Deploying web parts into MOSS 2007 isn't exactly straight forward and after looking around the web for a while it became apparent that there is no 'standard' way for deploying them. I looked at a few different options and found that creating a S ...[Read More]

Last Thursday the guys at VBug ran a talk at Bournemouth University entitled 'Internationalizating ASP.Net AJAX'. The title was quite interesting to me because I knew about localization with the .Net framework but I wanted to know where the AJAX f ...[Read More]

A while back my company joined the Microsoft Partner Programme with the goal to become a Microsoft Certified Partner and Small Business Specialist. By registering I became eligible to purchase the Microsoft Action Pack Subscription which contain ...[Read More]

As you may or may not of heard, Microsoft annouced an private alpha release of Popfly last Friday. Popfly is an online tool for creating 'web mashups' by allowing you to connect web services and API's together in an easy to use editor. The tool ...[Read More]

One of the basic principles of object oriented programming is 'Encapsulation', and to me one of the fundamental ways to acheive encapsulation when creating classes is to only allow access to it's private members through public accessor methods. F ...[Read More]

So we have all heard about the release of Microsoft Silverlight (formerly WPF/E) but how do you get started using it? Fortunately Scott Guthrie has released a very good getting started screencast on Silverlight and apart from saying the phrase 'g ...[Read More]

A while back I spent a few weeks at Microsoft Campus working for a client on a MOSS 2007 proof of concept project. One of my jobs was to get FBA working alongside Windows Authentication on the same site. After reading a few excellent blog posts n ...[Read More]