This is the personal homepage of John Nunn, a software developer based in Coventry, U.K..

I own a software development company (Tortrix Ltd.) providing software solutions and I.T. services to the Health Care industry. Our solutions include knowledge management dashboards, intranet & extranet solutions using Microsoft Office SharePoint Server as well as bespoke solutions.

When not trying to earn a living, I run the Midlands Developer network, which is a free microsoft orientated usergroup based in Coventry which meets every second tuesday of the month.

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• Visual Studio 2008 and Team Foundation Server 2010

  June 06, 2011

  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 ...

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• I was on national radio talking about IP protection

  May 20, 2011

  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 ...

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• Entity Framework 4 & Database Defaults

  March 29, 2011

  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 ...

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• Changing the Company Name in Visual Studio 2010

  March 29, 2011

  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 ...

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• Happy New Year!

  January 04, 2011

  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 ...

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