RedGate SQL Compare
As per this survey, RedGate SQL Compare is one of the best SQL comparison tools on the market. I downloaded a trial today. It works fast, produces safe synchronization scripts […]
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Some anti-patterns I am experiencing first hand
I am working on a rather interesting WPF project, which “implements” so many anti-patterns I had to blog about it. The most interesting thing about this project is that it […]
Can’t have a binding to binding
Let’s say we want to display a list of countries, and depending on the user input we want to show either the capital city, population, or the language spoken in […]
WPF: Merged dictionary parser depends on XML attribute order
Does attribute order in XAML matter? It should not, but sometimes it does. The following XAML compiles, but blows up at runtime with “Item has already been added” exception, both […]
ClickOnce Publisher WTF
Today ClickOnce publisher came up with this message: “The application platform does not match the existing application on the server. Do you want to overwrite it?” What is the platform […]
Database proramming rant
After a long while I am back to dealing with databases directly from ADO.NET. Guys, this is ridiculous. Any serious library designed like that would be heckled. This is what […]
VS 2008 unit test host cannot run tests in one thread
Our UI code is single threaded and UI classes use some shared static data. They work just fine, but the unit tests sometimes fail. Investigation led to threading issues. Visual […]
WPF: Is clone of Freezable frozen?
WPF defines a Freezable type that is a base class for “almost immutable” objects. They can be setup in read/write mode and then “frozen” which makes them immutable and thread […]
XSLT and Microsoft.NET
While working on XML serializers I wandered into the XSLT land. It turned out that XSLT support in .NET is not stellar. Well, you may already know that, but it […]
Researching XML Serializers for .NET – work in progress
After a little discussion at work on which XML serializer for .NET to use, I decided to do a little research. The candidates were the regular XmlSerializer, the XAML serializer […]