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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

Binding to instance properties

Binding in WPF is a powerful and useful way to populate controls. You can bind to many different types of data sources in many different ways. One way that I am very comfortable with is using a normalized relation database like SQL, pulling data out an...

Programming XAML

0 comments :: blogged 6/23/2008

Simple HttpSessionState management

There are a few blogs with very interesting ways to manage objects stored in the session. Some of these approaches offer very cool ways to maintain static typing yet still only store what you need to in the session. The way that we will approach this issu...

Programming

1 comments :: blogged 5/8/2008