LiveDataScript is a little utility to generate SQL insert scripts from SQL Server databases. I wrote it quite a few years ago, but since it’s still fairly useful and the last place it was hosted has now gone the way of the Dodo, I’ve re-hosted it here. This post will cover the high-level basics of using the …

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WinRTTriggers is a available from the codeplex project site or from nuget. Sample code for this post can be downloaded here. The latest update to WinRTTriggers (v1.1.0) includes 2 big changes: Multiple actions can be specified against a trigger An action can have conditions associated to it The first point is fairly …

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All the code for WinRTTriggers is available from the CodePlex project site, and is available in binary form in a nuget package. A few months ago I attended one of Microsoft’s “Windows Phone to Windows 8 App” events. The intent was to take Equazorand migrate it to a Windows Store application as much as possible over …

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A couple of months ago I released my first Windows Phone game into the wild. It’s a “maths-based puzzle game” that will challenge, infuriate (hopefully not too much!) and with a bit of practice, genuinely develop your mental arithmetic. The premise is simple – you have to highlight a sequence of tiles forming an …

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There hasn’t been much activity here for a while for several reasons, including a new job and the small matter of a total server failure for a few months… …but now I’m back. I’m on a new host, a new platform (Orchard) and have a new look that I threw together – ok, I’m no professional graphic designer, but hey, it …

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I don’t usually mess around with Access much, but when I do it’s usually to have it act as an intermediary data source while I’m getting data from one format to another. I had just such a problem to solve today, and the usually excellent out-of-the-box import/export processes let me down a little. Essentially I needed …

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This took me a little while to work out, and searching for an answer didn’t help me out, so I thought it might be helpful to post this as a pointer to anyone else who encounters the same problem. My scenario: A Silverlight Windows Phone 7.1 App a control with a number of visual states applied to it Interaction triggers …

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According to the MSDN documentation you can’t handle Session Start events in an HTTP module. The reason for this is because when you are initialising an HTTP module you hook into events associated to the HttpApplication class, and HttpApplication doesn’t expose any events relating to the starting of sessions. As a …

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I realised that I never pushed this on my blog at all, so belatedly I will. Last year I wrote an article for Developer Fusion that discussed how you could make use of SqlBulkCopy to do high performance inserts when you were working with POCOs, rather than inserting them entity by entity using an ORM. The bottom line …

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Anyone who has done any serious work with any ASP.NET based framework will know that page output caching is a great feature. For those not familiar with it, the basic premise is that it makes sure that the generation of content is done only once for a set of parameters, and that all subsequent requests with the same …

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