I was asked the other day if I knew of a way to do GetById generically with Entity Framework. I thought that I had done something similiar in the past and the task would be easy, but it turned out to be a little bit more complicated. After searching some forums and blogs, I came […]
Read MoreThis spring I had the distinct honor of teaching a .Net programming course at Boise State University. Going into the course I was definitely unsure of what to expect. From David Starr’s horror stories of burning ERD’s to cautious skepticism from other professors I entered this senior level class half wondering if I’d be teaching […]
Read MoreHey Silverlight gals and pals, Looks like the RTW of the Silverlight tools has arrived. I know what you are thinking, Hasn’t Silverlight 4 already shipped? Yes it has, but the tools team has a dependency on the runtime, so they cannot finish their stuff until the runtime has shipped, hence the beta of the tools […]
Read MoreI wanted to post up a short blog post and thank the people of Elegant Code for the invite. I am honored to be a member of the community. My name is Bill Moore, and my passion is Silverlight. I work with my wife @ Coden UX. You can find information on our company here: […]
Read MoreASP.NET MVC 2 has been released (yay). One of the pieces I like about it is in the MvcFutures assembly. MvcFutures is where the MVC team puts code for features that may or may not make it into a future version of the MVC framework – undocumented, somewhat risky, but hey you get all the […]
Read MoreGiven: One Windows Service, written in C#, using SQL Reporting Services via the SSRS web services. MyApp.Service waits for work requests to come in, and when it finds them it uses SSRS to generate some PDFs (among a bunch of other stuff). The Windows Service code is in one project, “myapp.service,” and the code that […]
Read MoreLately I’ve been spending a lot of time in the Silverlight video space. Both with writing the video chapter for my Silverlight 4 book as well as at work. Creating a basic video player is straight forward (link 1 | link 2), have a button to play, a way to control the volume, a scrubber […]
Read MoreAfter running into animation problems in Silverlight 3 and 4, I?m implementing my user interface using full blown WPF. This Pan and Zoom code works great, with a minor tweak and one issue: I need to control the allowable zoom ranges, and I don?t want the user to be able to pan the image ?right […]
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