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Tuesday, May 12, 2009 11:42 PM

Good WPF Book

I get lots of questions about books I recommend for learning WPF. Adam Nathan's Windows Presentation Foundation Unleashed (WPF) has been around for a while, but I still think it's the best WPF book available. I have my copy on my Kindle
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Monday, March 30, 2009 4:34 PM

Managing Cultures in a Global Application

I have been doing a lot of work on globalized applications lately and I have learned a lot. I thought I'd try to share some of what I've learned with everyone. One of the first issues we ran into was managing formatting of data for different scenarios.
Posted by mattdotson | 1 Comments
Monday, March 30, 2009 4:27 PM

Global Toolkit is now in CodePlex

I've been doing a lot of globalization work lately, so to capture some of my best practices around globalization, I've created a CodePlex project. Matt Dotson's Global Toolkit ( http://www.codeplex.com/GlobalToolkit ) is where I'll be posting code which
Posted by mattdotson | 1 Comments
Wednesday, July 09, 2008 11:32 PM

Presentation Model Pattern in WPF (Part 2)

In part one we looked at the concept of a presentation model. In this post we are going to going to start putting together some crude code to scaffold out our presentation model base classes. This article should give you the basic idea how things are
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Friday, June 27, 2008 11:59 PM

My Toolbox

One thing I always find myself doing is showing people the little indisposable tools in my toolbox. Here's a list of some I couldn't live without. Reflector ( http://www.aisto.com/roeder/dotnet/ ) - If you only get one tool, this is the one to choose.
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Saturday, June 21, 2008 3:42 AM

Presentation Model Pattern in WPF

Choosing a design pattern for the user interface of your application involves weighing trade-offs between testability, complexity, developer tool support, and capabilities. There are two very prominent camps in user interface patterns: Forms & Controls
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Tuesday, January 23, 2007 12:30 AM

Real World GridView is now on CodePlex

Yup. I heard you (eventually). You wanted easier access to the source code of Real World GridView. Well, now you have it. CodePlex is Microsoft's new shared source development platform, and it should be much easier to use. Give it a try, here's the link:
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Friday, March 03, 2006 11:30 AM

Multi-Process Synchronization with Named Events

Windows exposes several types of synchronization primitives (Mutexes, Events, etc.), but in .NET 1.1 we were limited in our use of them. Sure, we had AutoResetEvent and ManualResetEvent, but the framework did not expose the "named" version of these. The 2.0 framework brings us nearly the full gamut!!
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Thursday, March 02, 2006 5:51 PM

Real World GridView: Excel-like Frozen Headers for ASP.NET 2.0

Many of us are familiar with frozen cells in Excel, but it is typically quite difficult to implement something like that HTML. In this “Real World GridViews”, we investigate adding this functionality to GridView to make frozen headers easy to reuse across pages. Though I am only going to go over freezing headers here, once you get the idea, it is a short step to freeze columns (right or left) and footers.
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Wednesday, March 01, 2006 8:03 PM

Finally ... Part 2 of Real World GridViews

GridView is a great control, and out of the box it does a lot of wonderful stuff, but I haven't worked on a project yet where it did everything I needed. "Real World GridView" is an attempt to share some of the common customizations I end up doing to GridView on a regular basis.
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Wednesday, March 01, 2006 7:23 PM

Real World GridView: Two Headed & Grouping GridViews

Let's take a look at some real world uses for GridView.
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Friday, February 17, 2006 1:33 AM

Lambda Expressions: C# has a Lisp??

Until I started looking at C# 3.0, I had never heard of lambda expressions. A quick glance at Wikipedia tells me that they seem to pre-date computers, and languages like Lisp and Ruby seem to be based on them. But what the heck are lambda expressions??
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Monday, February 13, 2006 2:43 PM

Using SynchronizationContexts.

SynchronizationContext is new in .NET 2.0, and I haven't found too much written about it yet. It is used by classes like BackgroundWorker and some other built-in classes, and I wanted to show how you can use it in your code as well.
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Thursday, February 09, 2006 8:15 PM

WinCast: A podcast receiver built-on the Windows RSS Foundation.

I saw the Windows RSS API was published the other day and so I just had to create something with it. What better than a podcast receiver!!
Posted by mattdotson | 2 Comments
Tuesday, November 22, 2005 12:51 AM

WPF: Expander Dropdown

Do you ever get sick of hunting through a dropdown that has hundreds of items in no particular order. I do!! I've seen far too many LOB apps that feel the need to have hundreds items in a dropdown. So this week, I created the expander dropdown to at least
Posted by mattdotson | 8 Comments
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