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Read/Write selector in C# 3 then C# 4
I needed some quiet time to finish this article so I took some vacations here (Mauritius Island) Expressions are used to evaluate something. We usually use them in the right side of an affectation or at any place where a value is expected. It can be composed Read More...
Surface Academy Toolkit 2009
Just a quick post to share this project with you. Microsoft France organized a 2 month long internship in Paris to develop a Surface Toolkit. We have provided a bunch of controls, including a Card Game Surface Starter kit that you can see here: The project Read More...
Serving Silverlight Apps from Windows Mobile
For the last Paris mobility briefing, my colleague Pierre Cauchois asked me to co-animate the Coding4Fun session…hard to refuse. Even if mobile dev is not my every day work, thanks to the .Net Compact Framework, it’s still .Net programming. Here is the Read More...
Linq: how to share parameters between lambda expressions ?
Before going into Linq, here is again one of my pictures: Le Louvre by night, Paris When using Linq to objects, you will quickly feel the need to pass some parameters from a method to another but it’s not so easy because each Linq method is not calling Read More...
WPF/Surface demo: driving an extending desktop with a popfly duck !
Contrarily to the title, this is a serious article ! From 10th to 12th of February Microsoft France have organized the Paris Techdays event. During the developer keynote, I have presented some Surface development features with a funny demo. Here is a Read More...
[Coding4Fun]: understanding WinForms designmode
We have just finished the french Paris Techdays today. I had organized a Coding4Fun session and here is on of the demo which is...let's say special :p. You can find the code attached to this post. Read More...
WPF and Silverlight BookControls updated for Silverlight 2 RTM
You can now find the Silverlight 2 RTM version of this pageturn control, still here on codeplex : http://www.codeplex.com/wpfbookcontrol I have also updated the online example showing flickr pictures in a book: http://blogs.msdn.com/mitsu/archive/2008/05/14/create-a-virtual-book-with-your-flickr-pictures.aspx Read More...
Linq to Sql CompiledQuery container
Before we go deep into Linq to Sql, I wanted to share with you one of my pictures made last week at Chamonix Mont Blanc from "L'aiguille du midi" during some days off. Ok now let's go. Here is just a little trick but with some interesting patterns Read More...
TreeSelector : playing with generics and type inference
This piece of code is part of a personal bigger project that I am working on and I think there are interesting thing in it and I wanted to share it with you. I am trying to use generics and type inference to imagine new kind of method prototype. With Read More...
Thinking about new C# method prototypes: object as dictionary
I recently had to write a small Flickr API. I know many .Net API for Flickr already exist but I needed one for a Silverlight application. Whatever, it's only about building some querystrings so I did it by myself. It's been an opportunity to think again Read More...
WPF and Silverlight BookControls: source code available
I have just finished converting the control to silverlight one week away from Silverlight 2 beta 2 release date, so I have been waiting for it ! For people to be able to compare code (quite similar) and behavior between the WPF and the Silverlight control, Read More...
Create a virtual book with your Flickr pictures
Get some help with the video on this page: http://blogs.msdn.com/mitsu/archive/2008/05/14/show-your-flickr-pictures-in-a-silverlight-book.aspx Read More...
Show your Flickr pictures in a Silverlight book
Here is a control that everybody can easily use. This allow you to display Flickr pictures in a blog post or in any web page. For example this set of pictures ( http://www.flickr.com/photos/benjamingauthey/sets/72157604570177365/ ), taken by my friend Read More...
Tip: how to simplify value access from a dictionary ? With an extension method !
I was getting really bored with testing .ContainsKey() at each time I wanted to read a value from a dictionary. Dictionary < string , string > dico; if (dico.ContainsKey( " key " )) value = dico[ " key " ]; else value = " default " ; A incredibly Read More...
Silverlight 2.0 Flippage prototype
Enjoy, Code is coming very soon.. [Update]: code is now available here ! Mitsu Move the mouse cursor around the corners Read More...
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