What I Learned at PDC - Microsoft Tools
Visual Studio 2010 (VS210) is the latest version of the software development platform. It is also the first version to be written entirely in .NET managed code. It also uses MEF to manage extensibility...
View ArticleKnow Your Parents and Grandparents
In programming Silverlight I have come across situations where a control or framework element needs to access information on its parent. The code to get information off your direct parent is simple:...
View ArticleAnother Way to Think about Code Reuse
Anyone who practices Object Oriented Programming has a lot of different ways to reuse code. The most common way is to use inheritance, but recently I have been reusing code in an unconventional way....
View ArticleNCAA Brackets in Silverlight
The developers at a company we were working with put out a challenge -- can you write software to pick the brackets in the NCAA basketball tournament? The answer is you can and 6 of us did. Our...
View ArticleGeneric Property Merge Using Reflection
I have found this generic merge method to be very useful. Before you cut and paste it into you Silverlight application, let me explain why I created it.publicvirtualbool MergeValues(object oSource,...
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