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Windows 8 thoughts after a day at BUILD 2011

Thu, 15 Sep 2011 07:16:05 GMT

some thoughts on Windows 8 after BUILD 2011

Hidden C# feature - string.Format Width

Sat, 17 Apr 2010 16:15:00 GMT

Hidden C# feature string.Format width

Posting data to a REST service using C#

Wed, 18 Feb 2009 00:46:08 GMT

Taking a look at how you can post data to a REST service using C#.

Moonlight 1.0 Release

Thu, 12 Feb 2009 20:16:03 GMT

Now Linux lovers can enjoy Silverlight streaming media with Moonlight 1.0. Read what Scott Guthrie tells us about this open source implementation of Silverlight.

Creating a better Wrapper using AOP

Fri, 06 Feb 2009 04:31:15 GMT

If you've ever had to adapt third-party objects to your object model, here's a technique that you can use to skip the grunt work of building those wrapper classes.

WPF Apps With The Model-View-ViewModel Design Pattern

Wed, 28 Jan 2009 23:16:03 GMT

A nice article on the MVVM pattern for WPF.

Hidden Features of C#

Fri, 02 Jan 2009 18:01:02 GMT

In this article, I'll just link to a pretty great StackOverFlow Question about Hidden Features of C#. Most of C# Features are obscure for us and need some explanations, the following list and explain how to use it.

ASP.NET MVC Release Candidate shipping in January

Fri, 19 Dec 2008 18:01:02 GMT

ScottGu talks about the upcoming Release Candidate of ASP.NET MVC V1 and the features it brings to the table

AttachedCommandBehavior v2 aka ACB

Sun, 14 Dec 2008 02:10:15 GMT

Some new features added in the AttachedCommandBehavior version 2.... Read more about it ....

ASP.NET Caching with .NET 3.5 Service Pack 1

Sat, 06 Dec 2008 00:46:15 GMT

Take a quick look at ASP.NET Caching with .NET 3.5 Service Pack 1.

Why Good Developers Are Not Getting 10 times the Pay?

Sat, 06 Dec 2008 19:31:02 GMT

The productivity gap between the good developers and the bad ones can be very huge. But why good developers are not getting significantly more than the bad ones?

AttachedCommandBehavior aka ACB

Fri, 05 Dec 2008 03:13:27 GMT

This is a solution to attach a command to any Event of any Control in WPF

How to avoid CommandBinding in the XAML code behind

Thu, 27 Nov 2008 00:24:27 GMT

In this post, I discuss how one can make XAML code behind even nicer and eliminate the command binding :)

10 Ways To Programaticly Shoot Yourself In The Foot - Part B

Thu, 27 Nov 2008 18:46:13 GMT

This is part B of the 10 Ways To Programaticly Shoot Yourself In The Foot article. In this article I will talk about another 5 issues that even the best developers have to be aware of. In other words, I will try to prevent you from programaticly shooting yourself in the foot.

WPF ICollectionViewExplained

Mon, 24 Nov 2008 19:31:23 GMT

Tips and tricks on ICollectionView for WPF Apps and how it can be used in M-V-VM

Quote for October

Wed, 22 Oct 2008 08:01:09 GMT

A quote worth remembering!

Crack.NET - A runtime debugging and scripting tool for .NET

Wed, 22 Oct 2008 01:16:15 GMT

Crack.NET is a runtime debugging and scripting tool that gives you access to the internals of any .NET desktop application running on your computer. If you love Snoop and Mole for Visual Studio, you'll love Crack.NET, too. Crack.NET allows you to "walk" the managed heap of another .NET application, inspect all kinds of values on objects, and even manipulate those objects via IronPython scripts.

Tool: Crack.NET

Tue, 21 Oct 2008 18:31:02 GMT

Introducing : Crack.NET

XNA, Meet WPF

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 06:31:02 GMT

The new D3DImage in WPF opens up worlds for WPF. Direct3D content rendered with WPF...it doesn't get any better! The downside is it seems (correct me if I'm wrong) that Microsoft was only targeting unmanaged Direct3D. Yes there is Managed DirectX, but it seems as if MDX is no longer being maintained and it's not so obvious how to get a D3D surface pointer from the API. It really seems MDX has been left in the dust in favor for XNA, which is a very intuitive D3D wrapper. XNA further exacerbates the issue with XNA and WPF.

IntelliSense for Expression Blend

Mon, 04 Aug 2008 19:16:05 GMT

An add-in for Expression Blend 2.5 that adds IntelliSense for editing of XAML files.

WPF: Binding a ConverterParameter value

Sun, 03 Aug 2008 19:09:52 GMT

It is a shame that ConverterParameter cannot have a Binding as a value.... Yet with some tricks you can actually do this.... Have look for yourself.....

Namescopes in WPF

Sat, 02 Aug 2008 15:31:24 GMT

This articles explains how Namescopes work and tips and tricks you can do with them....

Wave Reflection Effect

Sat, 26 Jul 2008 02:01:05 GMT

Reflection effect using Pixel Shader in WPF 3.5 Sp1

Don't Use SELECT *

Mon, 07 Jul 2008 22:16:10 GMT

I've seen many developers actually using and abusing SELECT * FROM queries. SELECT * query not only returns unnecessary data, but it also can force clustered index scans for query plans because columns in the SELECT clause are also considered by the optimizer when it identifies indexes for execution plans.

Don't be clever 2 - The cost of cleverness

Fri, 20 Jun 2008 02:46:03 GMT

In the modern world of programming we need to be more cognizant of making our code readable and grokkable than to make it clever or sneaky. For 99% of the developers out there, no one is ever going to pat you on the back for being sneaky. You're probably more likely to get punched in the face for it when the team has to spend the weekend debugging a piece of your clever code.