Archive for December, 2008
Monday, December 29th, 2008
Time to look back on the year and pick out the most popular posts or topics based on visits: Building a Green Windows Home Server Common project settings for your Visual Studio solution C# Inline Methods and Optimization Gotchas: MSTest's [DeploymentItem] attribute The "It Works ...
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Wednesday, December 24th, 2008
Getting validation working with data binding in WPF is pretty simple as .NET 3.5 added support for IDataErrorInfo. You can read more about this on the WPF SDK blog and in the databinding overview article on MSDN. This post outlines how you can go about extending this validation approach to ...
Tags: EntLib, WPF
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Sunday, December 21st, 2008
The Synaptics Touchpad on the Samsung NC10 supports two finger scrolling but the driver they ship doesn't enable this feature. Considering the touchpad is so small two finger scrolling sounds pretty attractive as it allows you to turn off the virtual scrollbars on the sides of the pad.
Lucky for there's an ...
Tags: Hardware, Netbooks
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Thursday, December 18th, 2008
I've been playing around with WPF data binding recently and was struggling a bit with how to debug it when things weren't working right. Translation: cursing a lot when everything was hawked and I couldn't figure out why.
Suppose I have the following binding that doesn't work the way I expect.
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Tags: Gotchas, WPF
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Tuesday, December 16th, 2008
Someone pointed me at this video today. Pretty interesting stuff... Nachi Nagappan discusses a study done over multiple teams within and outside of Microsoft on TDD Channel 9 talks with Nachi Nagappan about Test Driven Development (TDD): Does it work better? How better? ...
Tags: Events, TDD
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