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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

A Programming Job Interview Challenge #13 - Brackets

Tue, 22 Jul 2008 05:01:07 GMT

Your input is a string which is composed from bracket characters. The allowed characters are:'(', ')', '['. ']', '{', '}', '<' and '>'. Your mission is to determine whether the brackets structure is legal or not.

Know Every HTML Tag There Is

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 22:16:09 GMT

The question is do you know all the HTML tags? Do you know exactly how they work and what each tag does? And the most important of all, how each tag acts in each browser?

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.

Coding Conventions - Prefix For Class Members

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 20:46:02 GMT

Yes, I will use m_ prefix for class members. I DO NOT NEGOTIATE WITH TERRORISTS. Shut up. Actually, I don't mind which prefix shall be used but in order to make member variables distinct from local variables, we have to give it some prefix. This is a part of a coding convention for C++ adopted by Microsoft called Hungarian notation. Some of you may say that it may be a bit disturbing using C++ naming conventions in C# code, but...

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...

Call Virtual Functions From Constructors?

Wed, 09 Jul 2008 05:01:02 GMT

Be aware of this matter because it is not a trivial issue and apparently, there are no errors or warnings generated by the compiler. So, the rule to remember is to never call virtual methods from constructors.

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?

How to Generate Public Classes for Resource Files

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 01:16:02 GMT

Notice that when you add a resource file, there is an automatically generated class with properties issued from the resources elements, so you can call this class properties instead of using the ResourceManager. The only problem with this class is that its properties are marked as internal and thus can't be accessed externally

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

A Small and Fast Domain Modeling Tool

Fri, 27 Jun 2008 05:46:03 GMT

Mindscape have released a major upgrade to their LightSpeed domain modelling / ORM tool. Version 2.0 includes a visual model designer integrated into Visual Studio, LINQ support, and the ability to access multiple databases concurrently.

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:

Exploring Extension Methods in C

Tue, 24 Jun 2008 12:31:02 GMT

Short howto screencast on using and implementing Extension Methods

How Do You Exit Your .Net Application?

Tue, 24 Jun 2008 15:31:09 GMT

The question in the title does not refer to the actions you take when you are about to exit your application, issues like logging, closing file handles, freeing unmanaged resources and so on. It does literally refer to the exit action itself...

A Programming Job Interview Challenge #9

Mon, 23 Jun 2008 15:31:03 GMT

That's it, the 9th post of the series of programming job interview challenge is out and alive. This question is about trees and it is very simple. It is a logical question so there is no need for code...

10 reasons why SQL Server 2008 is going to rock

Mon, 23 Jun 2008 14:01:12 GMT

Just like its predecessor, SQL Server 2008 is taking its sweet time to actually ship. However, unlike its predecessor, it won't just be a "worthwhile upgrade". It will kick ass. Here are the top 10 reasons why.

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

Diagnose Assembly Binding Failures

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 14:46:19 GMT

Every one of us, software developers, experienced situations where the .Net Framework could not locate an assembly and ended up facing the TypeLoadException. Luckily, there is an assembly binding log viewer which displays information that helps us diagnose why the .NET Framework can not locate an assembly at run time.

Software Errors Parade

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 15:31:02 GMT

While some errors can be very easily eliminated, other are very evasive. What are the measures taken into consideration when we decide if an error is evasive or not? Lets create a list of software error parade and talk about it:

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