Pivot video(rickrat.wordpress.com)

submitted by activeasp(163) 1 year, 4 months ago

Sometimes you just want to watch a programming conference session video, but they are all over the place. PDC 09, PDC 10, Mix 10, three difference sites / urls. I wrote a little WPF program that allows you to select videos based on multiple criteria similar to the PivotViewer ™ control. read more...

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Using MEF to link view model locator and load assembly UIs dynamically(rickrat.wordpress.com)

submitted by activeasp(163) 1 year, 4 months ago

So I decided I wanted to create a WPF navigation application. I was definitely inspired by Billy Hollis’ StaffLynx application. The application has to have the following requirements: 1.ViewModelLocator must be dynamic, and the parts satisfied by MEF, including UI Extensions. 2.UI pages in separate assemblies will load based on pack Uri syntax. 3.UI extension dlls cannot know about the main app, and vice-versa. e.g. No direct references. 4.UI Extensions have to be loaded from the ProgramData folder, because applications cannot write directly to the Program Files folder. 5.Must use my favorite MVVM Framework MVVM Light. Although you could customize this for any MVVM framework. 6.Must work in Expression Blend. read more...

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Installing a virtual network from scratch for developers(blogs.compdj.com)

submitted by activeasp(163) 1 year, 8 months ago

I had the opportunity recently at work to install Windows Server 2008 R2 from scratch and setup several virtual machines in a network configuration, and here’s how I did it. Being a software engineer and all, we don’t often get the chance to set up an environment like this from scratch. This was fun, but I’m not a network engineer. read more...

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EF4 T4 Templates(blogs.compdj.com)

submitted by activeasp(163) 1 year, 10 months ago

EF4 Templates uses T4toolbox to generate POCO self-tracking entities that can be unit tested, along with validation for WPF, Silverlight RIA services and ASP.NET/ASP.NET MVC. They also generate an ODATA service with authentication for usage with WPF. read more...

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Xaml color scheme generator(blogs.compdj.com)

submitted by activeasp(163) 2 years, 5 months ago

I’ve made a xaml color scheme generator that works with colorschemedesigner .com It generates a resource dictionary and xaml demo source. In the color scheme generator site, just export to xaml, and save to a file. In the generator, browse for that file, and click convert. read more...

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Windows 7 Multi-touch Panning with ScrollViewer in WPF 3.5 Part Duex(blogs.compdj.com)

submitted by activeasp(163) 2 years, 6 months ago

In my last post I described a class that wraps the ScrollViewer control to enable multi-touch panning in it. Well, it’s not exactly the right way to do it. You should be receiving the pan messages in the Window, then finding the scroll viewer where the window was touched using a Hit Test, and scroll that ScrollViewer. read more...

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Windows 7 Multi-touch Panning with ScrollViewer in WPF 3.5(blogs.compdj.com)

submitted by activeasp(163) 2 years, 6 months ago

Using Windows 7 to do multi-touch panning with the ScrollViewer control, including inertia read more...

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Binary hacking an executable part duex(blogs.compdj.com)

submitted by activeasp(163) 2 years, 10 months ago

One of the problems with binary hacking a .net executable is references. Say you have an executable and a .dll file that is referenced by the executable. If you modify the .dll and resign it with a new public key token, the executable’s reference will be broken. Here's how to get around that. read more...

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Changing the URL for TFS 2008(blogs.compdj.com)

submitted by activeasp(163) 2 years, 11 months ago

How to change the public URL for TFS 2008 read more...

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MEF helper class for VB.NET(blogs.compdj.com)

submitted by activeasp(163) 3 years, 1 month ago

This is a class I created to help me with MEF. It might be useful to somebody. It is a singleton with IDisposable to create a shared object for your application’s lifetime. It also features lambda queries for finding metadata as well read more...

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Using MEF and querying the catalog container with VB.NET(blogs.compdj.com)

submitted by activeasp(163) 3 years, 1 month ago

I am using the Managed Extensibility Framework preview 5 in VB.NET, and I have to say, that it rocks! The project I am writing is a UI container that has “add-ins” that process files and such. I am working with another programmer to develop other add-ins for the app as well. To query for specific metadata, we first have to create an interface and a custom attribute. read more...

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Cracking .NETZ executables(blogs.compdj.com)

submitted by activeasp(163) 3 years, 2 months ago

.NETZ is a free open source tool that compresses and packs the Microsoft .NET Framework executable (EXE, DLL) files in order to make them smaller. Smaller executables consume less disk space and load faster because of fewer disk accesses. Today we are going to show you how to extract assemblies from them, so we can crack them! read more...

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When good code goes bad…(blogs.compdj.com)

submitted by activeasp(163) 3 years, 4 months ago

In my post about refactoring code, I wrote on how you can tell how good a programmer is by looking at his code. That got me to thinking: Some stuff that seems simple, is sometimes hard to remember. read more...

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Refactoring someone else’s code(blogs.compdj.com)

submitted by activeasp(163) 3 years, 4 months ago

I needed some code to do a function for my work. I found a .NET dll that costs $49 dollars. Well, after looking at it in reflector (which I always do to get a better idea of the architecture), I decided to refactor it. read more...

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The “cloud” buzzword(blogs.compdj.com)

submitted by activeasp(163) 3 years, 4 months ago

The “cloud” seems to be the buzzword of the moment. Loosely defined as software as a service running off the internet. For some reason, this is rather grating to me. I don’t know why! read more...

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Almost time for CES 2009(blogs.compdj.com)

submitted by activeasp(163) 3 years, 4 months ago

It's almost time for me to go to CES 2009. I get to go to CtrStg anyway. Tonight I'm going to watch the keynote streamed. This is my first time at CES, and it's gonna rock! read more...

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