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Nancy over ServiceStack
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Towards a better RESTful service REST web services allows disparate network to communicate on the internet using a predetermined format. While…
Want to bind to a WPF ConverterParameter?
The other day I was working on a WPF functionality that requires me to format a user input from a DatePickerTextBox.…
WPF did you know series #3: the following code snippets are the same
Snippet 1:
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<Button xmlns=”http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation” Content=”OK”><br /> <Button.Background><br /> <SolidColorBrush Color=”White”/><br /> </Button.Background><br /></Button> |
Snippet 2:
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<Button xmlns=”http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation”<br />Content=”OK”><br /> <Button.Background><br /> <SolidColorBrush><br /> <SolidColorBrush.Color><br /> <Color A=”255” R=”255” G=”255” B=”255”/><br /> </SolidColorBrush.Color><br /> </SolidColorBrush><br /> </Button.Background><br /></Button> |
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System.Windows.Controls.Button button = new System.Windows.Controls.Button();<br />button.Content = “OK”;<br />button.Background = (Brush)System.ComponentModel.TypeDescriptor.GetConverter(typeof(Brush)).ConvertFromInvariantString(“White”); |
Snippet 1 uses in-built converters to convert “special” type…
WPF did you know series #2: margin and padding
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WPF did you now series #1: you can run XAML from Internet Explorer
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Do you get confused identifying which w3wp.exe to attach to in Visual Studio?
Two options for you: Option 1 (from command prompt) – In IIS 6: run %windir%system32cscript iisapp.vbs – In IIS 7: %windir%system32inetsrvappcmd.exe list wp…