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Modern UI for WPF

A few months ago I blogged about Metro-styling a WPF application. My post merely scratched the surface and never considered styling any other...

0 replies - 2954 views - 02/25/13 by Toni Petrina in Articles

Setting up Unit Testing in Windows Phone 7 and 8

Introduction After reading the comments on this video and in forums, there seems to be a lot of confusion about how to setup “Unit Testing” in...

0 replies - 1896 views - 02/24/13 by Michael Crump in Articles

SQL Server Compact Code Snippet of the Week #6: List All User Tables in a Database

This week’s short code snippet shows how to list all the user table objects in a SQL Server Compact database file. Notice that a SQL Server Compact database...

0 replies - 1445 views - 02/23/13 by Erik Ejlskov Jensen in Articles

How to Return the ID Field After an Insert in Entity Framework?

There are times when you want to retrieve the ID of the last inserted record when using Entity Framework. For example:Employee emp = new Employee(); emp.ID...

3 replies - 2055 views - 02/22/13 by Senthil Kumar in Articles

Find Your Inner App Hero with These New Windows 8 App Templates

Mark Arteaga - Windows 8 App Templates Released"For the past month we have been busy putting together some Windows 8 templates to help developers...

0 replies - 1394 views - 02/21/13 by Greg Duncan in Articles

Thoughts on Commenting Asynchronous Functions in C#

While I was wrapping up my asynchronous extension methods library, I realized that to be useful, all methods should have proper documentation. Since the number...

0 replies - 1739 views - 02/19/13 by Toni Petrina in Articles

Fun with TPC-H (Part 2a) – AWS RedShift

So, this is the second article I’ve written against the TPC-H Benchmark (Part one here). Recently, Amazon announced that their ‘fast, fully managed...

0 replies - 1510 views - 02/18/13 by Nick Haslam in Articles

Composing Maintainable XAML Apps - Two Hour Video Workshop

UserGroup.tv - Composing maintainable apps in XAMLSpeaker:Michael PerryAbstract:Of all the user interface technologies that have reached the main...

0 replies - 1297 views - 02/15/13 by Greg Duncan in Articles

Building an Imgur Client for Windows Phone - Part 5 - Uploading A Picture

If you missed the previous four parts, you can easily find them here:Building an Imgur Client for Windows Phone - Part 1 - Core & Main GalleryBuilding an...

0 replies - 1679 views - 02/14/13 by Den Delimarsky in Articles

How to Return Dictionary As a Result From a LINQ Query in C#?

This article will provide a code snippet and explains how to return Dictionary as result from a LINQ Query in C# .There are times when you want to retrieve...

0 replies - 1967 views - 02/13/13 by Senthil Kumar in Articles

Is the event log (fast) enough for me?

In a recent project I was required to come up with a suggestion for logging and while the existing view of using a text file is used by many popular...

0 replies - 1727 views - 02/12/13 by Robert Maclean in Articles

Using jQuery Webcam Plugin With ASP.NET MVC

I have to use webcam images in one of applications I build and when playing with different components I found free and easy to use Flash and jQuery based...

0 replies - 3515 views - 02/10/13 by Gunnar Peipman in Articles

Fixing the Entity Framework Designer “Generate Database from Model” T4 Template

The Entity Framework Designer include a reverse engineer feature called “Generate Database from Model” that enables a “Model first” workflow, and also...

0 replies - 1695 views - 02/08/13 by Erik Ejlskov Jensen in Articles

Scratch–Programming For Kids Or Going Old School

Originally posted on: http://geekswithblogs.net/tmurphy/archive/2013/02/01/scratchndashprogramming-for-kids-or-going-old-school.aspxI was watching the TED...

0 replies - 1697 views - 02/07/13 by Tim Murphy in Articles

TF.exe Fast Overview

In this post, I will give a fast overview about tf.exe command line, I will show how to use different options, like checkin, workspces, view, diff, status and...

0 replies - 1553 views - 02/06/13 by Mohamed Radwan in Articles