Bindable Run for FlowDocuments
Monday, September 05 2011
wpf
Looking for a way to databind to a paragraph of text in WPF, I first learnt about FlowDocuments, then about Run and how it doesn’t support databinding. Further consultation with Professor Google led me to Scott Hanselman’s The Weekly Source Code 40 where I found links telling me how to make binding work.
Fighting Spam with Mollom
Monday, September 05 2011
admin
I have to figure that the spam arriving on this site comes either from a clever automated process or from people who are too dumb to realise their efforts are useless.
Lessons learnt at TechEd
Tuesday, September 06 2011
random
After my recent presentation at the recent Tech Ed conference in Auckland, I’ve spent a little time reflecting on the feedback received and identifying some lessons learnt. I thought that blogging these might prove useful for others as they work towards their conference debut.
Fixing a Xaml parse exception
Thursday, September 08 2011
wpf
Working on a side project, I started getting a very odd persistent error. Placing a user control onto a window using the Visual Studio designer gave an error dialog “Provide value on ‘System.Windows.Markup.StaticResourceHolder’ threw an exception.” Hand coding the Xaml for the user control gave the same error:
Warning MSB3247: Found conflicts between different versions of the same dependent assembly
Tuesday, September 13 2011
visual-studio
Here’s a Visual Studio tip that falls into the category of “obvious once you know it” …
Configuration of Log4Net through code
Wednesday, September 14 2011
tips
While writing a windows service, I created a console version for debugging use. I wanted this console to display all
the logging, in real time, so I could see things were working. A bit of a search revealed that ColoredConsoleAppender
was the desired class, so I added code to set things up.
Windows Phone 7 vs Z88
Tuesday, September 27 2011
random
I’ve just acquired a new phone - an LG C900k Windows Phone 7 device. It’s awesome and I’m having a lot of fun with it. It’s not the only mobile computing device I have, just the newest, so I thought a comparative review was in order between it and the oldest mobile computing device I have, my Cambridge Z88.
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