David Rickard's Tech Blog

A common user interface tweak is to save the size and location of a window and restore that state when the program starts up again. That way, the users don’t need to re-do their work of resizing and moving the windows to where they want them. However...

It becomes necessary to deal with dates and times in most .NET programs. A lot of programs use DateTime but that structure is frought with potential issues when you start serializing, parsing, comparing and displaying dates from different time zones and...

When writing an MVVM application, you want to separate from the UI. However you also need to make sure that UI updates happen on the UI thread. Changes made through INotifyPropertyChanged get automatically marshaled to the UI thread, so in most cases...