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Its been quite some time since my last blog entry, I thought I would start off the year with my next ux tip for building better applications. Let's be honest, I rarely get called into a project until development is well under way, and when I do the Read More...

You can show images in Silverlight using Image control. You can furthermore bind Source property of the image to byte[] type property of a business object. You would think this is sufficient, but it is not. You will need a converter to convert byte array Read More...

Event Aggregator - What is it? The event aggregator in Prism is an implementation of the Event Aggregator pattern . Fowler explains the Event Aggregator pattern as follows: Channel events from multiple objects into a single object to simplify registration Read More...

If you would like to push browser in and out of full screen mode from Silverlight application, you can do this very easily. To go full screen: Application.Current.Host.Content.IsFullScreen = true To go to normal display: Application.Current.Host.Content.IsFullScreen Read More...

Body: So I am working in a Windows 2003 server virtual machine that is hosted by my client and is a member of their domain. This VM is my development VM, and it has MOSS installed and uses many of the same service accounts that our production environment Read More...

I've been using a social network of sorts for as long as I've been using the Internet. From bulletin boards to Twitter, I've been there and still use them all to this day. Their importance is worth its weight in diamonds. Through the years of using these Read More...

Body: The rich text edit control for a multi-line text box field generates DIV tags that include syntax like this: <div class=ExternalClassAC0995C70E0C4890A5FDA9127A22F537> NOTE that there are no Quotes (") around the value side of the class Read More...

Woo hoo! I created another Dime Cast and its up and running today! Learn how to migrate from your old asmx web services to new fancy WCF web services. Check it out here Read More...