A little while back a small debate has erupted over the if statement. There is even and anti-if campaign going on. If you read things wrong you would think that the ?if? needed to be banished from all languages. And since I had so much fun with my ?Refactoring a Switch statement? (and the rebuttal), […]
Read MoreI have had a Gmail account for a long time at tony.rasa from Gmail. Since I moved everything over to a Google Apps Domain a while back, I don’t use the Gmail account anymore – but I still have a forwarding rule sending any stray messages to my “new” domain. It turns out that my […]
Read MoreI can’t take credit for this one, but I just had to pass it on. Visual Stuart showed me this neat little trick for safely working with WCF proxies. The problem with WCF is that if the server throws an exception, it faults the channel. This means that basically, you need to shut down the […]
Read More.net Compact Framework is known for missing several ?features? that regular .net developers take for granted. One if the ready availability of profilers. dotTrace, ANTS Performance Profiler, Team Systems Profiler (check out Visual Studio 2010 version of this?much better). There are other profilers out there, but those are the three I am most familiar with. […]
Read MoreWhy oh why did the HTML overlords call their Combo Box/DropDownList a SELECT? Then call the items in the list OPTIONS? It isn’t like there weren’t a plethora of other names for the widget. Then it could have been consistent anyway. Oh well. It seams that each time I start a new project I have […]
Read MoreWe 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 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 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 […]
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