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Director of Mango IT Ltd.

Target Updates in a SQL Merge statement

I have recently spent some time using SSIS to import CRM data into a friendly SQL relational table structure.  Part of the SSIS package uses a stored procedure to synchronize a target table with updates/inserts/deletes from a staging table.  To this end … Continue reading

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REST and RPC in ASP.NET Web API.

What are the best practices for combining REST and RPC in ASP.NET Web API?  Let’s first go over a couple of definitions. A REST based API exposes data as resources (or nouns) at URIs that clients interact with via HTTP … Continue reading

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Returning plain old text\html from MVC Web API

OK so I’ve been getting my hands dirty with MVC 4 Web API and must say that I love this technology. Today I have actually been using it to mock out calls to an external third party web service. I … Continue reading

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Mystery Silverlight error: “Navigation to a fragment requires the Frame to have content currently”

One of our users has recently reported the following error popping up on our production Silverlight application: “Navigation to a fragment requires the Frame to have content currently” I’ve Googled it but there doesn’t seem to be too much information … Continue reading

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XAML ItemsTemplate elements

Do you have a ListBox with it’s ItemTemplate bound to a DataTemplate. Having problems getting the elements in the template to stretch to the full width of the ListBox? You don’t have to override the entire default style for the … Continue reading

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