Today I had to accomplish the following task. I had to create a report that selects data from primary table and also selects data from a related table , comma delimited into a column on a report. I keep bumping into this problem periodically, but always have to research the solution. Today I am documenting …
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I checked the download statistics of my applications for Windows Phone 7 in the App Store, and to my surprise I have quite a few downloads! Mr. Fortune’s Famous Quotes is a free application that generates a random famous quote on demand, accompanied by a cool animation effect. As you can see, that application has …
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I have published an update to the calendar control on my CodePlex project dedicated to building common controls for Windows Phone 7. I added a number of new features. The biggest improvement added is the ability to use context menu from Silverlight Toolkit for Windows Phone 7. In order to provide this feature, I added …
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I started new CodePlex project for controls for Windows Phone 7. One control I needed for my next application is calendar control. I could not find one, so I started thinking about one a little while ago. Today I published an alpha version of calendar control. You can find it here http://wpcontrols.codeplex.com/. Calendar control supports …
I got my Happy New Year present from Microsoft this morning. They gave me Microsoft MVP award for the second year in a row. I feel honored and humbled that my efforts in promoting Microsoft technology are appreciated. I will continue doing my best in showcasing great technologies that Microsoft puts out year in and …
I wanted to make a few notes regarding my recent experience of deploying a Silverlight application in web farm environment. Here is what the topology looked like. It included load balancer appliance configured to redirect the traffic to one of three servers. There was also SQL Server cluster in active-passive configuration. The application was using …
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Today as I was debugging and optimizing a Silverlight application, I discovered a hidden feature in IE 8 that allows you to increase the number of concurrent connections to any server. Here is the link that describes the procedure. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc304129(VS.85).aspx You can try to speed up your browser by changing this setting.
This is really short post, more a tip. If you need to determine if your application is running in IIS or Developer Web Server (Cassini) that comes with Visual Studio, you can test the process name you are running in. For example, the following code: System.Diagnostics.Process.GetCurrentProcess().MainModule.FileName will return the name of the running process. In …
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I moved my blog to this site in November 2009, a little over a year ago. I did that based on an advice of fellow programmer, urging me to find a domain that is easier to remember and spell than SergeyBarskiy.Windows.Live.com. Of course, blogging was recently removed from features of Windows Live and transferred to …
It this post I want to describe the process I went though building and publishing my first Silverlight application for Windows Phone 7. It is currently being tested, and I hope I will pass the test this time. I went through a couple of iterations of testing already, learning in the process from my mistakes. …
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