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 […]
Perforce + Unicode = Eplic Fail
Just created a Visual Studio Add-in using the wizard. The source files created by the wizard turned out to be UTF-16. The files I create manually are UTF-8. It is […]
Playing with Entity Framework
As certain other “highly integrated” Microsoft technologies, entity framework seems to be high maintenance when it comes to refactoring and moving things around. To move an .emdx file from one […]
Outlook/Exchange Search Performance…
sucks. I did a search for a message from John Doe sent within last month that contains word “foo”. Took about 5 minutes on a folder with about 9300 items. […]
C++
C++11 adds a new non-const reference type called an rvalue reference, identified by T&&. Say what?! Another grammar ambiguity? Now x && y could be a variable declaration or an […]
HTC Droid Incredible 2
Not really a programming topic, but… Had it for a while now – got it from work. Very lightweight and confortable phone. But I have Motorola Droid to compare, so… […]
Windows 8: Dazed and Confused
So, it looks like we get two operating systems for the price of one. It has two styles of apps: one more suitable for a phone (a.k.a. “Metro” style) and […]
Creating ASP.NET membership database: no funky passwords!
To simplify creating and managing users in ASP.NET Microsoft created a lot of infrastructure that takes care of this boilerplate task. Part of the infrastructure is aspnet_regsql.exe utility that is […]
JAX-WS and @XmlRootElement
Just finished a fight with JAX-WS. It turns out that if I have a method like this: @WebService(targetNamespace=…) @SOAPBinding(parameterStyle = SOAPBINDING.ParameterStyle.BARE /* don’t ask */) class MyWebService { @WebMethod MyClass […]
It's the solar flares, stupid
“Three large explosions from the sun over the past few days have prompted U.S. government scientists to caution users of satellite, telecommunications and electric equipment to prepare for possible disruptions” […]