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A few weeks ago I was writing a Linq query where I needed each items sequence number (or index) as a part of the filter expression in a Where operation. To simplify the actual problem let's say I needed to filter out only the odd items. One (wrong) way to do this would be: int i = 0; var filtered = input.Where(x => i++ % 2 == 1); This ...

I wrote about Silverlight and the mouse(wheel) before and the responses are pretty good. One question that stuck to my brain and has been asked in forums is how to actually have controls like the ListBox respond to the MouseWheel event. First some code After decorating a ComboBox like this: 1: <m:MouseSupport ...

There's is some good news on the web front. Microsoft will be including JQuery in ASP.NET, there is even going to be intellisense support for this great library. Microsoft will be posting an update to visual studio with the intellisense support in just a few weeks. For those of you who don't know JQuery: It's a library that allows you to query ...

I has been a while since I wrote a post on parallel programming. Since that time a lot has happend in field of parallel programming. Microsoft has been working hard on implementing the Parallel Extensions for .Net Framewok (PFX) and has now anounced that it will be a core part of the next version of the .Net Framework (right into ...

Sometimes release dates come swooshing by so fast that I miss them. Silverlight 2.0 is one of them, appearantly Microsoft released it in the last few days. I don't know what is changed, but its there and I'm pretty sure I'm going to try it out in the next few days. Tools for Visual studio 2008 Download: ...

This afternoon my computer decided it had done enough for me and tried stopping me from compiling the prismcontrib project. I have signed the prismAg assemblies for an experiment I will be posting about this week, but for some weird reason I got an access denied error when I tried rebuilding the solution from the console. It turns out I am not ...

It’s the little things that make working with .NET fun. Especially the sometimes not so useful documentation or classes you never knew existed. I was surprised  to discover that Microsoft has a TypeForwardedTo attribute to indicate that a type has moved from one assembly to a new assembly. Read all about it here: ...

Please don't start e-mailing me that I am wrong here, for the most part .NET is a great framework and it contains a lot of useful components. Except for the GridTablesFactory class. I have no idea what it does and appearantly Microsoft isn't so sure either.

Running ASP.NET websites from the GAC was always something I wanted to try out, because with 40 websites running exactly the same code there must be a better way to deploy them. So last week I tried it out and to my surprise it worked right away. Here’s how to do it with your own websites Step 1: Sign the website assembly Before you can place ...

Currently I’m in the final stages of completing development on a new Polaris tool. One of things that still needs to be done is checking for any violations of FxCop rules. While most rules are pretty clear to me, others still require a read-up in the documentation. I’m still stuck with FxCop 1.32 and so I can’t really use the links that are ...