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re: Silverlight, RIA Services, and Your Business Objects

Deborah Kurata — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 01:03:04 GMT

Hi Geoff -

Thank you for the kind words and Happy Thanksgiving to you and your family as well!

re: Silverlight, RIA Services, and Your Business Objects

Geoff Fox — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:56:32 GMT

Deborah,

This is up to your usual standard - a potentially complex topic made simple and crystal clear. I have followed your guidance since VB5 days with your book "Doing Objects" and met you the last time at the San Diego .net users group. Thanks again I will be building upon this for my work.

Happy Thanks Giving to you and your family!

re: Dates: Binding to Day Numbers

Ciro — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:51:01 GMT

Deborah,

This tip is very cool!

Thank you to share with us.

re: Caller Id: Using StackTrace

Jason — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 08:08:04 GMT

You have no example with getting line I will go with Charlieit123's solution! E for Effort!

re: Silverlight: Images

Deborah Kurata — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 06:27:27 GMT

Thanks for the tips, Ted.

re: Silverlight: No More Boxy UIs

Deborah Kurata — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 05:12:26 GMT

Thanks for your suggestions, Greg.

As someone on the "better" side of 40, I find that gradients are softer on the eyes. But I agree on the other points. The easy font size adjustment is one of my favorite things in Win7.

Thanks again.

re: Writing Data from a DataTable to Excel

Deborah Kurata — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 05:07:02 GMT

Thanks for the tip, rngGuy!

re: Writing Data from a DataTable to Excel

rngGuy — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 22:51:39 GMT

I used the excel API and it was extremely slow. Then I found this article

theengineroom.provoke.co.nz/.../how-to-bulk-insert-data-into-an-excel-worksheet-using-c-and-office-12.aspx

Highlights:

1) Get your datatable

2) delcare object array

3) fill object array with data

4) get an excel range object of exact size of column with and number of rows

5) excelRng.Value2 = object array

Your data is 'pasted' into your worksheet and you don't have to use the clipboard object

HTH

Accessibility

Greg — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 21:13:39 GMT

Please keep in mind that persons 40 years and older will have difficulty with:

- Gradients

- Too many colors

- Similar colors on top of each other (light brown text on brown background).

- Too many rounded corners

- Too many lines

- Fixed font size

- Color scheme is low contrast

re: Populating a DataGridView from Xml Data

Ilber — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 20:29:23 GMT

Hi Deborah,

I have this situation:

<Root>

</Date>

</Date>

</Date>

</Root>

When in child nodes i have only one child everything goes well when i read it, but if there are more then one note my query read only the first child.

This is my query:

Dim query = From st In inXLM...<Date> _

Select New With { _

.Data = st.Attribute("Value").Value, _

.MM = st.<MM>.@Title, _

.Note = st.<MM>.@Note}

Can you help me plese.

Thanks in advance,

Ilber

re: Bolding Text in Microsoft Word using .NET

Farabi — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 23:18:28 GMT

Nice one

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re: Silverlight: No More Boxy UIs

Mark Wisecarver — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:01:13 GMT

Once again...Awesome!

Thanks a bunch ;-)

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Silverlight: No More Boxy UIs

Deborah's Developer MindScape — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 23:11:25 GMT

As WinForms and WebForms developers, we are used to building user interfaces (UIs) that look like this

re: Reading Fixed Length Files

Deborah Kurata — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 21:13:10 GMT

Hi vishal -

Thank you for stopping by my blog. Please post your question here:

social.msdn.microsoft.com/.../categories

The forums provide a much easier place for asking questions that require reviewing code and submitting follow up questions.

I monitor the forums often, and there are many experts there that can help you with any issues you are having.

Hope this helps.

re: Unit Testing: An Introduction

Deborah Kurata — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 21:08:58 GMT

I have a *very large* solution and I am able to debug from the tests with no problem.

However, if I have been debugging from within the tests for a significant amount of time (like all afternoon), I then find that I have difficulty. Often just existing Visual Studio and reopening the solution solves the issues and allows me to continue.

Hope this helps.

re: Unit Testing: Code Coverage

Deborah Kurata — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 21:08:13 GMT

I have a *very large* solution that originally was converted from VB6. In general, I am able to debug from the tests with no problem.

Hope this helps.

re: Reading Fixed Length Files

vishal — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 20:05:30 GMT

my text file adds and subtracts the text in my application but it doesnt show the text inside.

could you please let me know why is that so?

re: DAL: Using a Data Provider Factory

Wagner — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 19:19:21 GMT

the oracle database gives back a RefCursor.. how to populate dataset with RefCursor