Dynamic fuzzy search with LINQ and entity framework and jQuery autocomplete part 1

Search has always been my most desired feature in applications and if I were to guess, I’m not the only one with this craving. The comfort and flexibility it gives you is enormous under one condition – it’s smart enough.

Let’s dig a little bit into the subject.

Making NotifyPropertyChanged refactorable.

Common problem when using INotifyPropertyChanged interface is that the PropertyChangedEventHandler event accept a string property name as a parameter. That cause a possible problem when we want to refactor the property and forget to update the provided property’s name.

Sortable and expandable enums

Have you ever faced the problem that extending enum type by new values may cause unpredicted behavior of the application? I recently have. As the solution for this problem I figure out how to design enum values so they can be easily sortable and easily expandable in future, causing no side effect.

WPF switch panel

The panel which switch its content depending on the value of boolean flag is the topic of this post.

MVC parameter binding

Here’s a piece of information that will hopefully save you the time I spent on trying to figure it out… asp.net mvc parameter binding is localizable ONLY in the case of POST form action.

Event aggregation

In this post I will try to present you my implementation of event aggregator, which I used in WPF MvvM application. I will also try to point out the advantages of my implementation over other found in the internet.

Automatic ICommand activation in WPF

Today I will present you my solution for automatic command activation in WPF MvvM application.

Configuring simple TraceSource for logging purposes

In the previous post we saw how to use the built in Trace class for logging facilities. However the Trace class is not the latest Microsoft’s recommended way for logging your application. In this post I will try to present the quickest way of configuring TraceSource and use it for logging purposes.

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.

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?