Databinding child controls in an ASP.NET composite control.
Today I spent a stupid amount of time trying to resolve an issue that had me banging my head off the desk. To save anyone else from the sheer frustration I thought I would write about it to hopefully...
View ArticleTrue data paging the Telerik RadGrid
The Telerik RadGrid is a great grid component for .NET developers and I can't recommend it, or the rest of the ASP.NET controls from Telerik, highly enough. The control has a vast amount of options,...
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Notify your customers of your product updates!
Every web app business should have a continual process of marketing their product. As with agile software development, digital marketing should be a iterative process to find out what is and isn't...
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An introduction to Code Contracts in .NET 4.0
.NET 4.0 sees the introduction of Code Contracts. Code Contracts allow the developer to specify rules and "assumptions on your code in the form of pre-conditions, post-conditions and object invariants"...
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Silverlight: Databinding visibility property to boolean
Very simple one here, but one that may not seem completely obvious to those new to Silverlight.The ScenarioA very common scenario in Silverlight is to databing the visibility of a control to a boolean...
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StackO: My First Windows Phone 7 App
UPDATE: For support and feedback go to http://stacko.uservoice.comBackground to the appI started, about a week ago, messing around with Silverlight for Windows Phone 7, having no experience with...
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WP7 Tip #1: From TheNounProject to WP7 made simple.
This is the first in the series of WP7 tips that I picked up whilst developing StackO for Windows Phone 7. I have to say, that I am no Silverlight (or WP7) expert and there may be better ways to do...
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Continuous Delivery: Reduce risk by deploying frequently
I'm still amazed that there are software companies out there that are delivering software far too infrequently. Most of the time there are no valid excuses for monthly or quarterly (or more)...
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Using TeamCity as a Nuget server to share libraries
NuGet isn't just a means of acquiring and sharing libraries externally. It's a great way to distribute your shared libraries internally within and across your development team(s). There’s no need to...
View ArticleBuilding a real-time exception monitor with NServiceBus and SignalR
All exceptions in our architecture at Tombola are caught and logged. We use an exception driven approach because the thought of someone having a poor experience on the site and experiencing errors is...
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