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Probably you know about the IComparer and IComparable interfaces which bring us ability to sort items inside of the collection. I would like to talk about them as I know a lot of developers getting confused during implementation sorting functionality. One dimensional sorting, IComparable. IComparable interface allow object to be ...

Version 2.0 of Family.Show application which is an incredible example of WPF technology now available. You can download it at Vertigo website http://www.vertigo.com/familyshow.aspx There are a couple of new features added to application: · New “Family Data View” with filtering, sorting, and in-place editing · Family Analytics ...

JetBrains released next version of its awesome application ReSharper 3.0. ReSharper is an add-in for Visual Studio which contains many features for .Net application development. It helps simplify the process of writing a code. Ones I stared to use ReSharper I cannot imagine working without it after. It has many features ...

This is a simple application which shows a power of Window Presentation Foundation. Just follow the link, download ''ClickOnes'' installation and have a fun. You gonna love it. :) http://www.vertigo.com/familyshow.aspx The most important part is that you can download the source code and investigate application structure.

If you are planning to create your own Add-in for Visual Studio, I found a very good source written by Jon Rista - Writing a Visual Studio 2005 Add-in.Follow the link below and you'll see explanation and will have ability to download source code (C#). http://www.codeproject.com/useritems/LineCounterAddin.asp

  I wrote simple code which is showing order of execution of events and protected methods related to the page life cycle. I simply added output messages into the  each event and protected method of Page and Control (UserControl which is located on that page). This is an example of how I did it: ... protected void ...

  Last couple of days I was working on some small project where I had to deal with nested objects (or tree structure objects) and I immediately decided to use Composite design pattern as it is one of the best solution for dealing with tree structure objects. By nested objects or tree structure objects I mean the ...

Most of programmers who are dealing with ASP.NET know how to access files on the server. The common way how to do this is to use HttpContext.Current.Server.MapPath static method and get physical path of the file by passing virtual. But what if we need for instance to read some data from text file which located in our project in Design Time ...

  During creating of Custom Controls sometimes programmers are dealing with implementation of code which should run only in Design Time mode. And the main question is, how to determine in ASP.NET whether your code is running in Design Time mode or not?   I can offer several approaches for checking that.   DesignMode ...

  If you are planning to create WebControlLibrary you will certainly need to debug the code not only in normal runtime but also in Design Time mode. In case of error in a code in design time usually you see rectangle with an exception message. But of course you need to step thru the code to fined the bug. But how to do that ? Is there a way ...