I often forget about different conferences I would like to keep an eye on, so I decided to make a list of them on my blog. VS Live MIX DevLink CodeStock Atlanta Code Camp Alabama Code Camp South Florida Code Camp Orlando Code Camp SQL Saturday
Today is the day to talk about COM possibilities in Silverlight 4. One would question the titles of my post. COM and Cool in the same sentence? Let me proof this title to you. First, let me take a closer look at COM. In order to access COM, you must install Silverlight application on a …
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Glen Gordon, our local evangelist is doing another road show. Here are the event details. Thursday, February 25, 2010 1:00 PM – Thursday, February 25, 2010 5:00 PM Eastern Time (US & Canada) Welcome Time: 12:30 PM Atlanta Marriot Alpharetta 5750 Windward Pkwy Alpharetta Georgia 30005 United States Language(s): English. Product(s): Azure Services Platform, Microsoft …
In the EF version 1.0, there was a problem when one would try to update multiple contexts as part of a single transaction. For example, I can use Transaction Scope, the update one context, then second context. Here is sample code to illustrate: using (TransactionScope scope = new TransactionScope()) { try { using (RolodexEntities …
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Yesterday I was asked about a way to play animations in MVVM environment. So, I gave this some thought today, and came up with a few ideas. First, and the easiest way is to separate ViewModel from animation by attaching an animation to a behavior. Here is how we would write the behavior: public class …