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• 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

• 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. 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

• Intellisense for T4 templating with .tt files in Visual Studio

  There's 2 products (both with free versions) you can use for T4 intellisense: One is by Clarius at http://www.visualt4.com/ . But best to go with Tangible's T4 editor at http://t4-editor.tangible-engineering.com/T4-Editor-Visual-T4-Editing.html (available Read More... Posted 27 January 2011 14:43 by merrick.chaffer | 0 Comments Filed under: Microsoft, C#, .NET, code, Guidance Automation Extensions, .NET 3.5, Howto, WPF, .NET4.0

• How to have NHibernate use a SQL MERGE INTO statement

  On our project we were noticing a massive performance penalty when sending a number of records to the database to either be inserted or updated via the standard NHibernate framework syntax, so we decided to see if we could do anything about this. Turns Read More... Posted 01 December 2010 13:07 by merrick.chaffer | 0 Comments Filed under: C#, C# 2.0, code, Performance, .NET 3.5, Howto, .NET4.0, SQL 2008, NHibernate

• How to host WCF services in IIS 7.5 on Windows 7

  If you see this error when hosting a WCF service under IIS 7.5 on Windows 7, HTTP Error 404.17 - Not Found The requested content appears to be script and will not be served by the static file handler. then you will need to ensure you have the Microsoft Read More... Posted 28 June 2010 15:41 by merrick.chaffer | 0 Comments Filed under: .NET, WCF, Gotcha, .NET 3.5, Howto, Windows 7

• Snoop that works for WPF applications

  Most versions of snoop that I keep coming across have a problem updating the UI dynamically at runtime via the SNOOP property grid editor. Felix Corke recently pointed me in the direction of a fixed version… http://snoopwpf.codeplex.com/ The most recent Read More... Posted 18 May 2010 16:37 by merrick.chaffer | 0 Comments Filed under: Microsoft, Gotcha, .NET 3.5, Blend, .NET4.0

• Using d:DataContext design time expression with Visual Studio 2010 Xaml file editing

  Setting the design time datacontext in visual studio 2010 in your xaml file, makes intellitype work for a deep traversal of any of your view model properties... You can set the data context type to your view mode, and then data binding to your view model Read More... Posted 04 May 2010 14:53 by merrick.chaffer | 0 Comments Filed under: Visual Studio, code, .NET 3.5, Howto, WPF