The newest release is as BETA 1 when writing this blog an it contains some new and nice features. One of my favorite is that as a programmer we no longer need to configure a proxy. It was always a little confusing knowing which one to choose, I.e. looking in the Required_For_LazyLoading directory and deciding […]
Read More →This is unfortunately more of a hack than a solution, but I thought I would share it any way. I had the situation where I needed to validate the entered time into a masked textbox. The masked textbox is a Windows Form control, but I hosted it within a WPF window using the WIndowsFormsHost element. […]
Read More →The equivalent to LIKE via the LINQ to NHibernate provider is Contains. An example of a LINQ to NHibernate that will return a result set matching a search like parameter is below. IQueryable<Classname> linqLIKE = (from m in session.Query<Classname>() where m.Code.Contains(“%dex%”) orderby m.CreateDate select m); IList<Classname> ListLIKE = linqLIKE.ToList(); The above […]
Read More →I was working on a system which had implemented NHibernate, primarily for its ability to support multiple DBMS, such as Oracle and MS SQL Server. The problem came up when trying to insert, specifically in regards to the ID data type. On Oracle the ID data type was NHUMBER, while on MS SQL Server the […]
Read More →I implemented some filtering into one of my DataGrids which required that a reset the initial result set. With a single line of code you can empty out the contents of the DataGrid. datagridResults.ItemsSource = null; Once I reset the contents to empty, I could then add the filtered content back into the DataGrid using […]
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This is a blog I wrote some years ago. I am moving all my posts to this site and have added it for historical references only. I was surprised at how easy it was to create and deploy a Windows Phone app. If you are a developer then you will have no problems creating an […]
Read More →In a situation where I have a DataGrid which is being bound to a List of a specific class and the DataGrid has AutoGenerateColumns set to true, I found myself needing a way to hide some of the columns which I did not want to present to a user. Below is an example of binding […]
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There are a number of name differences between a windows form and a WPF program. For example, in a windows form program the event which is triggered when a user double-clicks on a data grid is called Doubleclick. The event in a WPF program is called MouseDoubleClick. Therefore the way to implement, program or add […]
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The way a problem is approached can have some serious consequences. Take for example the task I had to add some data to a DataGrid in WPF and allow a user to select the rows. When the rows were selected I would capture the details and put them into a form where they could be […]
Read More →I needed to save an XML formatted file as a string which required double quotes around the attributes. The below code shows how to add double quotes to a string. string data = “<customer name=\”Ben Perkins\” class=\”Customer\”> <property name=\”Id\” /><property name=\”Address\” /> <property name=\”Occupation\” /> <property name=\”Remark\” /></ customer >”; Notice […]
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