If you have done any WPF application development I am sure you have used and fallen in love with the Static markup extension. If you?re are not familiar with it, the Static markup extension allows you to reference static fields and properties in your XAML markup. For example; let?s assume we have a class with […]
Read MoreObviously I am extremely late posing this, but being a PM is rather time consuming. First off, I would like to thank everyone who attended my sessions. A lucky few of you even won an awesome subscription to Infragistics NetAdvantage Ultimate toolset. I hope you will show me the great applications you will be building […]
Read MoreBy definition an Entity should have an Identity. An issue that often comes up with EF is querying views which do not have a primary key. No key, no laundry. My preferred way to get around this is to create a value object (POCO) and use SqlQuery<T> to materialize results from the view. This is […]
Read MoreInteresting. When you use VS11 Beta to create a new Metro app on a Windows 8 Consumer Preview machine, you get a prompt that requires you to ?obtain a developer license? to create this type of application on this OS.? After logging in with my live ID, I get this confirmation dialog which asserts I […]
Read MoreI have been running Windows 8 Consumer Preview since it dropped, and I was running the Developer Preview before that. I was doing this on the metal of my X220T Lenovo. I gotta say, I dig it. I am not going into individual features or anything like that yet. Just sayin, I dig it. The […]
Read MoreUnless you have been living under a rock the past few days you already know about the recent release of Windows 8 Consumer Preview and Visual Studio 11 Beta. Since I know you already downloaded and installed all the shiny new toys, let?s take a quick look at how to get started writing a custom […]
Read MoreQuite some time ago, Josh Smith wrote a post on how to adorn the cells of the XamDataGrid. I like the concept, but wanted a better implementation that didn?t rely on events or initializing controls in the code behind. So this led me to write a simple cell adorner framework that will allow you to […]
Read MoreHave you ever had the need to edit multiple cells with the same value? Well if you have, then this post is for you. I was cruising through the Infragistics forums today and saw a question about implementing multi-cell editing in the XamDataGrid. It was an old post, but a solution immediately popped into my […]
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