WPF Databinding Overview
Introduction Data binding in WPF seems to be much like skinning a cat (although hopefully a lot less painful… for the cat at least), there is usually more than one way of achieving the result you want....
View ArticleTransmitting Images in WCF – Databinding Images in WPF
Introduction This was an interesting scenario I came across; I had a WPF application consuming a WCF service that was returning information about employees. I needed to add the ability to display a...
View ArticleProgrammatically generating web service calls
Introduction I recently wanted make a call to a third party web service without the use of a proxy class. The code shown in this post will allow you to programmatically build and submit a web service...
View ArticleAdjusting WCF default message limits
Introduction So if you are reading this post you’ve probably discovered that when publishing a WCF service there are certain default limits imposed on the messages being sent and received. For example...
View ArticleSSRS Custom Code (Expressions, Embedded Code & External Assemblies)
Introduction In this article we will look at the options for using custom .Net code in our Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) reports. This post assumes you have a working knowledge of...
View ArticleASP.Net Website Tests using Web Dev Server
Introduction One of the great features that came with VS2005 was the Web Dev Server which allows us to run and debug web applications on our development box without the need to install IIS. As with...
View ArticleProgrammatic ASP.Net Post Back
Introduction This post is somewhat related to my last post that discussed using the Web Dev Server, that ships with VS, to hit ASP.Net web pages from a unit test. In this post I’m going to cover how to...
View ArticleEmailing an SSRS Report using ReportViewer
Introduction SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) is Microsoft’s offering in the reporting space, if you install SSRS as part of a SQL Server install you get a nice web front end through which users...
View ArticleNTier with Entity Framework (EF) 4 Beta 1 – (VS2010 / .Net 4.0 Beta 1)
Introduction My blog has been feeling very neglected after my move to the US and I thought with the recent release of Visual Studio 2010 / .Net Framework 4.0 Beta 1 it would be a good time to get back...
View ArticleEntity Framework (EF) – Events
Introduction In this post we are going to take a look at some of the events that are raised by various parts of the Microsoft ADO.NET Entity Framework (EF). I’m using the recently released Beta 1 of...
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