by Martin Hinshelwood
At SSW we are extensive users of Dynamics CRM. I wanted to give Office 2010 a go, but I had to make sure that the Dynamics CRM plug-in, and my other plug-ins worked. You would think that support for Office …
by Martin Hinshelwood
This being my first week at SSW, and still waiting for my nice shiny new laptop to arrive, I am sitting here at my Wife’s laptop (which is PINK, a requirement to keep the WAF high), until it arrives. …
by Martin Hinshelwood
I have been a cable customer in the UK since day one when it was Cable & Wireless. If you don’t know who they are I am not surprised: Cable & Wireless –> NTL –> VirginMedia I received my first …
by Martin Hinshelwood
I have been trying since SP1 was released to get it installed at Aggreko, but due to our global, three time zones, development team and release schedules it has been very difficult to get some time set aside for it. …
by Martin Hinshelwood
Its “Dyslexia Awareness Week” here in the UK, and as a person that benefits from being a Dyslexic developer, I thought I should highlight the specific strengths to programmers of being dyslexic… All of the benefits are due to a …
by Martin Hinshelwood
Well, nothing like hitting the ground running, my first job at SSW was to join the TFS Migration Team, it was a fun experience, let me tell you how it went. Update #1 20th January 2010: Have a look at …
by Martin Hinshelwood
In the last 2+ years at Aggreko I have worked with Visual Studio 2008 Team Foundation Server, Office SharePoint Server 2007 and a number of WPF, Silverlight and ASP.NET projects. There had been some discussion of a new role within …
by Martin Hinshelwood
As Microsoft have separated Install with configuration, so I have separated my posts! You will need TFS2010 installed prior to the steps below. This is my configuration experience…This wizard is excellent. If you had ever tried to install TFS in …
by Martin Hinshelwood
New in Visual Studio 2010 is the ability to install TFS on XP, Vista and Windows 7. You can use SQL 2008 Express, so no large overhead, and the Basic version you use for this does have the reporting and …
by Martin Hinshelwood
I was recently contacted by Colin Mackay, the chairman of Scottish Developers about doing an interview with them. Colin has been pestering me for a while now to do some speaking engagements, but I am still not comfortable with that! …
by Martin Hinshelwood
Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 is now available on MSDN for download! With 2010 comes new SKU’s. Microsoft is trying to simplify the layout and features that you can get. Visual Studio IDE now comes in these flavours: · Microsoft® …
by Martin Hinshelwood
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 …
by Martin Hinshelwood
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 …
by Martin Hinshelwood
One of my colleagues is facing the maelstrom that is corporate blogjection and has become a geek with a blog. Have a heart as he is a poor under-paid support analyst who hits WAY above his pay grade. Welcome Roddy… …
by Martin Hinshelwood
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 …
by Martin Hinshelwood
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 …
by Martin Hinshelwood
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, …
by Martin Hinshelwood
Have you been waiting for a long time for Windows 7? Well I have.. I have been able to use Beta 1 and the RC for a good while now, and it surprised me that the Windows 7 Beta 1 …
by Martin Hinshelwood
Another nice feature of Outlook 2010 that I like is the Calendar preview: Very effective for seeing quickly wither you can attend 🙂 Technorati Tags: Office
by Martin Hinshelwood
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 …