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September 2009 - Posts

Wednesday, September 30, 2009 8:41 PM

Give your computer insomnia [Free tool and source code to temporarily prevent a machine from going to sleep!]

The default power settings for Windows are set up so a computer will go to sleep after 15 to 30 minutes of inactivity (i.e., no mouse or keyboard input). This is great because a computer that's not being used doesn't need to be running at full power.
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Wednesday, September 23, 2009 10:14 PM

If it walks like a duck and talks like a duck, it must be a ... TreeGrid! [A simple, XAML-only TreeGrid UI for WPF]

If you've done much work with WPF or Silverlight, chances are you already know what a TreeView is and what a DataGrid is. You know that a TreeView is good for showing hierarchical data and a DataGrid is good for showing tabular data. But you may not know
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Monday, September 21, 2009 12:37 AM

I get by with a little help from my friends [PieSeries annotations trilogy complete!]

Friend and fellow Charting fan Bea Stollnitz has just completed a 3-post series describing how to add annotations to pie charts created by the Data Visualization package that's part of the Silverlight Toolkit and WPF Toolkit . Because annotations are
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Sunday, September 13, 2009 11:40 PM

A preview of upcoming Charting changes [Silverlight/WPF Data Visualization Development Release 1]

It was about two months ago that I posted about Silverlight/WPF Data Visualization Development Release 0 . At the time, I explained how I was hoping to do occasional, out-of-band releases of the Data Visualization assembly that's part of the Silverlight
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Tuesday, September 08, 2009 10:31 PM

When framework designers outsmart themselves [How to: Perform streaming HTTP uploads with .NET]

As part of a personal project, I had a scenario where I expected to be doing large HTTP uploads (ex: PUT ) over a slow network connection. The typical user experience here is to show a progress bar, and that's exactly what I wanted to do. So I wrote some
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