I have been thinking for a little while about the future of Entity Framework, feature set on the horizon, and trying to ascertain where I would like to concentrate my next “free time” project. If you have not been keeping up with Entity Framework, please read the last few posts on the Entity Framework design …
I am going to be speaking at VS Live conference in Redmond this year. If you never attended this conference, I encourage everyone to do so. You will have a week packed with sessions covering a variety of topics presented by top-notch developers. As a speaker, I get a promotional code to give to anyone …
I have had a small number of requests to enhance the functionality of my Windows Phone 7 database project on CodePlex. In light of Mango release for WP 7 that will contain SQL CE database, I think that my project will likely be used less in just a few months. The reason being is that …
I have been working on a project that is based on Silverlight. It is a large application that performs a variety of tasks, but also needs local access. Basically, it needs access to scanner in order to scan and upload documents up to the data store. I had an idea to create a WPF tray …
In the spirit of further improving my calendar control for Windows Phone 7, I added ability to show week number in the first column of the calendar control. As you can see, the very first column can show week number,. If course, I cannot break existing functionality, so the feature is disabled by default. You …
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Today due to numerous requests (technically one request from one person ), I updated my CodePlex project for calendar control for Windows Phone 7 – http://wpcontrols.codeplex.com/. I added gesture support to the project. You can now swipe (flick) from side to side to increment or decrement month, and swipe top to bottom and back to …
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In this post I would like to examine how to create integrated client and server side validation in MVC 3. The example is a bit contrived, but here is the just of it. I have a person class and I want to make sure that email address does not contain first or last name and …
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I was working on a particular production problem yesterday. Sometimes when a user clicked on print button in SSRS Web Report Viewer control, and error was shown, and report is only partially printed, maybe 2 pages out of 4 are printed. Specific error that is shown to the user stated “An error occurred during printing …
In this post I will explore a possibility of talking to a WCF REST Service from a Windows Phone 7 device. This should complete my posts related to consuming and working with data on Windows Phone 7. I am going to start with creating a WCF REST Service. First of all, I am going to …
The other day I was working on a sample application and was trying to come up with an efficient way to handle authentication and authorization. I decided to consolidate this code by implementing custom principal and identity objects. I find this approach very flexible and concise. I wanted to document it for my own benefit …