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How To: Integrate a Prism v2 application with the Silverlight 3 Naviga

Wed, 01 Jul 2009 21:15:00 GMT

This articles provides an overview of the things that should be taken into account to use the Silverlight 3 Navigation Framework in a Prism v2 application, as well as the limitations / issues that you could come up with during the integration.

20 Most Interesting Silverlight Tutorials

Wed, 01 Jul 2009 01:45:00 GMT

In this article we presents a collection of best Silverlight tutorials.

Free CodeRush Xpress for C# and Visual Basic inside Visual Studio 2008

Mon, 29 Jun 2009 19:00:01 GMT

Mark Miller writes about all the features available in the free edition of CodeRush

How to: Drag and Drop Silverlight Views between Regions in Prism-v2

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 18:15:01 GMT

This blog post explains how to drag and drop SL views between regions in Prism. It also provides a code sample.

A Better SMTP Development Server

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 19:45:00 GMT

Looking for a way to test the email sending functionality of your application? There's no need to install a full-blown SMTP server - not as long as you have Antix SMTP Server for Developers in your bag of tricks.

Silverlight 3 Behaviors : Double Click Trigger

Thu, 11 Jun 2009 13:45:00 GMT

How to create a Double Click Trigger in Silverlight 3 to compose rich interactive experiences.

Git For Windows Developers - Git Series - Part 1 - Jason Meridth -

Mon, 01 Jun 2009 12:40:55 GMT

A great tutorial on getting Git up and running on Windows (and a great introduction to Git).

Formatting Your WPF Data - String.Format Is In the House!

Fri, 29 May 2009 13:45:02 GMT

How to format your Binded Data

Creating Gapped and Bulleted Shapes in WPF/Silverlight

Tue, 26 May 2009 07:00:03 GMT

How to create a shape with bullets on the joints of it's segments

The Dynamic Programmer - Tuple, a new type on .Net 4.0

Mon, 25 May 2009 19:00:06 GMT

If you ever played with some language that have the Tuple type I bet you miss it in .Net. Well 4.0 adds it. Let's take a look at the implementation and how to use it.

Parameter count mismatch Error

Thu, 21 May 2009 19:22:17 GMT

Yesterday, I spent a whole day chasing a very weird and strange error - I was getting an exception at the main method. The error description was: "Parameters count mismatch".

21 Important FAQ questions for WPF and SilverLight

Thu, 21 May 2009 22:19:53 GMT

This article talks about 21 important FAQ from the perspective of WPF and Silver light. Both of these technologies are connected to a certain extent. This article not only explains the theory aspect of these technologies but also shows small samples for each of them.

Creating a Custom Observable Collection in WPF | UX and WPF ramblings

Thu, 14 May 2009 03:16:02 GMT

One of the biggest advantadges WPF has is its Data Binding features. Data Binding can be done in several ways, but the most common is using the INotifyPropertyChanged and INotifyCollectionChanged interfaces. For simple objects, all you need to do is implement the INotifyPropertyChanged, and raise the PropertyChanged event when your properties change. When you want to bind to a collection, you will want to use ObservableCollection<T>. This collection implements both interfaces, therefore notifying you when the items in the collection change and when the items' properties change. This works great if you're using standard collections. The problem arises when you want to use a custom collection. For databinding to work with custom collections, you will have to create a new "Observable" wrapper around it.

How to test your multi-threaded code (part 2 of 3)?

Wed, 13 May 2009 18:16:03 GMT

Previously we saw how to build a test to find a multi-thread bug our your code. Now we will look at how to reproduce debug and fix it.

WPF NotifyIcon Released

Mon, 11 May 2009 06:16:04 GMT

This is an implementation of a NotifyIcon (system tray icon) for the WPF platform. It does not just rely on the corresponding WinForms component, but is a purely independent control which leverages several features of the WPF framework in order to display rich tooltips, popups, context menus, and balloon messages.

4 Grea Tips for Custom WPF Controls Developers

Tue, 05 May 2009 14:31:02 GMT

4 great tips for WPF Custom control designers

Top 5 SQL System stored procedures every developer should know

Wed, 13 May 2009 17:31:02 GMT

There are a number of documented and undocumented system stored procedures in MS SQL Server that are helpful for every web developer working with databases. From the developer's perspective, here's a list of 5 System stored procedures that are my favorite.

.Net Mocking Frameworks - Capability Comparison

Tue, 28 Apr 2009 03:40:12 GMT

A summary of the capabilities of four of the most popular mocking frameworks for .Net.

Building your own Mail Client using C#

Fri, 24 Apr 2009 01:46:02 GMT

This post will go with you step by step towards building your own Mail Client using C#.

Another List of 5 Great and Useful Visual Studio Shortcuts

Thu, 23 Apr 2009 00:16:13 GMT

a while back we had 2 great posts and one page about visual studio shortcuts. The first one had a list of 10 Visual Studio Shortcuts and the second one had 11 Visual Studio Shortcuts. We also have a Visual Studio CheatSheet with all the Keyboard shortcuts Visual Studio has.

Flexible WPF ToolTips via Markup Extensions

Mon, 20 Apr 2009 22:46:29 GMT

Presents a way to display a feature-rich ToolTip in WPF through a single line of XAML.

Screenshot in 2 Clicks using .NET

Sat, 18 Apr 2009 15:16:02 GMT

As a developer, I take lot of screenshots and its time consuming to press the screenshot button, paste it in MSPaint or any other Image editing software and then save it. The pain is even more when I need to use two Buttons for a screenshot (Fn + PrintScreen) in my Laptop ;-). So I thought I will develop my own screenshot capturing tool which will allow me to take screenshots as well as save it in just two clicks. In this article I am going to show you how easy it is to develop your own tool using .NET. Let's get started.

Creating A Tabbed Menu Control For ASP.NET MVC

Wed, 15 Apr 2009 00:16:05 GMT

Tab menus are a fairly common thing that I use in a lot of my applications. I like tabs because they help break up large chunks of, usually, related information.

C# Design Patterns - The Visitor Pattern

Mon, 13 Apr 2009 23:31:02 GMT

One principle that I really like is the Open/Closed principle which says that an object should be open to new functionality but closed to structural changes. The visitor pattern helps facilitate this principle by giving us the means to perform operations against an object without changing the objects structure. Looking back at a previous pattern we wanted to adjust the registration cost for a dog if they had been picked up by the dog catcher.

DebuggerDisplay and DebuggerBrowsable - Two Debugger Attributes to kno

Thu, 09 Apr 2009 23:31:20 GMT

two very useful debugger attributes any programmer should know