Silverlight 4 released

Windows 7 According to Scott Guthrie's blog, Silverlight 4 has been released. Backup your projects folks! The announcement was made at MIX10. There are some changes in this new version that I ...

Programming

0 comments :: blogged 4/20/2010



Windows 7 - Problem Steps Recorder

Windows 7 Have you ever worked in an environment where the QA team isn't all that tech savvy? Maybe they are tech savvy, but they are lazy and do not like to write up bugs. Perhaps the phrase "Would yo...

Programming

0 comments :: blogged 9/18/2009



Visual Source Unsafe

Visual SourceSafeWhen 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



WPF animation in code

xaml icon 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

Security iconWith 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



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

1 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



Anatomy of a software issue

an image of rays going through a blue sky When something goes wrong with a program, there are many factors involved. If you are a developer at a company, chances are you are the last line of defense a...

Programming

0 comments :: blogged 5/1/2008



Getting started with XAML

firefoxThe learning curve for WPF an XAML is steeper than Microsoft might have you believe.This is largely because developers used to coding up a Windows Forms interface primarily worked with a built ...

XAML Programming

1 comments :: blogged 4/24/2008



XAMLer Introduction

This is a website dedicated to all things Extensible Application Markup Language (XAML). It is an extensible markup language designed specifically to describe a user interface to the compiler. It is used in such technologies as Windows Presentation Foundat...

XAMLer Programming XAML

1 comments :: blogged 4/15/2008