Jim Jackson

RIA Services - Iterate Items in EntityQuery Object

axshon — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 12:55:56 GMT

I’m trying to get EF working with SL3, SSL, RIA Services et al. It’s a long road and I know there are issues with any route you decide to take when building a business app in Silverlight 3. In building previous iterations of my little program I used straight...(read more)

Good Documentation…

axshon — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 16:28:27 GMT

Getting nationalized health care: + $3,000,000,000,000.00 Socializing the United States of America: + $10,000,000,000,000.00 Tax Hike to 'Evil Rich People' to raise less than 20% of funds needed for health care: 5.4% Good documentation about how the new...(read more)

Small Person, Big Life

axshon — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 12:16:03 GMT

My friends and a few work associates know some of the details of my last trip to China to adopt my second daughter. While there my first adopted daughter, then 4 years old, got mysteriously sick. Very very sick. My wife and I spent a lot of time and obscene...(read more)

Silverlight 2 Drag and Scroll Image

axshon — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 18:36:54 GMT

This is somewhat based on Shawn Wildermuth’s blog post for drag and drop. I had two problems with his post. I’m not scrolling a canvas. If your mouse leaves the control with the button down you are still dragging when your mouse reenters the control....(read more)

Silverlight 2 Sys.InvalidOperationException: ImageError error #4001 in control Xaml1

axshon — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 16:42:35 GMT

I got this last night while trying to load 2,150 images into a grid. I’m working on a map tiling control for my application because the maps are very large and custom stitched for my application. Incidentally, when loaded up, my IE windows consumes 1...(read more)

Using Linq to XML with C# to Read Gpx Files

axshon — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 01:10:00 GMT

GPX is the standardized file format for GPS file exchanges. A GPX file can contain a lot of different kinds of information. Take a look at the schema here . In general, the major things that you will work with are: Waypoints A waypoint is a specific position...(read more)

SQL 2008 Geography and Geometry Data Type Problems

axshon — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 18:28:42 GMT

My plan was to take my application into SQL 08 from 05 since my hosting service now has it available. I was intent on killing all of my lat/long information and storing my geospatial data in geography columns. Here is what I’m finding about the Geography...(read more)

Beyond Compare 3

axshon — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 15:55:00 GMT

A substantial part of a developer’s job seems to be the logistical details of getting ‘it’ from here to there. When you run a team the problem becomes larger. Even with source control, there are documents that should be updated that aren’t and things...(read more)

WCF Services in a Shared Hosting Environment

axshon — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 17:37:37 GMT

I’m currently using a relatively well known hosting service for my Silverlight 2 application . The problem that I’ve had in getting the app up and running is that in a shared hosting environment, I have no control over host headers and most of the other...(read more)

Calculating Distances Between Latitude and Longitude – T-SQL – Haversine

axshon — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 15:40:10 GMT

I’ve got lots of lat/long information for my Silverlight 2 application and I’m now tinkering with getting the elevation view working in my spare time. The problem is that the distances are very small and the haversine formulae I’ve located on the internet...(read more)

Looking for the Groove Again

axshon — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 19:21:00 GMT

I spent quite a bit of time working SharePoint both in an independent project and bug-fixing other people’s work over the last six or seven months. Once you get the paradigm down, it’s not too bad but not exactly a barrel of laughs either. You spend equal...(read more)

Opening and Reading an XML file in a document library

axshon — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 23:59:00 GMT

So in a recent SharePoint implementation, I was required to allow users to create links in web parts that performed server side functions. Most of the functions were known quantities but they were almost all external systems. Most of the requirements...(read more)

SharePoint Logs - Tracing Service lost trace events

axshon — Tue, 13 May 2008 14:27:00 GMT

So in the farm I'm trying to deploy to, the tracing service starting logging some "failed to write template" messages. Thousands of them. Nobody was on the machine at the time. It wasn't available to anyone so it was internal to SharePoint, whatever it...(read more)

Content Query Web Part Customization Overview

axshon — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 20:39:15 GMT

Oskar asked me today if I could walk some folks on his team through what can be done with the CQWP out of the box with no code. So before I write that up tonight, I figured I'd quickly describe what I know how to do and what I don't. Unfortunately, the...(read more)

MOSS Configuration Certification Study Links - 70-630

axshon — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 13:31:29 GMT

I'm currently going through some study materials for the 70-630 exam. I think it's going to take a pretty long time before I am there because my foundational knowledge of this technology is still pretty slim. At any rate, I located a bunch of tech-net...(read more)