Governor Technology Blog
27 May 2010 by John Mannix
Filed under SQL Server
17 May 2010 by Cameron Morrison
A quick example of flattening a tree into a list using IEnumerable<> and the yield keyword.
14 May 2010 by John Mannix
Here is a sneak preview of the Windows Phone 7 demo we're working on. It is a Twitter client following the Windows Phone 7 UX design guidelines, and we plan to include some nice features such as geolocated tweets and push updates...
Filed under Silverlight
16 February 2010 by Cameron Morrison
A code snipped that makes including multiple related Entity Framework objects less long winded.
23 October 2009 by Administrator
This blog post will tell you how I to create back button or "undo" functionality in a rich UI application. I've used the Twitter Silverlight Application to demonstrate this but it can be used in quite a few scenarios such as graphic packages or data modelling software where you require the ability to go back and tweak changes.
Filed under Silverlight
Design Pattern
06 March 2009 by Administrator
It is often easy to overlook the fact whilst recessions are generally not a good thing, some companies always survive better than others, and some positively thrive on competing in tough market conditions.
Whilst there cannot be any universal formula for success in hard times, one of the common factors found in many such businesses is their acknowledgement of how important it is to both understand and stay close to their customers.
17 February 2009 by John Mannix
The term particle effects describes a computer animation technique where many small particles are combined to create realistic special effects that would otherwise be difficult to achieve using standard animation techniques. Typical examples of the visual effects that are achieved with this approach include: fire, water, smoke, fog, snow and sparkles.
In this post we look at a simple implementation of a particle system in Silverlight and use it to create a realistic smoke effect.
Filed under Silverlight
05 February 2009 by Administrator
If you’ve worked with ObjectDataSource parameters, you may know you can bind parameter values to properties of the current page. You may have also found that when the data source is declared inside a user control, there’s no mechanism for finding property values inside that control. Below we look at the background behind this, and present two possible solutions.
Filed under ObjectDataSource
ControlParameter
Data binding
27 January 2009 by Administrator
The Asp.Net RadioButtonList is a databound control which displays items as a mutually exclusive set of options in a Web Form. The data which is bound to the label part of each option can be formatted using a format string, but only a single field can be bound to the label. This post shows an implementation which allows multiple fields to be bound to the item labels.
Filed under ObjectDataSource
ListControl
RadioButtonList
Data binding
20 January 2009 by John Mannix
Welcome to the Governor Technology Blog. With the launch of the new website we decided that we would include a company blog, where we will be posting our comment on a wide range of topics from purely technical through to more general business strategy. We hope you will find something to interest you in the postings that follow, and we look forward to sharing our thoughts over the coming months.
