Synchronous (request-response) messaging with NMS and ActiveMQ
Recently I’ve had the pleasure (?) of working with and learning a little about using Apache’s ActiveMQ with .NET using NMS. One of the issues I ran into was... Read More
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MVVM: Using a Timer in your ViewModel
Yesterday I found myself needing to periodically sample data for a real-time chart and realized that the “Timer” classes in System.Threading and System.Windows didn’t quite work as expected, raising... Read More
Double-Click Event in Silverlight on FrameworkElement
I was rather astonished at the lack of a double-click event in Silverlight despite its existance in WPF (that I’m aware of). I’ve looked at quite a few solutions... Read More
Cross-Field Attribute Validation in WPF using MVVM and IDataErrorInfo
At one point or another we’ve all had to do some sort of input validation. In this post, I’m going to show you how to use the IDataErrorInfo interface... Read More
Enumerating MS SQL Server Instances and Creating a Simple Connection Form
Have you ever wanted an SQL Server selection wizard that works similar to the ones found throughout windows? I had that desire for a little code-generation application that I... Read More
Managing the Windows Server 2008 GAC: Access Denied!
We have decided to manage the bulk of our common assemblies in the GAC due to the simplicity it offers when needing to perform updates/bugfixes across many web applications using them. ... Read More
WPF ComboBox and DataBinding: DataContext, ItemsSource, DisplayMemberPath, SelectedItem, SelectedValue & SelectedValuePath
A few weeks ago, a friend convinved me to start looking into WPF, XAML and the MVVM pattern. As I’ve been primarily working with ASP.NET WebForms & MVC2 applications... Read More
