Beluga Consultancy

Mar 10

Setting App.Config attributes at Design Time in C#

The App.Config file can be created by changing the Project, Properties..., Settings. Sometimes the App.Config file seems to bear no resemblance to what is in the settings. Deleting the App.Config file and adding an empty one does not cause the settings to disappear nor does the App.Config file get automatically regenerated. To regenerate the App.Config ......

Posted On Monday, March 1, 2010 7:26 PM

Feb 10

.NET DEVELOPMENT WITH ODAC 11.1.0.7.20

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I've installed .NET DEVELOPMENT WITH ODAC 11.1.0.7.20 and apart from having to reboot my machine once it looks very good. I can use a sophisticated set of tools to look at an Oracle database. Works in VS2008 but doesn't recognise VS2010 http://www.oracle.com/techn... ......

Posted On Thursday, February 18, 2010 9:05 PM

Feb 10

Setting App.Config attributes at Run-time in C#

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Manipulating app.config attributes at run time in C# appears to be simple. However most of the samples I've looked at don't work or are impenetrable. Simply in app.config file at design time add some userSettings either manually or through the design window <userSettings> <WindowsFormsApplication... <setting name="MyMachine" ......

Posted On Friday, February 12, 2010 12:05 PM

Feb 10

CSS Stylesheets in ASP.Net

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I've not done a great deal in ASP.Net and I've never done anything with Style Sheets. They are however really simple as long as you remember a couple of things. Create the css file and add it to your project in Visual Studio. Then drag it to the aspx page (in design view). This will add the lines to the aspx page <head runat="server"> <title></title> ......

Posted On Tuesday, February 2, 2010 9:53 PM

Jan 10

My Videography has moved to another blog

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I've moved all my posts on Videography to my other blog. http://www.belugaconsultanc... I'm keeping this for more technical programming blog posts. It's mostly for my own consumption but happy if it helps anyone else ......

Posted On Saturday, January 23, 2010 6:31 AM

LinQ to Objects and Gridview in ASP.Net

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I've gathered some data into an object and then done a Linq to that object using code a bit like this: //Linq query var q = from c in objFlist.Items orderby c.Surname select c; List<clsFileInfo> listOfItems = q.ToList<clsFileInfo>(); GridView2.DataSource = q; GridView2.DataBind(); That works fine as long as I let the Gridview organise itself ......

Posted On Saturday, January 23, 2010 4:26 AM

Jan 10

Videography Nearly Live

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Using YouTube you can upload files to an email address as an attachment. It is quite simple to do this directly from my Nokia N95. I have GMail as my email option in messaging. I can do this in three different ways: 1.Take the video and then opt for send as a message. After that I choose the YouTube upload email address. 2.Go to the gallery and choose ......

Posted On Tuesday, January 19, 2010 1:34 PM

Videography Live and Edited

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So as well as having my live Bambuser TV channel I am now playing around with the videos I've streamed and uploading them on YouTube. Everything has been shot with my Nokia N95 I'm downloading the .flv files from Bambuser converting with Emicsoft FLV conterter http://www.emicsoft.com/ to .avi and then just editing a bit with Windows Movie Maker before ......

Posted On Tuesday, January 19, 2010 9:19 AM

Jan 10

My Own Live TV Channel

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I've been playing with streaming live video from my 3G mobile phone which is on the 3 Network in the UK. It's not a very up to date phone. It's a Nokia N95 but it is Wifi enabled. So far I've tried two services but and I like Bambuser best. This allows my streamed broadcast to be seen live and then automatically saves it for later viewing. Here are ......

Posted On Monday, January 11, 2010 8:48 AM

Jan 10

Silverlight 4 OOB (Out Of Browser) Application

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I was trying to create and run my first Silverlight OOB (Out of Browser) application. It all seems very simple to set up but then it still runs in a browser. I found the solution but it doesn't seem at all obvious to me. To set as an OOB application. Choose Enable running application out of browser as below. Then click on the button Out-of-browser settings... ......

Posted On Tuesday, January 5, 2010 12:01 PM