I was trying to figure out today the WPF’s equivalent to old WinForms functionality that allows a developer to change cursor shape. For example, if you have a control that may take a second or two to load, you want to change cursor shape to hourglass (WaitCursor), then change it back once control has been …
Today I did a presentation at the GGMUG (Gwinnett, GA Microsoft Users’ Group) meeting on Silverlight’s data access. Download presentation and project here.
Task of the day: create SSRS reports that can be shared between desktop (WPF) and Silverlight applications. Silverlight does not have SSRS report viewer. So what should we do? The cleanest (and easiest) solution is to utilize ASP.NET capabilities. ASP.NET does have web based controls for viewing SSRS reports. So, we will create an aspx …
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I encountered one more aspect of collaboration, and I would like to elaborate on. This involves communication with the user. Here is how the story goes. A designed lays out the UI. Proposed UI is discussed with the user, who subsequently approves the design. At this point the UI is given to developer to work …
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In our application we use black as background color everywhere and white or light gray as foreground color. I was working on a ListBox that has very complicated item’s layout. Essentially there are about 8 different controls contained within each item. ListBox is simply used as a container to view the data, we really do …
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As I was working on fixing some animations that got broken due to splitting on one control into multiple controls, I came up with an idea of creating a single animation that could be apply to multiple controls. In my case, the animation was two-fold. As control came into view, it should fade into the …
Magenic is sponsoring a webcast about CSLA .NET for Silverlight on November 13. I will be doing this presentation. I am very excited about this opportunity. I think very highly of Silverlight/WPF technologies. I have also being using CSLA for almost 2 years now on nearly daily basis. As you may have noticed from other …
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I am working on a distributes WPF application. This application has rich client UI, while getting the data from a database server. One complication is that this software will be installed at a several companies across the US. All the installation have to communicate with central application server that will be hosted inside a data …
I just read this blog post on ADO.NET team blog. I have been wondering about the future on Linq to SQL since the release of Entity Framework. There is signification overlap in capabilities of both technologies, and one must wonder about the overhead Microsoft is willing to incur in maintaining both. My guess is, they …