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Visual Studio 2010 – First Impressions / WPF UI
I’ve been putting this off for a while now but have finally gotten around to checking out Visual Studio 2010. You can get everything you need from this page, Visual. read more…
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MSBuild – Editing Xml Scripts
Editing MSBuild Xml files can be a bit of a chore. For general everyday file editing I tend to use NotePad++ which is an awesome file editor and viewer. However,. read more…
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Continuous Integration – TeamCity
Over the last 6 months I have tried a few CI systems for my own projects. I’ve been looking for something that will formalise the “Clean, Build, Test & Deploy”. read more…
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Serialization – Xml – Readonly Properties
I was recently working on a project where I needed to serialize objects with properties marked as readonly (can only be set inside a constructor). The objects are part of. read more…
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Reclaiming Disk Space
I was recently doing a spot of house keeping on the dev box and really needed to have a view on where all the space was being used and by. read more…
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AES Encryption Weakness
Interesting article on a recent discovery of a weakness in the widely used AES encryption algorithm. Seems that you might be better off with AES 192 rather than AES 256!. read more…
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Introduction to Composite WPF CAL, Prism: Part 2
I’ve just published the second installment of my mini-series of using the Composite Application Library. This article covers dynamic skinning of WPF applications and a few other choice topics! Check. read more…
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xUnit Custom Attributes – BeforeAfterTestAttribute
xUnit is great! If you haven’t used it yet it really is well worth the time to explore and get to grips with. I was recently creating some Serialization tests. read more…
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Introduction to Composite WPF (CAL, Prism) Part 1
I’ve just published Part 1 of my introduction to Composite WPF series of articles. The main aim of this article was to provide a really simple illustration of how it. read more…
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Foreign Key Constraints in SqlCe
How do you add foreign key constraints in SqlCe? Like this: How do you check it’s there?
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Install SQLExpress 2008 “Access Denied” Error
What a day! I’ve completely lost count of the number of times I’ve tried to install SQLExpress 2008 in the last 12 hours. It seemed like a never ending series. read more…
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Sacha Barber
I just finished reading Sacha Barbers latest article on CodeProject called GeoPlaces. There are a few people publishing on the CP site which are required reading in my opinion and. read more…
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WCF Security Guidance
Anyone working on WCF components and services really need to have a good read of this. Its another great free resource from the Patterns & Practices folks. Its a big. read more…
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SNOW!!
Wow, for the first time in what seems to be 20+ years we have some real snow!! Has got in the way of a few plans that’s for sure. Howeve,. read more…
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Debug – C# Express 2008
There is no doubt that C# is a great language, on top of that Microsoft have released some great IDE’s, and on top of that, some of them are FREE! . read more…
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What’s Wrong with NASA’s IT Department??
I don’t know if you have been following certain news items regarding NASA but I have and I really can’t work out what is going on. It seems that someone. read more…
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Spyware Wakeup!
Well I had a hell of a wake up call this weekend. A nasty little ‘Fake Threat’ had leeched into my system somehow. One of the horrid little blighters that. read more…
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WPF Visual Studio Code Snippets
Just found a link on Sacha Barbers blog linking too some really cool Visual Studio code snippet downloads available from The Blendables folks and DrWPF. Well worth downloading and checking. read more…
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WPF UserControl == DataTemplate
Over the weekend I was doing a fair amount of UI stuff on a major project of mine and stumbled across a very cool and neat solution to using data. read more…
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Source Control
Anyone that has worked on software development will have come into contact with Source (Code) Control software at some point. I’ve recently been looking for a solution to use at. read more…
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