Simon Ince's Blog
Ramblings of a gadget freak
Ukadc.Diagnostics
In one of our team meetings recently I was lucky enough to hear Josh Twist and Morgan Skinner speak...
Author: Simon J Ince Date: 04/30/2008
Biztalk 2006 R3
Have you heard? Biztalk 2006 R3 has been announced...
Author: Simon J Ince Date: 04/23/2008
Web Service Software Factory February 2008 Ships!
Following on from my last post, some top news for Web Service developers - the WSSF February 2008...
Author: Simon J Ince Date: 03/03/2008
Web Client Software Factory February 2008 Ships!
Great news from Glenn... The WCSF February 2008 release (i.e. 2.0) has just shipped. Check out the...
Author: Simon J Ince Date: 02/29/2008
Adding messages to a Validation Summary
For a while now I’ve used this handy bit of code to add a message programmatically to a Validation...
Author: Simon J Ince Date: 02/28/2008
February 2008 GAX and GAT
Just a quick note as I’ve had my body pretty much surgically attached to my laptop and various...
Author: Simon J Ince Date: 02/18/2008
MVC and Unity
Well it’s a week of news; Scott Guthrie has posted an update on the ASP.NET MVC Framework roadmap,...
Author: Simon J Ince Date: 02/14/2008
WCSF 2.0 Around the Corner
If you haven’t found it already, Glenn Block has posted a great summary of what is included in the...
Author: Simon J Ince Date: 02/04/2008
Multiple Views with MVC
In my previous two posts (one and two) discussing the use of AJAX within an ASP.NET MVC Framework...
Author: Simon J Ince Date: 02/04/2008
To AJAX, or not to AJAX - rendering in ASP.NET MVC
One issue I have had on numerous customer engagements is that there has been a good opportunity to...
Author: Simon J Ince Date: 01/28/2008
Testing WCF Services
I was recently present at an internal demonstration by Rob Jarratt of a tool to generate unit tests...
Author: Simon J Ince Date: 01/27/2008
Why choose WPF?
In case you missed it one of the other guys in my team – specifically Josh - has just finished...
Author: Simon J Ince Date: 01/23/2008
AJAX support in the ASP.NET MVC Framework
[Edit: Note that this post is based on a pre-release, and now out of date CTP of the MVC framework....
Author: Simon J Ince Date: 01/23/2008
ASP.NET MVC Framework Links & Info
This week is turning out to be a bit busy, so blogging is stumbling, and likely will next week too....
Author: Simon J Ince Date: 11/29/2007
Visual Studio 2008 SDK Released
I’m sure you know that Visual Studio 2008 has shipped, but did you also know that the Visual Studio...
Author: Simon J Ince Date: 11/23/2007
The ASP.NET MVC framework, using the WCSF as a yardstick!
Well, right up until this morning I was planning on blogging about the similarities and differences...
Author: Simon J Ince Date: 11/22/2007
Visual Studio 2008 and .NET 3.5... announcement!
Some top news here...
Author: Simon J Ince Date: 11/05/2007
Common Table Expressions, Reversed
There was an interesting question left on my last post entitled Hierarchies WITH Common Table...
Author: Simon J Ince Date: 10/31/2007
Loving LINQ
I have to say, I love how easy it is to do SQL-like expressions over collections of objects with...
Author: Simon J Ince Date: 10/30/2007
WPF Composite Client
Some top news has been circulating over the past few days or so - Glenn Block has a good summary....
Author: Simon J Ince Date: 10/30/2007
Packaging Software Factories
Jezz Santos has posted an announcement on a series of white papers becoming available on the MSDN...
Author: Simon J Ince Date: 10/30/2007
Two approaches to a LINQ Solution Structure
Background I’m in the process of writing a small windows application with a very straightforward...
Author: Simon J Ince Date: 10/29/2007
Hierarchies WITH Common Table Expressions
Storing hierarchical data in a database is a very common task, and SQL Server 2005 brings us Common...
Author: Simon J Ince Date: 10/17/2007
"Hello, World" and an introduction
Welcome to my new blog! I have actually been blogging for quite a while already, but as I’ve...
Author: Simon J Ince Date: 10/17/2007