Simple logging with use of System.Diagnostic.Trace

Recently we have decided to replace the logging framework we used, because of its not necessary complexity and a bunch of features we did not use and even did not know anything about. The goal was to use the built in System.Diagnostic.Trace facility and cover some of basic requirements we had.

Could not find required file 'setup.bin'

Full error (almost): C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework64\v4.0.30319\Microsoft.Common.targets (4486): Could not find required file 'setup.bin' – in practice – adventures with migration to .net 4.5

Nuget command line – uninstall package from all projects

I’m not a fan of the nuget GUI – I prefer the command line but there’s been a ‘feature’ that was more comfortable to do in the gui – uninstall a package from all projects.

Razor changes in MVC 4

Here’s a short article describing a few changes in razor 2.0

CSS Preprocessors – Sass, Less, Stylus

CSS has been around for a while and will stay for a while longer and although I think it’s a good and working ‘language’ it has a few pitfalls – the biggest one being the lack of ability to reuse certain parts. Take colors for example, when you want to style a site you need to repeat the color declaration everywhere you want to set it, so when you change your mind, the only way to implement the changes is search and replace. Now that’s not that bad when you have a small site and one css file, but when the number of files grows, that problem grows along. So what can we do?

Simple, bindable PieChart in WPF

Today I will show you a simple way to have a pie chart in your WPF application with use of ItemsControl. The pieces of the pie will be binded to the undergoing item model collection. Let’s take a look at it.

Semantic Versioning

We’ve been using semantic versioning for a while now and it’s been paying out. Though there were some ‘quirks’. Now, version 2.0 is (almost) out and guess what, it addresses them! Let’s take a look at the new version and see what changed.

Private Deploy of EF with SQL CE 4.0 and Click Once

Recently I faced the problem with deploying an WPF application, which uses Entity Framework and Sql Server Compact 4.0 nuget packages. The application was deployed automatically by TFS Server as a Click Once  installer. The problem was that the setup did not download Sql Server package at client machine and application could not work. Apart from checking what is maybe wrong on TFS side configuration, the simplest solution was to do a so called Private Deploy of the Sql CE libraries. Unfortunately it turned out to not be easy too.

Simple validation in WPF MvvM Part 2

In a previous post I showed you how to use IDataErrorInfo interface to implement simple validation mechanism in WPF MvvM application. In this post we will try to extend and customize this approach a little.

Simple validation in WPF MvvM using IDataErrorInfo

In this post I will try to demonstrate the simplest validation approach for Windows Presentation Foundation application designed in Model View View-Model pattern.

We will be using data binding and IDataErrorInfo implementation.