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Configure WebMatrix/IIS Express to work with WP7 on Windows 7

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 09:34:18 GMT

This post describes how to Configure WebMatrix/IIS Express to work with WP7 on Windows 7

A list of useful link for Team Foundation Server

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 09:30:11 GMT

A list of useful link for Team Foundation Server, if you use TFS you probably will find these useful.

Design time data in WPF and Blend with little effort

Sat, 21 Jan 2012 09:28:43 GMT

Simple article that shows how easy is to create Design Time Data in WPF for Blend.

Customize aspect of output window in visual studio 2010

Tue, 10 Jan 2012 09:06:06 GMT

Write a simple Visual Studio 2010 addin to format the content of the "output" window.

Assert on number and text of Nhibernate queries during a unit test

Fri, 30 Dec 2011 15:38:28 GMT

A test helper class that permits me to assert on the number and text of the query that Nhibernate issued to the database during the test

Searching in TFS Work Items never was so Easy thanks to Power Tools

Wed, 21 Dec 2011 18:33:32 GMT

A post that explains how to search work item in Team Foundation Server with Web Access or the new Searchbox introduced in TFS Power Tools of August 2011 (That was improved in the December 2011 release)

Host a WCF service with SSL and self issued certificate

Tue, 22 Nov 2011 11:33:04 GMT

When you use SSL for your WCF service it is really useful to be able to work with self issue certificates for dev machine.

Deep dive in Process template's states and transitions

Mon, 19 Sep 2011 10:47:13 GMT

Seventh part of a series of articles dedicated to Team Foundation Server customization of Work Items definition. In this part I'll show how to add rules to transition and states of the Work Item.

Wich version of IE is used by the WebBrowser control?

Wed, 24 Aug 2011 11:40:20 GMT

If you use WebBrowser control il .NET, you already know that it uses IE rendering engine, but probably you miss the fact that, unless you change some registry keys, you are using the IE control in IE7 compatibility mode. In this article I explain how to choose with registry keys wich version of IE to use in WebBrowser control

Create Visual Studio Macro to attach to IIS process

Wed, 17 Aug 2011 15:19:58 GMT

Visual Studio Macro are really powerful, thanks to few lines of code you can write a macro to automatically attach to IIS process and it is able to show you a simple user interface to choose the IIS process to debug when multiple worker process are running.

A visual studio macro to automate Attach to IIS procedure

Thu, 11 Aug 2011 23:59:17 GMT

A simple macro to create a shortcut like CTRL+SHIFT+ALT+I to attach to local IIS process to speedup debugging sessions.

Use Sql Server Query Hints with NHibernate HQL and ICriteria

Mon, 25 Jul 2011 07:34:28 GMT

Sometimes you got bad performance from SQL query due to caching of execution plan, in this article I outline the problem and show you how you can add query hints to nhibernate HQL and ICriteria Query.

Fetching collections with NHibernate, a mistake a I always do!

Wed, 20 Jul 2011 16:22:29 GMT

Be careful when optimizing your queries using join fetching in NHibernate! If you do it without care you can incur in my same mistakes!

NHibernate.Envers - Querying - part 2

Wed, 13 Jul 2011 14:18:14 GMT

Third Article of the NHibernate.Envers series, this time we'll see how to query the database for the revision history detailed information (revision number, timestamp, operation type and entity snapshot).

Entity Framework 4.1 - manage relations

Tue, 12 Jul 2011 08:20:30 GMT

How you manage relations between objects with Entity Framework 4.1 Code First approach.

A Bunch of link for TFS ecosystem

Tue, 05 Jul 2011 09:47:03 GMT

A list of links to useful third party tools for Team Foundation Server.

Customize State and Transitions of a Work Item

Mon, 04 Jul 2011 07:53:04 GMT

Sixth part of a series of post that deal with Customization of the Process Template of Team Foundation Server, in this post I explain how to work with State and Transition of Work Items.

Interesting rules to customize Work Items

Tue, 28 Jun 2011 09:27:36 GMT

Fourth part on a litte series of posts that explain how to customize Team Foundation Server Work Item's definition.

Customize TFS PRocess Template

Thu, 23 Jun 2011 12:34:02 GMT

First on a little series of post dedicated to Team Process Customization for Team Foundation Server.

SimpleVisual studio macro to show branch information in title window.

Thu, 07 Apr 2011 15:21:23 GMT

In this post I explain how to create a simple visual studio macro to easy working with branches. This macro simply uses a regular expression to show branch information in the Visual Studio title window.

Mapping private properties with EF 4.1 and fluent mapping

Tue, 22 Mar 2011 18:10:30 GMT

Now that Entity Framework 4.1 is out, it is more ORM like, thanks to Code First approach and Fluent Mapping. In this little article I explain how you can write an extension method to map non public properties of objects, expecially useful in DDD approach.

Remove one pixel border from ListView in WPF

Sat, 19 Feb 2011 17:01:48 GMT

ListView in WPF render an annoying one pixel border around content, to remove it you can simply edit the template :)

Circular List View in WPF

Sun, 20 Feb 2011 13:58:11 GMT

Create the illusion of a circular List View in WPF that can scroll from the first element to the last.

Adding AoP to service oriented App

Sat, 19 Feb 2011 10:54:48 GMT

Fourth part of a post series on AoP with Castle Windsor

Save windows location in MVVM environment.

Fri, 18 Feb 2011 18:46:37 GMT

Creating a reusable logic in MVVM to save last windows location to reposition again in the same position when the software will be launched again