-
One of the thoughts I've been considering recently with chocolatey is consistency with packages and naming conventions as chocolatey continues to grow. It's fine to name packages by the app/tool name, that's both intuitive and expected. What I am more interested in is when an application...
-
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...
-
The AutoCompleteTextBox is a great tool in Silverlight to allow you to provide relevant information to your users as they are typing as seen below: But there are a few issues with this control Pretty much every sample on the net uses the code behind to do the heavy lifting and not binding It will not...
-
DropkicK (DK) has been in development for over two years and has been used for production deployments for over a year. Dru Sellers originally posted about DK back in 2009 . While DK isn’t yet as super easy to grok as some of the other ChuckNorrisFramework tools and offers little in the idea of conventions...
-
***** If there is any type of built in MVC support for helping find these issues please let me know ***** Ok, this may be common sense to everyone else on the net and if so… Oh Well. Tonight I was working on the MVC3 rewrite of the Dimecasts.net website and after a bit of refactoring my search feature...
-
When building a WinRT/Metro application one of the key integration points between your application and others is to allow Data Sharing via the Sharing Contracts. By default applications DO NOT support sharing and when a user taps on the Share Charm they will see an error similar to the following. This...
-
When building a C# WinRT/Metro you may run into the following compile error Manifest references file ‘yourfilenamehere.exe’ which is not part of the payload I have received this error a few times now, each time after doing the exact same thing. Renaming my project file. Turns out that any...
-
**** 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...
-
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...
-
If you have started to play with the WinRT /Win8 developer preview bits you have noticed that there are several project templates to choose from: Application Grid Application Split Application Class Library Unit Tests (finally they get the idea that testing is important) One thing...
-
Today I ran into a very odd issue when trying to reload the Silverlight Image Control with a new image which happened to have the EXACT same URL as the previously loaded image. See in our application we provide a way to upload an image and also allow the user to not simply create a new image but rather...
-
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...
-
***** 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...
-
***** 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...
-
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...