Liverpool Users of .Net Google Group

MVC

t...@glow-internet.com (Thom Shannon) — Mon, 09 Sep 2009 10:25:08 UT

anyone else using it much?
The theory sounds great, but when you actually get into it's quite hard
to work how to fit an application into it. Examples and docs seem to be
really lacking and most of the code you find is out of date. I'm trying
to figure out how to get some search results to update from a couple of

Lurker alert

ja...@jac2.co.uk (Jason Chapman) — Fri, 06 June 2009 11:31:45 UT

Hi,
You said intro - well I am a ISV currently developing in Delphi (Win32), but
from time to time booting up my MS VS 20008. Got a retainer with a client
and I may start doing some C# on that project.

Almost all my work is database related (primarily Interbase and Firebird).

Very interests in Object Relational Mapping as I am fed up with hand

hello

t...@glow-internet.com (Thom Shannon) — Fri, 06 June 2009 08:59:53 UT

I think we may have a few lurkers on here now, but it's been pretty quiet!
So hello, welcome to the group, feel free to introduce yourselves.
Thom

Howduino Hackday

t...@glow-internet.com (Thom Shannon) — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 11:23:42 UT

Sat May 23rd, FACT at Liverpool
[link]
Howduino is a free, one day event about connecting the internet to the
real world, breathing life into inanimate objects and creating new ways
to interact with things. It's for artists, programmers, designers,
hobbyists and anyone else interested in robotics, technology,

tonights cancelled

t...@glow-internet.com (Thom Shannon) — Thu, 03 Mar 2009 09:46:06 UT

Hi all,
We have a meeting scheduled in but I don't think it's going to be
happening (not at glows office anyway!)
If people are still interested in meeting up can I suggest the FACT
cafe? (88 Wood Street, Liverpool, L1 4DQ)
Sorry I can't make it though.
Thom

form autocomplete in asp.net

t...@glow-internet.com (Thom Shannon) — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 15:00:04 UT

Does anyone know of a way to help browsers with their form autocomplete
when you've got an asp.net form with long client ids.
Basically a way of mapping "p_ctl06_ProfileAddress2TextBo x" to "address"

next meeting

t...@glow-internet.com (Thom Shannon) — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 15:38:10 UT

Hi everyone,
Our meetings start again in January, the idea was that we'd take a
hiatus to grow this list and line up some good speakers.
I'm hoping to do a large mailshot soon to promote some local user groups
including this one, we need some good names lined up to talk though!
Also a new venue would be in order, might be able to get FACT.

barcamp

t...@glow-internet.com (Thom Shannon) — Mon, 11 Nov 2008 12:44:45 UT

If you haven't already heard there's going to be a BarCampLiverpool in a
couple of weeks, [link]
Who's going and what are you planning to speak on? It would be great to
see some talks aimed at the php and ror users showing them the power of
MS tech, or even some silverlight vs flash debates :)

EC2 Windows

t...@glow-internet.com (Thom Shannon) — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 10:50:48 UT

I noticed a couple of you have been playing with the new windows stuff
on ec2, how is it?
It does seem a bit expensive, kind of a last resort I guess.

Developer Day 7 Registrations open

ben.d...@angelsolutions.co.uk (Ben Dean) — Wed, 10 Oct 2008 10:10:17 UT

Just so people are aware, Developer Day 7 registrations have opened
within the last hour!
I'm signed up, so see you there is you're coming!
Ben Dean

SQL Server Date Time format.

paul.kin...@gmail.com (Paul Kinlan) — Thu, 10 Oct 2008 14:57:53 UT

Hi Guys,
Is there anyway to programattically determine the datetime format of a SQL
server box. I ask because I am not using parameters to execute a data
reader but an already formed sql string which I inject my date string
criteria into and I need to ensure that my date is in the correct format.
Cheers,

Lucene.Net

t...@glow-internet.com (Thom Shannon) — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 13:37:20 UT

any lucene experts here?
I'm trying to figure out how to combine geo proximity searches with the
text index, I want a weighted ranking for proximity along with keyword
occurrences and term vectors.
Any ideas?

SQL performance probs

t...@glow-internet.com (Thom Shannon) — Fri, 09 Sep 2008 13:33:46 UT

Hi, I'm having some problems with our db server, it's SQL Express 2005.
We've got a couple of dozen databases running different apps and every
few days or so it just slows right down till its taking something like
20-30secs to render pages.
Restarting SQL sorts it out again, restarting the web app pools doesn't

outcome

t...@glow-internet.com (Thom Shannon) — Fri, 09 Sep 2008 09:09:03 UT

So the outcome of our meeting was this:
* Meetings are postponed till January
* Some meetings are booked in upcoming, we need to fill them with
speakers and promote them
* We need to market and grow this community
* We're going to try and enhance the website to entice people in a

tomorrow

t...@glow-internet.com (Thom Shannon) — Wed, 09 Sep 2008 10:01:40 UT

So the next event is tomorrow, we've not arranged any topics and hardly
anyone has said they're coming on upcoming.
Suggestion: Does anyone want to help me try and get some software up and
running for the multitouch screen I've just built? I'm doing it in WPF,
planning on taking it down to barcamp next week :)