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Quick IT tip: How to build bootable USB stick
Because of my main job and lack of human resources there, I invest less and less in community. Thus I lost my MVP title. Sorry, guys. Also a ton of management tasks in big company prevents me from actual coding. However I am still able to find some time...
Real singleton approach in WPF application
One of the most common problems in WPF is memory/processor time consumption. Yes, WPF is rather greedy framework. It become even greedier when using unmanaged resources, such as memory files or interop images. To take care on it, you can implement singleton...
INotifyPropertyChanged auto wiring or how to get rid of redundant code
For the last week most of WPF disciples are discussing how to get rid of hardcoded property name string inside INotifyPropertyChanged implementation and how to keep using automatic properties implementation but keep WPF binding working. The thread was...
TFS licensing model demystification or what should I buy for my company in order not to step on the licensing mine?
Microsoft loves cumbersome licensing models . This is not because of their evil-heartedness, but because it make them possible to get more from bigger companies and less from smaller. However when you come into the real decision about how many and what...
“Zone of Pain vs. Zone of Uselessness” or code analysis with NDepend
As for me, there are only two kinds of projects – hobbyist’s nifty tools and systems (scale may wary). The main difference between those is the easiness of making changes and refactoring. Other words, how many other developers I should persuade to do...
Visual Studio debugger related attributes cheat sheet
There are some debugger-oriented attributes in .Net, however 70% of developers not even know that they exist and 95% of them has no idea what they doing and how to use it. Today we’ll try to lid light on what those attributes doing and how to achieve...
How to calculate CRC in C#?
First of all, I want to beg your pardon about the frequency of posts last time. I’m completely understaffed and have a ton of things to do for my job. This why, today I’ll just write a quick post about checksum calculation in C#. It might be very useful...
Some new in-mix downloads
There are some very cool downloads suddenly appear on MSDN download site due to all new technologies, presented at Mix ‘09. So let’s start Silverlight 3 SDK beta 1 If you do not want to install full SDK, you can install only runtime for Windows or Mac...
WPF Line-Of-Business labs and Silverlight vs. Flash
Small update today (mostly interesting links)… During my last “Smart Client” session I was asked about WPF LOB application development labs. So, there are two full labs, I noticed about: Southridge, which comes from Redmond team Order Manager, which comes...
Slides and desks from Smart Client Development session
Great thank to everybody attended yesterday at “Smart Client development” session. As promises, please see slides and desks from this session Smart Client Development View more presentations from tamirk. (tags: wpf israel) Related posts:Action...
Quick how to: Reduce number of colors programmatically
My colleague just asked me about how to reduce a number of colors in image programmatically. This is very simple task and contains of 43 steps: First of all, you have to read a source image using (var img = Image.FromFile(name)) { var bmpEncoder = ImageCodecInfo...
Bootstrapper for .NET framework version detector
You wrote your .NET program, that can be used as stand alone portable application (such as it should be for Smart Client Apps), however you have to be sure, that necessary prerequisites (such as .NET framework) are installed on client’s machine. What...
Making TFS better or what is ***?
Those days me and my team work very hard toward new version of “The System”. This includes massive refactoring of all solutions, hard work with TFS (which not restricted to only adding files, but also deleting, moving, etc. other words, all stuff, which...
Open Source licenses comparison table
I have a number of projects, released with OS licenses. However, each time I’m about to release new project, I think once again about under what license to release it. So, today I decided to create small comparison table of most popular free licenses...
Nifty time savers for WPF development
I just published an article on Code Project, that explains how to use my latest FM USB library for building real world software radio receiver with WPF. There I referenced to some nifty WPF time savers, I’m using for everyday development. So, today I...
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