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Visual Source Unsafe

When you are working on a project in Microsoft Visual Studio and you are bound to a Visual SourceSafe project you might be thinking to yourself "Let me check in my project just to make s...

Programming

0 comments :: blogged 12/23/2008

Silverlight RC0 ComboBox Woes

At various times during the execution of your Silverlight application you may run into a mysterious issue with comboboxes. At one point the Content of the combobox's SelectedItem property becomes null. And yet the value is still there. I knew the value wa...

XAML

0 comments :: blogged 10/13/2008

WPF animation in code

I was working on a project where I wanted transitions when a user navigated from one screen to the next. I was familiar with creating animations in Microsoft Expression Blend, so I ...

Programming XAML Animation

0 comments :: blogged 8/6/2008

Simplifying SecureStrings with extension methods

With the .NET 2.0 Framework, Microsoft introduced a class called SecureString. Its purpose is to help programmers protect sensitive data by encrypting strings that are in memory. In add...

Security Programming

0 comments :: blogged 7/25/2008

WPF Binding Modes

If you're like me who was only a casual user of the binding process prior to WPF, you would bind a control to some data and call it a day. It was either bound or it wasn't. Well there is a little more to it than that and we'll see why that is a good thing....

XAML

0 comments :: blogged 7/1/2008