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MIX09 Day 1 Keynote: A Roundup of Announcements and Releases

  Wednesday was Day 1 of Microsoft’s MIX 2009 conference. The keynote was handled by Bill Buxton and Scott Guthrie. There were a lot of announcements...

0 replies - 1365 views - 03/19/09 by alashcraft in Articles

How to Re Style the AvalonControlsLibrary DataGridView

I received an email from 3 different persons asking me how to restyle the column headers of the DataGridView Control of AvalonControlsLibrary so I decided to...

0 replies - 514 views - 03/17/09 by Marlon Grech in News

Mapping Stored Procedure Results to a Custom Entity in Entity Framework

In the post I’m going to explain how to map results of a stored procedure to a custom created entity which we have created with the Entity...

0 replies - 2642 views - 03/16/09 by gilf in News

FitNesse.NET Tips and Tricks

In this talk, Gojko Adzic talks about efficient usage of FitNesse within the dotNET environment. FitNesse is an enhancement to the Fit acceptance testing...

0 replies - 1398 views - 03/12/09 by alashcraft in Videos

.NET Fireside Chats - Dan Fernandez and Brian Peek

DZone recently had an opportunity to sit down with Brian Peek and Dan Fernandez, authors of 'Coding4Fun: 10 .NET Programming Projects for Wiimote, YouTube,...

4 replies - 1544 views - 03/10/09 by alashcraft in Articles

Removing Warnings from CSharp Compile Cycle

One of the things I try to do when I’m working on my CSharp projects is to make sure I don’t have any compile errors or warnings.  The reason for removing...

0 replies - 479 views - 03/10/09 by DaveMBush in News

More Uses for Value Converters and Extension Methods in Silverlight Binding

I’m working on a super quick Silverlight 2 application for a restaurant kiosk. We’re using EF and Astoria / ADO.NET Data Services as our data provider, and...

0 replies - 1435 views - 03/07/09 by Psychlist1972 in News

Building a WPF Application: Part 5

About 5pm today I was burnt-out from some difficult work on a particular client's project. Our last four projects have all been WPF with an emphasis on UI and...

0 replies - 904 views - 02/27/09 by bennage in News

Implementing a WCF service firewall part I of N

One of the SOA patterns I already described is the Service Firewall. The idea behind the service firewall is to have an intermidiator between the actual...

0 replies - 1347 views - 02/26/09 by arnonrgo in News

The VSTA Layer Diagram and the p&p App Arch Guide 2.0

Microsoft is releasing more and more tooling and guidance for the architect.

0 replies - 844 views - 01/27/09 by clemensreijnen in News

How to Write Your Own Code Snippets

IntelliSense code snippets  are a very useful tool for developers in order to write code faster.In the post I’m going to describe how to ...

0 replies - 1385 views - 01/23/09 by gilf in News

jQuery, JSON and ASP.NET

A few months ago, I demonstrated how to use ASP.NET’s JSON capabilities.  Lately, I’ve been demonstrating how to use jQuery.  Both use a considerable...

0 replies - 4213 views - 01/22/09 by DaveMBush in News

.NET Fireside Chats - Laurent Bugnion on 'Silverlight 2 Unleashed'

DZone recently had an opportunity to sit down with Laurent Bugnion, author of 'Silverlight 2 Unleashed'.  In this interview, Laurent discusses the origins and...

0 replies - 982 views - 01/21/09 by alashcraft in Articles

Dustin Campbell on the Future of VB in VS2010

Dustin Campbell, a self-professed "IDE guy", is speaking at the .NETDeveloper's Association of Redmond this evening, on the future ofVisual Basic in...

0 replies - 1322 views - 11/25/08 by Ted Neward in News

Silverlight Glass Button

Martin Grayson wrote an amazing tutorial about how to create a WPF glass button using blendin his blog. He explained each and everything in very details with...

0 replies - 3177 views - 11/21/08 by Michael Sync in News