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Filtering List Items - The Yield Return Solution

Tue, 06 Jan 2009 01:46:06 GMT

Here we are talking about filtering list items again :).

Filtering List Items, The Old, The New and the Slick

Sat, 27 Dec 2008 19:01:12 GMT

I was into filtering items lately and I have decided to write about some of the techniques out there

Working With ASP.Net MVC Part 2 - The Model And The Repository Pattern

Sat, 13 Dec 2008 05:31:04 GMT

In this part we are going to jump in and get an MVC Application created and look at the Model portion of the application. We'll create our domain objects and data repositories.

Filtering You Data Using Predicates

Thu, 04 Dec 2008 01:01:12 GMT

A while back I wrote an article about How to sort data by manipulating the view only, This article will handle filtering the data without changing it.

10 Ways To Programaticly Shoot Yourself In The Foot - Part B

Thu, 27 Nov 2008 19:46:13 GMT

This is part B of the 10 Ways To Programaticly Shoot Yourself In The Foot article. In this article I will talk about another 5 issues that even the best developers have to be aware of. In other words, I will try to prevent you from programaticly shooting yourself in the foot.

Creating a Silverlight Fade In and Out Popup Window

Tue, 25 Nov 2008 15:16:03 GMT

how to create a pupup window in silverlight without using the popup control

XML Documentation File For Your .Net Project - It's Important

Tue, 18 Nov 2008 07:46:04 GMT

No comments appeared in the Visual Studio tooltip. On In this article, I am going to explain why it is so important to generate XML documentation file for each one of your .Net projects.

Validate Your Regular Expressions With This Free Online Silverlight To

Sat, 01 Nov 2008 16:01:02 GMT

Validate you regular expressions with this online silverlight regular validation tool

How To Get Free Disk Space And Other WMI Stuff (.NET)

Thu, 30 Oct 2008 13:46:11 GMT

Before actually saving the file, I need to compute its anticipated size and compare it with the free disk space to see if there is enough storage for that operation. After searching a bit about how to get the free disk space, I came across the solution which uses the System.Management namespace.

Spice Up Your Navigation With CSS Drop Down Menus

Tue, 28 Oct 2008 03:16:25 GMT

In this article I will show you how to create a drop down navigation menu that is XHTML 1.0 Strict, CSS valid, opens external links in a new window, and is JavaScript free.

Terrible Code Example - Methods From Hell

Wed, 22 Oct 2008 06:16:10 GMT

Learn how not to code your applications with this terrible code example that I have come accross.

How To Localize Your Application Using String Tables

Tue, 21 Oct 2008 01:46:08 GMT

Unfortunately for us the developers, nowadays, many customers require that that the product they purchased, will be localized to a specific language

Generate An Assembly Source Code Using The Reflector

Mon, 13 Oct 2008 21:16:17 GMT

If you are a .NET developer, you should probably know the .NET Reflector which is a great tool for viewing, navigating and searching through the class hierarchies of .NET assemblies (even if you don't have the code for them). I am using this tool a lot but here is something I only recently discovered: one can export an assembly and let the Reflector generate its source code. The output of this process is a directory with a project file and all of the source files.

Measure String Size In Pixels (C#)

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 03:16:03 GMT

Sometimes we need to know the width of a given string in pixels, do you know how to compute it? Before writing some long code, please notice that the .NET framework class library provides such a method...

WPF Binding Converter Best Practices Continued

Sat, 27 Sep 2008 17:31:14 GMT

A sequel to the lates article about WPF Binding Converters

Measuring Programmers By Extra Hours

Thu, 25 Sep 2008 04:01:04 GMT

I am writing this article as a sequel to the Measuring Programming Progress By Lines Of Code article. Let me please talk about another common metric - measuring the amount of extra hours a software developer has done.

A Better WPF Custom Context Menu

Fri, 19 Sep 2008 13:01:02 GMT

A new and improved context menu style that is more extensible and allows submenus

SDEdit - Free Sequence Diagram Editor

Tue, 16 Sep 2008 14:31:02 GMT

As software developers, all of us used at least one UML design tool such as Rational Rose, Enterprise Architect or even Microsoft VISIO. Those tools have one thing in common - they are commercial and thus cost money. I want to introduce you a nice free sequence diagram editor called SDEdit...

Measuring Programming Progress By Lines Of Code

Wed, 10 Sep 2008 13:46:02 GMT

Software Managers all around the globe, need to have some metric to estimate their workers. Sometimes the management event wants to create a precise and measurable way to know the programming progress and the developers productivity and performance. One of those methods is called SLOC - Source Lines Of Code. This metric is used measure the size of the software by counting...

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

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 11:44:03 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

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 00:41:45 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

Fri, 22 Aug 2008 01:46:02 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

Fri, 08 Aug 2008 06:16:04 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

Sat, 19 Jul 2008 06:16:09 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

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 04:46:02 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.