2010 Central Ohio Day of .NET
A co-w0rker and I attended the Central Ohio Day of .NET on June 5, 2010. There was quite a bit of good content at the conference, which is a real tribute to the organizers, volunteers, and presenters....
View ArticleDon’t try, don’t catch
Have you ever had a situation where all of those nested try/catch blocks just get in your way when trying to chase down a problem? I just hate that. Luckily, in Visual Studio 2008 (and other versions,...
View ArticleCompound comparison in a LINQ join statement
I’ve been doing pretty much iPhone only postings recently, so this might change it up a bit. So I am trying to go into our web application’s C# code to make some changes to the administration area of...
View ArticleAzure + SSL
Sorry about the delay in between posts kiddies, I have been very busy at work with Routzy and playing baseball at Pirates Fantasy Camp. Hopefully soon the Routzy app will be approved and I will be able...
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How to dynamically generate a TrackBallInfoTemplate
The Telerik ChartView control is nice, but if you cannot create your XAML ahead of time (or in other words, you don’t know how many LineSeries you are going to have on your chart), then you are in...
View ArticleDBNull string field handling
Let’s say for the sake of argument that you are using a SQL Server Compact database in your C# .NET application, and your User table has nvarchar fields that are nullable, and your User class doesn’t...
View ArticleOverriding a TargetType Style without a Key in WPF
I have been doing a lot of work in WPF lately, and it is a different animal. The default styles of a button did not look right for my application, so I came up with the following XAML that styles up...
View ArticleCross a bridge at night
OK, here is a scenario. Four people on a journey together need to cross a bridge at night as quickly as possible. Among the four of them, they have one flashlight. They cannot continue their journey...
View ArticleC# .NET simple Async Await example from console application Main
I did a couple of posts a few years back about doing async/await in VB.NET, and now I had need of doing something similar with a C# .NET console application. Here is what I put together to get it...
View ArticleSimple method for calling async method in standard function in C#
Due to a need to support older versions of .NET code and applications, you may find yourself staring at the need to call an async function from a standard synchronous function, and you don’t want to...
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