[This post is by Adam Powell, one of our more touchy-feely Android engineers. — Tim Bray] The word “multitouch” gets thrown around quite a bit and it’s not...
Introduction It's always an honor to present anywhere. Presenting at the PASS Summit is a special honor. I delivered three presentations last month: Database Design for Developers SSIS Design Patterns, Part 2 A Lightning Talk on SSIS Database Design for Developers First, a bit of explanation (defense): I submitted this abstract to the PASS…
Yes, I know I’ve been gone for a long time. I haven’t professionally blogged for years. But, the good folks here, Adam and Peter have out of the goodness of their hearts, left my blog around and well, I though I’d check in. Since then, I’ve changed jobs, gotten divorced, bought a few more laptops, bunches of guitars, a snowboard or two,…
<b>LXer:</b> "Apart from Apple, some other companies are bringing some interesting tablets. In contrary to the iTab, those other tablets do run Linux. Some are already available, such as the TouchBook from Always Innovating (AI), and some have supposedly better screens, like the Notion Ink Adam tablet."
Change Data Capture (CDC) records DML operations performed on SQL tables and makes records available with information regarding what changed and when the change happened in a simple way.
Compare and sync databases with SQL Compare“SQL Compare is fast, extremely easy to use, full-featured and affordable. I wouldn't…
SQL Saturday Dublin is hosting a two-day training event covering SQL Server 2012, Business Intelligence, Database Administration and Personal Development. The free training event will be Saturday June 22 2013, and three preconference sessions (not free) will take place the 21st.
Compare and sync databases with SQL…
I'm trying to use the new AutomationFactory provided with Silverlight 4 to call a .NET COM class.
.NET COM-Exposed Class:
public class ObjectContainer
{
public bool GetObject([Out, MarshalAs((UnmanagedType.IUnknown)] out object obj)
{
obj = new SomeOtherObj();
return true;
}
}
Silverlight…
I have a 2010 project that is targeting .NET v3.5. It was working fine until I started to mess with configurations a bit and now I cannot figure out what I'm doing wrong. The project doesn't have ANY references added. It won't even let me add a reference to System.Core as it is added by the 'build system'.
warning…
I'm trying to use the SmugFig SmugMug API on Android. It was designed for J2SE I would imagine, so I'm not sure it will even work on Android, but I figured it was worth trying as opposed to trying to create my own API.
When I load the project though, I get the following error:
Conversion to Dalvik format failed:…
I'm using Django 1.1.1 stable. When DEBUG is set to True Django flatpages works correctly; when DEBUG is False every flatpage I try to access raises a custom 404 error (my error template is obviously working correctly).
Searching around on the internet suggests creating 404 and 500 templates which I have done.
I've…
I'd like to change the color of the placeholder text I set in my UITextField controls, to make it black.
I'd prefer to do this without using normal text as the placeholder and having to override all the methods to imitate the behaviour of a placeholder.
I believe if I override this method..
-…
Hello,
I wanna made "WiFi maps" and I have problem with do that, I wanna have 3 icons OPEN/WEP/WPA, and a lot of markers, and every marker with own infowindow, and only 1 infowindow on top, so when I will click #1 and then #2 then #1 will hide.
And if I will have XXXX markers there will be…
I'm trying to create a IWpfTextView and then put it into a custom tool window. I can create the view, read a file to populate the ITextBuffer and display the view into my tool.
I cannot edit the code at all and the code is not syntax highlighted. What steps am I missing to make this a…
Hi,
I'm trying to get authentication and authorisation working in an ASP .NET MVC2 site.
I've read loads of tutorials and some books which explain how you can use attributes to require authorisation (and membership in a role) like this:
[Authorize(Roles="Admin")]
public ActionResult…
Is it possible to implement parameter value tab expansion for enum parameter types?
Creating a binary cmdlet with parameter definition:
[Parameter]
public SomeEnum Type {get;set;}
Is there some way to type:
Add-MyThing -Type S<tab>
To get:
Add-MyThing -Type…
Ok, after seeing this post by PJ Hyett, I have decided to skip to the end and go with git.
So what I need is a beginners practical guide to git. "Beginner" being defined as someone who knows how to handle their compiler, understands to some level what a makefile is, and…
I've been tasked with writing a SOAP web-service in .Net to be middleware between EWS2010 and an application server that previously used WebDAV to connect to Exchange. (As I understand it, WebDAV is going away with EWS2010, so the application server will no longer be able…
The reason I need to find out is that on an iPad, a UIPickerView has the same height in landscape orientation as it does in portrait. On an iPhone it is different. The iPad programming guide introduces an "idiom" value to UIDevice:
UIDevice* thisDevice = [UIDevice…
How would I bind the IsChecked member of a CheckBox to a member variable in my form?
(I realize I can access it directly, but I am trying to learn about databinding and WPF)
Below is my failed attempt to get this working.
XAML:
<Window x:Class="MyProject.Form1"…
I am trying to add a VC6 COM DLL to our VS2010RC C# solution. The DLL was compiled with the VC6 tools to create an x86 version and was compiled with the VC7 Cross-platform tools to generate a VC7 DLL.
The x86 version of the assembly works fine as long as the consuming…
I have one report that does not export to excel friendly from SSRS 2005. I know I can use
<Render>
<Extension Name="EXCEL" Type="Microsoft.ReportingServices.Rendering.ExcelRenderer.ExcelRenderer,Microsoft.ReportingServices.ExcelRendering">
…
When developing with Mono for an app to be run on Windows and Mac OSX (and maybe Linux) which would you suggest, WinForms or GtkSharp for the GUI and why?
Specific examples and success/horror stories would be much appreciated.
I'm trying to move a control from one parent to another (if this will work I'm not quite sure). I can get a hold of the control that I want to move. Here is my code:
public void MoveElement(UIElement uiElement)
{
var element =…
Here's what I'm doing:
opts.LoadWith<Job>(j => j.Questions);
opts.LoadWith<Job>(j => j.Categories);
I keep getting an error that "Specified cast is not valid."
However, if I do either of the alone, it works!
[[self mainFrame] loadHTMLString:@"<html><body><link href='main.css' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css' /></body></html>" baseURL:nil];
I am trying to load a css file called main.css from the…