We here at Elegant Code have our own little list group that we participate in. It is a nice place to ask questions to some fairly advanced individuals. Today, David Starr posed the question project structures. He said this could be a religious debate, but I don’t believe anyone took this up as a matter […]
Read MoreThis time, Alan Dean is going to do a presentation about REST. If you want to learn more about REST, then here’s you’re chance. Colin had some really nice things to say about his presentations, so it’s definitely going to be a learnful experience. If you already know some things about REST and want to […]
Read MorePrism Commands enables you to handle user interactions in Xaml. Even though the plumbing is there, Prism lacks commanding support for everything but Buttons. Fortunately, it?s relatively easy to create new Commands for a range of controls. This post details how to create a Checked and UnChecked Command for the ToggleButton (which can be applied […]
Read MoreI posted on this about a year ago. I am reposting this as a Public Service Announcement (otherwise known as a PSA). Do you have a stored procedure where the amount of data returned can vary wildly depending on what parameters are passed in? Does performance change dramatically depending on how much data is being […]
Read MoreI inherited some code that make heavy use of XmlWriter. Say what you will about XmlWriter, it works, but the code using it can be ugly, hard to read, and hard to figure out where you went wrong. Case in point, there were numerous errors in the code that went unfound by the unit test, […]
Read MoreIt has been a long while since I last posted, so I thought I should whip something out real quick. Now, I know most of you don’t care what I have been up to, but here it is anyway. The short version: work The long version Work pretty much consumes all of my waking hours […]
Read MoreThis is basically a ?What is Chris up to now?? post. As the title suggests I?m going up to my ears into Asp.Net MVC. I?ve been doing Asp.Net WebForms for about the past 8 years, so this is a good time for a switch. Lucky for me, I?m armed with a good book: Pro Asp.Net […]
Read MoreAn interesting question came up at work today. We had some existing code that was using the innerText dom method. It worked fine on IE, but not on Firefox (to be clear, I’m used to that working the other way around). If you look at QuirksMode you will see Firefox is the only browser that […]
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