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In my spare time I have been working on a photoviewer application. The main reason for spending time on this project was to check out the functionality offered in Composite WPF and WPF in general. This is sort of a way for me to discover what is missing in Composite WPF. But the main reason for having this application is because I needed some way ...

Last week I have been working on our workflow solution where someone discovered that in some cases it appeared that certain workflows did not complete and would never wake up again.It took me a while to figure out why this was the case. We host our workflows in IIS and there we use the ManualWorkflowSchedulerService to schedule the workflow. What ...

Introduction One of the subjects that I didn't bother to look into is themes in WPF. Although I figured that it would be kind of cool to create custom buttons, comboboxes and menus it wasn't something I found the most important feature of WPF. This is mainly because I find it more important to have an application that is great in terms of ...

Although Microsoft delivered Composite WPF with the unity container it is possible to use a different IoC container. In this post I will explain how it can be done and what caveats you are going to encounter when replacing the IoC container in Composite WPF with Spring.NET Where to start Replacing the IoC container is somewhat more advanced than ...

Vacation is the best time to solve some serious puzzles, at least it is for me. The problem I was having with Composite WPF was the fact that I could create composite user interfaces, but there wasn't any support for showing views in dialogs. And because dialogs are widely used I had to come up with a fix for this.In this post I will talk ...

The past two days I have been working on a performance problem we were having with a workflow implementation. The workflow was quite simple, A WCF call coming in, then registering the request data in a SQL database and return a ticket that the request was received. The ticket can be used by people to get information later on the status of their ...

Composite WPF comes with the notion of modules, but without any standard classes for controllers and/or viewmodels. This might sound weird to developers who have worked with the Composite Application Block before. In this post we will talk about how you can create them yourself and why base classes for these constructions aren't actually ...

Microsoft released the ADO.NET entity framework with their latest service pack and I’m quite happy with what they have done so far. The entity framework helps reduce code complexity for creating entities and it also saves you the work of having to write all the mapping code yourself. One of the things I tried out was to use the Repository ...

Microsoft has released a new service pack for .NET 3.5 and Visual Studio 2008, containing some pretty cool features. A lot of them can be found in WPF which has gotten quite a few fixes and additions that are really useful for developers who are using WPF today. In this post I will show some of the interesting new features, not all will be ...

One of the new features in WCF for .NET 3.5 is the possibility to create REST Services. These services allow you to create services that eat raw HTTP requests with XML in them and return a raw HTTP response with XML content in them. Normally this only works by deserializing objects and serializing objects. It is however perfectly possible to ...