Will’s Blog

Over the last little while Visual Studio 2005 has been crashing seemingly “randomly”. Sometimes it would happen when just trying to open a source file, other times when trying to debug a web app. A few co-workers asked if I wanted to try ReSharper, so I installed that. After installation crashing seemed much more frequent, [...]

A few days ago I looked at various solutions to enhance an exhisting DataList control at work.
The DataList brings back a fair bit of data from several different tables and seemed a bit bloated.
The first solution I looked at was data paging and only showing rows as needed. The DataList doesn’t come with built in [...]

I was asked recently to develop reports for an internal ASP.NET app, after doing some research found that the best solution was to use the ASP.NET ReportViewer control set in LocalMode.
One of my big restrictions was the inability to upgrade from SQL Server 2000 to 2005, which meant avoiding I needed to avoid MS SQL [...]

This is an interesting one that I just came across today.
One of our users has downloaded the latest IE7 Beta release and has found that one of the features that she relies on no longer behaves the same way.
I got her to try to use that feature on another PC (which has IE6), and it [...]

Just stumbled across this site called the CodePlex, via bink.nu
What is CodePlex?
CodePlex is an online software development environment for open and shared source developers to create, host and manage projects throughout the project lifecycle. It has been written from the ground up in C# using .NET 2.0 technology with Team Foundation Server on the back [...]

Just noticed that there’s a Compact Framework version of the Smart Client Baseline Architecture Toolkit called the Mobile Client Software Factory available now.
Francis K. Cheung has a series of posts on his blog about issues relating to porting to the Compact Framework.
On a side note, is anyone else heading to MEDC 2006 in Melbourne?
Edit: Looks [...]

When developing a Windows Mobile based application, you’re often presented with the “I want everything synchronised between my device and my PC” scenario.
While yes, it’d be great to have everything synchronised when you’re on the go (via GPRS, etc), and having little changes filtered through to the device.
The little changes is fine, but what [...]

Most readers who’ve been following some of my past posts will know that my head is currently buried deep in the Compact Framework, and allowed to poke my head up on occassions to get back to the web stuff.
Some days I wonder around the web looking at .NET CF related articles (it’s all part of [...]

One of the interesting issues with my transition from being a Web Developer (ASP.NET) to being a Windows Mobile Developer (CF.NET) is the issue of memory management.
We all know that the little devices don’t have nearly as much memory as our more basic computers sitting around the office.  So naturally, the memory management side of [...]

Just found a few Windows Mobile Technical articles in the Microsoft download center.
You can download them from here.
The articles touch on a few different areas including .NET CF apps using VS2005, introduction to the new Windows Mobile 5 Managed APIs. Mappoint Location Server, developing multithreaded apps using .NET CF 2. As well as a few [...]