May 2007 - Posts

posted Wednesday, May 30, 2007 9:42 AM by martin :: (Comments Off)

SharePoint Server-Side Document Processing - Part 1

You know that WSS (and therefore MOSS) can do marvelous things when you upload documents to the server, based on document properties, etc.  However, I wanted to see how I could implement custom processing on the server.  That is, I wanted to Read More
posted Wednesday, May 23, 2007 6:02 AM by martin :: (Comments Off)

Managed Code Article for VSJ

I recently wrote an article for VSJ entitled "Why bother with managed code?".  It was published in the May edition of VSJ and you can find the online version here. Fame at last :-)   Technorati tags: Managed Code Read More
posted Wednesday, May 23, 2007 5:58 AM by martin :: (Comments Off)

SANS Secure Software Initiative

I had the pleasure of speaking at an event in London yesterday to launch (for Europe) this new initiative from the SANS institute.  You can find out about the initiative here, but I really wanted to say was how pleasant it was to take part in such Read More
posted Friday, May 18, 2007 9:23 AM by martin :: (Comments Off)

Microsoft Popfly Announced

Just announced.  Take a look. You can't do much with it yet, as it's a closed alpha release, but you can read a little about it.  Looks like fun :-)   Technorati tags: Popfly Read More
posted Wednesday, May 16, 2007 5:55 AM by martin :: (Comments Off)

New Windows Live Demos

I've been working on some new demos for the Virtual Earth map control and the new Windows Live Contacts API.  If you haven't seen me present these demos you might find them a little opaque - this is primarily intended as a follow-up resource for Read More
posted Wednesday, May 09, 2007 10:07 AM by martin :: (Comments Off)

Latitude & Longitude Finder Update

Ok, I know it's not a very interesting site, but mark my words, you'll be glad of it when you try to build something with Virtual Earth ;-) Regular readers will remember that I've been trying to improve my CSS skills, and that's the main reason for this Read More
posted Wednesday, May 09, 2007 5:45 AM by martin :: 1 Comments

Windows Live Data

This is a new Windows Live service, currently only used to provide the Windows Live Contacts API, but it will grow to support other services. Windows Live Data on MSDN. Windows Live Contacts API on MSDN. Windows Live Data allows access to resources Read More
posted Tuesday, May 08, 2007 1:11 AM by martin :: (Comments Off)

NxtGenUG FEST07

It's not long now - the FEST happens on May 23rd.  The NxtGenUG chaps always put on a good show, and just to make sure, Dave has given me this write-up... "Just a reminder that FEST07 (http://www.nxtgenug.net/fest07) the one-day Developer event organised Read More
posted Thursday, May 03, 2007 11:04 AM by martin :: (Comments Off)

Getting My Images Cached

Seasoned web developers might want to look away for a while; this is probably old news to you.  I have one or two images on my website, and they were being downloaded every time I visited their pages.  I knew that setting HTTP response headers Read More
posted Thursday, May 03, 2007 1:27 AM by martin :: (Comments Off)

Windows Live and Silverlight event

Mark Johnston and I will be presenting a free afternoon event at our offices in Reading, UK, on May 16th 2007.  I'll be talking about Windows Live, and Mark will cover Silverlight.  In view of the recent announcements at MIX07 it'll be great Read More
posted Wednesday, May 02, 2007 4:33 AM by martin :: (Comments Off)

Early Silverlight 1.1 Learning

Well, I must have spent all of 2 hours playing with Silverlight v1.1 Alpha.  So far I've learned two important things, to do with creating HTML content from inside my client-side managed code... 1. I can create HTML elements using HtmlPage.Document.CreateElement(), Read More
posted Tuesday, May 01, 2007 3:59 AM by martin :: (Comments Off)

Silverlight v1.1 brings the CLR to your browser

At MIX07, as well as talking about Silverlight v1.0, currently available in Beta form, we've announced Silverlight v1.1.  You can get an Alpha-quality build of v1.1 here. The biggest difference is that v1.1 takes a version of the CLR and pushes it Read More