Document windows such as the Code Editor and Design view window in VS2010 can be floated outside the IDE window.
I'm finding this feature extremely useful on my wide monitors and when I am using two monitors at the same time.
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The solution in this example demonstrates a very simple example of calling a WCF service from a Silverlight 3 application.
Web Site WCF Service Silverlight 3 Client
The three main elements of the example are the WCF service contained in the examples web project, the XAML of the Silverlight 'MainPage', and the code of the 'Main Page'.
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Introduction In this earlier blog I used an XML file containing nested data items as the data source of a TreeView. In this version I will use a collection of objects as the data source. The details of the data are much the same as I used in the previous...
Recursion is a programming technique where a Sub or Function calls itself. If that sounds like a recipe for endless looping, it certainly can be, and caution is needed whenever you design a recursive structure. A recursive calculation typically performs...
Introduction For some reason, I struggled with HierarchicalDataTemplates when I first tried to use them. Although I understood the overall theory that they walk the data tree and can create formatted, nested output, I always seemed to spend an inordinately...
In previous blogs I was looking at ways of grouping TreeViewItems. Those blogs included other features, such as changing the visibility of individual nodes based on the data content of each field. The blog that dealt with TreeViewItem visibility is here...
Want to get ahead of the curve? Want to be prepared for Visual Studio 2010? If so, Microsoft has a training kit for you: Training Kit I've spent the last two weeks working through the kit. It's been worth the effort. Even though I had already...
In this earlier blog I described how to change the visibility of a line in a TreeView which has TreeViewItems that consist of two lines each. The original requirement also included grouping the entries under the different Categories. I purposely didn't...
Below is a class that contains a method that can create a DataTable object form Linq Query Results. I find the LINQToDataTable method really handy when I am creating Crystal reports. Crystal Reports love to report on DataTables....
An interesting question came up recently, where someone wanted to have a TreeView in which: Each TreeViewItem consisted of two separate lines of content but the second line may be hidden, depending on its content. This was actually a Windows Forms question...
Heres a short exmaple to get you thinking about how SQL query results can be joined to tables for purposes such as attaching summary data....
In this earlier blog , I explained how you can create and use a Command to carry out a task based on a variety of user actions. These actions included key presses, mouse actions and key/mouse combinations, as well as clicking on WPF controls. At the time...
There are changes to the Visual Studio 2010 help system that you'll want to learn about. For example, the new 'Manage Help Settings' menu item: The menu item opens the new 'Help Library Manager' dialog: From MSDN: "The Help Library...
I've got to be honest and admit up front that initially I wasn't completely sold on the idea that WPF Commands are the great leap forward that they are sometimes billed as. OK, so I get that they can reduce the repetition of event handling code...
The most successful projects, software or otherwise, are the ones where everyone has a good idea of what they're doing and why. A healthy organization communicates its goals, successes and failures, and has well-informed employees. A really good illustration...