Archive for the ‘development’ Category
Friday, April 3rd, 2009
when i was working with WPF earlier this morning i wondered how microsoft got to the color names in their System.Windows.Media.Colors class.At least i'm somewhat confused that Gray (#FF808080) is darker than DarkGray (#FFA9A9A9)they probably have some really strange monitor settings over there in redmond ;)
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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 ...
Posted in .NET, WPF, c#, development | 9 Comments »
Monday, November 10th, 2008
if you're interested, check out our blog at lemQi. I just posted a comparison of Project Bamby compared to other (commercial) barcode recognition libraries working with image processing. Also, Sebastian posted some stuff about thresholding methods we used.
There will be much more activity over there than here in the ...
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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 ...
Posted in .NET, WPF, c#, development | 7 Comments »
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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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 ...
Posted in .NET, WPF, c#, development | 1 Comment »
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 ...
Posted in .NET, c#, development | 3 Comments »
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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Friday, February 15th, 2008
Dass man den Workflow Desiger den man aus Visual Studio her kennt auch in eigenen Projekten verwenden kann ist an sich schon eine tolle Sache. Wenn man jetzt aber eine toll Applikation an Kuden verkaufen will, dann sollte alles einen einheitlichen Optischen Eindruck machen.Wer Anwendern die Möglichkeit geben will selbst ...
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