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Month: July, 2008

Spyware Wakeup!

28 July, 2008 (13:54) | Computing | No comments

Well I had a hell of a wake up call this weekend. A nasty little ‘Fake Threat’ had leeched into my system somehow. One of the horrid little blighters that pops up a fake warning message when you navigate to *any* directory on your machine. It alerts you to a none existant [...]

WPF Visual Studio Code Snippets

28 July, 2008 (10:28) | WPF / XAML | No comments

Just found a link on Sacha Barbers blog linking too some really cool Visual Studio code snippet downloads available from The Blendables folks and DrWPF.  Well worth downloading and checking out.

WPF UserControl == DataTemplate

23 July, 2008 (14:02) | WPF / XAML | No comments

Over the weekend I was doing a fair amount of UI stuff on a major project of mine and stumbled across a very cool and neat solution to using data templates.  One of the great strengths of WPF is its ability to ‘componentise’ things into nice bite sized chunks of functionality/UI.  Anyone using WPF or [...]

Source Control

12 July, 2008 (15:07) | Computing | 2 comments

Anyone that has worked on software development will have come into contact with Source (Code) Control software at some point. I’ve recently been looking for a solution to use at home on my personal projects and I think I’ve found just the thing. TortoiseSVN.  Its based on the very well respected SubVersion control [...]

XAML, Blend & Binding to Static Data Sources

9 July, 2008 (12:33) | WPF / XAML | No comments

I’ve just been having a little play around with some methods for binding UI elements (in this case a ComboBox) to static data sources. As you may know Blend offers a UI to set up data binding to CLR objects (this is accessed from the main Blend UI using the [+CLR Object] button in [...]

LINQ, SQL Compact, Private Install

2 July, 2008 (22:35) | .NET / C#, Computing | No comments

Well, I’ve spent the best part of a week trying to figure out why my application was constantly falling over on my test machine.  I’ve been taking bits of code out, putting in new bits (debugging code) and trying all manner of things.  Finally I have found the problem.
Its all stemming from wanting to give [...]