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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

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.

Name scopes within templates are not supported

Fri, 08 May 2009 20:07:38 GMT

When you host a WPF control in a Template and the control tries to create a NameScope you get an exception like "NameScopeProperty found within the content of a FrameworkTemplate, on a ... object. Name scopes within templates are not supported". Here's how to solve 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 10 .NET Twitterers

Sat, 02 May 2009 13:46:11 GMT

If your not on Twitter you are missing out - here are some .NET tweeps to get you started.

amCharts release WPF edition of their charting bundle

Mon, 27 Apr 2009 15:16:35 GMT

amCharts has released WPF edition of their infamous charting bundle. The 1.0 version supports more than 20 chart types and variations including pie, donut, partial pie and donut, line, area, column, bar, stacked line, area, column and bar, 100% stacked line, area, column and bar, histogram, floating column and bar, gapped line and area, mixed column/bar and line/area plus various mixed and 3D variations. And it can be used absolutely FREE even in commercial projects.

amCharts for WPF 1.0 Beta Released

Mon, 30 Mar 2009 21:22:46 GMT

amCharts has released a beta of version 1.0 of their WPF charting library. This release includes support for various types of pie, donut, line, area, column and bar charts and as always is FREE under linkware license.

Line and Area Charts added to amCharts for WPF

Fri, 13 Mar 2009 16:34:49 GMT

amCharts released a new version of amCharts for WPF with support for interactive Line & Area charts. Zooming, scrolling, balloons, 2 value axes, regular, stacked, 100% stacked charts. These are just a few of the features. And as always amCharts are free under linkware license.

Windows Mobile is short changing .NET Developers

Sat, 21 Feb 2009 22:01:04 GMT

The .NET platform is an incredibly powerful and productive toolset that stretches itself well on the client-side, the server-side and now with Silverlight as a web-client, though with one glaring exception - on a mobile device.

amCharts for WPF - WPF charting solution

Sun, 22 Feb 2009 01:01:26 GMT

amCharts has released the first version of the WPF edition of their famous charting control bundle. This brings the power and flexibility of amCharts to the WPF platform. And as original amCharts for WPF can be used free of charge even in commercial projects and products.

Html.ActionLink for images in ASP.NET MVC Beta

Sat, 27 Dec 2008 17:38:20 GMT

In the future versions of ASP.NET MVC there will be some methods to get the same raw URL that is generated by Html.ActionLink helper method so you can wrap an image (or whatever) with a link, but in the current release (Beta) there's no such thing. Here's a simple workaround.

Naming Collisions And The Using Directive

Fri, 17 Oct 2008 17:31:06 GMT

Are you familiar with the following C# compilation error: "CS0104: ClassA is an ambiguous reference between Namespace1.ClassA and Namespace2.ClassA"? Most software developer would solve that error by...

FireFox 3 and Static File Caching Problems

Mon, 01 Sep 2008 06:51:20 GMT

FireFox 3.0 apparently is much more aggressive in caching content than previous versions of FireFox. While this is good for performance in many situations I've noticed that this is seriously becoming a problem in some of my applications where support files like scripts and CSS files get updated in applications and FireFox doesn't recognize those changes. Looks like last-modified headers are not respected by FF3.

Interactive Flash Charts in ASP.NET: Column Chart from Code-behind

Fri, 08 Aug 2008 15:32:48 GMT

This tutorial shows how to add amCharts column chart bound to the SQL Server database completely from code-behind.

VS2008 Web Server Here Shell Extension

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 08:31:02 GMT

This shell extension adds a right click menu on any folder that will start WebDev.WebServer.exe (aka Cassini) pointing to that directory.

Speed up Firefox when using Development Server

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 02:31:02 GMT

Using Firefox on Vista to view websites hosted by the Visual Studio Development Server can be unbearably slow. Pages take aeons (i.e. several seconds) to load while viewing the same site under IE does not suffer from this issue. Here's how to solve the problem.

Using C# 3.0 (.Net 3.5) syntax in a .Net 2.0 application

Tue, 17 Jun 2008 09:16:02 GMT

An overview of using C# 3.0 syntax in a .Net 2.0 application.

Keep your .config clean with external config files

Mon, 16 Jun 2008 22:01:19 GMT

The web.config (or app.config for non-web applications) file is the central place to configure your web application, starting from connection strings, over application settings to ASP.NET specific topics like caching, authentication & authorization, sessions as well as HTTP handlers and modules. Normally the web.config starts as a neat little pet you can easily manage. But as soon as your project grows mature, web.config turns out to be a huge beast. This article shows you a way to tame the beast.

Sending SMTP Email Asynchronously

Wed, 18 Jun 2008 00:16:09 GMT

Sending email using the Simple Mail Transport Protocol (SMTP) can be a slow process, particularly when sending large numbers of messages using, for example, a bulk email tool. This process can be accelerated with considered use of asynchronous sending.

Scrum Explained in 5 Minutes

Fri, 06 Jun 2008 10:01:02 GMT

PDF entitled "Scrum in Five Minutes" from http://www.softhouse.se/

Silverlight 2 Beta 2 - The Full List of Changes

Thu, 05 Jun 2008 20:28:34 GMT

Silverlight 2 Beta 2 includes a number of incremental improvements based on customer feedback. Changes include improvements to controls, templating, Deep Zoom, performance, further compatibility with WPF, and much more. For a full list of changes, see below:

Empty EventArgs (EventArgs.Empty)

Wed, 11 Jun 2008 04:01:03 GMT

How many times have you written an event whose event handler just takes in a generic EventArgs object and when you raise that event you pass in new EventArgs()? Turns out the EventArgs class has a static read-only instance field EventArgs.Empty.

Windows SideShow for Windows Mobile Beta: Screenshot Tour

Wed, 04 Jun 2008 22:13:37 GMT

I've put together a screenshot tour of Windows SideShow for Windows Mobile Beta. 20 screenshots to help you decide if WSWMB is right for you, and for you to be able to see what WSWMB can do for you. It covers the following gadgets in detail: Office PowerPoint Remote (Rocks!) Windows Media Player Inbox - Windows Mail and more!

What user groups are for?

Wed, 04 Jun 2008 21:26:16 GMT

What do people get from attending various technology user groups? This post tries to outline how it looks from the outside.