If you are ever in a situation where you are building an installer for an application and things have gone a bit awry with the uninstall process (tut, tut) there is a nice simple way to get yourself back on track. Simply run the command below and this will force an uninstall of the product [...]
Just found a nice page on the Microsoft site that details some of the property mappings between WPF and Windows Forms. Might prove useful!!
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms751565.aspx
I’ve just installed the new version of Visual Studio to start looking at some of the new .NET and C# features and found a rather nice set of code samples on MSDN.
I was just working on some little data provider classes in a sandbox solution. Just playing around with design patterns and I need a bit of data, nothing major. A handful of classes that can act as little databases / data sources for my sandbox. Just to make list a bit easier making lists of [...]
I’ve been putting this off for a while now but have finally gotten around to checking out Visual Studio 2010. You can get everything you need from this page, Visual Studio 2010 Getting Started. From start to finish the install took nearly 2 hours to complete, that did also included having to update to [...]
I have only recently start using TeamCity at home for my own major project SampleSort. It is a pretty complex application all in all and the build process is also complex due to the modular nature of its internal structure. Now this is all controlled by TeamCity it makes proper versioning a real proposition rather [...]
I have finally completed the set-up and configuration of my new continuous integration system for SampleSort. I have to say that I’m seriously impressed with TeamCity. The installation and configuration was straight-forward and has been rock solid.
One thing I would say is that after installation I’d recommending switching to SQL as the database back end [...]
Over the last 6 months I have tried a few CI systems for my own projects. I’ve been looking for something that will formalise the “Clean, Build, Test & Deploy” process so that it’s more predictable, repeatable and almost more importantly - recorded. Nothing major really, I’m not looking to CI to merge the output [...]
I was recently working on a project where I needed to serialize objects with properties marked as readonly (can only be set inside a constructor). The objects are part of a WCF RESTful service security infrastructure so I wasn’t about to change their design just because I needed to serialize them, there is no need [...]
I’ve just published the second installment of my mini-series of using the Composite Application Library. This article covers dynamic skinning of WPF applications and a few other choice topics! Check it out here:
Introduction to Composite WPF CAL, Prism: Part 2
