Author Archive: David Anderson
Apparently there is a registry edit to remove the all capital lettering for the main menus in Visual Studio, and get the normal pascal casing by changing the value of the following registry entry: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\11.0\General\SuppressUppercaseConversion to REG_DWORD value: 1
A friend of mine was wondering if he had encountered a bug in WPF today. What he was trying to do is have a Grid with four columns, each with a width of Auto, and have a TextBox fill the…
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I will be doing a in-depth series on WPF MVVM Pattern, and here is the first video of the series. View the video on YouTube for full 1920×1080 resolution and HD quality. Video Watch on YouTube now. Demo Code DCOMProductions.MvvmDemo.zip
There are a lot of different ways to use an Enum as a data source for some list, like a ComboBox. I’m going to demonstrate how to create a MarkupExtension that will make your life a lot easier in all…
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I recorded an hour and a half presentation on Windows Communication Foundation yesterday that you can view on YouTube here. The video is recorded in 1920×1080, and is uploaded at that quality. The presentation covers everything from what WCF is,…
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Otherwise known as Visual Studio 11 during the beta period, you can now download the release candidate from Microsoft. The primary complaint during the beta was that the new light and dark themes had no color, they were purely monochrome…
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The following SQL will delete all the tables and their associated information from a database. The only downside to this is that you cannot perform a rollback, so you need to make sure this is what you want to do….
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For WordPress, Fluid-Blue is a popular theme amongst the technical community because its intrinsically great for writing technical articles. For posting code, I use the SyntaxHighlighter Evolved plugin. The problem is that the CSS for the Fluid-Blue theme conflicts with…
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Introduction Setting a TextBlock’s Content Formatting Text Using Controls with Formatted Text Introduction In WPF there are two very similar controls Label and TextBlock, and I’m going to cover TextBlock and why its so useful. First, what is the TextBlock…
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The Visual Studio team has posted some updates on the Visual Studio blog regarding the feedback we have all been providing them about the beta. Personally, I don’t mind the new Visual Studio themes (the light and dark themes), but…
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