Author Archives: Tony Sneed

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About Tony Sneed

Sr. Software Solutions Architect, Hilti Global Application Software

Karisma: Our Surprise Baby!

Posted on November 1, 2008 by Tony Sneed

At 3 am on the morning of October 31st, my wife Zuzana delivered our second child: Karisma Sarah Elizabeth Sneed. To everyone’s amazement, the baby arrived while we were still at home, before we had the chance to get in … Continue reading →

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The WPF Data Grid – Finally!

Posted on October 29, 2008 by Tony Sneed

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.

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PDC 2008 Sessions – Live!

Posted on October 29, 2008 by Tony Sneed

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 … Continue reading →

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Configure WCF for Legacy ASMX Clients

Posted on October 21, 2008 by Tony Sneed

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 … Continue reading →

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What’s Going on with our Economy?

Posted on October 11, 2008 by Tony Sneed

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, … Continue reading →

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Managing Conflicts in LINQ to SQL

Posted on October 9, 2008 by Tony Sneed

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 … Continue reading →

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How We Foiled Summer Heat

Posted on October 5, 2008 by Tony Sneed

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. … Continue reading →

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Posting Code to a WordPress Blog

Posted on October 5, 2008 by Tony Sneed

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 … Continue reading →

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Visual Studio and ESET’s NOD32

Posted on October 5, 2008 by Tony Sneed

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 … Continue reading →

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Fixing the WCF Proxy

Posted on August 28, 2008 by Tony Sneed

If you’ve been programming WCF for a while, you’re probably used to the convenience of using the proxy class generated by svcutil.exe when you add a Service Reference to a Visual Studio project. You’re also probably used to creating the … Continue reading →

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