Solution – SEO permanent redirects for old URL’s?
From time to time, your website structure may change. When this happens, you do not want to have to start from scratch with your Google rankings, so you need to map all of your Old URLs to new ones. This may seem like a trivial thing, but it is essential to keep your current rankings, […]
Investigation – SEO permanent redirects for old URL’s?
On the project I am currently working on we want to change the nasty http://northwind.com/products.aspx?ProductId=1 to a nice friendly URL on the website. This is pretty easy and can result in nice URL’s like http://northwind.com/products/BigGreenTeddyBaresFromParis.aspx. See Also – Solution – SEO permanent redirects for old URL’s? Updated #1 January 5th, 2010: – As suggested by […]
Wpf Scale Transform Behaviour
Although this post is called Scale Transform Behaviour you could use any transform / animation in its place. The purpose is to have a slider control in a menu be able to alter the scale of any number of controls within MVVM views. This behaviour allows you to add any Framework Elements to a list […]
Wpf Ninject Dojo: The Data Provider
You have probably heard me go on about Unity a couple of times: My.Unity.Resolve(Of Ninja) Unity and ASP.NET Creating a Data Access layer using Unity I have been using what is now unity since the good old days (sooo not true, WPF is the Windows Forms killer, and good riddance) of WindowsForms and CAB (Client […]
Silverlight 3
Over the past week I have been reading the new book Silverlight 3 Programmer’s Referencefrom Wrox and I have found it one of the best books on Silverlight I have seen in a good while. It is concise without being boring and it provides a wealth of information on Silverlight 3. And it is in […]
Updating the Command Line Parser
I had previously created a Command Line Parser from Ray Hayes codeproject article Automatic Command Line Parsing in C#. I had adapted it to VB.NET and upgraded it to .NET 3.5 but I recently ran into the problem with wanting a single command prompt application to handle multiple processes and multiple parameters. This would allow […]
Wpf Drag & Drop behaviour
A colleague of mine was having a bit of trouble getting drag and drop working in a way that fitted well with the MVVM pattern. This is really quite simple once you have a certain level of understanding of Patterns, but is a complete nightmare if you do not. One of the founding principals of […]
Creating a Data Access layer using Unity
I am always pulling out the Unity assemblies. Maybe it is just because I am lazy, but I really can’t be bothered rolling my own dependency injection and mapping framework! I am going to use Unity only as a mapping frame work for now, I want to be able to pass an Interface into a […]
A perfect match TFS and DLR
I have always been annoyed with the mechanics of the Team Foundation Server check-in policies. I understand the limitations, but having to have a specific policy installed on every developers computer before you can use it is slightly ridicules and practically unmanageable. Why is there not a way to have a single installation that allows […]
Log Elmah errors in Team Foundation Server
I am not sure if this is a good idea, but I was bored one day and decided to add a TFS Error Log provider for Elmah. There are 2 ways you can do this. You can create a new WorkItem type and log an error report for each of the errors or you can […]