Easy access to Silverlight file resources with my ResourceFile class
Silverlight application developers have several choices when deploying file resources for a Silverlight application. For my own Silverlight... more »
A TextBox that selects its text on focus for Silverlight
A minor annoyance of mine is that there is no way to wire up a standard Silverlight TextBox to select its text when it receives the keyboard focus;... more »
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Settings for Silverlight using IsolatedStorageSettings
Here is a simple static class, Settings, that offers methods to Read and Write application settings and preferences from Silverlight applications. ... more »
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Visual Studio 2010: Generating sequence diagrams on the fly
One nice feature that Visual Studio 2010 provides is generating sequence diagrams on the fly. Just point out method and choose diagram generating... more »
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EdgeCam - Silverlight 4 Webcam & Edge Detection Shader
Rene Schulte wrote a small demo for Silverlight 4 beta that uses the new webcam support and applied his edge detection pixel shader to it to create a... more »
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Use plain language for test scripts by implementing SAFS with Rational Functional Tester
Some software testers are inexperienced with scripting languages and the scripting tools that generate test scripts. This situation can create... more »
Regex Hero: Giving Away the First 100 User Licenses
So I'm getting ready to sell Regex Hero (the online .NET regular expression tester). It will be priced at $15 per user license. But before I do, I'm... more »
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Using Compact Framework v2.0 on Windows CE v4.2 devices
You must use at least Microsoft .NET Compact Framework (CF) v2.0 SP1, as it now includes support for older .NET v1.1 devices. You will need to copy... more »
How to troubleshoot slow Page Rendering in ASP.NET?
How to troubleshoot slow page rendering in ASP.NET using ControlAdapter and tracing.
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Depends vs Call, Do you know and understand the difference in NAnt?
This past week I was taking a look at one of our build scripts as it appeared to be taking a bit longer than everyone wanted. Because I am very close... more »
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IntelliTrace: A graphical comparison
One of the easiest ways to understand what IntelliTrace is and what it does, is through a comparison between how most developers debug their... more »
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WCF RIA Services and DTO with association
This post will be short, I notice that some people are asking about how to send an object graph which will include an association to other objects.... more »
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XAML UI (WPF + Silverlight) Momentum shown at PDC09!
This may have been the best ever week for XAML UI. I’m smiling!
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var improves readability
Countless times I’ve heard the argument that you should use the var keyword with caution, that it decreases readability of your code, or how it can be... more »
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ASP.NET MVC 2 Custom Validation
This is the third post in my series ASP.NET MVC 2 Beta and its new features. In this post I will cover validation.
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A better Model Binder addendum
A while back, I wrote about a ModelBinder enhancement we use to do arbitrary filtering on types. The underlying matching algorithm only matches on... more »
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Sharing Blend Workspace Settings
Expression Blend 3 has two pre-defined Workspaces, available under the Window/Workspaces menu.
Silverlight 4 Security Overview White Paper
Wanted to let folks know about a white paper we're making available (attached below). We plan to incorporate this into the main Silverlight... more »
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Taking the Silverlight Control Browser sample Out-of-Browser … plus a tutorial
We’ve enabled Out of Browser support for the Silverlight Control Browser application for the Silverlight Toolkit. That was reason enough for me to... more »
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Left-Truncatable Primes
Yesterday somebody asked me how a function to calculate the nth left-truncatable prime might look in F# for comparison against a C++ implementation,... more »
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Integrating Traditional .NET MSMQ Application with Windows Communication Foundation 3.5 using MsmqIntegrationBinding
Most of you might have already started working with WCF for developing SOA based enterprise applications. WCF has provided several benefits for... more »
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PDC 2009 Day 3: Power Tools for Debugging
The last session at the PDC that I’m attending is about incubation tools for debugging, from Microsoft Research. Debugging is hard and the process of... more »
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BusyIndicator: David Poll’s ActivityControl is now in the Silverlight Toolkit November 2009 Release
Microsoft Program Manager David Poll is passionate about improving rich Internet application experiences involving data, and he previously blogged... more »
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Application Library Caching – November 2009 Silverlight Toolkit
We’ve decided to include, free of charge, application library cache support in the November 2009 release of the Silverlight Toolkit for Microsoft... more »
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Take 2: Why we use SOLID in static languages and how we get the same functionality for cheap in dynamic languages
One of the things we do pretty well at Los Techies is explaining SOLID principles and why they make our code more maintainable and if you’re not... more »
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