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Random tip of the day: adding a shortcut to all desktops in Windows Vista Server 2008

I've been puzzling how to do this for a little while, as I had some common shortcuts I wanted to add to the desktop for everyone on my team to use. The way to do this in Windows XP has been to use the "All Users" account and add to the desktop folder. Read More...
Posted Wednesday, November 18, 2009 8:56 PM by jfoscoding | 0 Comments

Beta2 is out -- What's new in Cider

Mark shows off some of the new and exciting features in Cider Beta 2 , including: DataSources window now works in Silverlight (as well as WPF) - you can now drag and drop from this window to your design surface to automatically hook up to data. Property Read More...
Posted Monday, October 26, 2009 6:36 PM by jfoscoding | 0 Comments
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High DPI - it's an everyone thing.

As larger displays are becoming more popular, they're increasingly being used in places like the livingroom. And if you've ever tried to read text across the room with the default DPI setting, you'll find you may need a pair of opera glasses. In Windows Read More...
Posted Sunday, October 11, 2009 4:07 PM by jfoscoding | 1 Comments
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bugviewer

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Posted Thursday, October 01, 2009 12:20 AM by jfoscoding | 0 Comments

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Posted Thursday, October 01, 2009 12:20 AM by jfoscoding | 0 Comments

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Creating a bug repro viewer in 5 minutes

One of my favorite books of all time is The Pragmatic Programmer . A piece of advice I've always taken to heart is to take the time to make tools that will make you more productive. Today's tool I can share with you - I didn't want to flip back and forth Read More...
Posted Thursday, October 01, 2009 12:06 AM by jfoscoding | 1 Comments

OnRenderVersusOnPaint

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Posted Thursday, September 10, 2009 1:00 AM by jfoscoding | 0 Comments

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Tip: creating your own snippets

I recently showed how to use the "Define a Dependency Property" snippet in VS to save time/frustration creating a new property on your control. I often need a property changed event as well, and it's a bit of a pain to go back and add it. I just figured Read More...
Posted Tuesday, September 08, 2009 2:14 AM by jfoscoding | 1 Comments
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Tip: quickly create a dependency property

If you want to make a property that can be styled from XAML - you need to create a dependency property on your control. This can be a tricky syntax, but fortunately the C#/VB editor have "snippets" that allow you to really quickly create one. Let’s assume Read More...
Posted Tuesday, September 08, 2009 2:11 AM by jfoscoding | 0 Comments
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Creating a custom control in Cider

Here's the quick way to create a custom control in Cider. Right click on project in Solution Explorer Choose “Add > New Item” Choose “Custom Control (WPF)” Two files will be generated – CustomControl1.cs and Themes\Generic.xaml In the Themes\Generic.xaml Read More...
Posted Tuesday, September 08, 2009 2:01 AM by jfoscoding | 0 Comments
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OnRender is not as cheap as OnPaint

If you’re an old windows forms or GDI/Win32 person, you may be tempted to override OnRender for more complex UIs . A long long time ago I wrote how to create a custom control in Windows Forms . I showed the technique for calling Invalidate() to call OnPaint Read More...
Posted Tuesday, September 08, 2009 1:56 AM by jfoscoding | 4 Comments
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snippet editor

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Posted Tuesday, September 08, 2009 1:54 AM by jfoscoding | 0 Comments

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DP Property Changed Snippet

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?> <CodeSnippets xmlns=" http://schemas.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/2005/CodeSnippet "> <CodeSnippet Format="1.0.0"> <Header> <Title>Define a DependencyProperty with PropertyChanged</Title> Read More...
Posted Tuesday, September 08, 2009 1:51 AM by jfoscoding | 0 Comments

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Avoiding throwaway layout/painting/mouse code

I’m not normally a Hungarian fanatic or anything, but it is quite easy to create “write once” layout/painting code. If there’s ever a problem with the math the code needs to be tossed out because it’s too confusing or too difficult to update. I think Read More...
Posted Tuesday, September 08, 2009 12:20 AM by jfoscoding | 0 Comments

margin only

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Posted Monday, September 07, 2009 10:18 PM by jfoscoding | 0 Comments

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