James Crowley

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Latest articles

• How to disable uppercase/capitals menus in Visual Studio 2012

  by James Crowley

  Simple registry fix to turn off the upper case menu bar in Visual Studio 2012

• The Next Generation Of Web Development

  by James Crowley

  Where is Web Development moving to in the future?

• The Need for Partnership as a Small Business

  by James Crowley

  Combine forces and be stronger as a small business

• The Benefits of Access to Pre-Built Components in Web Design

  by James Crowley

  To design a website from scratch is a time-consuming affair. For many web developers, a far better choice is to use pre-designed components from libraries that are available

• The Advantages of Peer Networking

  by James Crowley

  Forums have become a tremendous asset for all sorts of users, and especially for professionals that are looking to overcome issues that are unclear or new to them.

• Deep clone an object in .NET

  by James Crowley

  A simple code snippet that deep-copies an object by serializing and de-serializing using the BinaryFormatter

• Making a .NET app run on Vista with Administrator priviledges

  by James Crowley

  If you're targeting Windows Vista and your application requires administrator priviledges (such as accessing the program files directory), then it will fail unless you include a manifest so Windows knows. Here's how.

• Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) Checklist

  by James Crowley

  Search engine optimisation is pretty much part and parcel of creating websites these days. Getting the basics right don't require a large amount of work, but can make all the difference.

• Generate PDFs using C# and the free iTextSharp library

  by James Crowley

  Learn how to use the free iTextSharp library to load a PDF form, populate some dynamic fields, and then save out a flat PDF file.

• Dynamically loading an IBindableTemplate

  by James Crowley

  Demonstrates how to dynamically load an IBindableTemplate from a file for use with new ASP.NET 2.0 controls such as the FormView, to workaround the lack of a LoadBindableTemplate method in the new version of the framework.

Latest news

• First official video preview of Windows 8

  Published 9 years ago by James Crowley

  Massive focus on touch and HTML 5 apps

• Google launches +1 for webmasters

  Published 9 years ago by James Crowley

  Finally jumps on "the friend thing

• IIS Express announced

  Published 10 years ago by James Crowley

  Lightweight IIS for developers, replacing the ASP.NET Web Development server

• ASP.NET MVC 2 now available

  Published 11 years ago by James Crowley

  For VS2008 now, and VS2010 later!

• Kooaba launches Image Recognition API

  Published 11 years ago by James Crowley

  10 million+ images

• Android app brings in $13K a month

  Published 11 years ago by James Crowley

  Serious cash for developer Edward Kim

• New Game Development IDE from BBC

  Published 11 years ago by James Crowley

  Eclipse plug-in providing an integrated toolkit

• Doodle launches API for events scheduling

  Published 12 years ago by James Crowley

  Easing the pain of scheduling meetings

• New WPF UI for Visual Studio 2010 revealed

  Published 12 years ago by James Crowley

  Eye candy and major improvements to the IDE

• Open source Silverlight reaches Linux platform

  Published 12 years ago by James Crowley

  While Adobe claim Silverlight has "fizzled"