At the recent Calgary Tech Days event I did a presentation on building composite applications with WPF and Silverlight. One question that I get asked…

I was sad to find out the “codingwithoutcomments” site was taken down. For the sake of a specific post from there, I went to waybackmachine.com and got…

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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…

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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…

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…

In global.asax: protected void ApplicationBeginRequest(Object sender, EventArgs e) { HttpRuntimeSection runTime =…

public static class XDocumentExtensions { /// <summary> /// Saves the contents of an XDocument object into a XmlDocument object /// </summary> /// <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…

public class Person { private string name; public Person(string name) { this.Name = name; } public string Name { get { return this.name; } set { this.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…

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

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…

\[Updated\] UI development gets all the attention, but application integration is where the real work is done. When it comes to application integration in…

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…

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…