Serious flaw in WPF validation infrastructure for ValidationRule and Binding
Adam Nathan’s excelent book on WPF states:
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Fridathon: unstructured learning or hacking you can opt-in to do on any random Friday.
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Why XAML makes System.Configuration and Enterprise Library Configuration obsolete
It may seem unrelated, but if you haven’t read Fowler’s article on DSLs (from Google cache if it’s down like now), please do so now. It will help you understand why XAML goes far beyond WPF and presentation. [Read More] -
Why we need an EntLib Standalone Validation Application Block
In my previous post about XAML and its future as a domain model/DSL serialization format, I’ve argued that System.Configuration as well as Enterprise Library Configuration (part of the core of EntLib) will soon become irrelevant. [Read More] -
How to use Airport Express as a range extender for Linksys WRT54G
I know I’m years behind this, but just solved some range problems I had at home by using my existing Airport Express as a range extender in addition to a remote speaker, as explained in an article about Linksys WRT54G, Airport Express, and WDS. [Read More] -
Forget about extending WPF data binding support
Databinding in WPF is implemented in the Binding class, which in principle looks like just a MarkupExtension. A MarkupExtension is a core piece of XAML markup “magic”. It’s rather simple, though: public abstract class MarkupExtension { // Methods protected MarkupExtension(); public abstract object ProvideValue(IServiceProvider serviceProvider); } [Read More] -
Why the iPhone is not ready for prime time
My “baseline” phone is my Nokia N95, so my quality and functionality bar is high. I’ll go straight to the point here: [Read More] -
How to develop WPF applications in VS2005 and VS2008 simultaneously
In order to develop WPF apps in VS2005, you must install the corresponding CTP tools for it. These will basically bring in some new project templates, project types, MSBuild taks and designers. The designers are quite slow, and don’t always work as expected. Being a CTP, and with VS2008 (“Orcas”) already in the beta phase, I don’t expect these to be updated anymore. Wouldn’t it be great if you had a choice to use VS2008 or VS2005 with the same project files? [Read More] -
How to get a gazillion XAML clipart for free
You surely know XAML subsumes pretty much all of SVG, right? [Read More] -
How to cross post entries across blogs from Windows Live Writer
I think I’m not the first guy to end up in this situation: I created a lot of content (and loyal readers) on some blog hosting site (in my case http://weblogs.asp.net) and now I want to move on, maybe with a self-hosted solution, maybe with Blogger and its custom domain support, whatever. [Read More] -
PowerShell with TFS: how to perform batch-updates to WorkItems
In this post, I’ll show how you can use Powershell to perform one of the most annoying and (currently impossible) tasks in an iteration planning using TFS: batch update of all non-completed items so that they are moved to the next iteration. [Read More]