Archive for March, 2009

Action(Of T) Lambdas in VB

Until VB catches up with C# in the lambda support realm, here is how you can accomplish those Moq or Rhino.Mocks style verifications in VB: dim someSub as Action(Of double) = AddressOf mockObject.SomeSub Rhino.Mocks.Expect.Call( someSub) It’s very frustrating going from the full support in C# to VB, but I’m finding sufficient workaround for most items.  [...]

Outlook 2007 Huge Performance Improvement

If you use Outlook 2007 go get this hotfix (download here) now.  It’s crazy faster after this update.   Hurry!

Cin-Day Nerd Dinner

I’m jumping on the bandwagon and you’re all invited to follow.  I’ve scheduled a Nerd Dinner at Dewey’s Pizza in West Chester on April 2nd.  It’s just off the Tylersville exit on I75.  I’ll have both the Dayton and Cincinnati User Groups announce the event at their upcoming meetings.  Please try to RSVP so I [...]

Scaling ItemsControl Items for Explicit Visible Items in WPF

Another part of the overall solution we were trying to come up with in conjunction my previous post on Scrolling Multiple Content Areas, we also needed to come up with a way to only show X number of items in the visible region of an ItemsControl wrapped in a ScrollViewer.  This was more tricky than [...]

Scrolling Multiple Content Areas with a single ScrollBar in WPF

I struggled to solve a UI dilemma while at my current client.  For various reasons, we came across a situation in which we needed to scroll two areas of the view based on a single Scrollbar.  You can see what we were attempting and finally achieved here. The end result is smooth, yet not quite [...]

STUFF & FOR XML PATH

On the get the job done front, my client had a question today that, while it makes me cringe a little to answer the way I did, it got him moving again. [Thanks to Mike Levy for pointing me in the right direction] My client has a small administrative utility that displays Things.  Things can [...]

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