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Silverlight RC0 ComboBox Woes

2008-10-13T15:01:27Z

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...

WPF animation in code

2008-08-06T16:16:30Z

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 ...

Simplifying SecureStrings with extension methods

2008-07-25T13:30:43Z

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...

WPF Binding Modes

2008-07-01T11:24:16Z

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....

Binding to instance properties

2008-06-23T11:07:05Z

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...

Simple HttpSessionState management

2008-05-08T14:04:00Z

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...

Anatomy of a software issue

2008-05-01T12:03:05Z

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...

Getting started with XAML

2008-04-24T23:26:37Z

The 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 ...

XAMLer Introduction

2008-04-15T13:06:06Z

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...