. The solution uses a SQL Server Database and the tables ...

I have been getting rather frustrated by the fact my instance of Visual studio is registered with the company name ‘Microsoft’ this has led to all my applications having the company name property set to Microsoft by default, including any setup projects. It gets to be quite a chore to ...

Given the recent number of projects I have been involved in or am about to be involved in which use photography and social media combined; I decided to try to fully immerse myself in this culture. I like taking photos but I am not that good at it and don’t ...

There are two different versions of the .net Framework available, the full version and the client profile version. The Client Profile was introduced with .net 3.5 and was created to answer the feedback from many customers that a smaller framework was needed specifically for Client Applications.

I have continually run ...

One problem I have been working on is how to check if the host pc has an internet connection available.The answer is surprisingly easy, the solution is to use P/Invoke to call InternetGetConnectedState, which is a Windows API function that returns a Boolean to indicate if the host machine ...

I have had an iPad since it was first released back in April and have been very happy with it, especially as an electronic book reader. The text is very easy to read and the device is just about the right size. Recently I got a new Kindle from Amazon ...

I have not posted to my blog in almost a year, I am now going to try to post more regular updates. The past year has been one with many ups and downs, mostly downs in the current financial climate; but things are beginning to pick up.

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