Software Development: A Day in The Life (Long)
At times I feel that software development is much, much harder than it should be. Ridiculous crappy annoyances await you on every corner, some of them many years old. We […]
At times I feel that software development is much, much harder than it should be. Ridiculous crappy annoyances await you on every corner, some of them many years old. We […]
I spent some time today trying to understand why my control’s size and/or position would refuse to change. A statement like control.Width = 42; would have absolutely no effect: the […]
In WPF/Silverlight we are all accustomed to writing things like Width=”{Binding foo}” and Text=”{Binding bar}”. The little Binding gremlins then actually access foo or bar property of the current data […]
As I discovered that the source IEnumerable is called by PLINQ from multiple threads, it made me thinking: how can it possibly work? E.g. when someone writes code like this: […]
I am trying to play with PLINQ, and I was wondering, if I have an enumerable that, say, reads lines from a file, or stock prices off Yahoo Finance, would […]
Just write a quick macro for Visual Studio that would replace < with < and > with >, etc. I am probably the 1000th person to do that. Yet, it […]
While Silverlight animation performance may be better than WPF, its support for clipping is definitely inferior. First off, there is no ClipToBounds property. If you want your canvas to clip […]
I am an experimenting with a Silverlight port of a WPF control, and find all kinds of funny things about Silverlight. The good news is that Silverlight team seems to […]
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 […]
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 […]