January 2008 - Posts
The
WPF Application Quality Guide provides guidance and best practices for improving the quality and testability of WPF applications and controls. This first release contains the proposed table of contents and several articles.
This shows how you can create your own custom provider with LinqExtender, a query provider library that can be used to create custom LINQ providers without knowing anything of how expression is parsed or processed.
Prevent the Caption and Icon from appearing in the Vista Title Bar, while still appearing in the Task bar, like Windows Explorer.
The LINQ article series will be as follows:
- Part 1 is about standard LINQ, which is used to query in memory data objects such as List, arrays, etc.
- Part 2 is about using DLINQ, which is LINQ for database data.
- Part 3 is about using XLINQ, which is LINQ for XML data.
With the introduction of Windows Presentation Foundation and the announcement that Windows Forms will continue to be supported for years to come, two obvious questions are which technology to choose for new applications and when organizations developing Windows Forms applications should adopt WPF. The answers depend on a number of variables that we’ll explore in this short paper.
View the whitepaper.
The LINQ article series will be as follows:
- Part 1 is about standard LINQ, which is used to query in memory data objects such as List, arrays, etc.
- Part 2 is about using DLINQ, which is LINQ for database data.
- Part 3 is about using XLINQ, which is LINQ for XML data.
The LINQ article series will be as follows:
- Part 1 is about standard LINQ, which is used to query in memory data objects such as List, arrays, etc.
- Part 2 is about using DLINQ, which is LINQ for database data.
- Part 3 is about using XLINQ, which is LINQ for XML data.
With the recent release of the new Microsoft Windows Vista operating system, there is a new certification program that allows us to endorse our applications with a "Certified for Vista" logo as long as it passes a strict testing process. There are 32 tests that the application needs to pass in order to gain the certification. When preparing our application (Fascia – a C# .Net application) for certification, there were a number of issues and things to consider. It was hard to find the information required to overcome many of the difficulties, so I have put together this article in order to summarise what I have learnt in order that it may assist with future certification attempts.