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Today, I had faced another problem very common for Web developers, how you can detect any change that happens on one input type=text (from now on “textbox” or “textboxes”) that you have on your DOM immediately. To make this clear, we’re trying to reproduce search engines behaviors: you write anything, in any way, as soon [...]

As a web developer, one of the problems that you might face is that divs and tables cannot expand themself to go full height just using CSS. After researching about it for a while, I detected that the only way to fix it is using JavaScript. Of course you can take advantage of JQuery to [...]

By default in VS2011, you won’t be able to debug WinRT Components that you consume from C#/JS projects. This is because unmanaged code debugging is disable by default. To workaround this, you need to go to Solution Explorer, right-click your Startup project (C# or JS), and select Properties menu. Under the Debug tab, check the [...]

When you’re coding your Metro app application using Dev11, you can see this exception when you have invalid characters in the path. But it’s not only caused by this. This can be also caused right after you move your solution folder (and the projects) to a different folder, you open it again, you try to [...]

var bitmapImage = new Windows.UI.Xaml.Media.Imaging.BitmapImage(new Uri(“ms-appx:/Assets/Logo.png”)); Windows.UI.Xaml.Media.ImageBrush image = new Windows.UI.Xaml.Media.ImageBrush() { ImageSource = bitmapImage };

Open the folder in the skydrive site using the browser (it would be under Shared menu on the left). The url will look something like: https://skydrive.live.com/?cid=529BD9445B66F60D&id=529BD9445B66F60D%21189#cid=529BD9445B66F60D&id=529BD9445B66F60D%21189. Now the “cid” query parameter in the URL. Right-click on Network (in windows explorer), then “Map Network Drive” Specify Folder as: https://d.docs.live.net/[cid]/[folder_name]. For the sample URL above, it would [...]

Say you have a class that needs to collaborate with another, say a repository: public class OrderProcessor { public void ProcessPayment(Guid orderId, Payment payment) { using (var repo = new OrmRepository()) { var order = repo.Find<Order>(orderId); order.Pay(payment); repo.Save(order); } } } Now that clearly is very hard to test ‘cause it’s directly instantiating the repository. [...]