WPF Browser Control Battle: Chromium versus Internet Explorer 28 February 2010 Diederik-Krols WPF Did you ever want to embed a browser in a WPF application, to host a help file or to access an intranet site? Did you ever want to impress your girl friend by building a fancy browser yourself, like YouCube? If so, your obvious choice would be to drag and drop a native WebBrowser Control into your a... [More]
BCS presentation at Techdays Belgium 28 February 2010 Lieven-Iliano Last thursday I did a presentation at the Belgium Techdays in Antwerp. My session focussed on the Business Connectivity Service in SharePoint 2010. With the Business Connectivity Service you can integrate external data in the SharePoint and Office user experience. With the new powerfull .NET Assembl... [More]
When being lazy is (finally) good 28 February 2010 Peter-Himschoot VS2010, .NET Development In this blog post I want to talk about .NET 4 new Lazy<T> class. First of all, why would you need something called Lazy? You can use it for data access for example; when you load a row from a database parent table. Would you need to load the child rows automatically, or delay until they’re re... [More]
Yet another Circular ProgressBar control for WPF 27 February 2010 Diederik-Krols WPF Here is (yet another) WPF circular busy indicator control based on Sacha Barber's Circular Progress Bar. This type of control is useful to indicate that a part of your user interface is waiting for the result of an asynchronous call. The user control is hosts a Canvas in whi... [More]
IntelliSense improvements in Visual Studio 2010 24 February 2010 Peter-Himschoot VS2010 What developer today can live without intelli-sense? Of course I mean developers who have used intelli-sense before (if you don’t know something how can you miss something?). However finding a member in Visual Studio 2008 requires you to know the first letters of the class/method/… I’m quite sure yo... [More]
How to play the Accordion - WPF Toolkit 20 February 2010 Diederik-Krols WPF The accordion is a musical instrument invented in Europe in the beginning of the 19th century. It produces music (or rather noise) by expanding and collapsing it while pressing buttons. This metaphor is applied to software: you may know the Accordion user interface control from Microsoft Outlook's n... [More]
Visual Studio 2010 Release Candidate is available via MSDN sub download 08 February 2010 Peter-Himschoot Download VS2010 RC here. And soon available for everyone tomorrow!
5 things SQL Server does different from what many developers expect 06 February 2010 Nico-Jacobs That’s what I will talk about tomorrow at Techdays Belgium. I notice in my courses that many developers are sometimes still surprised with the way SQL Server responds to transactions, or try-catch blocks, or the way it handles stored procedures, indexes and statistics. So if you’re at Techdays, come... [More]
Gated Check In with Multiple Build Definitions 05 February 2010 Peter-Himschoot Team System, VS2010, .NET Development As promised in my previous blog on Gated Check In, in this blog I’ll discuss using multiple builds with gated check in. So what happens when you check in (using gated check in) and there are multiple build definitions targeting the solution? Well, Gated Check In will then allow you to choose betwee... [More]
Never break a build again with the new Gated Check-in feature from Visual Studio Team System 2010 04 February 2010 Peter-Himschoot Breaking the current team build is not a good thing. This will cause many people to lose time while the build is being fixed. So how can you avoid this? One way is by only checking-in on isolated branches, which allow you first to test if everyone’s changes build together. But, remember that Team ... [More]