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Enum.GetValues for Windows Phone (and Portable Libraries)

Windows Phone is missing quite a lot of different things, but I never figured it would be missing something as basic as Enum.GetValues. Since I need it...

0 replies - 1506 views - 03/17/13 by Toni Petrina in Articles

Mocking Internal Interfaces with Moq

When creating some Class Library you should pay attention to the visibility of its members and have a clear vision of what you’d like to expose to its users...

0 replies - 1683 views - 03/14/13 by Juri Strumpflohner in Articles

iOS Programming for .NET Developers Book Review

Description: This book is a field guide for .NET developers exploring the foreign world of native iOS programming. It explains the iOS development platform by...

0 replies - 2042 views - 03/12/13 by Michael Crump in Articles

Self Executing Anonymous Function

Not because it is all that new, but because it took me a while to find it, here’s how to create a self executing anonymous function using CSharp, just like...

0 replies - 1992 views - 03/07/13 by Dave Bush in Articles

Easier Tuple-Like Classes in C#

A discussion during the MVP Summit prompted me to think about what would make it easier to use tuple-like classes while preserving valuable naming information...

0 replies - 2083 views - 03/03/13 by Sasha Goldshtein in Articles

How to Extract a URL’s Title, Description and Images using HTML Agility Utility

Extracting the details from any web page URL is not so easy task. Because you need something to track that page. In this article we are going to extract the...

0 replies - 2822 views - 03/02/13 by Sourabh Sharma in Articles

Building an Imgur Client for Windows Phone - Part 6 - Uploading UI

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

0 replies - 1567 views - 02/27/13 by Den Delimarsky in Articles

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 - 3257 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 - 2097 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 - 1536 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 - 2347 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 - 1495 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 - 1824 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 - 1634 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 - 1361 views - 02/15/13 by Greg Duncan in Articles