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Cin-Day Nerd Dinner Reminder
This is just a quick reminder that tomorrow (April 2nd) we will be having our first Cin-Day Nerd Dinner. If you are planning on coming, but haven’t RSVP’ed please do so here so that I can warn Dewey’s Pizza in West Chester of the raucous crowd to be expected. Can’t wait to see…
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Action(Of T) Lambdas in VB
Until VB catches up with C# in the lambda support realm, here is how you can accomplish those Moq or Rhino.Mocks style verifications in VB: It’s very frustrating going from the full support in C# to VB, but I’m finding sufficient workaround for most items. I shouldn’t be so hard…
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Outlook 2007 Huge Performance Improvement
If you use Outlook 2007 go get this hotfix ( download here) now. It’s crazy faster after this update. Hurry!
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Cin-Day Nerd Dinner
I’m jumping on the bandwagon and you’re all invited to follow. I’ve scheduled a Nerd Dinner at Dewey’s Pizza in West Chester on April 2nd. It’s just off the Tylersville exit on I75. I’ll have both the Dayton and Cincinnati User Groups announce the event at their upcoming…
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Scaling ItemsControl Items for Explicit Visible Items in WPF
Another part of the overall solution we were trying to come up with in conjunction my previous post on Scrolling Multiple Content Areas, we also needed to come up with a way to only show X number of items in the visible region of an ItemsControl wrapped in a ScrollViewer. This…
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Scrolling Multiple Content Areas with a single ScrollBar in WPF
I struggled to solve a UI dilemma while at my current client. For various reasons, we came across a situation in which we needed to scroll two areas of the view based on a single Scrollbar. You can see what we were attempting and finally achieved here. The end result is smooth,…
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STUFF & FOR XML PATH
On the get the job done front, my client had a question today that, while it makes me cringe a little to answer the way I did, it got him moving again. [Thanks to Mike Levy for pointing me in the right direction] My client has a small administrative utility that displays Things.…
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The WPF Mindset
WPF is awesome, but it requires the developer to make a pretty big shift in their thinking of UI. I’ve had a hard time explaining this to people, but last week, I had an opportunity to work through an example with Steve Gentile. That’s the basis of this walkthrough. The Scenerio…
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Why VMWare over Virtual PC
I just found the reason why I’m going to slap down almost $200 bucks for VMWare Workstation over Virtual PC: Unity. I am using a coworkers VM to help on a project he’s been working on, but he uses VMWare and I use Virtual PC. Instead of buy a license I’m using VMWare Player. Well…
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Gates/Seinfeld Commercial
So everyone is hating on the new Gates/Seinfeld commercial (you can see it on Windows.com). Maybe I like Seinfeld humor too much, but I think it's hilarious. It doesn't inundate me with Windows or Vista glare, it's not over the top, it's just funny. I mean, Bill Gates just…