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I am pleased to announce that after many nights in local taverns debating hot topics The Fantastic Tavern has launched it's website. www.thefantastictavern.co.uk This is just the beginning and we have much more work to do but it is a good start. On the site you will be able to find out about our events (old and new) as well as much more. The ...

Some may lament England’s exit from the World Cup 2010 Finals, but it means there’s less distraction to trying all the latest technologies, open APIs and devices this summer…. namely Visual Studio 2010, Silverlight 4, Windows Phone 7, Bing (Maps too), Silverlight Pivot, IIS Express, Razor, WebMatrix…. oh and those other hyped up devices such as ...

Maybe google just knows me too well, but searching for “cloud” points me to answers about “cloud computing” before the fluffy stuff in the sky. Does this order apply to how our clients think as well? I don’t expect so, though I’ll be glad enough to stand corrected. Some definitions of “Cloud” that may prevail for many ...

Since our last meeting in April featuring the enigmatic Jesse Liberty, we’ve seen a big rise in the interest in Silverlight 4 and Windows Phone 7 on blogs, feeds and twitter. That said, it appears to have been a slow start for the proliferation of Silverlight 4 amongst the global masses since it’s launch on April 13th. I’ve been tracking ...

Today I was attempting to update the template for my document. I struggled slightly as I couldn’t find where the attach template user interface dialog had been moved to. Turns out that it’s under the main button (which you normally go to for File, Save), under the Word options button. Then you have to navigate to Add-ins, and select Templates from ...

  I thought I'd stick up a quick posting about this seeing as today it’s the second time the problem has come about and this time I made sure I did it really carefully just to make sure it wasn’t my fat fingers the first time. A user requested me to extend one of their windows server 2008 vm’s c drives by 20gb. Standard practice is to make ...

For example if you wish to create a MefExtensions directory for a main assembly to use the DirectoryCatalog to load in plugins at application startup then add this to your sub project's post build event SET DestDir=MefExtensions SET DestDir=$(SolutionDir)\$(SolutionName)\$(OutDir)%DestDir%\ IF NOT EXIST %DestDir%. (md %DestDir%.) ELSE erase /Q ...

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/pigscanfly/archive/2010/01/11/bizzyspinner-2-a-wpf-spinning-busy-state-indicator-with-source.aspx

In windows 7 you may have noticed when items are copying across in windows explorer, that you get a nice progress bar reported on your task bar for windows explorer. This can be achieved in your own WPF applications using the Window.TaskBarItemInfo dependency property as ...

Most versions of snoop that I keep coming across have a problem updating the UI dynamically at runtime via the SNOOP property grid editor. Felix Corke recently pointed me in the direction of a fixed version… http://snoopwpf.codeplex.com/ The most recent version 2.6.0, now just works out of the box. No longer do you have 4 versions for the ...