Caliburn is an application framework for WPF / Silverlight. If you’re developing applications for these platforms, there are many reasons why you definitely need to be using this framework, but today, I noticed how using this framework resulted writing less code while doing more. Continue reading
Sometimes when registering classes on Windsor container, that extend an existing base class with an interface, using auto registration and FirstInterface method is useless, because first interface finds the interface implemented by base class Continue reading
I’ve been working on a small LoB application to manage sales of a small sales office. I thought it’d be a good idea to put to use my WPF knowledge and use WPF to create this application. Continue reading
One of the good grid controls in WPF world belongs to Infragistics. With all the bells and whistles, there are still some limitation, some are WPF engine limitation and some are not. One thing that is very limiting is validation of data prior them being added to datasource. Continue reading
One of the things that might be less obvious when doing applications with ASP.NET MVC, is the ability to download files without exposing your files directly and possibly applying other mechanisms such as authentication or registering emails before allowing someone download your files. Continue reading
I’ve been looking for flexible Reporting components for the WPF application I’m working on, and strangely enough, there are just a few. I think WPF component in general is still a work in progress, and even if you have the chance to find a working component, there ALL have a lot of short comings and lack design-mode features, developer-friendliness, etc. and when it comes down to reporting component, there is Infragistics with very basic feature set, ComponentOne with years of background in reporting tools and Stimulsoft with complete reporting set for WinForm, WPF and Web. Continue reading
Yeah, this might be a little old, but someone asked me how to send context information from client to the service with WCF. Continue reading
There is yet another issue with NHibernate and JetDriver I encountered yesterday. It seems that a select query containing “Order By”, will gets its “From” keyword cut off at some stage by the Jet Driver. Continue reading
I’ve been working on a WPF application which is maybe another post. The work is done and I have started localizing the applications. Localization was mostly changing the FlowDirection and lables / texts for other languages, but when testing the application, I came across an interesting problem with Nhibernate. The application worked correctly in default (en-us) culture, but not in fa-ir, as NHibernate reported problems when running the working query. Continue reading
ASP.NET MVC has great ajax integration with no doubt. Simply by using ajax forms you can use partial page rendering and there are also controller callbacks. One thing that will break if you switch to Ajax / JsonResult is the built-in Validation result (ModelErrors) rendering of the MVC engine. Continue reading
