When you place the focus on a text box in Windows Phone 7 the keyboard will be displayed ready for you to start typing in your text. You are not limited to just a default layout for the keyboard however, you can set the InputScope of the text box that gets the focus and display [...]
Posts from ‘March, 2010’
Zune Software – First Look
Living down under (that’s Australia if your not sure) we haven’t had the option of owning a Zune player down here. However, that is soon all to change with the release of Windows Phone 7. Now I don’t know if it is because I have installed the WP7 development tools or if this is something [...]
Windows Phone 7 – Cool stuff and debunking the myths
As part of this weekend’s GeekFest I am watching some of the videos from Mix10 as well as completing some of my lessons from .school First thing I want to cover is the Auto-correct feature in Windows Phone 7. This is something that annoys me immensely on my iPhone. It regularly tries to second guess [...]
Get started with Windows Phone 7 Development today!
If you are looking to get started on Windows Phone 7 Development then there is no time like the present. With Mix10 well underway the floodgates have opened and the tools and documentation are readily available. There is heaps of training online, documentation to download and videos to watch. Read on to get all the [...]
Outputting large volumes of data with LINQ – Fast!
I was doing some work the last couple of days to re-generate lots of large transaction files from archive tables to stress test a system. This required extracting in excess of 400,000 rows of data per file (pretty small really), performing a date shift on transaction dates and then outputting to a file ready to [...]
Welcome to the Hotel Geek
We all get used to the comfort of our wired environment and when we have to venture out in to the world and heaven forbid stay in a hotel it can be rather traumatic (melodrama added for effect). Fortunately in this day and age most hotels come equipped with the mod cons but some do [...]
HP Slate, Adobe and Windows 7. Bring it on!
That’s what I’m talking about, none of this iPad, No Flash, Costs Too Much, Your locked in to Apple crapolla. Looks great and it runs Flash! They have certainly timed the release of this well to coincide with the iPad tvc last night. Kudos to you HP and Adobe Kudos, that reminds me, it must [...]
ManagedFusion – Apache mod_rewrite for .NET
This little gem is a .NET dll, weighing in at 97kb that can be used to provide friendly urls for any asp.net web sites that you might be creating. If you are familiar with Apache mod_rewrite then you know how powerful this can be for url rewriting and relatively easy to use. Being a well [...]
Optimise your Ajax – Script Combining
As of the .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 Microsoft has lovingly provided us with script combining right out of the box. What is this script combining all about I hear some of you say? Take a look at the YSlow Statistics and Firebug Net trace below in Firefox: YSlow Statistics Firebug Net Trace Now this is [...]
OneAlbum: Cool but proceed with caution.
I came across a rather nifty piece of technology today that is being developed by Microsoft Research in Israel. Effectively this could automate the process of tagging your friends across a whole raft of different social networks, consolidating images that you or your friends have taken and uploaded to various social networks in to, as [...]
