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• Uses for Silverlight reflection, pt. II

  So, as promised, here is the followup to what I was doing with Silverlight reflection that made me need access to Internal members of a class. Localization in Silverlight is still an interesting story and everybody seems to have their own way of doing Read More... Posted Tuesday, April 27, 2010 11:17 AM from Big Nick's Blog | 0 Comments Filed under: Silverlight, Tech. Discussions, work, Reflection, localization

• Transactions inside stored procedures

  More a short rant today than anything else.  If you are writing a DAL most of it can be generated and be completely boilerplate.  Everything looks the same, acts the same, is called the same way.very beautiful. There’s always exceptions, Read More... Posted Tuesday, June 09, 2009 4:01 PM from Big Nick's Blog | 0 Comments Filed under: Rants, Tech. Discussions, SQL, Transactions

• Frame-based animation in WPF

  I recently was working on the ubiquitous photo/slideshow app in WPF.  This is something I’ve been tinkering with off and on for last 6 months.  The original intention was to create a photo slideshow application for my upcoming wedding.  Read More... Posted Monday, May 18, 2009 10:57 AM from Big Nick's Blog | 0 Comments Filed under: WPF, Tech. Discussions, animation

• Why does Control.Parent exist?

  Encapsulation is one of the major tenets of object orient programming. The ability to not worry about how things work behind the scenes and just use a component is lovely. Recently, I’ve had to be a on a project where a lot of UserControls have Read More... Posted Monday, July 14, 2008 1:25 PM from Big Nick's Blog | 0 Comments Filed under: General Tech Stuff, Rants, Tech. Discussions