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Windows Phone 7 Boot Camps
Columbus, OH September 7 Waukesha, WI September 14 Grand Rapids, MI September 14 Little Rock, AR September 15 Cleveland, OH September 15 St. Louis, MO September 16 Downers Grove, IL September 21 Southfield, MI September 21 Austin, TX September 22 Chicago, IL September 23 Des Moines, IA September 23 Tulsa, OK September 28 Memphis, TN September 29 Houston, TX September 30 Knoxville, TN September 30 Technorati Tags: Windows Phone 7,Silverlight I'm registered for the St. Louis boot camp on September ......
Posted On Friday, August 27, 2010 9:12 PM | Comments (0)
C# in Depth, Second Edition
Technorati Tags: .NET,C#,Jon Skeet I'm really looking forward to the second edition of Jon Skeet's C# in Depth book, which should be printed in September. I took advantage of this "SkeetTweet" from yesterday: 45% off C# in Depth 2nd edition (http://manning.com/skeet2) - use coupon msa1145 at checkout. Valid until August 17th. …to pre-order the printed book, plus "Manning Early Access Program" access to PDFs of chapters from the work-in-progress, plus a PDF copy of the complete first edition, all ......
Posted On Saturday, August 14, 2010 10:04 AM | Comments (0)
INotifyPropertyChanged with less code using generics & reflection
Technorati Tags: .NET,INotifyPropertyChanged... In my last post, I talked about using a Visual Studio code snippet for properties in classes implementing INotifyPropertyChanged: The code snippet lets me create the properties faster, but it's still a lot of repetitive "setter" code for each. What if I moved the "has the value changed?" and backing field update logic out of the property setters and replace my NotifyPropertyChanged method with this CheckForPropertyChange method?: protected bool CheckForPropertyChange<T... ......
Posted On Tuesday, July 27, 2010 8:44 AM | Comments (4)
INotifyPropertyChanged with less typing using a Code Snippet
Technorati Tags: .NET,INotifyPropertyChanged... Kevin Grossnicklaus gave a nice presentation on M-V-VM User Interface Patterns in Silverlight and WPF at last night's St. Louis .NET User Group meeting. A key part of MVVM is implementation of the INotifyPropertyChanged interface to let views know that bound properties have changed. Here's a simplified version of a model class from the MSDN INotifyPropertyChanged documentation: public class DemoCustomer : INotifyPropertyChanged { private Guid _id ......
Posted On Tuesday, July 27, 2010 7:48 AM | Comments (3)
Questions about geekswithblogs.net
First off, thanks to Jeff & John for creating geekswithblogs.net, and to whomever else I might not know about who maintains it, and to all of the other bloggers for everything I've learned from them the past several years. I've been blogging like a madman lately to earn a geekswithblogs.net T-shirt (Oh please, please let it have a picture of a CareBear!), and have three questions for my fellow geeks: 1) Is there a way to configure your blog to get email notification when someone comments on a ......
Posted On Saturday, July 10, 2010 11:52 AM | Comments (1)
Azure Boot Camp
Belated thanks to Perficient for sponsoring (and providing lunch, which was a nice unadvertised surprise) and to Avichal Jain and Brian Blanchard for presenting at the St. Louis Azure Boot Camp May 13-14. There was a little more upfront discussion of “What is Cloud Computing and Why is it important?” than I thought necessary (I would think that people signing up for a two-day Azure event would already be convinced that it’s a worthwhile thing), but we put on our boots and fired up Visual Studio soon ......
Posted On Monday, May 31, 2010 8:03 AM | Comments (0)
Woohoo! I won something stupid!
Beware of geeks bearing gifts... I just got notification that I won one of the monthly "stupid prizes for smart people" from Community Credit. Thanks to David Silverlight for founding this great program. I'm sure productivity in my office will soar once I install my new Desktop Swing Ball: I've only started blogging regularly recently, and am working on overcoming my natural shyness to try to volunteer to help out more with the St. Louis .NET community. I hope that sometime in the near future, I'll ......
Posted On Thursday, October 1, 2009 1:29 PM | Comments (0)
Book Review: C# in Depth by Jon Skeet
C# in Depth is not for beginners. It assumes a working knowledge of C# 1.0, and is not so much a tutorial of C# 2 and 3 features as an in-depth examination of how and why they work. I don’t think I learned anything I didn’t know about using generics, extension methods, delegates, anonymous methods and lambdas, but Skeet does a great job of zooming in on the inner workings of each of these features, building up to the big picture of how they all snap together to make the game-changing programming ......
Posted On Saturday, September 26, 2009 8:43 PM | Comments (2)
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