Skip to content

{ Monthly Archives } June 2006

Famous photographers given the ‘Flickr’ treatment

Reading this blog post I couldn't help but get the same feeling I get sometimes when browsing Flickr, especially some of the 'critique' groups. My person favourites are the Bresson, and the authors sig from the William Eggleston one ("George Spelvin [Nikon D200, Nikon D70s backup, 17-35 f/2.8, 80-200 f/2.8, 4GB Microdrive (2), Photoshop CS, [...]

Getting the XmlEnumAttribute value for an Enum field

I recently had to convert an Enum back to its original Xml value so I thought I'd share the little method I wrote with you all incase you wondered how to do it yourself.

Method

public static string ConvertToString(Enum e) { // Get the Type of the enum Typet = e.GetType();

// Get the FieldInfo for the member field with the [...]

WinFx June CTP Released

News arrives that the the next Community Technology Preview (CTP) of the WinFX (now know as .Net 3.0 Technologies) has been released.

Download

[tags]microsoft, winfx, .net[/tags]

Blog posts about Flickr.Net

A couple of blogs I've found about people trying things with the Flickr.Net API recently...

Flickr.Net and LINQ

LINQ is a new set of APIs from Microsoft for .Net Framework 2.0. It adds a load of really cool language extensions to both C# and VB.Net. Some of these extensions are taken from common dynamic languages like LISP [...]

SQLite in .Net

After my previous post about SQL Server Everywhere I received a comment recommending SQLite as simple filebased database store (in a similar manner to Microsoft Access).

There are a couple of versions of .Net wrappers for SQLite around, so depending on which version of .Net you are using the following should be a quick guide:

SQLite Version [...]

Developer Day 3 - Reading

At the start of June I travelled all the way to Reading for a Developer Day Conference.

I'll write a review of the sessions up later, but I just found this blog post from a guy I was talking to at the Geek Dinner afterwards - seems he has a strange memory as to what I [...]

SQL Server Everywhere

Finally, a small footprint version of SQL Server, which doesn't run as a service. Does this finally mean we have a suitable replacement for Access mdb files?Robert Burke's Weblog : SQL Server 2005 Everywhere Edition - lightweight, flexible, free datastore

[tags]microsoft, sqlserver, sql, access, sqlite[/tags]

Flickr.Net API Library - 2.0.1

Just some bug fixes, plus adding a few more supported methods and parameters to the code. I also finished the code comments, so intellisense should now show up something for each method at least.

Download and Release Notes

[tags]flickr, flickrapi, flickrdotnet, .net[/tags]