Silverlight for Windows Embedded tutorial

Subversion (SVN) is a popular tool used by many development teams as their primary way of versioning their code. Here are some of the basics to SVN.

Recently, I read some posts about Duct Tape programming from Joel Spolsky, Michael C. Neel, Jak Charlton, “Uncle” Bob Martin and Jeffrey Palermo. I have followed these posts closely. While the inte…

This is my first attempt at writing a blog, so you may have to bare with me as I try to find both my feet and the time to get things started properly. My main reason for starting this blog is to ke…

Security questions are a part of the internet, right up there with logins and passwords. No one thought much about them until Sara Palin's Yahoo account was hacked because her security question was…

I was browsing through some code when I came across a line of code which said: CloseHandle( CreateThread(NULL, 0, PeculiarThreadProc, NULL, 0, NULL) ); And I thought, wait a minute, is he closing t…

I’ve been very “heads down” working on my upcoming book from Sams Publishing, Teach Yourself C# 2010 in 24 Hours, so I haven’t been blogging as much as I usually do. In doing some research for the …

The Gang of Four (GoF)(from Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software, Addison-Wesley Professional Computing Series, by Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson, and John Vliss…

One of the big complaints with the version of Windows Workflow Foundation that shipped in .NET 3 and .NET 3.5 (WF3) was that it was very difficult to unit test workflows. Unit testing workflows was…

Team Foundation Server allows you to see who has what file checked out at any time. If you would like to see a list of files that any TFS User has checked out, follow the steps below:

I bought a Dell Studio 17 a few months ago, and as much as I love it, the TouchPad is like crazy-annoying sometimes. Not too long ago, touchpads starting allowing scrolling functionality by sliding…

This is a great week to be in Seattle... and no I'm not... but hey, keep reading! As announced by Tim Heuer: It’s Silverlight week in Seattle beginning tonight at the .NET DA User Group meeting wit…

The users wanted an AutoComplete Combo box in a SilverLight application- a combo box that would allow them to scroll the entire list, as well as filter the list as the user typed in the box. The pr…

For those of us who waded through VB5/6, tracing the execution of our applications and apis was time consuming and somewhat frustrating. Writing to the event log was different than writing to a log…

We already talked often about providing design time data to your designers in Windows Presentation Foundation and in Silverlight, thus enabling them to work visually in design editors such as Expre…

It is a known fact that IE attempts to sniff out the mime type of files as they are downloaded. That is, IE checks the extension of the file, the content type, etc to try to determine if there is a…

In most of the DBs in the server will have more space, when the backup is used to store it in the development environment or testing environment, it might not have much data, but it will occupy mor…

Hi, this is part 5 of our series on IoC containers in .NET. I’m only using them on a simple console application that provides autocompletion for the functions that the application exposes.

Thanks to Alex and Matt for organising another top DevEvening user group in Woking and for everyone who attended my talk on Hyper-V for Developers. Apologies for over running and hope it didn't sto…

As a part of our main customer-facing site, we send out a ton of e-mails - daily status reports, invoices, etc. and we needed a simple mechanism to allow for easy editing of our HTML emails, while …