If you?ve been using CSS for a while, then this post will probably teach you nothing new. I just wanted to state the obvious even if I?m the only one who benefits from it. While I was (re-)learning CSS, I came across these two properties called margin and padding. At first, they seem to be […]
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 MoreIf you attended the NETDUG user group meeting last night and would like to download the sample code for my Silverlight/WPF Multi-Targeting presentation, you can download it here. Recap: The Silverlight and WPF platforms are very similar, but they do not have binary compatibility; this means that an assembly compiled for one platform cannot execute […]
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 MoreI’ve got myself a geek that works from home, mostly. Sometimes he gets (has) to get on an airplane and gets (has) to spend a week working in a different location, eating out and meeting new people. My geek doesn’t really look forward to these weeks. He’d much rather be at home, working away all […]
Read MoreThis one was just too funny to not write down. The epitome of a Brain Fart. There sure seem to be quote a few posts lately talking about the Software (Crafts-Man/Woman/person/whatever); I may have many many more years of Craft practicum to study up on before I can truly consider myself a Craftsman. However, it’s […]
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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