Ryan Cromwell

  1. Binding to an Image Byte[] in WPF

    I’m working on a WPF app for my wife who coaches our local high school track team. One of the features she wanted was to have some images for different players and teams and, religious debate aside, I have chosen to save these in SQL Server 2005. I’m using NHibernate for all my…

  2. WPF ScaleTransform Direction

    The key to scaling your WPF elements in a specific direction other than down and to the right are the CenterX and CenterY properties of the ScaleTransform. It’s easy enough to set these manually, but that’s just lazy and asking for long term trouble. Instead, decide how you want…

  3. PowerShell Profile on Roaming Profile

    NOTE: Impatience just leads to frustration. When I first starting playing with PowerShell here at the office, I was all excited to start adding little cmdlets to my personal profile and add to my stellar productivity (tongue firmly planted in check). This would hopefully reduce…

  4. Bind to Method within a DataTemplate

    One of my play projects with WPF is a photo viewer for the pictures we put out on http://cromwellhaus.com. One of the views is a montage of the latest photos with a random RotateTransform Angle applied to each image's RenderTransform. Getting the view itself set up as cake, but…

  5. Google Gears

    I'm not entirely sure what to think of Google Gears. It seems most people are focusing on the Database portion of the stack, but it's the LocalServer portion that has me confused. Does this not reek of complexity and severe duplication? After first reading through the LocalServer…

  6. Classic Web 1.0...

    You know you need to reevaluate your web site when you see the following: 05-25-2007 11:51 AM by Ryan to Ryan Cromwell

  7. Awesome Tool of the Day: Baretail

    Every now and again I find a tool that changes my life. Baretail is just such a tool. I don't know what I did before, but it couldn't have been good. Baretail is a log file reader/watcher that trails the end of your log files. This may not be too exciting for you, but here in the…

  8. Vista Sidebar Gadget Developer Experience

    Vista Sidebar Gadgets can be cool, but the developer experience out of the box is severely lacking. Microsoft doesn't provide a Visual Studio project template, so Tim Heuer was nice enough to provide one for us. He does so via a Web Site template, which makes sense since a…

  9. Silverlight: .Net for the masses

    While up in Redmond for the WPF Bootcamp, we had a short time to work with some of the WPF/E, now Silverlight, team members. At the time Silverlight didn't make a whole lot of sense in our strategy. That said, I hope everyone sees the great potential that comes from some of the…

  10. Signing your Powershell Profile Scripts

    Running with Set-ExecutionPolicy as AllSigned or Restricted with a roaming profile? Here's a cmdlet pair that will sign all the scripts in your profile directory. Makes life easier on me as I include a number of scripts into my main profile for readability: And if you aren't…