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  • Free DataGrid for Windows Presentation Foundation

    Yesterday DotNetKicks helped me to find one of best custom controls that are written for Windows Presentation Foundation to now. Xceed has produced a free GridView control for WPF . Previously I was hosting traditional GridView control in WPF applications to have this functionality in my applications and you can guess that it's not a good idea at all. Xceed GridView is neat and beautiful with almost all the features that we expect from a GridView (I said "almost all" because I might miss something...
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  • Feedburner MyBrand Service -- Brand Your Feedburner Feed

    I've had a Feedburner account for a while now, but have been reluctant to throw the switch on my site's feeds over to it...while I may not have a huge circulation (and therefore no "brand" to adhere to), I'd like to keep what little recognition I do have in my feed address instead of the generic feedburner.com/whatever, i.e. my name (or in the case of clients, their company name, etc). Feedburner now offers a pretty impressive array of services, so I was in the process of giving in and started to...

  • How to Write a Validator for Custom Workflow Activity

    In previous post about Writing a Custom Workflow Activity I talked about writing a basic custom workflow activity in its simplest form. In this post I want to add another component to my custom workflow for validation. Validation component is a good way to avoid some predictable exceptions which come from wrong inputs and cause unexpected state for your application. Using validator component you can avoid these exceptions and give appropriate error texts before compilation to correct your input parameters...
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  • JobBurner - Find Your Next Job

    Rob and Jason have written about a new site that launched today: JobBurner . As some of you are already aware, this site is all about jobs. You can send new job position to this site or apply for an available job. This is the second Web 2.0 based site done by Telligent in a partnership with Shane Henderson (who previously worked for Match.Com). Some parts of this site (its community) is built with Community Server. Read More...
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  • CS Dev Guide: Time Zone

    For many people around the world time zone doesn't matter at all. For some people it's important for their jobs and business but for developers it's just a pain! I can remember many situations that I've gotten in trouble with time zones myself. Two times (before release of Community Server 2.0 and launching BlogMailr ) I had some conversations with Ken about them and it's still a big problem for software developers. Many users ask about the lack of their local time zone in Community Server and hopefully...

  • Paint.Net 3.0 Released, And Other Stuff

    Paint.Net 3.0 was released a couple of days ago, snag it while it's hot. It's good enough (for a non-professional designer) that I haven't found the need to install Photoshop on my rebuilt machine. In fact, I'm 100% Adobe free, meaning my machine is free of: Photoshop, Reader (replaced by Foxit ), and Flash. I consider both Flash and Reader annoying enough at this point to be considered malware. I'm also Quicktime free, which in my opinion is about half a notch above Real Player in terms of A) actual...

  • Promotional Video For Windows 386

    Please note that I am not to be held responsible for any snarfing related to the watching of this Windows 386 promo video from the early 80's. Absolutely terrifying. W-w-w-w-windows. Share this post: bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it! Read More...

  • Dev Log Date 28.01.07 - Aero 2007

    Here's some more screenshots from Aero 2007, hope you enjoy There's a been a few aditions to it, as you can see, the search now fully works, inline, in new window, and locally. The Orb Menu has been updated slightly to have new Menu Buttons, the width of the aero menu has been increased from 300px to 400px to allow the color wheel to fit in. And the color wheel fully works. New planned feature aero update will be worked on tomorrow as it is exturnal to Community Server 2007. Styles are predefined...

  • Dev Log Date: 27.01.06 - CS.org gets CS 2007

    It's soo true, Community Server has been updated to a beta version of Community Server 3.0/2007, build: CommunityServer 3.0 (Build: 20126.355) and just incase u think I'm messing with ya: This can only mean the beta 1 is around the corner /* end of log */ Read More...
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  • A Little MySpace History 101

    Let it be stated that for the record, I am not a MySpace fan...I do have an account, but it's mostly for entertainment type purposes. Yay, moving onwards. MySpace is kind of a neat study for web application developers (and .Net developers in particular seeing as the site is written in asp.net)...it's horrifically busy, and it's more transactional than almost any other site of its size (think about your large news sites...95% read-only scenario). I saw this article float by on DotNetKicks earlier...

  • ApplicationSettingsBase Event Issue -- Solution

    In my last post about the apparent strangeness going on with the lack of a SettingsSaved event, I may have jumped the gun a little bit (who me? Never). Thommi left a comment asking why any of the classes needed to know if a configuration setting was persisted to disk, which wasn't the case so I probably worded it wrong. What I needed was a notification from the configuration subsystem that A) a setting had changed and B) what the new value was. In this case, I was hooking up to the PropertyChanged...

  • Counting Down for Service

    In November 2006 I informed everyone about my incoming (it's not optional!) military service and said it will start on February 20, 2007. There are only 24 days remained to start. I'm counting down each second to see the end. With current rules end date is supposed to be October 22, 2008 (I must serve for 20 months). Training can be two or four months but unfortunately I should (95%) pass four months of training. Other bad news is I can't take a good position in army to do anything related to mathematics...
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  • A Sneak Preview of Community Server 2007

    Rob has posted some screen shots of some of the new dynamic theme features found in Community Server 2007. I know a lot of people are going to love this feature as it’s going to make it a lot simpler to customize the look and feel of your site. Published with BlogMailr Read More...

  • ApplicationSettingsBase.[Insert Event Name Here] Discrepancy

    Microsoft has done a good job when it comes to event naming within the BCL by following a common naming pattern: the gerund form of the verb is used during the act of doing something (i.e. Form.Closing), whereas the past tense is used after the act has completed (ala Form.Closed). They've also done a fairly good job of encapsulating the full lifetime of events for a set of actions, and it's fairly intuitive to find what you are looking for in the documentation. Recently I've been fooling around with...

  • How to Write a Custom Workflow Activity

    Normally writing a custom workflow is a common task in Windows Workflow Foundation because there are many situations that we need to apply a development process to workflows. There are several references about writing a custom workflow but I see many newbies who can't understand the process easily. In my opinion the reason is most resources try to talk about all aspects of writing a custom activity at a glance without simple examples. So I want to test my chance and write about this topic in this...
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