Update 2013-01-09 <Start> One should not go this way. When I tried to install TFS Express Update 1, the update failed because it requires TFS Express to run on a SQL Express instance. So – in case you want to keep your installation up to date – do not use …
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My latest application required a RadGridView having a dynamic number of columns. And therefor, the binding of the data an event handler needed to by managed during runtime as well. Not really in issue: handle the RowLoaded event, iterate over the cells of the row passed by the event arguments, …
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I like Silverlight, Telerik’s GridView control and the ability to create the columns of a grid dynamically. Recently, I had to build up a grid during runtime. The number of columns and the header text is unknown at design time (read it from the database), but nothing to worry about. …
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Private accessors are really helpful for extensive unit testing. But they do have their limitations. I wrote a generic protected method having a declaration like this: protected ReturnType MyMethod<T>(OneClass, DateTime, DateTime, Func<OtherClass, T>, out List<T>); Calling this method via an accessor in my unit test, I ran into an exception …
Since I forgot it over the time, and it took me again some time to find it, here’s my note about how to toggle remote desktop’s full screen mode, at least for Windows 7 – of course by using the keyboard 😉 Press Ctrl+Alt+Break. On my laptop, it means to …
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From what I learned, printing in Silverlight (4) is straight forward: Create a control and print it. I used this pattern in a Silverlight application I built. Because I had to implement some multipage- and list handling, I created user controls that I added into a stack panel of the …
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Having generics in .NET is a great thing. I already loved template classes in C++, missed them in .NET 1.x, and was happy to get a (little bit restricted) kind of templates in .NET 2.0. Building a Silverlight application, I felt the need to create a generic UserControl base class. …
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In my current Silverlight project, I’m using the DatePicker control, which is part of the Silverlight SDK. In one scenario, the DatePicker with TwoWay binding is embedded into a User Control, which itself is embedded into another User Control. The format is “dd.MM.yyyy”. Entering e.g. 23.11.2011 works fine, means the …
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One of the great things of Silverlight – from my point of view – is the introduction of converters to format the content if a control, e.g. a text box. Well, the idea itself isn’t new, but it is the first time I saw it built in a Microsoft UI …
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What a “feature” 🙁 In one of the LOB apps I’m building, I set some of the text boxes to enabled, read-only and no tab stop. Then I needed top copy the content of one of these text boxes into the clipboard. It was not possible! Because you cannot mark …