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• When should you use the MVVM Pattern

  I have been analyzing and estimating some Silverlight 4 and WPF projects recently, and will periodically get asked the question of what size of application is appropriate for utilizing the Model View ViewModel (MVVM) pattern. This is a great question, Read More... Posted Wednesday, September 01, 2010 9:02 AM from Scott Koland's blog | 0 Comments Filed under: Development, Tools, Visual Studio, MVVM, Software Development, Expression Blend

• Windows Phone 7 Boot Camp

  I attended the Windows Phone 7 Boot Camp hosted by Microsoft’s Jeff Brand in Minneapolis the other day. The event provided a good overview of the Windows Phone 7 platform, and the opportunity for some hands on development with the Windows Phone 7 Developer Read More... Posted Wednesday, August 04, 2010 1:32 PM from Scott Koland's blog | 0 Comments Filed under: Development, Visual Studio, Mobile, wp7

• Productivity Power Tools for Visual Studio 2010

  The Productivity Power Tools Extension for Visual Studio (VS) 2010 (for VS versions Professional and up) provides a number of excellent developer tools that can improve your efficiency developing software. I will review some of the main features and other Read More... Posted Friday, July 30, 2010 12:58 PM from Scott Koland's blog | 0 Comments Filed under: Development, Tools, Visual Studio

• TFS Shelvesets and Team Foundation Sidekicks

  Using Shelvesets in Microsoft Team Foundation Server can be a valuable and time saving technique. But leveraging and managing Shelvesets can get cumbersome. I recently had to extract changes from a Shelveset in one branch of code to another. How can this Read More... Posted Friday, July 09, 2010 11:47 AM from Scott Koland's blog | 0 Comments Filed under: Development, Tools, TFS, Beyond Compare, Team Foundation Sidekicks

• Unable to load client print control - Report Viewer Printing Error

  The SQL Server Reporting Services Report Viewer control, found in Report Manager, SharePoint, and custom ASP.Net applications, utilizes a print control that contains a reference to a GDI library with a security vulnerability. Microsoft updated the vulnerable Read More... Posted Monday, March 09, 2009 10:41 PM from Rich Text | 0 Comments Filed under: Development

• SSRS 2008 Tablix Data Region

  Robert Bruckner , the developer behind the Tablix data region control in SQL Server Reporting Services 2008, is kicking off a series of posts on the capabilities of the control. The Tablix control is a combination of the Table and Matrix controls from Read More... Posted Friday, March 06, 2009 7:31 AM from Rich Text | 0 Comments Filed under: Development

• User Experience Patterns Catalog & Examples

  Came across a very useful catalog of user experience (UX) design patterns called Quince. It's provided by Infragistics and the catalog itself is a really well done Silverlight application. It allows you to group UX patterns in unique ways that make Read More... Posted Tuesday, March 03, 2009 5:50 PM from Rich Text | 0 Comments Filed under: Development

• Using PowerShell to list installed windows updates

  Recently I needed to know if a particular windows patch was installed on my machine. I went to Add/Remove Programs and checked the "Show Updates" option, but the list there was too long and my eyes too tired to try and scan them all manually. Read More... Posted Friday, January 09, 2009 7:36 AM from Rich Text | 0 Comments Filed under: Development

• Nested Subreport Background Color - SSRS 2005

  I was recently styling a SQL Server Reporting Services 2005 report that contained a subreport as one of its columns. This was a tabular report that needed an alternating background color for each row. The trouble with this is that the subreport cell doesn't Read More... Posted Friday, December 19, 2008 7:18 AM from Rich Text | 0 Comments Filed under: Development

• VB Power Pack 3.0 - DataRepeater Control

  I know this isn't BI or database related, but I still enjoy checking out the development stuff from time-to-time. The VB team has released a new Power Pack for Visual Basic and the new item that they have added is the DataRepeater control. Very cool. Read More... Posted Friday, February 22, 2008 9:49 PM from Dan English's BI Blog | 0 Comments Filed under: Development

• Subversion Powershell Shortcuts...

  Some quick functions I created to reduce my time at the subversion command line. The trick here is that I couldn't just alias the commands, I needed to create some small functions for each... function st {Invoke-Expression "svn status"} Read More... Posted Tuesday, August 21, 2007 12:39 AM from Rich Text | 0 Comments Filed under: Development

• My lunch break take on Silverlight...

  I didn't go to MIX, but I did read a few blog posts of people who did. Definately need to dive deeper this weekend. Here is my quick overview of what was announced/released... DLR Dynamic Language Runtime Lets your .net code iteract with dynamic languages Read More... Posted Friday, May 04, 2007 4:56 AM from Rich Text | 0 Comments Filed under: Development, Technology