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Demo days (CONDG meeting, December 14, 2009)
The Central Ohio .NET Developers Group held their final meeting of the year last night at the Microsoft office in Polaris. Four people gave short demos of Xbox, Zune HD, Windows Mobile, and iPhone, and...
View Article2010 Central Ohio Day of .NET
A co-w0rker and I attended the Central Ohio Day of .NET on June 5, 2010. There was quite a bit of good content at the conference, which is a real tribute to the organizers, volunteers, and presenters....
View ArticleDon’t try, don’t catch
Have you ever had a situation where all of those nested try/catch blocks just get in your way when trying to chase down a problem? I just hate that. Luckily, in Visual Studio 2008 (and other versions,...
View ArticleCompound comparison in a LINQ join statement
I’ve been doing pretty much iPhone only postings recently, so this might change it up a bit. So I am trying to go into our web application’s C# code to make some changes to the administration area of...
View ArticleAzure + SSL
Sorry about the delay in between posts kiddies, I have been very busy at work with Routzy and playing baseball at Pirates Fantasy Camp. Hopefully soon the Routzy app will be approved and I will be able...
View ArticleUsing the new WPF themes
So I am looking around for some ideas on making this WPF based application for Windows that I am working on look slightly less sucky. And I see some nifty themes on this web page: WPF Themes And I am...
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How to dynamically generate a TrackBallInfoTemplate
The Telerik ChartView control is nice, but if you cannot create your XAML ahead of time (or in other words, you don’t know how many LineSeries you are going to have on your chart), then you are in...
View ArticleDBNull string field handling
Let’s say for the sake of argument that you are using a SQL Server Compact database in your C# .NET application, and your User table has nvarchar fields that are nullable, and your User class doesn’t...
View ArticleOverriding a TargetType Style without a Key in WPF
I have been doing a lot of work in WPF lately, and it is a different animal. The default styles of a button did not look right for my application, so I came up with the following XAML that styles up...
View Article.NET regex to find strings inside curly braces
Regular expressions all by themselves have the magical ability to amaze and confound all at the same time. Throw in a dash of .NET string interpretation and you have a recipe for pulling out the...
View ArticleHow to use a C# .NET interface to send messages between classes
I have used delegates in Objective-C to send message back and forth between classes for years. (And in fact, I did a blog post on Setting up an Objective-C delegate for the iPhone SDK a few years back...
View ArticleCross a bridge at night
OK, here is a scenario. Four people on a journey together need to cross a bridge at night as quickly as possible. Among the four of them, they have one flashlight. They cannot continue their journey...
View ArticleThe final word on .NET background processing (for now)
While snooping around for information on .NET background processing, I came across a bunch of interesting articles by .NET MVP Stephen Cleary that go into great detail about using Task.Run vs. a...
View ArticleCompound comparison in a LINQ join statement
I’ve been doing pretty much iPhone only postings recently, so this might change it up a bit. So I am trying to go into our web application’s C# code to make some changes to the administration area of...
View ArticleAzure + SSL
Sorry about the delay in between posts kiddies, I have been very busy at work with Routzy and playing baseball at Pirates Fantasy Camp. Hopefully soon the Routzy app will be approved and I will be able...
View ArticleError 404 on web service with map route
If you are getting an error 404 on your web service with a map route decorator on your methods, you might want to check your IIS settings to make sure that it is configured correctly. Apparently, your...
View ArticlePlain ol’ XML
So let’s say you are working on an application in the .NET sphere of influence, and you have an object that you want to turn into XML. However, you shoot it through an XmlSerializer and you think you...
View ArticleLINQ to SQL DBML file shows up as XML code in Visual Studio Community 2017
I have a project from a few years ago that I am looking back into again, and while it builds just fine in Visual Studio Community 2017, when I open the DBML file, I get a big XML file instead of a nice...
View ArticleVisual Studio 2017 launches to a black or invisible screen
So I am working along on a .NET project in Visual Studio 2017 on my Windows 10 Pro laptop, and all of a sudden when I launch the application, I get either a black window where the IDE should be, or the...
View ArticleVisual Studio 2017 launches to a black or invisible screen, part 2
It turns out that disabling the Intel and Nvidia drivers on my Windows notebook computer are not really sufficient to fix the issue when Visual Studio 2017 launches to a black or invisible screen, as...
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