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A Technical Packrat
My name is Vince and I'm a technical packrat. ( Hello Vince.... )
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Windows Phone Mango Release - Finally Upgraded
After several attempts, I finally got my Windows Phone 7 updated to the Mango release. It kept failing and reported an error C1010007. That error indicates that the cable is bad or not the original cable. I finally tried again and kept touching the phone every minute or two. The upgrade continued and finally finished. I suspect the phone goes to sleep during the upgrade.
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The .Net Micro Framework Event in Dallas
This is a mention of the event that came and went last weekend for the .Net Micro Framework here in Dallas at the Improving Enterprises offices. Shawn Weisfeld worked on the event for the last 6 months. Shawn pushed the moderately priced package from FEZ that proved to be an excellent product. We all met last Saturday and went through some exercises to understand how to develop most of the basic tasks to interact with the plug and play hardware. When the day was over, we all had a great understanding of how to create .Net application with Visual Studio 2010 and deploy to this device. It's so much easier than the Windows CE deployments.
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Never SELECT * from Entity Framework called Stored Procedures
The Entity Framework can help us create an efficient Data Access Layer or a horribly inefficient one.
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Containing Silverlight Lists and DataGrids in the Browser Window
In a typical Silverlight line-of-business application we have Lists, Grids, DataGrids, and StackPanels. We populate a list and it flows down and off the browser page. When we have a ScrollViewer, it will scroll the whole page including edit controls and graphics and not just the list that's tall and flowing off the page. The good news is that we can easily contain the list in the viewable area with the few simple steps listed below.
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Dallas GiveCamp 2011
Dallas GiveCamp came and went this last weekend. It was my second GiveCamp and was very rewarding. Our team created a site for the Tarrant County Birth Network. Jon and I quickly explained the resulting web site and sat down, but I forgot to present and thank the team. So this is a very weak attempt to thank them after the event.