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A TextBox With Rounded Corners Through WPF XAML

What is the first idea that comes to mind when someone mentions rounded corners and WPF? Probably Border. That is the right thing to think about, but how to...

0 replies - 3425 views - 10/21/12 by Den Delimarsky in Articles

Windows Azure Development Storage and StorageServerException (Error 500)

When preparing my Sinergija12 code examples I ran into an interesting problem. Windows Azure local development storage hangs for about minute and gives...

0 replies - 1156 views - 10/21/12 by Gunnar Peipman in Articles

Windows Store App Development: What Do You Get From Being A Lock Screen App?

When you start with development of Windows Store apps, you may want to run tasks in the background and an important aspect of that is deciding if you want to...

0 replies - 1689 views - 10/20/12 by Robert Maclean in Articles

Microsoft DevRadio: Using Blend to Help Design Your Windows 8 Apps (Part 2)

In Part 2 of our Using Blend for Windows 8 apps series, Andrew Duthie and Kirupa Chinnathambi take a deep dive into how you can use Blend to easily design your...

0 replies - 1598 views - 10/17/12 by G. Andrew Duthie in Articles

Using The Windows 7/8 Taskbar Progress Indicator Outside The WPF Stack

Have you seen that progress indicator in the Windows 7/8 taskbar? If you used Windows 7 or 8 at least for a day, chances are you did. Did you like it? I surely...

0 replies - 2397 views - 10/15/12 by Den Delimarsky in Articles

10 Tips To Avoid The Typical Windows 8 Design Traps

.net magazine - 10 things you should know about designing for Windows 8The launch of Windows 8 on 26 October will provide an exciting new platform for...

0 replies - 1713 views - 10/12/12 by Greg Duncan in Articles

Looking At TypeScript

Four days ago my twitter has been nuked. The bomb has exploded after TypeScript site link has reach to top of Hacker News and people watched the video of...

1 replies - 1801 views - 10/07/12 by Alexander Beletsky in Articles

Using Jump List Icons in Windows Desktop Applications

Since the release of Windows 7, lots of .NET developers felt the need to use the new features introduced by the OS. One of these features is the possibility to...

0 replies - 1906 views - 10/04/12 by Den Delimarsky in Articles

Entity Framework: Expressing the Missing LINQ

I have worked on quite a few projects that use the Entity Framework. It is a powerful ORM and does quite a lot out of the box. I've worked with code-first,...

0 replies - 1452 views - 09/21/12 by Jeremy Likness in Articles

Runtime Representation of Generics — Part 2

This is an excerpt from Chapter 5 (Collections and Generics) of Pro .NET Performance, scheduled to appear in less than a month. I might be publishing a few...

0 replies - 1458 views - 09/19/12 by Sasha Goldshtein in Articles

Why You Need To Try TFS Team Project Manager

Visual Studio Gallery - TFS Team Project Manager "TFS Team Project Manager automates various tasks across Team Projects in Team Foundation Server....

0 replies - 1256 views - 09/14/12 by Greg Duncan in Articles

TFS 2012 – Issue: TF30063: You Are Not Authorized To Access And Can’t Trace Permissions

Originally posted as TFS 2012 – Issue: TF30063: You are not authorized to access and can’t trace permissions on Visual Studio ALM - Guidance for agile...

0 replies - 2584 views - 09/10/12 by Martin Hinshelwood in Articles

dI.Hook – Creating A Dependency Injection Container

If you are new to dI.Hook, please visit the di.Hook Product Page for Overview, Release Version and Source Code. Some posts you might want to read would be:...

0 replies - 1551 views - 09/09/12 by Punit Ganshani in Articles

The New .NET 4.5 Feature Every XAML Developer Will Love

If you develop using XAML and you are using .NET 4.5 (i.e. WPF or Windows 8) then there is a feature that will make you smile a bit, CallerMemberName. XAML...

0 replies - 3070 views - 09/08/12 by Robert Maclean in Articles

Remote Machine Debugging With Windows 8

A nice feature we had in the Windows phone days was the ability to plug in your device and test your code running on it, if you had more than one device...

0 replies - 3012 views - 09/07/12 by Simon Jackson in Articles