In WPF, there are a lot of ways how the value of a dependency property can be affected. Here‘s a list that describes the precedence by which the property system applies the effective value. At first, it might seem a bit uninteresting because these are just the “inner workings”. But there is a less obvious [...]
Archive for November, 2008
(JSON) Serialization with EF
I have two cascading dropdownlists in my application. The first one is to select the TagGroups (parent), and the second one shows the matching Tags (child)… this is a common scenario where it's useful to apply Ajax to improve the user experience. Stephen Walther has a good blog post about this. [ be careful when [...]
Many-to-many template for Dynamic Data
I’m currently working on a project that involves Dynamic Data (DD) and the Entity Framework (EF). My model has a many-to-many relationship, which EF handles pretty well. The junction table doesn’t show up in the conceptual model. Unfortunately, the current version of DD is not able to cope with these scenario’s. Luckily, DD guru David [...]
I have a confession to make…. I’m a junkie
a keyboard junkie that is! I like to keep my hands on the keyboard as much as possible. Grabbing that silly blob next to your keyboard take's precious time… That's why I love to work with tools like Coderush from DevExpress. (they have an Express version) Here are some less known, but very [...]
WPF Roadmap
If you don't like details, just look at the highlights: And if you do, here's a list of the improvements of the netfx 3.5. And they released a toolkit that includes: Datagrid, Calendar and DatePicker There's a futures kit as well. This contains: Client Profile Configuration Designer – A designer to help you [...]
Silverlight and WPF
With the introduction of Silverlight (SL), Microsoft promised us a we could leverage our existing skills to create RIA's (rich internet application). This means SL should be a subset of WPF, which is a big deal! So I was scared when I watched Ian Ellison-Taylor's session about sharing skills between both of them. He told [...]