This is the first post in a series on the new features available in Visual Studio 2017 and C# 7.0. Today, I’m going to be talking about Out Variables. One of the great new features is probably something you will use frequently, which is defining an out variable, and using that variable in the same […]
As part of my professional development plans for the year, I’m learning the Ruby language and the Ruby on Rails framework. Now, I’m just getting started so I’m a complete newbie, but here’s the first program that we all write when we’re learning a language: Hello, world! I’m using the “irb” REPL command instead of […]
I was going to shut down the Alarm Update service today (after originally saying it would be taken offline back in April), and I realized that it hasn’t actually been working properly since I migrated my websites to Azure. So, I’ll give all the 3.5.18 and earlier users until August 18, 2016 to update, and […]
Today, I officially released Alarm 3.5.19. You can get it on the “Things I Work On” page, or just Check for Updates in the application. This is the first official release of Alarm since July 2011, so there is a huge amount of changes (even though it is a minor revision). This version contains several […]
Today, I released SimpleLookups v2.0. This version includes the following changes: New Features: – Lookup Caching (Enabled by Default) – Core improvements/optimizations. – Support for .NET 4.5.1, 4.5.2, and 4.6. Removed Features: – Support .NET 2.0 and 3.0. Version 2.0 is now available on NuGet and on this site. Please install using Visual Studio, if […]
Today, I’m releasing the first beta of SimpleLookups v2.0. This version includes the following changes: New Features: – Lookup Caching – Core improvements/optimizations. – Support for .NET 4.5.1, 4.5.2, and 4.6. Removed Features: – The final version will not support .NET 2.0 and 3.0. Caching is enabled by default. You can turn it off by […]
Do you want to know what is actually in that SOAP message that your Windows Communication Foundation service is sending? Well, look no further. It’s actually quite simple to output the XML that is being created. First, there are a couple classes that need to be added to your service project (or a separate project). […]
Ever since I got the new iPhone 6, I’ve been silently cursing the applications that haven’t yet properly updated their apps for the new screen sizes. The zoomed iPhone 5s display looks really terrible, folks! So, I’m going to give you a five minute tutorial to update your applications. Assuming, of course, that you updated […]
We’re updating our iOS application at work, and I came across some fun with iOS 8 and notifications. So, I thought I’d write a short post about it. In iOS 7, we used the following method on the shared UIApplication instance to set up notifications:
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[[UIApplication sharedApplication] registerForRemoteNotificationTypes:( UIRemoteNotificationTypeAlert | UIRemoteNotificationTypeBadge | UIRemoteNotificationTypeSound )]; |
In iOS 8, this doesn’t work. So now, it’s […]
Today, I released SimpleLookups v1.6.0. This version includes the following changes: New Features: – Specify column suffixes for Name/Description/Code/Id columns. – Specify column name of Active column. – Specify whether or not to prepend the table name to the column names. – Core improvements/optimizations. Version 1.6 is now available on NuGet and on this site. […]