about 1 month ago - 2 comments
I use ClickOnce to publish all my applications I write internally, some of which are VSTO Outlook add-ins. The issue with the inbuilt ClickOnce updates is you have no control over it and it can slow start up time of your app.
So I wanted a generic class that I could put in my common library More >
about 5 months ago - No comments
Many of the apps I have written need to target multiple databases or I want the connection to be configurable by the user. I have a user control in my common library that I use all the time to let the user connect to a database.
You will need the Sql Management Objects from http://www.microsoft.com/Downloads/details.aspx?familyid=B33D2C78-1059-4CE2-B80D-2343C099BCB4&displaylang=en to More >
about 5 months ago - No comments
I wanted to do this for one of my projects, the ability to bind a selecteditems collection on my view model to my view.
http://blog.functionalfun.net/2009/02/how-to-databind-to-selecteditems.html
It did the trick for me, simply use the attached property to bind the selected items to an ObservableCollection.
about 7 months ago - 2 comments
A few of my apps require opening the same window for a lot of different items and I wanted each WPF window to remember its size, position and state all the time. Nothing annoys me more than closing a window, opening the same window and its back on my second monitor.
So I went in search More >
about 7 months ago - 3 comments
Now for the juicy post, this will cover the nuts and bolts of putting it all together. I may make a part 3 once I have the time to clean up the code, add logging and other things. The aim of the project after this post is simply to be able to sync and change More >
about 7 months ago - 1 comment
Rather that trying to release and explain my other apps I thought I would write a event sync for outlook that uses WPF for the UI. I will be doing my best to use the MVVM pattern as well.
Requirements:
Visual Studio 2008 SP1
.net 3.5 SP1
Facebook Developer Toolkit 2.1
Continuous LINQ (I think I will More >
about 7 months ago - No comments
Talking to Jeremy Thake last night at the Perth SDDN meeting for the month he suggested I really should get a blog and start sharing some of my experiences while developing. It has been on my To do list for a long time now so I decided to get it done!
I have been working More >