Glavs Blog

I am a fan of the Web Client Software factory. Its a pretty good implementation of the MVP pattern within ASP.NET. Pretty lean and clean and doesn't involve lots of effort to get the simple stuff done, unlike a lot of other MVC based implementations/frameworks.

If, like me, you like to use Microsoft LiveWriter, be aware that it does not work if you are using the Riviera style found within the admin section of this CommunityServer blog. I the JavaScript must kill it.

Thought I would install some optional updates to try and resolve some issues I was having with Vista and Visual Studio 2005. It seems I continually get the VSTestHost.exe has stopped unexpectedly error when trying to run any tests within Visual Studio. It seems there are not too many instances of this around as I can't find too much beyond simple fix suggestions that haven't worked.

Just found a nice Silverlight tool by Ernie Booth to aid in my learning process. A plug in for Reflector that allows you to view Silverlight code (Javascript or Managed).

Like a lot of people lately, I have been playing with Silverlight (Alpha 1.1 version), trying to understand the nuts and bolts of it, and when that fails, just diving in and seeing how I go. I can’t say I am much of a WPF/XAML guru so things have been slow.

Apart from the long list of great, free controls in the AJAX Control toolkit, there are numerous other reasons to use the toolkit. One of which is the great support functions that come with the toolkit.

My USB 250Gb external drive is about ready to pack it in. When I plug it into a USB port, I get the popup asking what I want do (browse, transfer files etc...). Then after not long using it, the drive "disconnects" from the system, and very quickly reconnects again, and I get the popup asking what I want to do as if I had just plugged it on. Now this is happening ever more frequently (sometimes every 10 seconds, sometimes after a few minutes).