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8/30/2010 7:22:00 PM
Multiline TextBox
One of the downsides of dragging and dropping elements from the Toolbox onto the Window is that very often you don’t want the default values that will be set. In fact, you often don’t even want some of the properties. I’ve always thought it a bit of an interesting conundrum that although it’s almost universally recommended that you don’t hard code the height and width of elements, one of the things that the Designer will do if you ... [ read more ]
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8/26/2010 1:32:00 PM
Here's a post that explains how VB.NET can be used with Windows Phone 7:
Windows Phone 7 and VB.Net
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8/26/2010 1:30:00 PM
The Attributes property of the System.IO.FileInfo class is used to get or set file attributes. Some commonly used file attributes are Archive, Compressed, Directory, Encrypted, Hidden, Normal, ReadOnly, System, and Temporary. ...( read more )
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Ged Mead via
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8/26/2010 1:28:00 PM
Button Content One of the great advantages of WPF is that you can place a wide variety of different content in or on its controls. Buttons are no exception, and you can create more interesting looking buttons by combining some of WPF’s graphics features.
Here’s a button that you could offer a user who wants more information on footballer George Best – it’s functional, but very unimpressive:
Even if I was satisfied with plain text (and I’m not ... [ read more ]
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8/25/2010 7:17:00 PM
You can optimize your application's performance in many ways. In this article learn how to optimize performance by the way you design your procedures. ...( read more )
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Ged Mead via
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8/23/2010 10:23:00 AM
What’s today’s date? In the previous blog on this topic , I looked at the basics of the DateTime object. You saw some of the output formats and learnt about the Now and Today properties. I’m going to dig a bit deeper into those subjects this time.
Here’s a code snippet that creates a DateTime that has today’s date as its date value. It then pulls out just the value of the Day part
Dim dt As New DateTime
&nbs ... [ read more ]
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Mike McIntyre via
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8/19/2010 12:16:00 AM
Today Microsoft released Visual Studio LightSwitch to MSDN subscribers. Pulic release is scheduled for next Monday, August 23rd.
I'm installing it on one of my development computers now.
Resources available now:
LightSwitch Developer Center LightSwitch Beta 1 Documentation on MSDN Vision Clinic Application Walkthrough and Sample LightSwitch Forum
Look for more resources next Monday.
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Mike McIntyre via
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8/18/2010 4:50:00 PM
I use Visual Studio help all the time. Over time its grown very large in order to accomodate all Visual Studio Languages, technologies, and more. Visual Studio 2010 Help works differently that previous versions of Visual Studio. I feel some new features are an improvement, some are not. I feel more can be done to make "Help" provide better help. What do you think? What ideas have you had to improve Visual Studio help?
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Ged Mead via
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8/18/2010 10:04:00 AM
Introduction When you think about how many times we have to deal with dates and times in our everyday lives, you wouldn't expect that dealing with them in code would be much of a problem. But it seems that this really is a difficult area for many people trying to handle dates and times in their VB.NET code. Of course it doesn't help that there are various names for what is effectively the same thing - Date and DateTime, for instance; how do you know when to use one or the o ... [ read more ]
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8/15/2010 2:27:00 PM
SQL SELECT statements can do a lot more than just return individual records. They can also summarize, compare, and combine. This article is the first in a series of more advanced query concepts. My examples use the AdventureWorks database, available here .
An aggregate function is a built-in summary over multiple records, for example SUM(), AVG(), MIN(), MAX(). The following statement gives the total of OrderQty using eve ... [ read more ]
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8/11/2010 11:03:00 AM
Here’s the scenario: You’re setting up some kind of data binding in WPF and you want to list a property of a class in a ListBox. You bind the ItemsSource property of the ListBox to a valid collection, but the display isn’t the list you expect. Instead you get a repeating list that only shows the name of the object type. For instance, in this example, the binding is to a collection of objects of the DrinkProduct class. That class r ... [ read more ]
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8/3/2010 6:06:00 PM
Microsoft has announced the Beta release of a new product: Visual Studio LightSwitch. The Beta is scheduled for release on August 23, 2010.
To learn more visit the Visual Studio LightSwitch site -> Visual Studio LightSwitch
This product targets non-professional business application developers e.g. business managers.
For my clients this is a good thing. I work with a lot of business managers, accountants, and small business owners that need to create small b ... [ read more ]
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8/3/2010 4:51:11 PM
So with the recent hype about “KittyHawk”, comes the product: LightSwitch. Jason Sanders has an introducing light switch blog entry up now. It looks good/promising. The name however is terrible. Searching for it with Google will be a needle in a hay stack .
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Mike McIntyre via
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8/3/2010 1:24:00 PM
A sometimes forgotten step for making a Sql Server Analysis Services cube available to end users... ...( read more )
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Mike McIntyre via
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8/2/2010 1:34:00 PM
<Extension()> _
Public Sub SelectAllRows(ByVal dataGridView As DataGridView)
For Each dgRow As DataGridViewRow In dataGridView.Rows
dgRow.Selected = False
Next
End Sub
<Extension()> _
Public Sub UnSelectAllRows(ByVal dataGridView As DataGridView)
For Each dgRow As DataGridViewRow In dataGridView.Rows
dgRow.Selected = False
Next
End Sub
dp.SyntaxHighlighter.ClipboardSwf = '/dp.SyntaxHighlighter/Scripts/clipboard.swf'
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8/2/2010 3:02:40 AM
A long time ago, my family took a trip to Expo ‘86 in Vancouver, with stop offs in San Francisco and Los Angeles. In LA, we went on the Universal studio tour, something which I basically have no memory of. I did get a memento, though—a poster entitled “Murphy’s Computer Law” with a bunch of humorous computing “laws” on it. This poster went up in my room, accompanied me to college and has been in most of my offices at Microsoft. However, a few years ago, a corner ripped off in a move. Then while ... [ read more ]
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