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Things to Notice When Binding to Large Collection

Wed, 21 Jan 2009 07:46:02 GMT

Lately I was working on an application that had to display a large amount of objects on screen and allow filtering. I have learned that scrolling large collections was not so simple in WPF, and I definitely did not see the problems coming.

How To Guarantee That Your Software Will Suck

Mon, 08 Dec 2008 23:31:10 GMT

Do you bad software and unhappy developers? Well, it isn't that hard...

Loading static content in ASP.NET pages from different domain for fast

Sat, 02 Aug 2008 02:20:41 GMT

Generally we put static content (images, css, js) of our website inside the same web project. Thus they get downloaded from the same domain like www.dropthings.com. As browser can only open two concurrent connections, all of these download only two at once. If you move the static content to a separate domain, browser can download more content in parallel and thus load the page faster. This HttpFilter parses the page output and automatically moves all static content links to a different domain as specified.

Getting started with custom SharePoint Event Receivers

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 18:16:03 GMT

In this post I describe how to create a custom SharePoint Event Receiver using the Visual Studio Extensions for SharePoint Services.

Battling some of the errors generated by Microsoft Source Analysis for

Sun, 25 May 2008 00:48:52 GMT

Getting rid of errors related to generated files and SA1633 "valid header XML"

Writing your own rules for Microsoft Source Analysis for C#

Mon, 26 May 2008 16:01:02 GMT

How to look at the baked in rules or how to write your own set of rules for the newly released Microsoft Source Analysis for C#.

Change SharePoint ContentType of ListItem

Mon, 05 May 2008 00:50:56 GMT

This article describes how to change the content type of a SharePoint list item.

Cool WPF MulticolumnTreeview

Tue, 29 Apr 2008 13:01:02 GMT

Great, detailed article on using a WPF MulticolumnTreeview control to display complex, hierarchical data.

Stored Procedures vs. Ad-Hoc (yet again yawn)

Thu, 03 Apr 2008 01:46:03 GMT

Inspired by Chris Love's Things I Hate About NET post http://www.dotnetkicks.com/aspnet/Things_I_Hate_About_NET I respond to his love of (yech) Stored Procedures.

Build visual studio documentation from code comments using Sandcastle

Wed, 26 Mar 2008 02:31:02 GMT

This article describes how to build help files using Sandcastle and code comment tags and how to integrate the help files into the visual studio help system.

SharePoint 2007 Project Template for Timer Jobs in Visual Studio 2005

Tue, 04 Mar 2008 16:46:04 GMT

What are SharePoint Timer Jobs? SharePoint timer jobs are tasks executed on a scheduled basis by the SharePoint Timer service. Nobody wants to do all the steps necessary to create such a job for each new timer job. So in order to make it simpler to start a new timer job project, I created a visual studio template containing all the neccessary stuff you need.

Style and Silverlight

Sat, 23 Feb 2008 15:37:54 GMT

How improve your silverlight look-and-feel

Silverlight 2 Tutorial Part 2: Using Layout Management

Sun, 24 Feb 2008 07:46:02 GMT

Scott Gu SilverLight 2 tutorial Part 2.

Creating "Hello World" with Silverlight 2 Part 1

Sat, 23 Feb 2008 11:31:02 GMT

Scott Gu SilverLight 2 tutorial Part 1

Create horizontal or vertical linear gradients

Fri, 18 Jan 2008 23:02:48 GMT

Explains in detail why linear gradients default to being on a diagonal and demonstrates how to create either horizontal or vertical linear gradients.