ChrisNTR - Chris Hardy's Web Developer Weblog

DDD7 Grok Talk - Open Source and Microsoft

Tue, 25 Nov 2008 13:05:00 -0800

This weekend I attended DDD7 , a free community conference held at the Microsoft Reading Campus. I presented a short Grok talk during the lunch hour on Open Source and Microsoft. Since the event didn't seem to have a internet connectivity, I used Dom...(read more)

Achieving Avoid Highways (Motorways) with Microsoft's Virtual Earth

Tue, 12 Aug 2008 00:26:00 -0700

A common problem that many developers face when using the Microsoft Virtual Earth SDK is that out of the box, you cannot generate routes which avoid highways/motorways. This functionality is available on Google Maps but not via the Google Maps API. It...(read more)

WebForm Gripe - Getting LinkButton to work without Javascript.

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 16:25:00 -0700

WebForms is a sort of love/hate thing for me. There are some things I love about WebForms and then there's quite a few things that really cause me a lot of pain. Sadly, the ones that cause me a lot of pain are the ones that stand out. I might turn these into a little series - depending on how many of these gripes show up and how many I can remember! Most of these gripes are probably me just not understanding WebForms correctly, I'm willing to learn so any pointers in the right direction would be good. The first one that I'm going to write about is the LinkButton control. For the most part it's a nice control, which allows a method to be called when a normal anchor link has been clicked. The problem occurs when the method is only called via a Javascript PostBack method in the href attribute. What this does is stop people who do not have Javascript running on their browser (for whatever reason that may be) from using the site. ...(read more)

First look at Monorail..

Sat, 26 Jan 2008 03:07:00 -0800

I might be behind the times a little bit but for various different reasons I have delved back into the world of MVC for ASP.NET with Monorail - an open source framework which runs on top of C# and ASP.NET....(read more)