julij 2008 - Zunanji viri

ASP.NET StateServer and lost sessions in Web Garden

ASP.NET StateServer enables you to store session information outside of IIS worker process. This comes especially handy if you are running your application in a “web garden” scenario or a server farm. This means, that requests coming to your...

Published 07-31-2008 18:03 by Miha Valencic

Pripete označbe: general

Label.TargetProperty as a Source

One of probably most underused features in windows desktop UI development world is got to be the use of a Label as an accessor to its pair control. I rarely see developers using this possibility to enhance keyboard UI navigation. A couple of things changed...

Published 07-30-2008 1:43 by Andrej Tozon's blog

Pripete označbe: WPF, Development, Layout, User Experience

Links of the Week #46 (week 30/2008)

Development Ajax, ViewState, and Firefox - Firefox 1.5 and MS Ajax conflict explained and solved. Summer of NHibernate Screencast Series - Video presentations of NHibernate. Enqueued. Games The Funniest Video Games Bugs & Glitches Fantastic Contraption...

Published 07-28-2008 7:46 by Bite my bytes

Pripete označbe: Links of the week

Do it with Style!

In my previous post I've shown how to create a named brush resource in WPF, which can be used and reused through whole application. Although I gave a brush a meaningful name (WindowBackgroundBrush), it can as well be used to paint areas other than...

Published 07-26-2008 1:54 by Andrej Tozon's blog

Pripete označbe: WPF, Development, User Experience

Number one advice to recruiters from an IT guy

I can't stress this enough: Never ever call me on my work phone as a form of the first contact! Unless I know you and have given you permission to call me, don't. Send me an email instead. I don't have anything against recruiters, I think...

Published 07-24-2008 19:07 by I want some Moore

Dropbox invites

Thanks to Mark Gibbs I was able to get a Dropbox private beta account. I have 10 invites to give out, so drop a comment, email , if you would like one.

Published 07-23-2008 23:08 by Bite my bytes

Pripete označbe: Software, Internet

First signs of Direct3D life on HTC TyTN II!

Guys at xda-developers.com achieved a breakthrough in HTC TyTN II missing (3D) graphics acceleration technology. In fact they achieved to cook up a proof of concept Direct3D driver that is able to accelerate windowed application on HTC's original...

Published 07-23-2008 16:49 by Righthand blogs

Pripete označbe: Windows Mobile

In the beginning, it was Black

This is the first post of what I would like to believe will be a series of thoughts on creating a good User Experience with Windows Presentation Foundation. I have no idea where this will take me, but I'll start with a color. You like black? We've...

Published 07-23-2008 15:26 by Andrej Tozon's blog

Pripete označbe: WPF, Development

Windows Home Server Power Pack 1 Released

Today we saw a release of Windows Home Server Power Pack 1 . So, what’s new ? Windows Vista x64 bit client, option to repair backup database, backup of home server Shared Folders (I don’t need, I prefer Jungle Disk for off-site backup), and, of course...

Published 07-22-2008 23:15 by Bite my bytes

Pripete označbe: Software, Gadgets

Creating wrappers for sealed and other types for mocking

Did you ever wanted to mock a sealed class or non-virtual methods? Unless you are using TypeMock you are in for some coding as there is no easy way to mock them just like that (I am fiddling with MOQ but AFAIK no mock framework is capable of mocking sealed...

Published 07-22-2008 17:23 by Righthand blogs

Links of the Week #45 (week 29/2008)

Development WCF Gotcha 1 - A tip on disposing WCF client instances. WinForms and WPF Interop - Tutorial for devs looking to use WPF but prefer to keep their feet on WinForms. Like me! :) HTTP/1.1 (DELETE, GET, HEAD, PUT, POST) - "An activity diagram...

Published 07-20-2008 21:59 by Bite my bytes

Pripete označbe: Links of the week

When cloud goes down

Cloud computing is all the rage this days. But what happens when the cloud goes down? CF . Is seems that Amazon S3 is down . [update: down 3+ hours] I’m writing an article about Picnik , but it’s behaving strange, Vimeo is missing it’s content, SmugMug...

Published 07-20-2008 21:37 by Bite my bytes

Pripete označbe: Internet, Developement

Can't start World Wibe Web Publishing Service because of Windows Process Activation Service

Recently I had to check out an asp.net application on my workstation and found out that the "Default Web Site" is stopped for some reason. After trying to start it I've got this message: So I've tried to start the mentioned services...

Published 07-18-2008 14:52 by Righthand blogs

Pripete označbe: .net 3.5, windows

Immediate deadlock notifications without changing existing code

In my previous post about immediate deadlock notifications in SQL Server 2005 I've shown a way to use a try catch block to get the deadlock error. The con of this method, although it uses best practice for error handling in SQL Server 2005, is that...

Published 07-18-2008 11:00 by I want some Moore

GetCanon! 1.7

This is a minor release that I made since user asked for it. Please read the not below before asking about why new cameras aren’t supported and why it doesn’t work on Windows Vista! GetCanon! is a image downloader for Canon digital cameras . It's...

Published 07-17-2008 21:28 by Bite my bytes

Pripete označbe: Internet, Developement, Photography