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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".

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

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.

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

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.

Developer Productivity - 5 Ways To Kill It

Sat, 24 Jan 2009 02:31:03 GMT

In keeping with the sarcastic tone of my How To Be The Worst Developer Ever post I'm going to explore several ways for managers to systematically destroy productivity among their developers. Unfortunately I am writing some of these from experience, then again, I'm sure we have all experienced some of these at one time or another.

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.

C++ Tip: How To Get Array Length

Tue, 13 Jan 2009 00:21:03 GMT

Getting an array length in C# is a trivial task. Getting an array length in C++ might be less trivial. I want to show you this nice C++ macro which helps us getting an array length in another and better way...

Working With ASP.Net MVC Part 3 - Url Routing

Fri, 09 Jan 2009 14:31:17 GMT

Url Routing has become a very common these days. In fact, at least among the websites I visit, it has become more common than not routing urls. Url Routing is part of the ASP.Net framework, both MVC and WebForms, that lets you easily rewrite and map your urls to make them look nicer and be more serach engine friendly.

C# Design Patterns - Abstract Factory Pattern

Wed, 07 Jan 2009 16:46:04 GMT

We'll be continuing on with our fictional city council that has commissioned us to develop an application that lets them manage their yearly dog registrations. Since the application is all about managing dogs and their owners it makes sense to have a DogFactory class that will create the different breeds of dogs that will be stored in the application.