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February 2011 - Posts

• ElementHost rendering issues with the Windows Aero theme enabled

  Came across this issue on the project I’ve been working on. When resizing a form that contained the System.Windows.Forms.Integration. ElementHost control to host WPF content inside a Windows Forms control, we noticed that the new screen real estate inside Read More... Posted 23 February 2011 13:42 by merrick.chaffer | 0 Comments Filed under: Microsoft, C#, .NET, Gotcha, .NET 3.5, Howto, WPF, .NET4.0

• Problems installing Windows 7 Service pack 1

  Thought I'd let you know how I managed to get the Windows 7 SP1 to finally install (it takes a while). At first I had little luck, as it kept saying it was unable to install, and I was receiving this message So then went online to find out how to fix Read More... Posted 23 February 2011 13:37 by merrick.chaffer | 0 Comments Filed under: Microsoft, Gotcha, Howto, Windows 7

• Virtualization in WPF with VirtualizingStackPanel

  Finally managed to figure out how to get virtualization to actually behave itself in a listbox wpf control. Turns out that in order for Virtualization to work, you need three things satisfied. 1) Use a control that supports virtualization (e.g. list box Read More... Posted 14 February 2011 11:13 by merrick.chaffer | 0 Comments Filed under: Microsoft, C#, .NET, code, .NET 3.5, WPF, .NET4.0

• Not able to bind to Uid or Name property in XAML

  Even though x:Name is a dependency property for a WPF framework element, you cannot the name of the control to a static resource in the code behind file   < Window x:Class = " WpfApplication2.Window1 "         Read More... Posted 11 February 2011 09:33 by merrick.chaffer | 0 Comments Filed under: Microsoft, C#, code, Gotcha, .NET 3.5, WPF, .NET4.0

• How to determine event subscriptions at runtime

  I’ve been wanting to know this for years, and finally discovered it the other day when looking inside the Microsoft Composite Application Blocks class in Microsoft.Practices.CompositeUI.BuilderStrategies. CommandStrategy. There’s some code in this class Read More... Posted 02 February 2011 09:58 by merrick.chaffer | 0 Comments Filed under: C#, .NET, .NET 2.0, code, .NET 3.0, .NET 3.5, Howto, .NET4.0

• My outings with Visual Studio Team System 2008 Database Edition GDR R2

  A while ago on the project I’ve been working on recently, I was having issues with my development environment which for some reason had stopped wanting to deploy our database project to my newly created sql server 2008 instance. This was on a new build Read More... Posted 01 February 2011 13:20 by merrick.chaffer | 1 Comments Filed under: Microsoft, .NET, code, Gotcha, .NET 3.5, msbuild, Howto, .NET4.0, SQL 2008