Silverlight Clipping Fun
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 […]
Hacker’s diary
Silverlight Animation Performance
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
OneWayToSource: Road to Hell Paved with Good Intentions
Eager to fix one thing, Microsoft broke another. In .NET 3.5- OneWayToSource bindings did not require source property to have a getter. After all, it is one way from destination […]
WPF: Default style is not applied when it's the only app resource
I encountered something that looks like a weird WPF bug. Default style will not be applied to controls if both of following conditions are true: 1. The style is the […]
Prism Regions and Nested Tab Controls
It is official: Prism regions don’t work for a tab control inside a tab control. The reason is described here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8592802/tabcontrol-within-tabitem. Simply put, there is only one instance of the […]