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I was asked an unusual question yesterday about cookies, Silverlight and WCF. The scenario was that a Silverlight application was being used in a consumer-facing situation. The application itself communicates with the server using WCF. The service which
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On Wednesday past, I did a Code Contracts presentation to the Toronto Visual Basic User Group . It was a continuation of my whirlwind ‘April Presentation Tour’, in that it was my third presentation in a week and the third of five that I’m doing in April.
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On the scale of annoyances, this is not a huge one. But the solution is so simple, that it’s worth a quick post. Have you ever been in the middle of debugging an application and used the hover functionality to display the current value of a variable?
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Have you ever been dissatisfied with the code that is automatically generated by Visual Studio in response to various commands that you perform. For example, in VS2005, I got used to using the prop snippet to create properties. This snippet created a
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If you use WPF on a regular basis, then I can take a good guess as the esteem in which you hold the designer. While it has it’s place, hard code WPF devs using XAML directly. It’s much each to get the result that you’re looking for quickly. The problem
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So to set up this problem, an application that I'm currently working on needs to process data that is stored in an Excel spreadsheet. The creation of the spreadsheet is actually performed by a scientific instrument, so my ability to control the format
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I just finished teaching a Silverlight/WPF course last week. As is true in almost every course I teach, there were questions from people who are trying to use the technology in the real world. It's what I love about teaching...that I always learn something
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Earlier today, a colleague had an issue with the publishing of unit test results into a TFS instance. The publication process, which is typically done manually at the click of a button, was no longer available. Specifically, the Publish button was actually
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I did a presentation this afternoon on some of the basic functions of WCF. I had put a slide deck together using a new Microsoft Office add-in called PPTPlex . You can see demos of what this add-in does in the provided link, but basically is allows for
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I recall my first experience with Word 2007...it took me 20 minute to figure out how to do a Save As. Who would have figured that the cute icon in the top left corner actually had functionality associated with it. :) In a blog post from Chris Sells ,
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