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 […]
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. […]