By Soul Solutions on
Friday, 24 September 2010
 I was trying to add some validation logic into one of my forms. I added a function to my domain data service that I wanted to call from my Silverlight application using an [Invoke] attribute.
It all looked good but every time I tried to call it I kept getting an an error: Invoice operation [functionname] failed validation. Please inspect ValidationErrors on the operation for details After pulling my hair out for a bit I realised the entity I was passing into the function was getting validated and ValidationErrors were getting set. This is somewhat annoying. To get around this for now, what I’ve done is change my function from: [Invoke]
public bool IsLayerNameUnique(Entity myEntity)
to pass the fields that i need instead e.g. [Invoke]
public bool IsLayerNameUnique(string name, Guid id) This now means I can run the function but is somewhat annoying. If I needed to validate a bunch of fields it would mean I’d have to pass them all in. Anyone got a better way to do this?
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By Soul Solutions on
Thursday, 23 September 2010
 While doing some development using RIA services, Silverlight 4 and SQL I started to get this error after modifying one of my pages:
A transport-level error has occurred when receiving results from the server. (provider: Shared Memory Provider, error: 0 - The handle is invalid.) My application had shut down correctly and I then discovered it had also broke all my current forms so figuring whatever I’d just changed must have caused it, I reverted my change to continue with this error. I stopped and started SQL Server..still no luck. I commented out a bunch of code till it was bare minimum and still no luck. Still don’t know what caused it but after an hour of trying things I did the reboot your computer trick and tada it all worked again. So if anyone knows how to fix this other than rebooting your computer, please let me know.
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By Soul Solutions on
Monday, 13 September 2010
 I was trying to create a RIA Services Class Library in VS2010 today and it kept failing to create both of the required projects with “A project with that name is already opened in the solution” as the error.
After searching around I’d found other projects that had a similar issue and the common thing was they were using AnkhSVN. There are 2 workarounds that also worked for me: 1. Disable AnkhSVN create the project, and re-enable it. 2. When you create the project make sure the casing exactly matches the actual directory e.g. use C:\Users\BronwenZ\Documents\Visual Studio 2010\Projects and not the default of c:\users\bronwenz\documents\visual studio 2010\projects
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By Soul Solutions on
Wednesday, 1 September 2010
  Currently priced at only $2,500 per organisation MapData Sciences has just released the most current online road data map for Australia and New Zealand ready for you to use. Supplied as a hosted tile set the product is amazing value, you can simply plug this into your current generation GIS software or web application with ease, get 4 updates per year and a SLA to top it off. Find all the details here on MDS’ website.
The tile set is supplied in the now de facto web standard EPSG:3857, 256px square “Quad Tree” tiles. This format is used by Bing, Google, Yahoo, OSM and ESRI meaning that the most recent version of most GIS software will allow you to add this as a layer. MDS provides instructions on how to integrate with ESRI’s products as part of your welcome email.
Apart from the good value the impressive news is around Australia and New Zealand getting a first class current road map with an actual schedule of updates:
MapData Science shows the new tunnel...
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By Soul Solutions on
Wednesday, 18 August 2010
 Last year over 80 attendees rolled up their sleeves at Tech Ed and got hard to work playing with Lego at the Lego Serious Play Women Build Event. We challenged each attendee to suggest ideas on ways to contribute to their local community to help encourage and support women working in IT.
Catherine has been hard at work organising this year’s event and since then has heard many a great story of the contributions both male and female attendees have made back in their local communities as a result of last year’s event. Microsoft want to recognise the people who have achieved great things in their local community in the last year and thank each of them for their efforts!
So, how did you do?
Tell us your story or the story of someone you know. Share the challenges and successes experienced. Go in the running to receive recognition from peers, win some cool prizes from our sponsors and possibly be awarded the inaugural 2010 Women in IT Community Contributor of the Year Award!
Nominate yourself or someone you know here: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/WIT2010
Tech Ed Australia 2010 WIT event
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By Soul Solutions on
Wednesday, 18 August 2010
As part of the launch of Visual Studio 2010, Microsoft has provided a number of seeding cards to selected MVPs around the world to drive the adoption of the tools and platform. We were lucky enough to receive 3 Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate with MSDN subscription cards to distribute to the community. For his effort on the Deep Earth open source community project, we have given David Theissen (aka DotNetNoobie) one of the subscriptions. So we’re on the lookout for any Aussie developers out there who you think deserve the other two. Leave your comments or email us your suggestions for someone you think is worthy and why.
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By Soul Solutions on
Monday, 16 August 2010
This year we’re back presenting at Tech Ed Australia on the Gold Coast. It should be massive this year as the event is already sold out! If you want to see our session our abstract is below. If you want to catch up and say hi drop us a line or find us on your favourite social media platform. WEB303 – Showcase your ideas on Bing Maps Wednesday 25 August 15:30 – 16:45 The exciting addition to Bing.com is the new Bing Map Apps. Showcase your ideas and reach even more people by developing a dynamic solution to be featured on the Bing Maps site. Come join John and Bronwen to learn how to develop your application for this new SDK and start building yours today.
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By Soul Solutions on
Tuesday, 3 August 2010
 Today Bing Maps updated their base Road style tiles, the results are amazing.
New:
Old:
The new map symbology is significantly cleaner, easier to read and more appropriate for us to rendering data over the top.
We often ran into issues where the vibrate orange roads were to dominant and if, for example, we wanted to draw the user’s attention to the route of a vehicle we had to make they visualisation louder. With the new style we can be more subtle, we can use colours that compliment the users site.
Overall Bing has made a significant investment in adding some high quality to design to all of its assets. I’m very proud that the Bing Maps team have been able to take on a significant challenge like this and deliver.
View the new style yourself and see if your location is easier to find, clearer and works better for your application:
http://www.bing.com/maps/explore/
What do you think of the new style? You can reach me on http://twitter.com/soulsolutions
Technorati Tags: Bing Maps,Symbology
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By Soul Solutions on
Sunday, 25 July 2010
_1371_thumb_1.png "MCPD(rgb)_1371") Back in April I sat the 2 WPF Beta Exams: 70-518 Pro: Designing and Developing Windows Applications Using Microsoft .Net Framework 4.0 and 70-511 TS: Microsoft .Net Framework 4, Windows Application Development. The Beta Exams are free to sit, but there’s no books or practise exams to use to help you study and you have to wait a few months before you find out if you passed. So end of June I finally heard back that I’d passed both exams. I still find these exams focus on memory type content rather than process which is a real shame as I don’t remember the function signatures as intellisense makes me lazy and do I really need to fill my head with stuff I don’t need to remember. _1097_1369_thumb_1.png "MCTS(rgb)_1097_1369")
Technorati Tags: MCP, WPF, 70-518, 70-511
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