Browse Blog Posts by Tags

All Tags » CSharp » .NET (RSS)

Browse Blog Posts by Tags

Showing related tags and posts for the Blogs application. See all tags in the site

Silverlight and RIA: Adding a ComboBox to a DataForm

Building a DataForm is quick and easy and is detailed in this prior post . Even customizing it is a breeze as was also shown in that prior post. But now the design calls for a ComboBox. Ready to walk off a cliff? It is surprisingly difficult to modify a DataForm to display a working ComboBox that is...

Posted to Deborah's Developer MindScape by Deborah Kurata on Wed, Nov 25 2009
Filed under: Filed under: VB, C#, .NET, CSharp, Silverlight, RIA Services
Silverlight and RIA Services: Binding to a DataForm

When building line of business (LOB) applications, a common feature is create, review, update, and delete (CRUD) operations on the data in the application. An easy way to provide this feature is using the Silverlight DataForm. [For an introduction to Silverlight and RIA Services, start here .] NOTE:...

Posted to Deborah's Developer MindScape by Deborah Kurata on Wed, Nov 25 2009
Filed under: Filed under: VB, C#, .NET, CSharp, Silverlight, RIA Services
Silverlight and RIA Services: Managing Your Codes

Every application has some type of codes: customer types, reason codes, states, and so on. Sometimes these codes can be hard-coded in an application as Enum values. But other times these codes are more readily stored in a table. This post details how to work with code tables through RIA Services. [For...

Posted to Deborah's Developer MindScape by Deborah Kurata on Wed, Nov 25 2009
Filed under: Filed under: VB, C#, .NET, CSharp, Silverlight, RIA Services
Saving and transferring customisations

I got an email from a reader last week asking about saving customisations in Visual Studio: Hi Bill I read an excellent article by you http://visualstudiomagazine.com/Articles/2007/12/01/Customize-the-VB-IDE.aspx?Page=1 Just wondering if you know of a way to export those customisations so I can set up...

Posted to @ Head by bill on Tue, Nov 24 2009
Filed under: Filed under: VB, VSM, DevCenter, VS2008, CSharp, .NET
Silverlight: Building a Grid and StackPanel in Code

Many Silverlight examples show how to build controls with XAML. But XAML does not support programming logic. So sometimes you need to build the controls with real code in C# or VB. This example demonstrates how to build a Grid and StackPanel with Buttons first in XAML and then in C# and VB. It seems...

Posted to Deborah's Developer MindScape by Deborah Kurata on Mon, Nov 23 2009
Filed under: Filed under: VB, C#, .NET, CSharp, Silverlight
Silverlight: No More Boxy UIs

As WinForms and WebForms developers, we are used to building user interfaces (UIs) that look like this: Notice the rectangular header area and the rectangular link area and the rectangular data entry area. With Silverlight it is (relatively) easy to give the UI less of a boxy look: So the above UI may...

Posted to Deborah's Developer MindScape by Deborah Kurata on Tue, Nov 17 2009
Filed under: Filed under: VB, C#, .NET, CSharp, Silverlight
Silverlight: Images

I just needed to add a simple image to my Silverlight application to include a company logo. Three hours later … This post provides information on the image formats supported by Silverlight so that you don't run into the same issues and waste as much time as I did today. [NOTE: To anyone on the Silverlight...

Posted to Deborah's Developer MindScape by Deborah Kurata on Fri, Nov 13 2009
Filed under: Filed under: VB, C#, .NET, CSharp, Silverlight
Silverlight and RIA: Sharing Your Business Object Files

So I have read in dozens of places that you can easily share a source code file between your business objects and your Silverlight project. So I thought I would try it. No go. [To begin with an overview of Silverlight, RIA, and your business objects, start here .] Supposedly, if you created a file in...

Posted to Deborah's Developer MindScape by Deborah Kurata on Tue, Nov 10 2009
Filed under: Filed under: VB, C#, .NET, CSharp, Silverlight, RIA Services
Silverlight and RIA: Ignoring a Property in Your Business Object

There may be times when you want RIA Services to ignore a property in your business object. This may be the case if you know you won't ever need to access the property from your Silverlight UI or if you can't make RIA services understand the property properly. [To begin with an overview of Silverlight...

Posted to Deborah's Developer MindScape by Deborah Kurata on Tue, Nov 10 2009
Filed under: Filed under: VB, C#, .NET, CSharp, Silverlight, RIA Services
Populating a TreeView Control from a List

This post details first how to build a list containing the data to display in a WinForms TreeView control. Then it demonstrates how to use recursion to populate the TreeView control from the list. [For information on populating a TreeView control from XML, see this link .] First, create a class that...

Posted to Deborah's Developer MindScape by Deborah Kurata on Mon, Nov 9 2009
Filed under: Filed under: VB, C#, .NET, CSharp, WinForms
Silverlight, RIA Services, and Your Business Objects

With RIA Services, it is easy to use your own business objects in your Silverlight application… once you have the basic plumbing in place. However, there are quite a few steps required to set up that plumbing. This post details the process of hooking up your business objects, RIA Services, and Silverlight...

Posted to Deborah's Developer MindScape by Deborah Kurata on Thu, Nov 5 2009
Filed under: Filed under: VB, C#, .NET, CSharp, Silverlight, RIA Services
IntPtr gets operators !!!

This seems so incredibly long overdue, but at last as of .NET 4, IntPtr has + and – operators added to it !! This means you can now easily write code such as : Dim ptr As IntPtr . . . . ptr += 4 this is great when dealing with offsets etc...

Posted to @ Head by bill on Wed, Nov 4 2009
Filed under: Filed under: VB, DevCenter, VB10, CSharp, .NET, VS 10
XAML: Gradients

Gradients are a good way to make your application more visually interesting. They turn a flat solid color into something more natural and appealing to the eye by creating an illusion of light and shadow. For example, compare this image which uses flat colors: to this image that uses gradient colors:...

Posted to Deborah's Developer MindScape by Deborah Kurata on Tue, Nov 3 2009
Filed under: Filed under: VB, C#, .NET, CSharp, XAML, Silverlight
RichTextBox Styles

If you are building a WinForms application and want to style your text, you may want to use the RichTextBox control instead of the standard TextBox control. This post provides some of the common techniques required to style text in a RichTextBox control. To try out the examples in this post, build a...

Posted to Deborah's Developer MindScape by Deborah Kurata on Sun, Nov 1 2009
Filed under: Filed under: VB, C#, .NET, CSharp, WinForms
Visual Studio: Clipboard Ring

Way back when we were using Visual Studio 2005, there was a Clipboard Ring tab in the Toolbox. I loved that tab! When I am doing a bunch of copy/pastes, I sometimes find that I hit Ctrl+C when I meant to hit Ctrl+V, and poof! my Clipboard was kindly wiped out for me. With VS 2005, I could just...

Posted to Deborah's Developer MindScape by Deborah Kurata on Thu, Oct 29 2009
Filed under: Filed under: VB, C#, Visual Studio, .NET, CSharp
Unit Testing: Exposing Private Members

Visual Studio 2008 (Professional Edition and above) provides a really nice set of tools for development and execution of unit tests. It is, of course, easy for your tests to access the public properties and methods of your classes. But what about those private members? [To begin with an overview...

Posted to Deborah's Developer MindScape by Deborah Kurata on Thu, Oct 29 2009
Filed under: Filed under: VB, C#, .NET, CSharp, Testing
Unit Testing: Exposing Internal/Friend Members

Visual Studio 2008 (Professional Edition and above) provides a really nice set of tools for development and execution of unit tests. It is, of course, easy for your tests to access the public properties and methods of your classes. But what about those internal/friend members? [To begin with an...

Posted to Deborah's Developer MindScape by Deborah Kurata on Thu, Oct 29 2009
Filed under: Filed under: VB, C#, .NET, CSharp, Testing
Unit Testing: Testing Properties

Visual Studio 2008 (Professional Edition and above) provides a really nice set of tools for development and execution of unit tests. This post provides suggestions for testing your property getters and setters. [To begin with an overview of unit testing, start here .] Let's say your Customer class...

Posted to Deborah's Developer MindScape by Deborah Kurata on Thu, Oct 29 2009
Filed under: Filed under: VB, C#, .NET, CSharp, Testing
Unit Testing: Code Coverage

Visual Studio 2008 (Team System ONLY) provides a really nice set of tools for viewing the code coverage of your unit tests. NOTE: While Visual Studio 2008 Professional Edition has tools for building, executing, and debugging unit tests, it does NOT include the code coverage tools. [To begin with an overview...

Posted to Deborah's Developer MindScape by Deborah Kurata on Sun, Oct 25 2009
Filed under: Filed under: VB, C#, .NET, CSharp, Testing
Unit Testing: Execution

Visual Studio 2008 (Professional Edition and above) provides a really nice set of tools for development and execution of unit tests. [To begin with an overview of unit testing, start here .] This prior post demonstrates how to build a unit test using the "Create Unit Tests..." feature of the...

Posted to Deborah's Developer MindScape by Deborah Kurata on Sun, Oct 25 2009
Filed under: Filed under: VB, C#, .NET, CSharp, Testing

Page 1 of 7 (127 items) 1 2 3 4 5 Next > ... Last »

Questions? Contact Susan at Susan-at-msmvps.com. Each post's copyright held by the original author. All rights reserved. Blog site is an independent site not sponsored by Microsoft.
Our servers would like to thank www.ownwebnow.com and www.exchangedefender.com. We wouldn't be here without the generosity of Vlad Mazek and his companies.

Powered by Community Server (Commercial Edition), by Telligent Systems

Theme based on the Paperclip Blog Theme included in Community Server.
Enhanced to a Site-Wide Theme by Interscape Technologies.

Recent Posts

Tags

Browse Blog Posts by Tags