Kevin McNeish [C# and .NET]

Silverlight 3 DataForm Edit Pencil

KevinMcNeish — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 16:40:00 GMT

Here's a quick tip--if your Silverlight 3 DataForm is not dsplaying an Edit Pencil in the upper right corner, set the DataForm's AutoEdit to false (or if using the Visual Studio or Expression Blend IDE, uncheck the AutoEdit checkbox). Best Regards...(read more)

Silverlight 3 and the Bindable Attribute

KevinMcNeish — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 16:06:00 GMT

You may see a number of videos and sample code for Silverlight 3 that uses the Bindable attribute to specifying editing features of an entity property when working with the Silverlight DataForm control. However, the Bindable attribute (as well as the...(read more)

Don't Miss the Silverlight Toolkit for Getting Additional Silverlight Mojo!

KevinMcNeish — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 11:41:00 GMT

Regardless of whether you have installed Silverlight for VS 2008 or VS2010, you will want to install the additional Silverlight Toolkit: http://www.codeplex.com/Silverlight This toolkit gives you additional controls, components and utilities released...(read more)

Pixel Shaders and Silverlight, WPF

KevinMcNeish — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 02:55:00 GMT

Recently, Silverlight 3 gained the ability to use custom pixel shaders as was already available in WPF. What exactly are custom pixel shaders? A shader is a set of software instructions executed on your computer's Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) that...(read more)

Handling Trailing Spaces with VFP Data and ADO.NET

KevinMcNeish — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 21:08:00 GMT

When working with Visual FoxPro data in ADO.NET, you may be surprised to see trailing spaces at the end of your character data. Visual FoxPro automatically trims these trailing spaces in BROWSE windows and when binding to user interface controls, but...(read more)

.NET Framework 4.0 Beta 2 Installation Error: Unable to create or save new files in the folder...

KevinMcNeish — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 00:48:00 GMT

When trying to install the .NET Framework 4.0 Beta 2 on the Windows partition of my Macbook Pro, I encountered this error: Unable to create or save new files in the folder into which the files are being extracted. Please check the folder properties to...(read more)

Visual Studio 2010 Version Comparison

KevinMcNeish — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 16:51:00 GMT

It's official that Microsoft plans to release Visual Studio 2010 / .NET 4.0 in March 2010. I found this link helpful in determining the difference between the VS 2010, Professional, Premium and Ultimate versions: http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio...(read more)

Fixing the MS Office SP2 "Outlook cannot connect to your incoming POP3 account" error

KevinMcNeish — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 04:37:00 GMT

Bad Outlook Juju So, when I got up this morning, I noticed my computer had rebooted--my main development machine is a MacBook Pro, and I was booted into Mac OSX rather than Windows Vista where I had left it last night. Step 1: Uninstalling Microsoft Office...(read more)

Visual Studio 2010, .NET 4.0, C# and VB .NET 4 - What's New?

KevinMcNeish — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 10:07:00 GMT

I'm starting a series of blog posts today on what's new in the following technologies: - Visual Studio 2010 - .NET 4.0 - C# and VB .NET 4 I'll be giving my take on these technologies, grading them, and talk about how they can and should impact...(read more)

ASP.NET: Storing JavaScript in a separate .js file

KevinMcNeish — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 12:49:00 GMT

Rather than hard-coding your JavaScript into an aspx page, you can store you JavaScript functions in a separate .js file. This allows your furnctions to be used from multiple pages. For example, you could add a .js file to your project (right-click your...(read more)

Entity Framework "Problem in Mapping Fragments" Error

KevinMcNeish — Mon, 18 May 2009 09:04:00 GMT

If you add an entity to the Entity Data Model, then later add another entity that is related in the database to the first entity, Visual Studio will give you a "Problem in Mapping Fragments" error. For example, if you add a Northwind database...(read more)

Problem: "Mapping URI" errors with WPF Assembly Names that include spaces

KevinMcNeish — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 20:31:00 GMT

This is a somewhat insidious bug. As it turns out, if you have spaces in your WPF project's assembly name, you can get "Mapping URI" errors in your project's XAML (even if the solution itself builds properly). As you might imagine, you...(read more)

Getting Expression Blend to Launch VS 2008

KevinMcNeish — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 10:56:00 GMT

If you have multiple versions of Visual Studio on your development machine, Expression Blend may launch the older version (for example, VS 2005) rather than VS 2008. To get Expression Blend to launch VS 2008, follow these steps: Run the Windows Registry...(read more)

DevTeach, 2008 Montreal - Free VS 2008 Pro, Expression Web 2, and Tech-Ed Dev Set

KevinMcNeish — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 22:15:00 GMT

As if DevTeach 2008 isn't a sweet enough deal, Jean Rene Roy announced today that if you register for the conference, you get Visual Studio 2008 Professional, Expression Web 2, and the Tech-Ed Conference DVD Set for free! I've been speaking at...(read more)

DevTeach Toronto, 2008 - A Great Conference!

KevinMcNeish — Thu, 08 May 2008 00:36:00 GMT

DevTeach ( www.devteach.com ) is one of the best deals in .NET conferences...it's a great small conference that gives you access to many of the regular .NET speakers but in a much smaller venue. Personally, I'm giving a pre-con called "WPF...(read more)

How to select a different WPF TabItem in Visual Studio 2008

KevinMcNeish — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:05:00 GMT

Sadly, Microsoft did not provide a TabControl designer for Visual Studio 2008. If you want to edit a TabItem, you can get around this limitation and select a TabItem other than the default by temporarily changing the TabControl's <<b>>SelectedIndex<<...(read more)

How to apply a WPF style to all elements of a particular type?

KevinMcNeish — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 06:24:00 GMT

Often, you need to apply the same style to elements of a particular type, such as Button, TextBox, MenuItem, and so on. To do this, specify a style that uses the TargetType attribute. The following example demonstrates specifying Font settings and a Background...(read more)

Fixing the Vista backup error "the system cannot find the specified file"

KevinMcNeish — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 15:59:00 GMT

I've been getting an error "when using the Vista Backup tools the last few days "the backup did not complete...the system cannot find the specified file". As it turns out this seems to be a Vista "issue". Apparently this is...(read more)

Downloading the VS 2005 Class Designer PowerToys

KevinMcNeish — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 22:38:00 GMT

I just heard that you can download the VS 2005 Class Designer PowerToys at this link: http://www.codeplex.com/modeling With the deminse of the GotDotNet web site, it's been difficult to find a place where it can be downloaded! Kevin McNeish Microsoft...(read more)

DevTeach 2007, Vancouver - .NET 3.0/3.5 Training PreCon

KevinMcNeish — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 18:24:00 GMT

Just wanted to let everyone know about the .NET 3.0 pre-con I'll be giving at DevTeach 2007, Vancouver on November 26. I'll be giving an introductory session on all four .NET 3.0 technologies: Windows Workflow Windows Presentation Foundation Windows...(read more)