For some unknown reason I'm connecting to a Oracle 10g database via ODBC (from .Net! don't ask). I was adding some new code to a existing project which I'd manage to get to use IDataReader and such so that if one day I decided to switch from ODBC it would be easy. However all the old code uses [...]
One of the blogs I regularily read [1] just pointed me to this article on the BBC web site. Looks like Robin Hood gets another series, hurrah! The first one has been good fun so far - very silly on occasion, but I find the love story quite interesting, and it seems to appeal to [...]
Scott Guthrie has produced yet another brilliant blog post on a new feature in ASP.Net. To be frank I never used the old ASP.Net 1.1 caching (bad me!) but I fully intent to use this new feature as soon as I'm developing my next web app (VB.Net windows app at the moment). Link to [...]
I recently came across the following 'gotcha' which once you know about it seems really obvious, but was driving me up the wall. Side Note: Timers in .Net In Visual Studio 2003 there are 2 timers availabe from the toolbox, System.Timers.Timer and System.Windows.Forms.Timer. The Forms.Timer is the one that exhibits this problem (and is [...]
Tim Heuer was the first I've spotted of what I'm sure will be quite a few announcements about the final release of .Net Framework 3.0. Apparently they've also released a small product call 'Office 2007' to go along with the .Net Framework, but I'm more interested in the later :) We've also been given the Visual Studio tools [...]
I've created a quick example Flickr.Net web site in Visual Studio 2005, for both VB.Net and C#. There is a simple page that performs authentication, and stores the resulting authentication details in the session variables. There is also a very simple photo album, showing the latest 20 photos from your photo stream. The [...]
I've done a batch of bug fixes and updates to the FlickrNet API library, including Photos.DateAdded which tells you when a photo was added to a group, and the PhotosRecentlyUpdated method which details your recently updated photos.Download from CodeplexI'll roll up a release in a week or so if there are no more changes before [...]
A new application using the Flickr.Net API Library has been launched. Basically allows easy and quick uploading of your web cam images onto Flickr! Cool or what. Possibly based on the Coding 4 Fun article that tells you how to hook up a web cam using Visual Studio 2005 it looks like everything I [...]
Strangely enough considering my background using Visual Basic and programming in Access (since version 1.1 no less, back in the day it was called Access Basic) and developing web sites using ASP when .Net came out I switched straight away to C# and wished never to look back. However recently I've had a choice, rewrite 1000's [...]