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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

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".

GridView Plugin For JQuery

Thu, 07 May 2009 17:06:48 GMT

Starting out we are going to keep this pretty simple and as it progresses we'll add more features. For now we are going to start with a hand coded HTML table and CSS. In a later post we'll look at populating the grid from a data source. In this post today we'll apply the CSS to the table but will expand this to a skinning system later on. We'll also be applying the row selection feature today.

4 Grea Tips for Custom WPF Controls Developers

Tue, 05 May 2009 14:31:02 GMT

4 great tips for WPF Custom control designers

How to Create A JQuery Plugin

Tue, 28 Apr 2009 22:01:45 GMT

A small tutorial about creating JQuery Plugins

A DelegateQueue Class

Sat, 25 Apr 2009 16:08:26 GMT

Last year, I wrote a toolkit for creating state machines. One of my goals for the toolkit was to provide the option of having each state machine executing in its own thread; I wanted state machines to be active objects. To realize this goal, I needed an event queue. State machines would use event queues to enqueue events sent to them and later dequeue th

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.

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

Don't Use a WPF Control in Windows.Resource

Fri, 03 Apr 2009 07:46:09 GMT

Whong usage of Windows.Resource

6 Tools To Be An Effective Web Developer

Thu, 26 Mar 2009 19:01:02 GMT

There has always been and probably always will be feuds over what is the best platform but what I want to show you is that those arguments are mostly irrelevant. Regardless of what platform you choose to develop on there are most of the same tools available in one form or another. The common components, for me anyway, that help me produce high quality code faster and is easier to maintain are a good IDE, easy to use unit testing and mocking frameworks, an ORM, a MVC framework, and a good JavaScript library.

Creating an Ajax Login Form With jQuery

Wed, 25 Mar 2009 01:46:03 GMT

In this post I want to show you how to use jQuery to create an AJAX login screen. I am going to use an ASP.NET MVC application for this demonstration

Working With ASP.Net MVC Part 5 - Views

Sun, 15 Mar 2009 14:31:02 GMT

Well we've arrived at the last part of our series on ASP.NET MVC. In this post we'll be looking at Views, ViewData, and HTML Helpers. We'll be discussing how to call Views from Controllers and how to use HTML Helpers to create your markup.

Property, Dependency Property and Threading

Tue, 10 Mar 2009 19:59:30 GMT

are Property, Dependency Property thread safe?

C# Design Patterns - The Facade Pattern

Tue, 10 Mar 2009 18:16:10 GMT

In our city dog registration application lets assume there are a few things that need to be done when a new dog is registered. First the new dog and it's owners must be entered into the system. Next the registration fee must be processed. Finally, we want the system to send the owners the welcome email. This is a very simple example but this action requires 3 separate systems to do something in order to complete this one task of registering a new dog.

Why Should You Always Locate Your Convertors In App.Xaml

Tue, 10 Mar 2009 13:46:13 GMT

Where do you locate your convertors? do you put them in the Window.Resources section? or in the UserControl they are being used for?

Tidy Up Your Xaml And Code Behind, Use UserControls Inside Templates

Tue, 03 Mar 2009 13:01:12 GMT

Use User controls inside templtes

Why You Want To Be A Craftsman Instead Of A Cowboy

Sat, 28 Feb 2009 13:01:02 GMT

I was a bit surprised at first to hear Jeff and Joel's comments because they are some smart guys that have produced some successful software. I highly doubt, regardless of how it came across, they intended to imply that you should ignore all guidelines and just string together your code. Unfortunately, the comments of their posts make it all too clear that this is exactly the way a lot of programmers took it. What's worse is bad programmers will use this as a defense for their resistance to improving their skills.

Creating a WPF / Silverlight Control With a Semi Transparent Backgroun

Fri, 27 Feb 2009 00:16:29 GMT

Yesterday I was trying to create a control with a partially transparent background,. I am writing this because what I thought was so straight forward, was not.

How to Create a Drag & Drop / Move, Zoom In & Out Content Control

Mon, 23 Feb 2009 22:46:03 GMT

As the Headline says, I will show you how to make a Drag and Drop / Move Content control. for this example I will use a canvas and an Image. But you can easily make it more generic by using a Content Control instead of the image.

Working With ASP.Net MVC Part 4 - Controllers, ControllerActions, and

Wed, 18 Feb 2009 23:31:13 GMT

In this post we'll look the first of two parts that really hold our application together, the Controller. In the next post we'll cover the View and how it ties into the Controller.

Why the ItemsControl ScrollViewer Attached Property Does Not Work

Tue, 10 Feb 2009 15:16:12 GMT

In my latest article I discussed Scrolling and Binding to large collections in WPF. We saw some disturbing behavior when binding a large collection to an ItemsControl. After Further Examination I found out very interesting things regarding that matter.

C# Design Patterns - Observer Pattern

Fri, 30 Jan 2009 17:31:03 GMT

Continuing to use our city dog registration software senario, one of the project's requirements is that the dog's owner's be notified whenever a dog is processed for an infraction (i.e. picked up by the dog catcher). The Observer pattern is perfectly suited to solve this problem.