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How To Solve: "No Files Were Found To Look In. Find Was Stopped In Progress"

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 03:44:03 GMT

...she tried to use the "find in files" option in Visual Studio 2005 and even though the searched expression was out there in one of the files, she got the following result: "No files were found to look in. Find was stopped in progress."

Creating a 3D Border Style in WPF

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 16:41:45 GMT

Many times I want to make my WPF Controls have a 3D effect. For examples Headers of lists and such. Saddly there is no built in way to do it so we have to come up with a custom solution. I don't want to use Bitmap effects due to performance reasons...

jQuery and the ASP.NET MVC Framework

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 17:46:02 GMT

With WebForms, integrating with Ajax libraries other than ASP.NET AJAX was slightly painful. With the new ASP.NET MVC Framework, however, you can use jQuery without these additional headaches.

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

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.

How to Search the File System Using LINQ Queries

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 02:46:03 GMT

Say you are writing an application and one of the requirements is to allow File System search. You could always start using loops and such. I thought to myself why not do it in LINQ? I played around with it and in fact it is not so hard...

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.

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.

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...

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

Creating Visula Studio Keyborad Shortcuts Cheat Sheet

Thu, 12 Jun 2008 14:46:08 GMT

As we all know, there are a lot of keyboard shortcuts in Visual Studio. We mentioned only 21 of them here at Dev102.com but according to this article, there are about 450 shortcuts available.

A Simple ASP.NET MVC Sample Application

Wed, 11 Jun 2008 13:16:02 GMT

This is a simple hello world example with ASP.NET MVC, to help you build your first application step by step

Two Great Web Development Tools

Tue, 10 Jun 2008 13:16:02 GMT

Here are two interesting tools I found while working on our Silveredo 2 theme.

A Programming Job Interview Challenge #7 - Coins of The Round Table

Mon, 09 Jun 2008 15:31:03 GMT

That's it, Times up on the sixth in the series of job interview questions. This weeks question: you are playing the following game...

Cool links for programmers

Fri, 06 Jun 2008 17:46:02 GMT

In this post I do not intend to make a list of the best programmers web sites, but to share with you some you might not know:

The Use of Environment.NewLine In a WPF MultiLine TextBox

Thu, 05 Jun 2008 14:01:10 GMT

Last week I was in the need to use a WPF TextBox that had multi line capabilities. I started Typing Multi and hit CTRL + Space to get the intelisense and I was shocked! No MultiLine TextBox, I did get the following: