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Resharper and the OutOfMemoryException problem

Tue, 23 Dec 2008 13:00:43 GMT

A fix to the OutOfMemoryException problem when using Resharper

Structura a Silverlight/WPF Line of Business Application Framework

Tue, 16 Dec 2008 10:59:50 GMT

Here's the first deploy of Structura, this project is related to our User Group DotNetMarche and will be part of a set of application frameworks and open source solutions we develop as community projects. Structura will be in our mind an application framework for building modular and pluggable line of business application in both Silverlight and WPF. It Uses IoC containers for pluggability and MVP, MVVM patterns for User Interfaces.

A randomizer addin for nunit

Tue, 09 Dec 2008 09:09:20 GMT

With nunit addins you can write a simple randomizer that executes the test in random order.

Serialization Exception: PropertyChangedEventManager is not serializab

Thu, 04 Dec 2008 09:41:12 GMT

How to solver the SerializationException called when you are trying to serialize and de-serialize and object that is involved in a binding.

create a report in excel 2007 with open xml sdk 1.0

Fri, 28 Nov 2008 09:08:53 GMT

With few lines of code you can create cool report in excel 2007 thanks to linq to xml and open xml sdk.

Wrap IList<T> and use it for effective binding in Silverlight and WPF

Mon, 24 Nov 2008 12:12:44 GMT

If you use some ORM tool like NHibernate and your business entities or DTOs have to support collections of other elements, you are forced to use the interface notation IList<T> or ICollection<T> to hold a reference to the real collection implementation..here is how you can wrap them to take full advantage of the binding mechanism in WPF and Silverlight.

How to add filter support to basic BindingList<T>

Sat, 22 Nov 2008 11:16:50 GMT

This post shows a possible implementation of a BindingList<T> that support Filtering.

CodeRush Xpress Tips

Fri, 14 Nov 2008 09:43:49 GMT

How to resolve Visual Studio and CodeRush Xpress problems under windows vista and how to access CodeRush Xpress control panel.

Three level master detail binding with wpf

Sun, 09 Nov 2008 09:37:36 GMT

WPF permits you to create a three level master detail binding with no procedural code, only using XAML

Silverlight: simulate a 'Windows' desktop app. 3 (Resizable Window)

Sat, 08 Nov 2008 09:54:15 GMT

A set of controls which allow the simulation of a Windows Forms application in a Silverlight environment. The form content can be defined at runtime, the window template is completely customizable; each window can be created declaratively or by code and has complete support for dragging and resizing; new features added: template revised, resizing from any side and corners, autoscroll if the content is wider than the window itself.

Silverlight Plug-in and the Height Percentage problem in Firefox

Thu, 06 Nov 2008 13:02:14 GMT

... I added a small Silverlight application to an existing and styled website, the app was surrounded by the usual <div>. In IE7 all gone well but in FF the Silverlight application appeared to be completely collapsed and not visible at all. After some research I found the the problem is in the way Firefox renders the <object> tag when it's height is relative (that is it's a percentage). Since none of the containers around the Silverlight <object> tag had a Height defined Firefox assumed to use 0. Here's a workaround...

Live logging with WCF and log4Net

Wed, 05 Nov 2008 08:26:21 GMT

In this post I show how to build a custom appender for log4net to do live logging with WCF.

Some Code Analysis and Refactoring Utilities you may like

Mon, 03 Nov 2008 10:57:44 GMT

As a developer I always look for some utilities that can help raise my productivity bar and avoid common bugs. I always go for open-source projects and free software first, cause we all know that in many cases we have a very limited budget to invest. So here is some GREAT pieces of software that can help you.

Using fluent interface to express constraint on a database query

Tue, 28 Oct 2008 12:27:07 GMT

Fluent interface makes it possible to create simple assertion against data in database.

NHibernate how to control Delete Rule and Update Rule in a foreign key

Sat, 25 Oct 2008 08:55:54 GMT

If in your project you let NHibernate generate the database from the information you provide with the schema mappings (a thing extremely useful, especially for testing cause you can build up the database in engines like SQLite), sometimes you may need to control some attribute in a foreign key of a table...

How to report a bug, the importance of details and reproducibility

Mon, 20 Oct 2008 15:34:54 GMT

Some rules on "how to track a bug" in your bug tracking system to helps developers correcting bugs quickly

Deep Clone of a business object: the quick and dirty way

Sat, 18 Oct 2008 11:17:27 GMT

...I needed a quick and dirty way to do the deep clone of an object, since my entity classes are shared between WCF, WPF and Silverlight (yes I'm one of the guys so crazy to build multi-target applications) I needed a method that could work in all the environments...

Controls inside ScrollViewer - horizontal resize layout bug and workar

Thu, 16 Oct 2008 14:37:49 GMT

...I realized a simple test form with a series of textboxes inside a scrollviewer. During the horizontal resize operation I encountered a very strange behavior: only the first textbox changed its width according to the new windows size.while all the others retained their previous value; when you start a vertical resize operation all the textboxes were redrawn with the correct width...

Problem with JSon serialization of Date in microsoft ajax.net

Thu, 16 Oct 2008 12:26:21 GMT

The Json serializer of the microsoft ajax can give you problems when you pass date value to webservice methods becuse it adjust to UTC, here I present a simple solution to the problem.

Invoking a Java/AXIS Web Service from .NET: the 'return null' issue

Wed, 15 Oct 2008 13:57:42 GMT

When you try invoke a Java/Axis Web Service from a proxy class generated by Visual Studio 2005 or Visual Studio 2008 you often crash against the 'return null' issue...

XAML Power Toys and Mole

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 09:23:58 GMT

A couple of very good tools to speedup form creation and help debugging

Silverlight: Dropdown Menu Control

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 13:29:56 GMT

In a previous post I showed how we can build a simple menu control for Silverlight 2 Beta 2 (Silverlight: how to build a simple menu control); then with the release of Silverlight RC0 some things were changed and the menu stopped working, due to how events are handled for disabled controls (Silverlight 2 RC0 - first problems due to undocumented breaking changes on disabled controls). The only way to overcome these problems was to completely rewrite the control...

Expression Tree vs Reflection.

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 11:46:11 GMT

Expression Trees can be used to avoid Reflection poor performance when you need to invoke methods in object that you deos not know at runtime. In this post I show you how you can access to property of objects building and compiling an expression tree.

Silverlight: simulate a 'Windows' desktop application - part 2

Tue, 30 Sep 2008 14:42:47 GMT

With the release of Silverlight RC0 it was finally time to update this sample application. Let's now go on with the tutorial and take a look at how the dragging capability of the Window is implemented, you can state if you want to enable or disable the dragging feature for an instance of the control simply by setting the 'DraggingEnabled' property.

Silverlight: how to build a simple Menu Control

Thu, 25 Sep 2008 11:37:16 GMT

In my current project I needed to use a dynamic Menu Control (a completely declarative approach hardcoding the structure in XAML wasn't a good fit for my application cause I need to dynamically add, remove, enable and disable menu items).