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As software creators we don't get to decide what version of our tools / libraries that people use. If we try to force them, our users will go somewhere else. Update: What Type of Software This Applies To This post talks of tools, applications and libraries. Things that end up in the users hands....
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Recently when I was working with Entity Framework inside one of our RIA Services end points I ran into the errors below while trying to save my changes. Of course at first this error caused me to stop and scratch my head To give a bit of background on what I was doing. Inside one of our RIA...
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“Because everyone wants to kick their database, but sometimes kicking your database is a good thing!” Many would not argue that you should version your code, and few would argue against versioning your code in a way that can lead back to a specific point in source control history. However...
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**** NOTE: This post is valid for the Developer Preview of WinRT and MAY change in later releases **** If you have been paying attention to any of the Windows 8/Metro stuff that has come out sense BUILD you may have noticed that with Windows 8/Metro application developers can now easily light up their...
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If you have been paying attention to any of the Windows 8/Metro stuff that has come out sense BUILD you may have noticed that with Windows 8/Metro application developers can now easily light up their applications by enabling their apps to hook into the system search mechanism. This post (and subsequent...
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If you have been paying attention to any of the Windows 8/Metro stuff that has come out sense BUILD you may have noticed that with Windows 8/Metro application developers can now easily light up their applications by enabling their apps to hook into the system search mechanism. This post (and subsequent...
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If you have been paying attention to any of the Windows 8/Metro stuff that has come out sense BUILD you may have noticed that with Windows 8/Metro application developers can now easily light up their applications by enabling their apps to hook into the system search mechanism. This post (and subsequent...
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If you are not a power user, like me, of Fiddler2 (or even a non-power user) you may run into the occasion where Fiddler simply stops capturing your traffic it can be very frustrating. Today this happened to me, well technically I caused the issue a few weeks ago, but just noticed it today. If...
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***** UPDATE ***** If you would like to see a video on this topic check out Episode 194 @ Dimecasts.Net ******************* When building out a Silverlight application (or WPF application for that matter) the MVVM pattern is the pattern of choice for most projects I am aware of. When using MVVM...
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Ok, this is just a cool little feature I found in Ninject today and I am 100% sure I may be the last person on the planet to find this but who cares. today as I was trying to get IoC implemented in our application at work I ran across the need to bind a type to an existing singleton in our application...
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***** NOTE: This post was created because other posts on the net are outdated and the ninject libraries have changed. ***** When using any type of IoC container one of your goals needs to be to remove as much friction and ceremony as possible. One way to do this with an IoC container is to use...
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Anyone who has been doing any type of .net development knows you can subscribe (MSDN on event subscription ) to an event as follows: Subscribe to an Non-Anonymous Method ... // instance class w/ an event myClass.DoSomething += HandleDoSomething ... // the method which handles the event privat evoid HandleDoSomething...
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Anytime you use a relational database it is always a challenge to keep your changes in sync between your different environments. If you work with what I would call a typical setup you have your local database, your shared development database, your shared qa database, possible a shared unit/integration...
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We live in a world where thoughts and concepts are not getting smaller and simpler but rather they are getting larger and more complicated. Software teams in many cases are no longer all crammed into one room or can be fed by 2 boxes of pizza (which is a large systemic issue in my opinion). Teams are...
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Ok, now that I have your attention, it is time to get your mind out of the gutter and back on the topic at hand. When you are building out native mobile applications you are undoubtedly going to communicate to some sort of back end server via some sort of Web Service (say WCF for example if building...