On of the worst omissions from .NET 1.0 and 1.1 is compression...and no-one has ever
really explained the reasons why we can't have it as part of the cor framework. Also,
why doesn't WSE include...
Friday, 23 January 2004 00:00
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Whilst changing the site, I noticed a couple of comments, almost all were realy nice,
but one was a simple, dumb insult. To be honest I don't care what you think of this
site, nor do I mind if you...
Friday, 23 April 2004 00:00
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Well I finally wrote an app to use Archive.org to fetch all the old content from my first blog. Which ended in 2010. mostlylucid.co.uk.
Apparently I changed the server AND how I updated it throughout...
Monday, 24 November 2025 23:00
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Got these from ASP.NET - yes, I am well aware that everyone who reads this will have seen these there...it's really just to remind me!
Anyway, great article on DotnetJunkies about Base Pages - these...
Wednesday, 24 March 2004 00:00
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I've posted about this topic a few times, it's really nice to see that someone has finally given a practical, free method of doing this. This implementation uses WS-E to do this, meaning that you add...
Friday, 20 February 2004 00:00
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A very common question in the ASP.NET Forumsis "How do I nest one Repeater (or DataList or DataGrid) inside of another?"; well, my usual stock answer used to be to use the OnItemDataBound event then...
Friday, 20 February 2004 00:00
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Though I'd quickly knock this up - wallpaper from the Mars Probes page. Get it here (1600x1200)
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Sunday, 07 March 2004 00:00
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I've been giving some more thought to the ViewState stuff I mentioned earlier. It actually brings up something which I find most annoying about ASP.NET - and this is not a political point! Why exactly...
Sunday, 29 February 2004 00:00
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Well, I'm suffering from post new year sleeping pattern - I basically become nocturnal over the Christmas and New Year (Hogmanay) holidays, have to start work in 8 hours...not good! Anyway, while I am...
Sunday, 07 March 2004 00:00
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I'm getting increasingly involved in the world of Asynchrony and have been doing a bit of digging about into some of the pitfalls of multi-threading.
I came across an interesting one today involving...
Friday, 20 February 2004 00:00
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I posted a little while ago about an odd 'Memory Leak' I was having...well, after several days of trawling (and annoying Data Wantawho's excellent email component I was mistakenly blaming - sorry!), I...
Friday, 20 February 2004 00:00
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Everyone probably knows about this, but I still think that IrfanView is the single best image viewer ever made...oh, and its' free...and REALLY fast!
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Thursday, 29 January 2004 00:00
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Hmm...have to look at some way of differentiating pasted cotent, the previous entry wasa from here. It's not by me!
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Wednesday, 28 January 2004 00:00
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Woohoo! Just updated my mpx200 to Windows Mobile 2003 (totally illegally of course!)
posted on Friday, July 09, 2004 10:03 PM
I don't usually condone this sort of thing but the providers have been...
Wednesday, 06 September 2006 00:00
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I've been using Scott W.s little Amazon book control on this site for a while now - and it's pretty damn good, haven't made any cash from it as yet...but...well, it always bugged me that it was .com...
Saturday, 03 July 2004 00:00
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Thought I'd make a quick list of stuff I want to do but never have in .NET - yet....
Reflection - haven't yet had ANY call to use reflection for anything, lucky me!
Direct X 9.0 - I probably am going...
Tuesday, 06 July 2004 00:00
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I'm planning (fingers crossed) to update this whole thing with the latest version (heavily modified by me) of .TEXT this weekend coming - I currently have a new snazzy skin (for the blog, my skin...
Tuesday, 06 July 2004 00:00
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I was doing some work on the new version of my first article last night and I got to thinking, all the code in the new version is in the same font / colours that I use in my VS.NET. So, I was showing...
Tuesday, 06 July 2004 00:00
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I've realised that it's taking far longer to write this thing that I'd hoped (the fact that I've started again 4 times may have something to do with it...). Plan is, I'll post the first part tonight ...
Tuesday, 06 July 2004 00:00
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I'm really at the end of my tether with VS.NET and source control. I'm working from home this morning, accessing the office Sourcesafe over my VPN using SourceOffSite - fine, SourceOffsite is a great...
Sunday, 04 July 2004 00:00
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