Logging application exceptions is like getting a new muffler. It isn’t exciting. It isn’t very fulfilling. It just costs time and money. Also, it is something that needs to be done. So, can we make exception logging as frictionless as possible? Roll your own logging library. Repeat the same code a lot in your application […]
Read MoreI can’t count the number of times someone has asked me about running a time consuming task on a separate thread, but at the same time show a progress dialog with up-to-the-second percentage updates being displayed to the user. Multithreading can be confusing at first, but if you just take it one step at a […]
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 MoreHere’s something I hacked together last night: I’m writing an app that involves a lot of web requests to a very unreliable server. Maybe the site is down, maybe we only get part of a message back because the stream was interrupted, maybe the network cable is loose and being chewed on by gremlins. Who […]
Read MoreYou probably have had the need to sort an ObservableCollection at some point in one of your applications by either ascending or descending order. Of course, you can always use the ObservableCollection.OrderBy and ObservableCollection.OrderByDescending, but these methods just return a new collection of IOrderedEnumerable, which forces you have to rebind the DataContext/ItemsSource in your UI, […]
Read MoreOK, I took some flack from a buddy of mine who is starting JQuery about my AJAX samples. AJAX with JQuery is all fun and games until you start passing complex data (apparently). So here is a quick demo of how to call a web method that returns a list of custom objects via JQuery.Ajax […]
Read MorePrevious posts in series: FubuMVC From Scratch Part 1 ? Basic project structure setup FubuMVC From Scratch Part 2 ? FubuMVC configuration and Controller setup FubuMVC From Scratch ? Part 3 (Adding View to project) Persistence is a requirement in virtually every application that we write today, and now the time has come for us […]
Read MoreI just want to point out a small tidbit I ran into earlier this week. I was using the following simplified expression builder that provides a fluent interface for creating an instance of a Product. public class Product { public Double Price { get; private set; } public String Name { get; private set; } […]
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