Zen of Software Development

ClickOnce Protocol Handler (also works for Silvelight or Xbap)

So if your goal is to create a protocol handler so that you can create a link with some data in it, click on it and have your clickonce, silverlight or xbap application open up and react to the given data in the link... this is how you do it. As a matter Read More...

Getting Started...

There are a lot of things to download and install in order to get started writing Silverlight and WPF applications.. Download Microsoft® Visual Studio 2008 90-day trial version here . Download Microsoft® Visual Studio 2008 Tools here . Download Microsoft® Read More...

Shared Resources XAML Intellisense

[ I'll provide a full solution download to anyone interested ] Our Goals were: 1) Use images in XAML syntax like this: < Image Name ="imageSave" Height ="16" Width ="16" Source ="ui:Images.ico_save_16.png"/> 2) Break on invalid image references Read More...

Digital Hemmingway?

I live on Capital Hill in Seattle. A diverse neighborhood filled with world-class restaurants, shops and coffee shops. In my travels outside of Seattle it seems coffee shops are simply a place where people go to buy coffee. I see them in a frantic rush Read More...

AJAX, XBAP, Silverlight

Ramblings (in response to a question)… I would have to know a lot more about his requirements before making a recommendation. In particular – what are the skill sets of his existing resources? I’m guessing the primary things you are looking for are ease Read More...

Download Pictures from your Cell Phone via Bluetooth

If you have a bluetooth enabled laptop and a bluetooth enabled cellphone you may be able to download the pictures from your phone to your laptop via bluetooth... EVEN if your cell phone provider says it isn't possible (as in my case). Perhaps they direct Read More...

SQL 2005 - XML parsing... illegal xml character

You may run into an error when using SQL 2005 and a .NET 2.0 aspx or windows client UI. Perhaps you’ve encoded your xml – you are using stored procedures and proper sqlParameters and everything – yet you still run into this exception. Example repro: DECLARE Read More...