Archive for the ‘.NET’ Category
Thursday, November 13th, 2008
When using the new WPF Ribbon CTP with CompositeWPF (aka Prism), you probably want your modules to fill the ribbon with tabs. To let modules add content to your shell window, you have to mark the designated areas as Region.When trying to add a Region name to the ribbon with ...
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Wednesday, July 30th, 2008
In one of my current projects i have to convert a lot of strings to DateTime structures. Sometimes tens of thousands datetime-string arrive at the service per second. As performance is an issue in this project, i was looking for the most performant way to do all the stuff. that's ...
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Tuesday, May 13th, 2008
Everyone that has ever worked with the WinForms PropertyGrid will miss it in WPF.
Therefore i wrote this tiny turorial on how to write your own very basic PropertyGrid on top of WPF.
Disclaimer:This is not a ready to use fully-featured control for production use. It just shows in a very ...
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Monday, May 5th, 2008
Today i encountered a strange behaviour with NHibernate. The error message in the headline was kinda confusing. I spent some time on google and everything i found was that my mapping is probably wrong or contains some bugs though i knew my mapping was definitely correct.
Some time later i found ...
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Saturday, May 3rd, 2008
Wcf is great when it comes to message exchange. But Wcf even contains functionality when you want to stream data.
This is especially useful if you want to transmit a huge amount of data (think about the maxBufferSize option in Wcf configuration) or you want your clients to start processing ...
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Friday, April 25th, 2008
WPF offers great functionality when it comes to DataBinding. You can e.g. set a List of Customer-Objects as DataContext on a ListView and don't have to care about the rest.The following example shows a List of Customer's bound to a ListView:
But what if you want to display some Properties of ...
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Friday, April 18th, 2008
log4net is a great logging library that comes with a couple of nice Appenders (these are the parts that actually log the stuff to a specific medium). It even has some appenders that can send the log data over the wire:
NetSendAppender
UdpAppender
RemotingAppender
SmtpAppender
TelnetAppender
...
But these appenders just did not fit my needs. ...
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Friday, April 18th, 2008
Visual Studio offers a nice designer for creating/editing settings for your Application. Accessing those settings via the static Settings class is a breeze and the configuration method of choice for small applications (i wouldn't use it in larger LOB applications though).But i was never happy how Microsoft solved the way ...
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Monday, March 10th, 2008
Although it might seem that you can only use ClickOnce installers with IIS, it's not true, as all you need to do is set some mime-types in your lighttpd configuration:
mimetype.assign = (
".application" => "application/x-ms-application",
".manifest" => "application/x-ms-manifest",
".deploy" => "application/octet-stream"
)This should actually work with any other webserver, as long as ...
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Sunday, February 17th, 2008
Da ich durch die side-by-side installation von VS2008 und VS2005 doch einige Probleme mit der SCSF und WSSF hatte (funktionierte nur auf VS2005) gibts nun endlich support für die Guidance Automation Extensions für VS2008 UND VS2005 auf einmal. Zusätzlich fällt nun endlich die notwendige Deinstallation der Vorgängerversion weg. Danke!http://blogs.msdn.com/agile/archive/2008/02/15/gax-gat-february-2008-final-release.aspxupdate: Die ...
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