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About Alex van Beek

I'm always keen to keep up with all the new and fancy technologies and I enjoy teaching those technologies to other people. I'm currently specialized in .Net, Flex, (enterprise) Silverlight and mobile development: Android and Windows Phone

Using Dependency Injection with AutoFac in the ASP.NET Web API for an Entity Framework 5 Repository implementation

Posted on 23 July 2012 by Alex van Beek

So it’s been a while since I posted here, this has mainly been because I’ve just been too busy with numerous things. In my personal life I’ve moved from one side of the Netherlands to the other and in my Continue reading →

Silverlight: Navigation Framework tip: using the XAML escape sequence

Posted on 26 October 2011 by Alex van Beek

With all the Windows 8/Metro/WinRT hype on the internet today, I decided it was time for a quick tip concerning the XAML escape sequence and the good old navigation framework present in Silverlight 4 and Silverlight 5. I only learned Continue reading →

The C# using statement and suppressed exceptions compared to Java 7 try…with

Posted on 29 July 2011 by Alex van Beek

Yesterday Java SE 7 was released. Last night I had the opportunity to play with some of it’s new features, including Java 7’s new “resource management” syntax. Of course, we have had this feature in C# for quite some time, but I Continue reading →

Windows Phone 7.1: WCF Data Services and tomb stoning

Posted on 1 June 2011 by Alex van Beek

In Windows Phone 7 there was support for using WCF Data Services, but this support was somewhat limited. For example, using the LINQ syntax wasn’t supported, so we had to create our uri’s ourselves. Next to that, we had to Continue reading →

Multi tasking in Windows Phone 7.1

Posted on 26 May 2011 by Alex van Beek

One of the coolest features in Windows Phone 7.1 is the new multi tasking feature (next to the new LINQ to SQL support of course). In this article I’ll show you how this works. Background It is important to understand Continue reading →