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Remember .net reflector?
By eidias on (tags: None, categories: tools)
Remember .net reflector?
By eidias on (tags: None, categories: tools)
So you have a requirement – supply the possibility to create and edit rich formatted text in a web application. Seems pretty straightforward – use a ready editor and you’re done.
Now, add some constraints to that, like – the editor needs to be dead simple because the target user does not care about all that semantic stuff (that’s your job), it needs to perform well and be as intuitive as it gets.
This is a pretty valid requirement and in todays web is pretty common, but as it turns out, there isn’t a lot of maneuvering space here.
By eidias on (tags: editors, categories: web)I’ve heard a lot of advice about how I should and how I should not concatenate strings. I’ve stuck to them, but the moment of questioning was inevitable. So I spun up a small app to see what’s what. If you’re interested, read along.
By eidias on (tags: performance, categories: code)9th of April 2012 the new version of WCF Data Services was released with number 5.0 and support for V3 OData protocol. You can download this version from here.
You can read more about all new features added to this release of Data Services on WCF Data Services Team Blog
By Mirek on (tags: Data Services, OData, WCF, categories: code)In this post I would like to point out the main practical differences between ASP.NET Web API and WCF Data Services (OData). For those who does not yet know too much about Web API there is a lot of articles and tutorial about this topic on the net. The starting point is of course Microsoft ASP.NET team site which provides all related information and a bunch of tutorials. Concer…
By Mirek on (tags: ASP.NET, OData, WCF Data Services, Web API, categories: infrastructure, code)Here’s a handy little widget that may be of use. It’s based on this article, with some minor corrections.
By eidias on (tags: jQuery plugin, categories: code)Model View View-Model is one of most popular design pattern used in WPF applications. Thanks to binding, dependency properties and other features, WPF has been adjusted and, I believe, somehow designed to be used with MvvM pattern easily.
By Mirek on (tags: mvvm, WPF, categories: code)Today I will show you how to use the XAML styles located in resource dictionary in external assembly. I will also try to point out the common problems that can raise during this process.
By Mirek on (tags: resources, styles, WPF, XAML, categories: architecture)It this post we will try to create a custom combo box style which adjust the look of standard control to our needs.
By Mirek on (tags: combobox, CustomTemplate, style, WPF, categories: code)One of features of Autofac is that it can be used to host a WCF service. I have tried to host a WCF service within an already existing ASP.NET MVC 3 web application. The problem was that the service needed to use some resources which were managed by Autofac and was also used this MVC application. I spend few hours until I figure out what is going on and how to make it work toge…
By Mirek on (tags: Autofac, IoC, MVC 3, WCF, categories: code)