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Data validation - Silverlight versus WPF
When I am creating business applications validating the data in business objects, and displaying any errors, is always a big deal. Even though WPF and Silverlight both use XAML and support data binding the default way to display errors is quite different...
Posted 24 December 2008 03:00 PM by Maurice | 2 comment(s)
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WrapPanel in ListBox revisited
Last week logged about using a WrapPanel in a listBox and demonstrated how to get the content to wrap around, read about it here . Turns out the XAML can be even easier. In the previous post I used a ControlTemplate with a Grid to stop the WrapPanel from...
Posted 08 December 2008 07:11 PM by Maurice | with no comments
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Unit testing in Silverlight part 2
In my previous post I described the basic setup of unit testing in Silverlight, you can read all about it here . The basics where very nice but lots of code we write in Silverlight has to do with networking and in Silverlight that means asynchronous code...
Posted 07 December 2008 10:11 PM by Maurice | 5 comment(s)
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PDC session download
Want to download and watch all PDC content? Then there are a couple of ways to get at them. The official way if to go through the session agenda at the conference site. See https://sessions.microsoftpdc.com/public/timeline.aspx . You see all sessions...
Posted 01 November 2008 12:17 PM by Maurice | with no comments
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Using the ReplicatorActivity in Parallel mode
I have heard quite a few times that the ReplicatorActivity can only be use in parallel mode with a custom activity. The reason being that you need an extra property to store the current child data. When the ReplicatorActivity works in sequential mode...
Posted 22 October 2008 05:17 PM by Maurice | 3 comment(s)
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Red Gate to continue development of .NET Reflector
.NET Reflector, by Lutz Roeder, must be one of the most useful tools I have when developing .NET code. Usually it is the first thing I install right after Visual Studio not even waiting until I need it because I know I will. So the big news is that Red...
Posted 20 August 2008 09:04 AM by Maurice | with no comments
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Using a TransactionScopeActivity within a ReceiveActivity in a state machine workflow
Part 1 part 2 Part 3 Part 4 In two previous blog posts, part one and part two , I covered the fact that the ReceiveActivity and the TransactionScopeActivity don't work together very well. I demonstrated this using a sequential workflow and did show...
Posted 13 August 2008 12:31 PM by Maurice | 3 comment(s)
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Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 available
It is available from the subscriptions download at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/subscriptions/default.aspx Get it while it is hot Enjoy!
Posted 11 August 2008 05:33 PM by Maurice | 5 comment(s)
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CodeCamp 2008
Afgelopen jaar hebben we het eerste CodeCamp in Nederland georganiseerd en dat was een groot succes. De meeste deelnemers vroegen om meer, sommige zelfs om een CodeCamp per kwartaal of een heel weekend lang. Nou hebben we dat laatste nog niet gedaan maar...
Posted 02 August 2008 10:39 AM by Maurice | with no comments
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How to Download all of Visual Studio 2008 SP1
VS2008 SP1 Beta is quite a package. By default the installation downloads the packages as needed and when needed. Now that is just fine if you only need to install a single machine. But when you need to install multiple, possibly virtual, machines like...
Posted 16 May 2008 11:05 AM by Maurice | 11 comment(s)
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Workflow Persistence Service using SQL Server Compact
As I mentioned previously I was working in a Workflow Persistence Service using SQL Server Compact as the back end store. Now this might not be the best persistence store to use in every application but it has a number of advantages. One of the main advantages...
Posted 10 April 2008 08:11 PM by Maurice | 6 comment(s)
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