New Site for Current Development

Date March 28th, 2006 Comment No Comments

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!

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Current Project

Date January 24th, 2006 Comment No Comments

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.

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Nice Feature

Date December 19th, 2005 Comment No Comments

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 [...]

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BindingContext Gotcha

Date December 14th, 2005 Comment No Comments

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. [...]

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ClickOnce Is Fantastic

Date November 14th, 2005 Comment No Comments

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 [...]

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L33tPasswordGenerator

Date June 13th, 2005 Comment No Comments

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]

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RecycleTray

Date March 22nd, 2005 Comment 1 Comment

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 [...]

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