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

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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)

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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)

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

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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)

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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)

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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)

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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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Building a jQuery Plug-in to make an HTML Table scrollable(www.west-wind.com)

submitted by rstrahl(7226) 11 months, 28 days ago

Table displays in limited space require some rendering alternatives. While paging is a common way to address fixed size displays, it's not an end-all solution. Sometimes it's necessary to display larger amounts of data in a small fixed space on an HTML page. Scrollable list are fairly easy to do with most HTML structures, but HTML tables are notoriously difficult to manage when it comes to scrolling. In this post I describe a jQuery plug-in that attempts to make any table scrollable by decomposing and reassembling the table into two distinct areas. read more...

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Built-in GZip/Deflate Compression on IIS 7.x(www.west-wind.com)

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IIS 7.x makes content compression via GZip very easy. Here's how compression on IIS works and how you can set it up on your server in a few simple steps. read more...

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ASP.NET GZip Encoding Caveats(www.west-wind.com)

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GZip and Deflate compression is easy to use in ASP.NET applications, but there are a few caveats that you need to watch out for. This post reviews the basics of implementing compression in ASP.NET code and describes a couple of scenarios that can cause problems when using programmatic compression via Response.Filter. read more...

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ASP.NET Routing not working on IIS 7.0(www.west-wind.com)

submitted by rstrahl(7226) 1 year, 1 month ago

Got caught be a difference in behavior between IIS 7.0 and IIS 7.5 with how module management to extensionless URLs are fired in IIS. Routing was working fine on my dev machine, but not on my live server. Here's what you need to watch out for. read more...

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Setting up custom ASP.NET Routing to an HttpHandler(www.west-wind.com)

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Routing support in ASP.NET 4.0 has been vastly improved, but custom routing still involves a fairly complex process of creating RouteHandlers and mapping requests properly. In this post I show an example of how to create custom routes automatically via Attribute route mapping for Http Handler endpoints. read more...

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Entity Framework: Making changes to the T4 Templats(www.dimecasts.net)

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Taking a look at how Entity Framework uses T4 Templates (Text Template Transformation Toolkit) when building out the entity model. We will first learn how EF is using the templates, we will then learn how to view and access these templates and finally we will take a look at how to modify these templates to meet your own specific needs. read more...

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WP7: Learning how to detect Themes(www.dimecasts.net)

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Taking a look at how the phone uses themes and styles. We will focus on how to determine which theme is being used as well as learning how to swap out our resource files which are used by our application based on the active theme. Knowing which theme is in use will allow your application to better conform to either the light or dark user experience. read more...

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