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• Validating properties of a class in .NET 3.5

  A few years ago (5 I believe) I was in the process of building an API / Framework for this.  ASP.NET Dynamic Data supports the RegularExpressionAttribute class.  Cool!   http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.componentmodel.dataannotations.regularexpressionattribute.asp Read More... Posted Thursday, July 16, 2009 1:07 AM by david | 0 Comments Filed under: .NET 3.5, ASP.NET, WCF, .NET 4.0

• The InnerException message was 'Type 'System.DelegateSerializationHolder+DelegateEntry' with data contract name 'DelegateSerializationHolder.DelegateEntry:http://schemas.datacontract.org/2004/07/System' is not expected.

  In .NET 4.0 / Visual Studio 2010 I was working with a WPF application who’s ViewModel was sending a Model (Data) object back to a WCF service for processing.  In previous versions of the framework and WCF I could simply send any serializable object Read More... Posted Thursday, July 16, 2009 1:06 AM by david | 0 Comments Filed under: C#, WCF, Visual Studio 2010, .NET 4.0, WPF

• Bug with Visual Studio 2010 and DBML designer – Changes not causing regeneration of DataContext code.

  Vote for this bug if you encounter this problem.  Basically in 2010, if you regen the DBML file outside of VS the underlying DataContext code does not get regenerated.  This is bad because changes outside of VS 2010 to your DBML will not get Read More... Posted Monday, July 13, 2009 9:53 PM by david | 0 Comments Filed under: C#, .NET 3.5, Linq, Visual Studio 2010, .NET 4.0, DBML

• WPF: How to bind to an enum in XAML.

  Finally found a great article on this after some searching and finding really outdated articles! http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb613576.aspx < Window xmlns ="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation" xmlns:x ="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml" Read More... Posted Thursday, July 09, 2009 6:39 PM by david | 0 Comments Filed under: .NET 3.5, Silverlight, .NET 4.0, XAML, WPF

• Visual Studio 2010: Debug annotations (sticky notes) for debugging / Quick Watch

  Two really cool features in Visual Studio 2010 for C# developers.  1) Sticky Notes Quick Watch with annotations.  You may say, huh?  What are you talking about?  Well, look at the screen cap below. This is by far one of the coolest Read More... Posted Thursday, July 09, 2009 6:35 PM by david | 0 Comments Filed under: C#, Visual Studio 2010, .NET 4.0, WPF

• AG_E_UNKNOWN_ERROR inside Silverlight/WPF project

  I encountered the infamous AG_E_UNKNOWN yesterday.  I was actually using Silverlight controls from Telerik.  I dragged the RadGridView control inside my XAML and thats where the problem manifested.  Apparently the drag/drop operation did Read More... Posted Thursday, July 09, 2009 5:12 PM by david | 0 Comments Filed under: .NET 3.5, XML, Silverlight, .NET 4.0, WPF

• How to bind the value of a slider control to another control’s property in WPF/Silverlight.

  This should work for WPF and Silverlight.  This is a SUPER simple example.  I find it hard to locate really good clean examples in WPF / Silverlight.  People tend to do a lot of Control Templating and Style-izing which clouds the code.  Read More... Posted Wednesday, July 08, 2009 5:34 PM by david | 0 Comments Filed under: Visual Studio 2008, .NET 3.5, Silverlight, Visual Studio 2010, .NET 4.0, XAML, WPF

• Custom configuration settings and persisting data to XML… the right way.

  At my wits end with some seriously lame code I stumbled upon today.  Believe it or not, I actually saw a developer use a dead open source .ini reader/writer to read and write ONE setting in a config file.  The best part is the open source project Read More... Posted Tuesday, July 07, 2009 9:23 PM by david | 0 Comments Filed under: C#, .NET 3.5, .NET 2.0, .NET 3.0, XML, Serialization, .NET 4.0

• Code Snippet for Dependency Property (WPF/SL)

  I am writing some User Controls for a WPF application and needed a quick way to create my Dependency Properties for my control. Below is the code snippet. First element is the type, next the Property Name, then the Containing Class name (you need this Read More... Posted Sunday, July 05, 2009 10:59 PM by david | 0 Comments Filed under: .NET 3.5, Silverlight, .NET 4.0, XAML, WPF

• Convert a WPF Browser Application project to a WPF Application

  So I started an application as a WPF Browser Application (XBAP – Xaml Browser APplication) and quickly noticed that I needed to do some things that really should be in a stand alone app for CAS reasons.  I found a blog entry by Karen Corby that showed Read More... Posted Monday, June 01, 2009 6:02 PM by david | 0 Comments Filed under: Visual Studio 2008, .NET 3.5, .NET 4.0, WPF, XBAP

• WPF & VS 2010: What happened to…

  This blog page will end up being a series. Here I will discuss what happened to certain features and elements of WPF and Visual Studio. Anchor In Windows Forms we used Anchoring to allow a control to stretch while a form is resized. <Frame HorizontalAlignment= Read More... Posted Wednesday, May 20, 2009 6:36 AM by david | 0 Comments Filed under: Visual Studio 2010, .NET 4.0, XAML, WPF

• Visual Studio 2010: Intellisense fails to recognize namespaces of a referenced project.

  Intellisense fails to recognize namespaces of a referenced project. Type Bug ID 453846 Status Active Access Restriction Public Opened By dsandor Opened 5/19/2009 Submission Language English Description Adding a previously compiled project reference to Read More... Posted Tuesday, May 19, 2009 8:34 PM by david | 0 Comments Filed under: Visual Studio 2010, .NET 4.0