If you haven?t heard already, the Silverlight Tools for VS2010 have been released, as mentioned by fellow ElegantCoder Bill Moore. In this release there have been some great improvements to the Visual Studio designer that work for both Silverlight and WPF. Lets check them out. Go To Value Definition Have you ever had a control […]
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 get so much use out of this handy dandy little macro that I just had to share it. It is a simple little Visual Studio macro that should work in 2010 or 2008 to change a string like this: ?When writing a unit test? into this: When_writing_a_unit_test And do it in a single keystroke. […]
Read MoreI was playing around with some Silverlight profiling the other night to see if I could find any obvious issues with my open source project StatLight and wound up writing a little script in PowerShell I hoped someone might find helpful. But I didn’t know you could profile a Silverlight app. I didn’t until I […]
Read MoreI know that a lot of people have had bad experiences with TFS over the years, and so does the TFS development team. The team at Microsoft is very intent on learning what it is that people find irritating, problematic, or difficult, and correcting it. Some major headway was made with the 2010 release of […]
Read MoreListen to this episode! [54:51] Dan Sullivan takes us beyond the typical discussion of SQL Server features to the inner depths of databases. Ever wonder how locking concurrency works inside relational databases? Wonder no more! Just listen to this show. Dan Sullivan Dan is a member of the technical staff at Pluralsight, where he […]
Read MoreOne of the most overlooked tools in modern programming languages for producing elegant code is the enumeration. The enumeration is such a simple concept, yet it yields such a high return in both readability and usability of your code. The enum is able to eliminate the need for XML style comments for a parameter to […]
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: […]
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