Archive for the ‘Development’ Category

Introducing…

Friday, December 12th, 2008

Image via Wikipedia nCode I.T. Limited! Yes, I’ve finally got round to setting up my own limited company. Since it makes more sense from a taxation point of view, and also gives me a platform to launch my own Micro-ISV. Since I’m deeply entrenched ...

.Net3.5sp1 RTM?

Friday, August 8th, 2008

A little bird's told me that the .Net3.5sp1 will be RTM on 11th August! Wonder if the Pixel shader API has been rationalised... Multi-texture here we come ;)

System.Windows.Data Error: 19

Thursday, June 26th, 2008

Thought I'd brain dump a little problem I came across earlier today. Data Error 19. Here's the full error. System.Windows.Data Error: 19 : Cannot convert '40' from type 'Int32' to type 'System.Int64' for 'en-US' culture with default conversions; consider using Converter property of Binding. NotSupportedException: ...

I’m A Winner …. Again! Or… how to win free stuff with SCRUM :)

Tuesday, June 24th, 2008

Free Vouchers this time. Apparently I've won £100 of vouchers for implementing the Scrum methodology! I have no idea which shops the vouchers are for, only that they're high street vouchers, so I suppose that's cool, they could have been for kitchen tiles or something equally as mundane. But, heh, ...

Top 10 WPF resources

Monday, June 16th, 2008

Technorati Tags: WPF,Top 10,Development Resources As a minor intermission while I put a bit more effort into the WPF article series, I thought I'd list my top 10 favourite WPF and .NET tools. Ok, here goes! ...

FREE WPF Tutorials - Starting with how to restyle the default WPF controls

Sunday, June 15th, 2008

Technorati Tags: FREE WPF Tutorials,XAML,Blend,C#,Visual Studio,.Net I thought I'd posted enough light-weight topics lately, so to create a bit of solid tutorial content I though I'd start a series of tutorials / articles on how to re-style the standard controls available with WPF, using expression blend. I've been asked ...

Synology Subversion Update

Monday, June 9th, 2008

Technorati Tags: Synology,Subversion,DS106e,DS106j When I originally installed my Subversion server on the Synology box way back in March 07 the firmware on the box was pretty much OEM. I'd tweaked the firmware to allow telnet, but that was about the only upgrade I'd got. Well, since my I ...

Pixel Shader Effects in WPF using .Net3.5sp1 Beta

Monday, May 26th, 2008

Technorati Tags: WPF,Shaders,.net3.5sp1 Well, I finally managed to get round to whipping up a pixel shader today, and a reasonable workflow with skeleton projects to enable quick(ish) turnaround during development. Since Pixel Shaders were introduced on Greg Shechters blog I'd taken a quick look and one thing was ...

MyGeneration and Referencing External Assemblies…

Saturday, May 17th, 2008

After spending about and hour trying to get MyGeneration to reference the FileHelpers Dll's, I thought it would be worth pointing something out.. QUIT MYGENERATION AND RE-RUN IT AFTER YOU HAVE COPIED THE ASSEMBLIES INTO THE MYGENERATION FOLDER. Damn. I've just spent a frustrating hour looking at "Couldn't ...

.Net3.5 SP1 problem solved!

Saturday, May 17th, 2008

  Just thought I'd let anyone having the same problems as me know how I ended up solving them! Basically it appears that there are a couple of updates available on Windows update that are marked as optional, but which turn out to be not-so-optional... the cuplrits ...