An Introduction to NuGet(codersbarn.com)

submitted by Bognit(2125) 17 days ago

Getting started with NuGet can be very confusing because there are really four parts to it with separate downloads. This post is an effort to make it easier to grasp and get started. read more...

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Open Tabs to the Right in Visual Studio 2011 Beta(www.codersbarn.com)

submitted by Bognit(2125) 29 days, 5 hours ago

I've previously shown how to set this in VS 2010. In the new VS 2011 beta, it's a little harder to find. read more...

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The Future of ASP.NET Web Forms(www.codersbarn.com)

submitted by Bognit(2125) 1 month, 8 days ago

We've all seen the growing popularity of ASP.NET MVC over recent years and the most common reaction is to want to play with it but when it comes time to making the switch, we often experience the "don't move my cheese" syndrome. read more...

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JSON.NET Strong Naming And NuGet Woes(coderjournal.com)

submitted by zigamorph(3319) 1 month, 23 days ago

This post requires a little understanding about how strong naming works. It’s complicated, but basically here is the jist: When you compile a library against a strong named assembly, only that specific version of the assembly can be used with the assembly that you are compiling with out resorting to heroics. You may say what is the big deal that is how all libraries are compiled and linked. But that isn’t true in .NET, if you don’t have a strongly named assembly, you have for better terms a weakly named assembly. And with weakly named assemblies there is not enforcement of the version, just the library name. So this makes it possible for developers to update a referenced library without actually recompiling the original library that referenced it. This is very powerful in the right hands, and pretty much what makes services like NuGet function with references so many intermingling of references between projects. So once you understand that and it has sort of sunk in. Now consider what kind of monkey wrench would be thrown in to NuGet references process if libraries were strongly signed. Now consider the project that is strongly named is also the 5th most popular project on NuGet with over 125,000 downloads and is one of if not the most interreferenced library in NuGet. That is a monkey wrench of epic proportions that can cause some real damage isn’t it. Well you have probably guessed that this isn’t some hypothetical problem that I am posting about in this work item. This is an actual problem in NuGet and is causing the community great pains against this ever popular and wonderful library. I understand certain people like installing JSON.NET into the GAC and I have no problem with that, and I think it should continued to be signed for them. But why not stop signing just the assemblies that you push to NuGet. Because this problem is only going to get worse when the ASP.NET Web Stack starts building steam and this problem escalates out of control. read more...

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WinJS – how to use resources and do some globalization(www.jonathanantoine.com)

submitted by jmix90(570) 2 months, 14 days ago

Resources are really useful when you want to globalize your app to distribute it to the whole world ! It also can be useful when you need to store a label used on a lot of place in your application. The .Net resources system is described all around the web and today we are going to explore a little the WinJS one. read more...

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WinJS – how to create your own control !(www.jonathanantoine.com)

submitted by jmix90(570) 2 months, 18 days ago

WinJS comes with several controls out of the box : Listview, FlipView, SemanticZoom, DatePicker, Flyout, etc… Although they are really powerful and useful, they do not cover all needs and it’s time for us (the community) to provide some other controls. In this post we’ll see how this can be done. Don’t worry it’s in fact really easy and straightforward. read more...

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WinJS – Navigate in a ListView using mouse wheel is easy !(www.jonathanantoine.com)

submitted by jmix90(570) 2 months, 20 days ago

The listview can be considered as the most powerful control of the WinJS UI controls. It works very well in ‘touch mode’ and the user experience is just great ! When it comes to use the mouse & keyboard, the scrollbars appears and you can use them to navigate in the list. Then, the first thing you may try is to use the mouse wheel : no result at all ! By default, you can’t navigate in the listview using the mouse wheel. I think it can be really strange for user who are used to this behavior and in this post we’ll see how it’s easy to implement the mouse-wheel scroll ! read more...

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Metro apps – a lot of icons are available out of the box !(www.jonathanantoine.com)

submitted by jmix90(570) 2 months, 22 days ago

In Metro apps, the Metro design is everywhere and that’s pretty cool ! When you start an application, you want and need it to be compliant with this theme and one main part of it are icons. What you may not know is that there is already a lot of icons available for you out of the box in any Metro app. Let’s discover them ! read more...

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WinJS – how to cancel the navigation from a page ?(www.jonathanantoine.com)

submitted by jmix90(570) 2 months, 25 days ago

Did you use the WinJS navigation framework ? If not, you should really take a look at it because it’s can be really useful and powerful ! Today I needed to cancel the navigation from a page based on the current state of the page. It could be useful to zoom out of a semantic zoom instead of navigating back when the user tap the little arrow (windows phone habit ). I was wondering how I would be able to code this and it turned out that this is pretty easy. read more...

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Introducing Wijmo, a feature-packed jQueryUI based widget library(codeclimber.net.nz)

submitted by simonech(10.1k) 2 months, 28 days ago

A introduction to Wijmo, a jQuery UI based component library, and the rational behind the decision of adopting it vs other component libraries read more...

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Coded UI Tests : WPF Utilities(www.jonathanantoine.com)

submitted by jmix90(570) 4 months, 11 days ago

I played a lot with Coded UI Tests API on WPF applications these last weeks. It turned out that this is a really powerful framework available to use but that we need to write a lot of code ourselves even for simple things. You may already know the coded ui test utilities of Gautam Goenka available on his blog. On this blog post, I want to introduce a set of complementary helper methods that you can use in your project. The links to the binaries/sources are at the end of the post. read more...

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Open Tabs to the Right in Visual Studio 2010(www.codersbarn.com)

submitted by Bognit(2125) 4 months, 12 days ago

It really annoys me that files are opened in the tab bar in Visual Studio by default to the left. read more...

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Coded UI Tests : Property “ReadOnly” cannot be retrieved ...(www.jonathanantoine.com)

submitted by jmix90(570) 4 months, 17 days ago

Did you ever encounter this error while trying to retrieve a property value from an AutomationElement ? I did ! Don’t worry, there is always a work-around, and I’ve found one. In this post, we’ll dig a little more into this issue and give a little example of the “Coded UI Tests” fun read more...

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[WP7] Quick tip : how to set 32 bits per pixel for your app.(www.jonathanantoine.com)

submitted by jmix90(570) 4 months, 19 days ago

Something new which came with Mango is the ability for the developers to set the number of bits per pixel our app use. By doing this, your app will have shiny graphics! This increase the color depth and then the gradient are rendered really more smoothly. I have found a really great example picture on this web forum to show this : read more...

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3D and Azure : yes we can !(www.jonathanantoine.com)

submitted by jmix90(570) 5 months, 4 days ago

In the past, I played a lot with 3D inside WPF. A few days ago, I discovered something awesome : using the power of the Cloud to create beautiful 3D scene. read more...

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Cleaning Up Your Git Repository For NuGet 1.6(coderjournal.com)

submitted by zigamorph(3319) 5 months, 13 days ago

Provides an article detailing how to clean up the packages directory to get your project and repository ready for NuGet 1.6. read more...

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