Dan Lewis' Development and Technology Blog

I use the Cisco IP Communicator soft-phone when working from home, and although I am able to run version 7.0.2.0 on Windows 7 x64 (using WoW64) I have had a very annoying issue whereby it will only display the default windows audio device as an option when going through the audio tuning wizard. This means [...]

When I recently tried to create a new SharePoint / WSS calendar view on a list that uses calculated columns for the both the start and end dates, I was greeted with the following error message:”Input string was not in a correct format” After quite a bit of trawling the web (hence this blog post), [...]

I’ve just replace Windows 7 with Ubuntu 10.10 Netbook Edition on my Asus EEE PC 1001p which I will probably blog more about later. In short, it’s brilliant and everything worked perfectly from the outset – apart from one thing (there has to be one!) and that was I couldn’t get my pre-pay Vodaphone broadband [...]

If (like me) you have been tearing your hair out wondering why the User.Identity.Name property always returns an empty / blank string when using <authentication type=”Windows”> in the new ASP.NET MVC 3 Beta then the answer is surprisingly simple: As detailed in the Known Issues section of the release notes, just add the following line [...]