.NET

Synchronous (request-response) messaging with NMS and ActiveMQ

ActiveMQ / Coding

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

MVVM: Using a Timer in your ViewModel

Binding / Coding / MVVM / Silverlight / WPF

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

Coding / Silverlight / WPF

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

Binding / Coding / MVVM / Validation / WPF

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

Coding / SQL Server

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