Here is another early release of the MVVM Light Toolkit V3 (Alpha 2). I decided to release gradually and early as soon as a new part of this new version is ready, to allow advanced users to install…

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Sorry for the long blogging hiatus. First it was, of course, the holidays hustle and bustle, then my brother and his wife gave birth to their son, so I’ve been away from my blogging for two weeks.

I had written a pair of posts before about creating a debug-able and self-installing windows service template in C#. This is a template I began creating to ease creating windows services and to tak…

protected void ApplicationBeginRequest(Object sender, EventArgs e) { HttpRuntimeSection runTime = (HttpRuntimeSection)WebConfigurationManager.GetSection("system.web/httpRuntime"); //Approx 100 Kb(f…

public static class XDocumentExtensions { /// <summary> /// Saves the contents of an XDocument object into a XmlDocument object /// </summary> /// <param name="xDocument">Source document</param> //…

By default, when a stand-alone instance of Microsoft SQL Server exists in a cluster environment, the SQL Server-based instance is set to start automatically. If the host node is rebooted, you may r…

public class Person { private string name;

I got this error when I try to create an eventlog source and when I try to write to the new event log (after resorting to manually creating the event log source) with my ASP.NET application.

Exception handling seems to be a common problem for .NET developers, particularly younger developers. We pretty much all know that you should wrap operations that have the potential for failing in …

The latest release of the MVC framework provides the JsonResult for Controller actions. I was surprised that I did not find a weatlh of examples for usage so I figured it shouldn’t be too hard to g…

UI development gets all the attention, but application integration is where the real work is done. When it comes to application integration in the Azure ecosystem you better learn how Functions and…

The MVVM (Model-View-ViewModel ) Design Pattern requires that you create a facade layer between the Model and the View called the ViewModel.

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A little over 2 years ago, I saw my peer’s code that uses the KeyedCollection<TKey, TItem> class. I never seen it before, and it is actually a pretty nice class. It is essentially a dictionary clas…

Now that Visual Studio 2010 has been released, there are a lot of extensions being written. In fact, as of today (May 1, 2010 at 15:40 UTC) there are 809 results for Visual Studio 2010 in the Visua…

Today´s mainstream object orientation is not what Alan Kay, the inventor of the term, intended:

There is much simpler and graceful way to shut down a site while doing upgrade to avoid the problem of people accessing site in the middle of a content update.

I’m in the process of evaluating how my team will upgrade our product from .NET 3.5 SP1 to .NET 4. I expected the upgrade to be pretty smooth with very few, if any, upgrade issues. To my delight, t…