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• 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

• 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

• Visual Studio 2008 SP 1 – Why you need to stay on top of service packs.

  So it has been a while since I needed to write a legacy ASPX application.  I updated my Telerik controls to the latest version which changed the manner in which the design time control code is referenced.  As it turns out Telerik has gone full Read More... Posted Monday, May 18, 2009 10:43 PM by david | 0 Comments Filed under: .net, Visual Studio 2008, ASP.NET

• SplendidCRM project file for Visual Studio 2008 and .NET 3.5 – working!

  So for those of you that do not know, Splendid CRM is a (sorta) free CRM product based on Sugar CRM (another sorta free).  Both products are great CRM codebases.  The SplendidCRM version is re-written in C# and .NET.  The community version Read More... Posted Monday, May 11, 2009 5:03 AM by david | 0 Comments Filed under: C#, Visual Studio 2008, .NET 3.5, ASP.NET, Converter, CRM

• .NET RIA Services – New Domain Service Class does not show your available DataContexts

  One issue I noticed with RIA services is that LINQ to SQL DBML classes do not show in the Available Data Context drop down until you have compiled the dbml at least once.  This is for obvious reasons but it would be nice to have a warning message Read More... Posted Friday, May 08, 2009 4:56 PM by david | 0 Comments Filed under: ASP .NET, C#, Visual Studio 2008, .NET 3.5, Linq, Silverlight, .NET RIA Services

• Bug in Silverlight 3 when adding a service reference to a Silverlight Application under source control.

  Problem:  Add a reference to a WCF service to your Silverlight 3 application.  The proxy client is created but the binding and endpoint configuration fails to write to the ServiceReferences.ClientConfig file.   Workaround:  Checkout Read More... Posted Monday, May 04, 2009 5:52 PM by david | 0 Comments Filed under: Visual Studio 2008, .NET 3.5, Silverlight, Team Foundation Server 2008

• Visual Studio 2008 crashes after undocking a window and closing the application.

  I have had this issue since the RTM of Visual Studio 2008 and posted a bug report about it.  After a year the problem has been fixed even though several developers on the Visual Studio Dev team claimed they could not reproduce the issue.  That Read More... Posted Monday, April 20, 2009 1:06 AM by david | 0 Comments Filed under: Visual Studio, .net, Visual Studio 2008, .NET 3.5, .NET 2.0, .NET 3.0, 32 Bit, x86, 64 Bit, x64

• SOLVED: ClickOnce Deployment and IIS 7 does not work.

  If you publish a .NET application to an IIS 7 server click once deployment fails with HTTP 404 errors on .manifest, .application, and .deploy files. After googling I found a blog article that went through a bunch of horribly poor suggestions involving Read More... Posted Tuesday, December 16, 2008 9:01 PM by david | 0 Comments Filed under: Visual Studio 2008, .NET 3.5, .NET 2.0, IIS, .NET 3.0, ClickOnce, IIS 7

• Solved: Visual Studio 2008 SP1 Crash

  I have a fresh install of Vista Business x64 with a clean install of Visual Studio 2008 SP1.  I updated my Telerik R.A.D. Controls Winforms from an older 2007 version to 2008 Q2 SP1.  After which (and I do not fault Telerik for this as it is Read More... Posted Tuesday, October 14, 2008 5:18 AM by david | 0 Comments Filed under: Visual Studio, C#, .net, Visual Studio 2008, .NET 3.5, .NET 2.0, .NET 3.0, Vista, 64 Bit, x64

• Solved: How to install Team Foundation Server 2008 on Windows Server 2008 with SQL Server 2008

  I Googled and Googled and found no meaningful results on this.. just a bunch of people who plagiarized other people's blog postings.  So the nutshell on this is: Slipstream the SP1 into the TFS 2008 installation. What you need: TFS 2008 TFS 2008 Read More... Posted Friday, August 15, 2008 6:14 AM by david | 1 Comments Filed under: Visual Studio 2008, .NET 3.5, Server 2008, Service Pack, 32 Bit, x86, Team Foundation Server 2008

• Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 ( SP1 ) Released

  BEFORE RUNNING THE SP 1 install you need to run the Visual Studio 2008 Hotfix Cleanup Utility. The HFCU Utility can be found here: http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/RemoveKB944899 The service pack 1 for Visual Studio 2008 can be found here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=FBEE1648-7106-44A7-9649-6D9F6D58056E&displaylang=en Read More... Posted Monday, August 11, 2008 10:21 PM by david | 0 Comments Filed under: ASP .NET, C#, Visual Studio 2008, .NET 3.5, ASP.NET, Service Pack, 32 Bit, x86, 64 Bit, x64, Silverlight

• LINQ to SQL Visual Object Designer O/R Mapper

  Building data objects in Visual Studio 2008 is really nice. Having been a . netTiers veteran (and contributor) I have appreciated O/R Mapping tools for some time now. I must say that the new Visual Designer is pretty neat. I am working on a quick WPF Read More... Posted Thursday, August 07, 2008 2:33 AM by david | 0 Comments Filed under: Visual Studio 2008, .NET 3.5, Serialization, WCF, O/R Mapper, SQLMetal

• Using a strongly typed class as a return value in WCF.

  Once again working with WCF services from my Silverlight application. This time I upgraded a method on my WCF service to return a generic list of a strongly typed class. [ServiceContract] public interface IOpenOrders { [OperationContract] List<OrderData> Read More... Posted Sunday, August 03, 2008 5:20 AM by david | 0 Comments Filed under: Visual Studio 2008, .NET 3.5, Web Service, WCF

• Content Type text/xml; charset=utf-8 was not supported by service [insert service url here]. The client and service bindings may be mismatched.

  .style1 { font-family: Calibri; } p { font-family: Calibri; } .style2 { background-color: #FFFF00; } .style4 { font-size: medium; } Working on some WCF code for a Silverlight application I stumbled on this error message: Content Type text/xml; charset=utf-8 Read More... Posted Sunday, August 03, 2008 3:43 AM by david | 0 Comments Filed under: Web, ASP .NET, C#, .net, Visual Studio 2008, .NET 3.5, XML, Web Service, WCF, Silverlight

• This could be due to a cross domain configuration error. Please see the inner exception for more details.

  Fun with Silverlight 2.0 Beta 2: This could be due to a cross domain configuration error. Please see the inner exception for more details. So for security reasons a Silverlight control running on a web page is not allowed to access content outside of Read More... Posted Saturday, August 02, 2008 8:14 PM by david | 0 Comments Filed under: C#, Visual Studio 2008, Web Service, WCF, Silverlight