Well… with a few years delay, I just wanted to sign up to del.icio.us, which is now simply called delicious.com. When Yahoo bought it, they obviously decided they didn’t want to have any more users, as you can see on the right. I want to store some bookmarks online. period. Do they really think I’ll [...]
Automatic updates are great, especially for web applications. Apart from saving you some time, I believe they help to enhance security since updating is really easy if you just need to push a button. The ‘traditional’ workflow involves backing up, finding and downloading the most recent (compatible) version from an external site, unzipping, uploading via [...]
When I just posted the source code of the Dependency Property Serialization sample, I realized it included a small piece of source code that might come in handy from time to time: A very basic, but rather exact profiler. It uses QueryPerformanceCounter. Perhaps I shouldn’t even call this profiler, because a profiler typically keeps track [...]
Ok, I did it: I tried to do it the easy way — serialization! And I quickly ran into the following issue: Serializing DependencyObjects. There are a lot of sources saying “you can’t serialize dependency objects”, which is true, but you can get pretty close rather quickly and it might not be the worst decision. [...]
Well, this is the first post after a very long pause, I am sorry but I had very little time… Anyway, I stumbled over some strange bug this morning that turned out to be related to the GC. But let’s just step back a minute: The application I currently work on is based on CompositeWPF [...]
A new Prism drop has just been released: http://www.codeplex.com/prism/SourceControl/DownloadSourceCode.aspx?changeSetId=10933 The current prism drop comes with a neat documentation. Unfortunately, I won’t be able to check it out for the next few days… The StockTraderRI now looks like this: .
Today, I encountered two WPF related problems: 1 – UIElement.Opacity and the way it is being ‘inherited’ Every UIElement has an Opacity property, which will we be used when rendering the control. When rendering an object, 0.0 means the object is fully transparent, thereby invisible to the user, while 1.0 means it is fully opaque. [...]
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