Michael S. Clark

We finally got around to registering the relevent domain names and the site for our current development is up and running at http://www.netbake.co.uk. Go check it out!

Gary has posted some screenshots in a Flickr set from our current project, a Windows replacement for our Bakery Control System. We’ve pretty much locked down the GUI and are now building the individual modules.

I’ve been using Visual Studio 2005 at home for a while now, and I recently made a posting about trying out the OneCare beta from Microsoft. Unfortunately, there appears to be a “feature” in the interaction between the two. You’ve been developing an application in VS and debug it. Runs fine the first time, but [...]

We’re doing an application which uses databound controls and I came across a nice “feature”. Suppose your form has a TabControl and each page has a selection of controls such as TextBoxes and all of these controls are bound to a single BindingSource. Upon opening, only the focused TabPage’s controls will have data in them. [...]

We’ve recently begun to use ClickOnce technology from Microsoft to deply our applications to clients, and it’s an excellent deplyment and update mechanism; far easier than ZIP-ing all your executables and associated files and FTP-ing them to every one of your clients machines. If you haven’y upgraded to Visual Studio 2005 yet, I highly recommend [...]

Are you rubbish at coming up with memorable strong passwords? I know I am. Hopefully this little application can help you. It takes a plain text phrase and converts it into L337Sp33k. L33tPasswordGenerator.zip [1,607Kb]

I was cleaning up my desktop the other day, and I suddenly realised that unless you have got direct access to you desktop or an explorer window open, there is no quick way to empty your recycle bin. This was when I came up with RecycleTray. It’s a small footprint, notification area-based utility which monitors [...]