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MANGO live tile: use a picture in the IsolatedStorage as a background for your tile

2011-08-03T14:25:00+02:00

One on the nice feature coming with WP7's mango is "live tiles". You can create tiles directly from your application and update them from a background agent. Here is the sample which creates a "secondary tile" for your application: //This is a .Net class named StandardTileData var theTile= new StandardTileData { Title = "Secondary... Read MANGO live tile: use a picture in the IsolatedStorage as a background for your tile

[UPDATED] How to call the method from the base of the base of the current class ? (base.base.MyMethod)

2011-05-11T23:56:00+02:00

Today I encountered a tricky need in some custom control. It was inheriting from the TabControl but I didn’t want all its feature. Especially I didn’t want it to update the SelectedContent dependency property because it was keeping a strong reference to a ViewModel and keeping it away from the garbage collector.

The problem is that the TabControl do this in an event handler of the ItemContainerGenerator’s StatusChanged event. This subscription is made in the OnInitialized method. This one is marked as protected and virtual so I could override it to do nothing but if had do so I would have loose all the work done in the base class of the TabControl which... Read [UPDATED] How to call the method from the base of the base of the current class ? (base.base.MyMethod)

VS Tip : how to locate the active document in the solution explorer using a shortcut

2010-11-04T12:39:00+01:00

When you have multiple projects in your solution, you often want to locate the active document in the solution explorer. There is a great option in Visual Studio which can do it for you all the time : “View.TrackActivityInSolutionExplorer”. But if you do not want (as me) to turn it on all the time, there is no specific option or shortcut. So I... Read VS Tip : how to locate the active document in the solution explorer using a shortcut

Simple properties Mapper by reflection : stop copying manually each property of your objects !

2010-04-08T23:14:00+02:00

There is time when you have to copy each property of an object to one another. This is called mapping and it's very fastidious to do it by hand. In this post we'll see how to create a method extension which do it for you in one line of code ! When can it be useful Here is a non exhaustive list of usage you can find to this snippet: You want... Read Simple properties Mapper by reflection : stop copying manually each property of your objects !

Sync framework - choose your primary keys type carefully

2010-03-05T00:44:00+01:00

Do you know the Sync Framework ? This is an amazing framework that enables roaming, sharing of data, and taking data offline ! One usage You can imagine is to sync some local clients databases with a big distant one. Each client taking its data with him and each client was abble to edit/create/delete data. The scenarii where the problem... Read Sync framework - choose your primary keys type carefully

Serialize DependencyObject : it's easy !

2010-03-01T01:37:00+01:00

You often read on the web that the DependencyObjects are not marked as serializable and that this is a major drawback of them... But there is a easy way to perform a serialization of these object : use XAMLWriter and XAMLReader : public class MyDependencyObject : DependencyObject { public static readonly DependencyProperty... Read Serialize DependencyObject : it's easy !