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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
I’ve just been having a little play around with some methods for binding UI elements (in this case a ComboBox) to static data sources. As you may know Blend offers. read more…
Well, I’ve spent the best part of a week trying to figure out why my application was constantly falling over on my test machine. I’ve been taking bits of code. read more…
I’ve spent a large portion of today trying to figure out why my project wasn’t able to create an MSI for me … I found this, no luck … still. read more…
Just found this really useful collection of byte sized tidbits to improve the performance of your usage of the data context. Takes less that 5 mins to read some of. read more…
If like me you are trying to use this really handy method and are having problems, it’s not your code … There is a bug with this method if you. read more…
UPDATED After a lot of poking around on this subject I found a rather neat way of enforcing an application to behave in a single instance manner. I’ve only just. read more…
I spent far too long today thinking about ways to code what at first appears to be a simple C# statement regarding file recursion. I’m building a new class based. read more…
I’ve just put together a really dirty and VERY simple app that uses the MediaElement class in .NET 3.5 as an example for someone on CodeProject so I thought I’d. read more…
I recently found myself needing to do this and it took longer than expected! Anyway here is my solution! [source:c-sharp] BrushConverter bc = new BrushConverter(); Brush brush; brush = (Brush)bc.ConvertFrom(ci.Colour);. read more…
I’m not sure if I’m missing something here but a couple of hours into looking at LINQ for the first time and I almost instantly butted up against a limitation.. read more…
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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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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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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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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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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XAML, Blend & Binding to Static Data Sources
I’ve just been having a little play around with some methods for binding UI elements (in this case a ComboBox) to static data sources. As you may know Blend offers. read more…
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LINQ, SQL Compact, Private Install
Well, I’ve spent the best part of a week trying to figure out why my application was constantly falling over on my test machine. I’ve been taking bits of code. read more…
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Visual Studio StartUp Projects
I’ve spent a large portion of today trying to figure out why my project wasn’t able to create an MSI for me … I found this, no luck … still. read more…
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New to LINQ?
Just found this really useful collection of byte sized tidbits to improve the performance of your usage of the data context. Takes less that 5 mins to read some of. read more…
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LINQ SQL Compact – DatabaseExists()
If like me you are trying to use this really handy method and are having problems, it’s not your code … There is a bug with this method if you. read more…
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WPF Single Instance Application
UPDATED After a lot of poking around on this subject I found a rather neat way of enforcing an application to behave in a single instance manner. I’ve only just. read more…
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Empty if(){} …
I spent far too long today thinking about ways to code what at first appears to be a simple C# statement regarding file recursion. I’m building a new class based. read more…
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Using MediaElement
I’ve just put together a really dirty and VERY simple app that uses the MediaElement class in .NET 3.5 as an example for someone on CodeProject so I thought I’d. read more…
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WPF Hex to Brush Conversion
I recently found myself needing to do this and it took longer than expected! Anyway here is my solution! [source:c-sharp] BrushConverter bc = new BrushConverter(); Brush brush; brush = (Brush)bc.ConvertFrom(ci.Colour);. read more…
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LINQ
I’m not sure if I’m missing something here but a couple of hours into looking at LINQ for the first time and I almost instantly butted up against a limitation.. read more…
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