Microsoft has just released a full-fledged data grid for WPF, along with date picker and calendar controls. There is also a WPF Office Ribbon control. To get the binaries (and source code!), go here: http://www.codeplex.com/wpf/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=15598 Enjoy.
Archive for October, 2008
The WPF Data Grid – Finally!
Posted in Technical on October 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
PDC 2008 Sessions – Live!
Posted in Technical on October 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
For anyone unable to attend the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference (PDC) this week in Los Angeles, it is possible to view live recordings of the sessions here: https://sessions.microsoftpdc.com/public/timeline.aspx Just select the session you want to view, and then click the play button to view the recording. I’ve also started collecting some of my favorite sessions [...]
Configure WCF for Legacy ASMX Clients
Posted in Technical on October 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The nice thing about WCF is its ability to reach all types of clients, including those set up for communication with a traditional ASMX web service. In many cases, those clients reference a URL ending with an .asmx extension, and it’s not always practical to re-configure clients to use a WCF service that ends with [...]
What’s Going on with our Economy?
Posted in Personal on October 11, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Unless you’ve been living in a cave, you’ve undoubtedly heard about the turmoil in the global financial markets and the dramatic plunge in stock prices that took place over the past week. But while there are a lot of big, scary headlines out there, I haven’t seen very much in-depth analysis to help folks get [...]
Managing Conflicts in LINQ to SQL
Posted in Technical on October 9, 2008 | 1 Comment »
There are a couple of gotchas when managing concurrency issues with LINQ to SQL. First, when you catch a ChangeConflictException and allow the other user’s changes to win by calling ResolveAll on the DataContext’s ChangeConflicts property and passing RefreshMode.OverwriteCurrentValues, other non-conflictual changes will not be persisted because LINQ to SQL will roll back the transaction [...]
How We Foiled Summer Heat
Posted in Personal on October 5, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Soon after we purchased our home in a suburb of Dallas, Texas, I started to investigate how to make the house more energy efficient, and in particular how to protect ourselves against excess heat from the sun during summer months. So I started looking into radiant heat barriers. Some companies spray on Aluminum based paint [...]
Posting Code to a WordPress Blog
Posted in Technical on October 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I just found a great post on how to format code sections in a WordPress blog: http://www.thomasclaudiushuber.com/blog/2008/01/07/give-your-blog-code-the-visual-studio-look Now the code in my blog should look a lot prettier. static void Foo() { // This is a comment Console.WriteLine("Print something to the console."); }
Visual Studio and ESET’s NOD32
Posted in Technical on October 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve been using NOD32 as my anti-virus for quite some time now, and I’ve been quite pleased with it. For the most part it runs silently in the background and does not impact system performance. However, I’ve discovered there are some issues related to running Visual Studio and its interaction with NOD32. First of all, [...]
