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An exotic DevEx’ ReportDesigner breaking change in 12.2

If you ever customized (excellent) DevExpress ReportDesigner you might have used this line of code to obtain a reference to IDataSourceCollectionProvider within ReportDesigner class which allows to access field list: IDataSourceCollectionProvider dataSourceCollectionProvider...

Published 01-09-2013 17:59 by Righthand's blog

Pripete označbe: .net, DevExpress

FindViewById<> CodeRush template

Here is an useful CodeRush editor template if you work with Mono For Android . FindViewById <«FieldStart»«Caret»«FieldEnd»> (Resource.Id. «FieldStart»«FieldEnd» ); «Target()»...

Published 06-09-2012 11:28 by Righthand's blog

Pripete označbe: .net, DevExpress, CodeRush, Android

Slides (Slovene) from my “compiler as a service” talk at Bleeding Edge 2011

I have to say that I really liked this year’s Bleeding Edge event. It happens rarely that all the pieces fit together: weather was excellent, location was beautiful, I enjoyed my trip (part by train, part by bicycle), attendees were just great and...

Published 10-02-2011 10:32 by Righthand's blog

Pripete označbe: Slovenia, .net, DevExpress, CodeRush, DXCore plugin, DXCore, Presentation

My “compiler as a service” talk at Bleeding Edge 2011

Microsoft is working on compiler as a service codenamed Roslyn for Visual Studio 11 which is supposed to come sometime next year, I assume towards the end of the 2012. Not much is known and Roslyn might be less feature rich as one might expect. Microsoft...

Published 09-28-2011 14:40 by Righthand's blog

Pripete označbe: Slovenia, .net, DevExpress, CodeRush, DXCore plugin, DXCore, Presentation

DevExpress’ FlowLayoutControl and MVVM

FlowLayoutControl unfortunately doesn’t support items binding. You can’t just provide a source and hope FlowLayoutControl will populate the content. But fear not, there is nothing attached properties can’t solve. I’ve created an...

Published 08-30-2011 10:45 by Righthand's blog

Pripete označbe: .net, DevExpress

Automating the Righthand Dataset Visualizer build process and a refresh build

Since the last version released I become aware of an issue in the visualizer. If you were working on a project that referenced newer DevExpress assemblies the visualizer might have reported an exception due to the binary incompatibility with its references...

Published 05-15-2011 14:35 by Righthand's blog

Pripete označbe: .net, DevExpress, Visualizer, Announcement, Red Gate, VS 2008, VS 2010

Comparing heating costs using Silverlight

Out of curiosity I’ve decided to compare actual heating costs versus theoretical heating costs. The calculation shows how much it would cost If I used a modern conditioner instead of a centralized heating provided by city and fuelled by natural gas. Hence...

Published 03-07-2011 9:48 by Righthand's blog

Pripete označbe: Silverlight, Slovenia, DevExpress

Managing DVBLink IPTV channels

I’ve been using DVBLink 3.1 for IPTV and Server Network Pack for a week or two now. It is a software that makes IPTV stream available to various clients, Windows Media Center among of them. It works very well with my IPTV provider SIOL (note the SIOL...

Published 08-21-2010 23:52 by Righthand's blog

Pripete označbe: DevExpress, Announcement, IPTV

An annoying non-persistent memory leak in .net framework MDI

I had to investigate a memory leak in an application I am building for my client. It is a MDI application using DevExpress XtraTabbedMdiManager that provides some MDI eyecandy. Anyway, I’ve used ANTS Memory Profiler (an excellent profiler, highly recommended...

Published 03-24-2010 11:31 by Righthand's blog

Pripete označbe: .net, DevExpress, Red Gate

Meet “Go To Implementator” DXCore plugin for Visual Studio

The problem One of the biggest annoyance when doing unit-test-friendly projects is that you have to deal with interfaces much more than you usually would. This isn’t bad by itself but it will effectively kill your F12 aka “Go To Definition”. In other...

Published 01-18-2010 13:54 by Righthand's blog

Pripete označbe: .net, DevExpress, visual studio, CodeRush, DXCore plugin, DXCore

About DevExpress skinning and custom skins

Here is the thing. DevExpress WinForms components support custom skinning. Out of the box there are plenty of skins you might use just by assigning a simple property with a name of the skin. Every DevExpress WinForms control will follow the skin settings...

Published 01-15-2010 10:18 by Righthand's blog

Pripete označbe: DevExpress

Developer Express published roadmap for 2010

First new “feature” is stepping down from three releases per year to two releases per year. Regardless how it sounds, it makes sense. A lot of sense. Developers and other staff spent a lot of time preparing releases and I don’t mean implementing new features...

Published 01-05-2010 21:19 by Righthand's blog

Pripete označbe: DevExpress, CodeRush

Adjusting DevExpress’ XtraTabControl’s page padding

Look at the picture below, it is a DevExpress ' XtraTabControl (WinForms) with a single page hosting a normal Button. Both XtraTabControl and Button are set as Dock = Dock.Fill. Somebody (read: my client) considers that there is just too much wasted...

Published 11-16-2009 12:06 by Righthand's blog

Pripete označbe: .net, DevExpress

Reversing for loops with CodeRush

Imagine you have to delete a bunch of items from a list, something like this: List< int > items = new List< int >(); ... for ( int i = 2; i { items.RemoveAt(i); } Will it work? Of course not because you are removing items while your are looping...

Published 09-17-2009 12:19 by Righthand's blog

Pripete označbe: .net, DevExpress, visual studio, CodeRush

Suppress system menu when right clicking on DevExpress skinned form's icon

Task Today I've got a requirement from my customer to prevent showing the system menu when WinForm's icon (top left) is right-clicked. The form is painted by DevExpress skin. Here is how I've done it. Solution 1. Intercept proper mouse messages...

Published 08-14-2009 15:36 by Righthand's blog

Pripete označbe: .net, DevExpress

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An exotic DevEx’ ReportDesigner breaking change in 12.2

FindViewById<> CodeRush template

Slides (Slovene) from my “compiler as a service” talk at Bleeding Edge 2011

My “compiler as a service” talk at Bleeding Edge 2011

DevExpress’ FlowLayoutControl and MVVM

Automating the Righthand Dataset Visualizer build process and a refresh build

Comparing heating costs using Silverlight

Managing DVBLink IPTV channels

An annoying non-persistent memory leak in .net framework MDI

Meet “Go To Implementator” DXCore plugin for Visual Studio

About DevExpress skinning and custom skins

Developer Express published roadmap for 2010

Adjusting DevExpress’ XtraTabControl’s page padding

Reversing for loops with CodeRush

Suppress system menu when right clicking on DevExpress skinned form's icon