Learning how to use Value Converters in Silverlight(dimecasts.net)

submitted by dwhittaker(13.1k) 8 months, 17 days ago

Taking a look at how to use and harness the power of Value Converters. A Value Converter (IValueConverter) allows for you to perform custom logic during Bind time in XAML based applications. With a value converter you can implement pretty much any type of complex logic you want (bool to visibility, changing styles, etc) at runtime and have this logic extracted away in a stand alone class. read more...

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Getting Started w/ NuGet(dimecasts.net)

submitted by dwhittaker(13.1k) 8 months, 26 days ago

Learning how to use the NuGet Package Management System. We will start off by looking at how to install NuGet inside of Visual Studio. We will then learn how to use NuGet to install/uninstall packages. We will end the episode by looking at how to create our first NuGet Package. read more...

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Working with Advanced Aspects with Postsharp (dimecasts.net)

submitted by dwhittaker(13.1k) 8 months, 26 days ago

Taking a look at how to use the AOP (Aspect Orientated Programming) framework Postsharp. In this episode we will focus on how to use the OnMethodBoundry, MethodInterceptions, LocationInterception and EventInterception Aspects. We will look at how each of these can be used and how they can be used in conjuction with each other to build a better application. read more...

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Getting Started with AOP using Postsharp(dimecasts.net)

submitted by dwhittaker(13.1k) 8 months, 26 days ago

Taking a look at how to implemented AOP (Aspect Orientated Programming) with PostSharp. We will be using the Postsharp library in this episode and we will take a look at how to create our first Aspect as well as how to use the metadata with the aspect to provide real business value in your application. read more...

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Learning how to use Behaviors in Silverlight(dimecasts.net)

submitted by dwhittaker(13.1k) 8 months, 26 days ago

Taking a look at how to use and harness the power of Behaviors. A Behavior in Silverlight is a way to extend an existing UI element in order to add additional state or actions to it. We can create these Behaviors and attach them to pretty much any UI element you could hope for. read more...

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Share C# Anonymous Types across Functions and Scope(blogs.msdn.com)

submitted by crpietschmann(11.3k) 8 months, 28 days ago

So earlier today I was lamenting that an anonymous type can't be shared between functions with Wes Dyer, when he said "Well actually they can..." read more...

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Using the Subversion Revision Number in NAnt(blog.cartviper.com)

submitted by diamondz(75) 8 months, 28 days ago

Learn how to update the DLL build revision number automatically from Subversion using Nant. read more...

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How to Implement 2-Step Verification in ASP.NET MVC(www.nayyeri.net)

submitted by keyvan(4086) 9 months, 15 days ago

In this post Keyvan walks through an example to show how to implement 2-step verification (with phone) in ASP.NET MVC applications. read more...

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Learning SQL Server - Efficient Query Writing Strategy - Gift Book(blog.sqlauthority.com)

submitted by pinaldave(9662) 9 months, 22 days ago

Some people may push back on this next technique or misunderstand until getting to the very end. The goal is to have fewer errors as you write complex queries more quickly by making sure the easy stuff works first. read more...

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Find Nth Record Quickest Way in SQL Server(blog.sqlauthority.com)

submitted by pinaldave(9662) 9 months, 29 days ago

A Very simple tutorial to find Nth Record. A Quick Tutorial. read more...

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Find deep-links to the Windows Phone 7-Marketplace(gordon-breuer.de)

submitted by Anheledir(209) 10 months, 1 day ago

Linking to the Windows Phone 7 Marketplace is not very comfortable at the moment. Deep-Links are redirecting you and launching the local Zune client to open the app detail-page. This is a helper-class to analyse the submitted html code and return any application IDs (if any are available) to use those app-links directly with the MarketplaceDetailsTask() for example. May be usefull for RSS reader applications. read more...

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WP7: Using Location Services (www.dimecasts.net)

submitted by dwhittaker(13.1k) 10 months, 7 days ago

Taking a look at how to use the Location Services (GPS) built into the Windows Phone 7 platform. We will first take a look at how we can use the location servcies library on the phone to get the phones current GPS information. We will then take a look at how we can use that information in conjuction w/ the Bing Services to get the street address for the GPS coordinates read more...

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WCF: How to create Custom Message Interceptors(www.dimecasts.net)

submitted by dwhittaker(13.1k) 10 months, 7 days ago

Taking a look at how to extend WCF to create custom Message Interceptors We will first take a look at how we can create our custom interceptors and hook them into the WCF pipeline. We will then take a look at how we can intercept both inbound and outbound messages to allow us to perform some sort of actions agains the messages. read more...

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MVVM - How to create a ViewModelLocater(www.dimecasts.net)

submitted by dwhittaker(13.1k) 10 months, 7 days ago

Taking a look at how we can create a simple ViewModelLocator to inject our ViewModel into our DataContext at runtime via conventions. The ViewModelLocator Pattern will allow you to create a very flexable application because it will decouple your Views from your ViewModel. The approach in this episode will take a convention based approach to determine which ViewModel should go with a given View. read more...

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WP7 - Learning how to use Live Tiles(www.dimecasts.net)

submitted by dwhittaker(13.1k) 10 months, 7 days ago

Taking a look at how we can use Live Tiles in WP7 (Mango). WP7 Mango has introduced not only the ability to create Application Tiles via code but they have also added the ability to create Secondary Tiles, tiles which can deep link into your application. These Secondary tiles can also be created, updated and deleted in code and can provide a very powerful feature for your application. read more...

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Database Worst Practices – New Town and New Job and New Disasters(blog.sqlauthority.com)

submitted by pinaldave(9662) 10 months, 14 days ago

Instead of writing best practices, I am going to write about few of the worst practices which I have quite often seen in the real world. Some of them are really bad that I often wonder how those who still use them were able to continue on the job so far. Let us go over few of the worst practices I have observed in the industry. read more...

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