Study Group - WPF
Published Wed, Dec 9 2009 1:52 PM | ben.barefield
For the last two weeks Anne Marsan has led study group. Both of her sessions were about WPF and she led them by writing up instructions on how to produce a project that illustrated what she wanted to teach...
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Study Group - F#
Published Thu, Nov 19 2009 11:19 AM | ben.barefield
Chris Marinos led study group this week on F#. F# is Microsoft's foray into functional programming; it isn't strictly functional, but it is clearly designed with that purpose in mind. I thought...
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Study Group - JEE
Published Wed, Nov 11 2009 5:15 PM | ben.barefield
Last year we ran a study group in preparation for the .Net certification test. Bill Heitzeg decided to revive the study group with a different focus. Our new purpose is to get a brief overview of a technology...
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Convert to Linq!
Published Thu, Jul 9 2009 5:14 PM | ben.barefield
While writing my last post, I was looking at the code to see if it was really something I wanted to post for general scrutiny and saw that I could use Linq to do the same thing. Here's the old code...
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WinForm stuck on a disconnected monitor
Published Thu, Jul 9 2009 4:41 PM | ben.barefield
Recently, I had a customer report that the application I am writing got stuck off screen, and he couldn't get at it. This happened by moving the application to his external monitor and then minimizing...
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P2P with WCF
Published Fri, Jun 12 2009 4:48 PM | ben.barefield
A couple posts ago I was doing some experimentation with TCPClient and TCPServer. The bulk of my testing was done by creating a simple chat application. After that I decided I wanted to figure out how...
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Windows 7 API Code Pack
Published Wed, May 27 2009 5:19 PM | ben.barefield
Jay Wren told me yesterday about the Windows 7 managed API code pack that Microsoft has released. I spent a little bit of time looking at it today, and I've got to say that I'm pretty impressed...
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A Small TCP Experiment
Published Mon, May 18 2009 3:24 PM | ben.barefield
I'm going to be writing some networking code for a personal project, so I spent some time learning to use TcpClient/TcpListener. After starting to learn them, I thought it might be interesting if I...
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Writing to a CD
Published Mon, Apr 20 2009 5:36 PM | ben.barefield
In one of my projects I needed to be able to write data to a CD. I found a great article at code guru that helped me out: http://www.codeguru.com/csharp/.net/net_general/tipstricks/article.php/c15201 However...
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When to use Linq: for/foreach
Published Fri, Apr 17 2009 12:41 PM | ben.barefield
Many people around the office love Linq, but I haven't used it much and hadn't heard about it until I started here. I have written a few Linq queries (Linq to Objects) but don't use them extensively...
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Bitmap from Texture2D
Published Wed, Mar 4 2009 12:03 AM | ben.barefield
I'm writing a map editor for a 2D XNA game and wanted to use a lot of the same code for displaying the map in the editor and in the actual game. However, I wanted the ease of use and familiarity of...
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7
Published Tue, Feb 10 2009 12:38 PM | ben.barefield
Well, I'm glad to see that Windows 7 has the blue screen of death that we are all familiar with. At least some things don't change, ever. I was very excited yesterday to get Windows 7 installed...
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CodeMash 2009
Published Thu, Jan 15 2009 10:09 AM | ben.barefield
Last week I went to my first CodeMash . It was a lot of fun and quite exhausting. Since I didn't have any experience with functional languages before CodeMash I decided to sit in on the talks about...
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Validation controls are pretty cool
Published Mon, Jan 5 2009 4:24 PM | ben.barefield
I've been reading an ASP.Net book lately and just got to the information about Validation controls. These seem like a pretty sweet way to get a lot done with very little code. For example, say a that...
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Cross-List References
Published Tue, Dec 23 2008 4:00 PM | ben.barefield
There are situations where it is useful to link data in one list to another list. For example, if you have a list of projects and a list of tasks. Some of the tasks are going to be associated with a project...
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