PHP, Apache, Localhost and IPv6
The number of moving parts in our systems exceeds the limits of single human’s comprehension by a large margin. It is therefore a miracle anything works at all, and we […]
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Cancelling ComboBox Selection in .NET 4
Continuing on a theme of bugs: just added an article about perils of cancelling combo box selection to the web site. Will post it to CodeProject soon. CodeProject
Infragistics XamDataGrid (rant)
Just finished writing a piece of code that would save and restore grid field positions and widths. Yes, I know they have a function for that, but it saves and […]
Visual Studio Live Conference Wrap Up
Besides what I described before, I also attended sessions on WCF 4.5 and Visual Studio debugging. Changes in WCF 4.5 are relatively minor, the biggest one being support for server-side […]
Nested Unity Containers and Singletons
I work on a project that uses Unity dependency injection framework. You get objects from container by calling Container.Resolve<SomeType>(). By default each call to Resolve() will return a new object. […]
Prism Region Manager and Data Templates
When you add a view to a region (Region.Add(view)), it could be a real view, or a data template from which the view is created. The region tries to associate […]
Prism Region Manager and ContentPresenter
Very brief note, so I don’t forget the circumstances: I may write a sample later. When you define Prism region in your view like this: <igDock:TabGroupPane prism:RegionManager.RegionName=”SomeRegion” /> Prism has […]
Visual Studio Live Conference – Day 3
By their own admission, the organizers tried to squeeze most interesting stuff into the first two days, so the third day was less agile and prone to repetition of the […]
Visual Studio Live New York – Day 2 (the end)
jQuery vs AJAX toolkit. It turns out Microsoft ditched AJAX libraries of its own (ASP.NET AJAX, MS Ajax Library, AJAX control toolkit) in favor of jQuery. AJAX control toolkit is […]
Visual Studio Live New York – Day 2 (next part)
Rocky Lhotka gave a nice and quite deep speech on how we, regular software developers, can prepare ourselves to the brave new world of Metro and Windows 8. The trouble […]