Jun 22 2011

XAML Intellisense for Databindings!

Category: mvvm | silverlight | wpf — Administrator @ 08:55
How to get intellisense for your bindings in XAML with Resharper 6. [More]

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Jan 11 2011

Microsoft rejects my app due to “Certain Types of Illegal Activity”.

Category: silverlight — Administrator @ 17:11
  So, I got my first app rejection. No big deal. I have to fix something and resubmit, right? Well, not exactly. One of the reasons for this rejection apparently is section 3.7 regarding Certa... [More]

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Jan 8 2011

Using TweetSharp in a Windows Phone 7 app

Category: silverlight — Administrator @ 18:17
Version 1.4 of Hangover Helper has a tiny twitter feed build in. The apps purpose is to give users 5 minutes of fun; it’s not a serious app. I don’t want to force users to log on to anyt... [More]

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Jul 27 2010

Windows Phone 7 Multitasking

Category: silverlight — Administrator @ 19:59
Windows Phone 7 lifecycle [More]

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Jul 21 2010

Silverlight/WPF ComboBox with Empty Item allows user to go back to no selection.

Category: mvvm | silverlight | wpf — Administrator @ 23:23
The problem Imagine a ComboBox bound to some business objects: <ComboBox ItemsSource="{Binding Items}" SelectedItem="{Binding Item, Mode=TwoWay}">        ... [More]

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Jun 11 2010

MVVM: Get rid of the magic string in RaisePropertyChanged

Category: mvvm | silverlight | wpf — Administrator @ 07:36
I found a great little feature in the Prism4 framework. They overloaded the RaisePropertyChanged method of the ViewModelBase class to accept a lambda instead of a string and use a bit of reflecti... [More]

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Jun 10 2010

MixTeams.com: My hobby Silverlight project

Category: mixteams.com | silverlight — Administrator @ 12:50
MixTeams.com was accepted on the silverlight.net showcase yesterday. Now the site actually has users. Great, makes it more fun to spend time on a hobby project. (oh, and this is KB, not u... [More]

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Jun 8 2010

BalloonBox Control

Category: silverlight — Administrator @ 14:00
I created this templated Silverlight CustomControl. Go ahead and download the source. <Balloon:BalloonBox Grid.Row="1" Grid.Column="2" Type="MouseOverToShow" Grid.RowSpan="3" ... [More]

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