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WPF TreeView Tutorial

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 03:05:22 GMT

This tutorial shows you how to create and use a TreeView control available in Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) and XAML.

High Quality Image Resizing with .NET

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 19:16:02 GMT

Even though you just shrinks images, the quality of produced images is usually worse than the quality of original images. Learn how to use interpolation to resize images with a better quality.

Fast Serialization

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 20:01:03 GMT

We use ALOT of serialization in the current system I work with. Serializing/deserializing 100,000,000 objects in a day is pretty common. For a long time we knew that the binary formatter was fat and slow but never rationalized writing something custom as we were always fast enough. Unfortunately our data throughput has raised 400% in the last year (when you start with gigs and gigs of messages this is a huge gain) and our little three or four year old dual xeon 2.2 has turned into the little engine that could during peaks lately so we finally bit the big one and threw something together quickly.

Silverlight Particle Generator

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 09:31:02 GMT

Cool particle effects live demo done with Silverlight. Sources are available, too!

Free Visual Studio File Explorer Add-in

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 09:31:03 GMT

The Visual Studio File Explorer Add-in (sexy name we know, but hey, it's self documenting) is a free Tool Window add-in for VS 2008 that provides a Windows Explorer style file system view. It's particularly useful for performing routine file system tasks without the need to "context switch" away from Visual Studio, which can be time-consuming over the course of days and weeks. It is shell-enabled so extensions like TortoiseSVN work too.

The WPF DataGrid is finally here

Tue, 12 Aug 2008 20:01:02 GMT

The CTP of the WPF DataGrid is finally released!!!

Over 60 Free Controls from DevExpress

Tue, 12 Aug 2008 16:16:02 GMT

Once you register, you will be forwarded an Email with your login credentials to our product download portal. With this information in hand, you will be able to download and install all the controls and tools listed above free of charge. The applications you create with these controls can be distributed royalty free (see the EULA that accompanies the products for more information). Note that the installation you download will include evaluation versions of our entire product line. You can install these trials if you wish during the setup process. Visual Studio 2005 and Visual Studio 2008 are fully supported.

How To Access A WPF Control Which Is Located In A DataTemplate

Thu, 07 Aug 2008 22:16:04 GMT

Ever tryed to programatically change something in a WPF control that is in a DataTemplate? not so easy, here is how to do it

How To Create a WPF Template For a Generic Class

Wed, 30 Jul 2008 13:16:03 GMT

Have you ever tried to create a DataTemplate for a Generic Class? Here is how you do it.

Visual Studio Item Templates

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 14:46:03 GMT

Sometimes we are using the same patterns of code over and over again. Those of us who are lazy (but smart) will create their own code snippets, if you are not familiar with this subject, read about how to create code snippets easily. But what if we need to create lots of classes with the same pattern? Code snippets may not be enough because they lack of some functionality which is needed to achieve our goal.

Add jQuery Intellisense To Your Visual Studio

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 03:31:02 GMT

Enrich your working environment with free great jQuery intelisense addin

WPF Binding Converter Best Practices

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 20:46:02 GMT

As you all remember in my article about Custom WPF Context Menu I mentioned that my WPF Binding Converter was a singleton, and I promised to tell you why, so here comes the 3 ways I know of using WPF Binding Converters. We will start from the worst (in my opinion) and move on the the best.

A Programming Job Interview Challenge #12 - Managed and Unmanaged

Tue, 15 Jul 2008 05:01:10 GMT

The twelfth post of the series of programming job interview challenge is out, 31 readers provided answers to job interview challenge #11.

List.Sort(), Comparer and IComparable

Fri, 11 Jul 2008 09:31:07 GMT

Hi In my previous article I talked about why SortedList is not a good option to use if you need a sorted collection with keys that are not unique...

A Programming Job Interview Challenge #11 - Summing Numbers

Mon, 07 Jul 2008 22:16:08 GMT

Job interview challenge number 11 is here! come and test your knowledge

Why SortedList<Key,Val> Is Useless

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 22:16:04 GMT

The other day I wan in the need of a sorted collection. I found that there are 2 sorted collections available. SortedDictionary and SortedList. Now let me ask you, what do you think is the difference?

Tree Surgeon 2.0 Release

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 16:16:04 GMT

A tool to automatically generate Visual Studio solutions with proper directory structure

A Programming Job Interview Challenge #10 - The Missing Number

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 08:46:09 GMT

Here comes the 10th question in our job interview challenge series, the answer to the ninth one is also attached, good luck

he Best Job Interview Question (Software)

Wed, 25 Jun 2008 17:01:14 GMT

During the Job Interview Challenge Series we are running here at Dev102.com, we usually get some comments from readers who think that the quality of a specific question is not good. Here are some of those comments:

How To Create a WPF Custom Context Menu

Fri, 20 Jun 2008 17:01:02 GMT

An easy to learn and implement example about WPF custom context menu creation

A Job Interview Challenge - A Needle in a Haystack

Mon, 16 Jun 2008 14:46:17 GMT

You are writing a software component that receives a binary record every 20 millisecond. Your component function as a pipe, meaning it can't store the binary records, it should do whatever needed on the current record and than pass it to the next component in the pipeline

Creating Visula Studio Keyborad Shortcuts Cheat Sheet

Thu, 12 Jun 2008 14:46:08 GMT

As we all know, there are a lot of keyboard shortcuts in Visual Studio. We mentioned only 21 of them here at Dev102.com but according to this article, there are about 450 shortcuts available.

A Simple ASP.NET MVC Sample Application

Wed, 11 Jun 2008 13:16:02 GMT

This is a simple hello world example with ASP.NET MVC, to help you build your first application step by step

Two Great Web Development Tools

Tue, 10 Jun 2008 13:16:02 GMT

Here are two interesting tools I found while working on our Silveredo 2 theme.

Silverlight 2 Beta2 Released

Sat, 07 Jun 2008 06:31:02 GMT

Silverlight 2 Beta2 was released today. Silverlight 2 Beta2 supports a go-live license that allows you to start using and deploying Silverlight 2 for commercial applications. There will be some API changes between Beta2 and the final release, so you should expect that applications you write with Beta2 will need to make some updates when the final release comes out. But we think that these changes will be straight-forward and relatively easy, and that you can begin planning and starting commercial projects now.