Recently I found out that my attached property, which I am using to modify the dependency property of one of my controls, causes a memory leak.
By Mirek on (tags: memory leak, WPF, categories: code)Until recently, creating a custom window style in Windows Presentation Foundation was quite a challenging task. You had to implement the window’s behavior from scratch. Resizing, moving and all other typically window related functionality had to be reinvented and reimplemented just because you wanted the window header bar to look different.
By Mirek on (tags: style, WindowChrome, WPF, categories: code)Have you ever had a problem that your multithreaded application lost a culture context ? Have you found a good solution for this?
By Mirek on (tags: CultureInfo, localization, thread, categories: code)This is definitely the best resource to start with then.
By Mirek on (tags: Blend, categories: web)Had problems with IDN suport … easy fix as it turns out.
By eidias on (tags: ASP.NET, categories: code)WPF has many rich features which facilitates making a great look&feel of the application. Unfortunately many of those features are cumbersome to implement and use when we develop in a Model - View – ViewModel architecture. In this post I will try to make you more familiar with visual states and how can we use them in our MvvM application.
By Mirek on (tags: behaviors, Expression Blend, Visual state, WPF, categories: code)The Christmas just around the corner and the Microsoft bestows his users with gifts…
By Mirek on (tags: SkyDrive, Windows Phone, categories: web)In my last post I have described a workaround for using a FileTable in Entity Framework 6.0. In this post I would like to show you the results of performance test of storing big documents in sql FileTable.
By Mirek on (tags: Entity Framework, FILETABLE, SQL, categories: architecture)FileTable is a great new feature in SQL Server 2012 which facilitates storing and working with unstructured blob data in SQL Server. Unfortunately is not yet supported in Entity Framework, so you cannot simply use FileTable in your entity model. But there is a workaround for this inconvenience, which I am going to show you in this post.
By Mirek on (tags: Entity Framework, FILESTREAM, FILETABLE, SQL, categories: architecture, infrastructure, code)This is a simple trick to handle already handled routed events in WPF application.
By Mirek on (tags: routed events, WPF, categories: code)