AZURE Roadshow at HOWEST - demos

Last week, I did a presentation on Windows Azure at HOWEST, University College West Flanders. As promised, my hands-on-labs of this session. 1. A file archive application to upload/download files into a database in the cloud.  This application consists out of a webpage (UploadFile.aspx) to upl... [More]

AZURE Roadshow at HOWEST - demos

Last week, I did a presentation on Windows Azure at HOWEST, University College West Flanders. As promised, my hands-on-labs of this session. 1. A file archive application to upload/download files into a database in the cloud.  This application consists out of a webpage (UploadFile.aspx) to upl... [More]

Validation in a WPF DataGrid

In this article I will describe two options to implement validation on the cells and rows of a WPF DataGrid. On the architectural level you have indeed (at least) two options when it comes to validation. You can decide to validate through independent reusable logic captured in ValidationRules, or yo... [More]

A minimalistic template for an editable WPF DataGrid

By default, a WPF DataGrid operates in its birthday suit, with no decorations at all. For your end user this is not intuitive, so you should provide some fig-leafs here and there. In my humble opinion, at least two rows should be easily identifiable in any editable grid: the 'new' row (gener... [More]

Workaround: WPF DataGrid hangs Visual Studio.NET

Welcome to a WPF DataGrid crash course ... literally. It will show you how Cider can give you a hangover.  It took me 45 minutes, 10 process kills, and a full reboot to figure out what was going on in my application, so I gladly share my experience.  Part one: the bug Create a WPF Form w... [More]

Inserting, Updating, and Deleting from a WPF DataGrid

You already know how easy it is to implement databinding in the WPF DataGrid from a previous article. Let's dive just a little bit deeper, and decorate this application with the code to trigger insert-, update- and delete-calls against the underlying Model and/or Data Access Layer. I'll stick t... [More]

Multiple Silverlight controls in 1 XAP

Basically, when you are creating a website with 2 Silverlight contols, you need to have 2 xap files in your ClientBin folder. It would be better if you could have 1 xap file but you decide which usercontrol you want to see. A solution could be using InitParams in the object tag in your HTML file: ... [More]

Multiple Silverlight controls in 1 XAP

Basically, when you are creating a website with 2 Silverlight contols, you need to have 2 xap files in your ClientBin folder. It would be better if you could have 1 xap file but you decide which usercontrol you want to see. A solution could be using InitParams in the object tag in your HTML file: ... [More]

Using T4 to automatically generate your entities

*** This is a repost of a previous post because of moving to a new blog engine in which some formatting was lost *** Today I discovered something very interesting, namely how to automatically generate my entity classes (classes that also implement the INotifyPropertyChanged and IDataErrorInfo inter... [More]