Visual Studio Live New York – Day 1
Attended a bunch of session about WPF and WinRT/Metro. A couple of points: Windows. The schizophrenic operating system with two start screens is here to stay. They openly admit it, […]
Torvalds and Git
Whatever you might think of Torvalds personally, this (Wikipedia) is downright impressive. The development of Git began on 3 April 2005.[12] The project was announced on 6 April, and became […]
LiveJournal CrossPoster test
The old Live+Press plugin is not holding water anymore. I patched it several times, but as WordPress evolves, it keeps falling behind. Time to move to something new.
Hasta la Vista, Baby!
On April 10, 2012 MS Vista enters extended support (slashdot.org). This means no new service packs or IE versions. And I am still using XP – both at home and […]
C# Namespaces and Backward Compatibility – Part 1
Namespaces are a great way to organize code. However, I recently found out that even putting your classes in a carefully organized namespace hierarchy will not shield you from name […]
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 […]
Prism 2.x Weirdness
“Any customer can have a car painted any colour that he wants so long as it is black” H. Ford Trying to figure out how scoped region managers would work […]
Midnight Thoughts about MVVM
What keeps bothering me about MVVM, is that user-defined views behave very differently from built-in controls. We use built-in controls like this: <ListBox ItemsSource=… SelectedItem=… /> If, however, ListBox were […]