Photoviewer part 3 – Fixing memory leaks
In a comment on part 2 about the photoviewer application Erno pointed out a problem with my photoviewer application. It uses some serious memory and it doesn’t really clean up after itself. This...
View ArticlePhotoviewer part 4 – Drag and drop
The photoviewer application is getting closer to a version 1.0 release and I'm anctious to get it all done. The list of TODO items is stable now and will soon start to drop towards zero. In this 4th...
View ArticlePhotoviewer part 5 – Printing in WPF
One might think that WPF is meant only for doing graphical user interface stuff, but it also contains an API to perform basic printing tasks. The printing API in WPF is actually more advanced than the...
View ArticleLinq to SQL pitfalls
Currently I’m hard at work on a project where we use Linq to SQL quite a lot. It has led to some interesting patterns and anti-patterns which I want to share in this article. The idea is to show some...
View ArticleASP.NET dynamic data futures today
Ever since Ruby On Rails came on the market with their RAD application development tools I was jealous. Why couldn’t we do what they do with ruby in ASP.NET and better? Appearantly Microsoft...
View ArticleHot fix available for Transaction inside receive activity scope bug workflow 3.5
*Moved to: http://fluentbytes.com/hot-fix-available-for-transaction-inside-receive-activity-scope-bug-workflow-3-5/ Back in august I worked with a customer to build a workflow solution using Workflow...
View ArticleTable-valued parameters in ADO.NET
SQL server 2008 has a new feature called table-valued parameters. A great feature I tell you, because it allows developers to supply a table of values to a stored procedure for processing. One...
View ArticleInversion of control of ASP.NET pages using Unity
Introduction Ever since I started using Composite WPF for both WPF and Silverlight, I’ve grown a liking towards Unity as a inversion of control container. It provides a clean way of injecting...
View ArticleThere was an error reading from the pipe: Unrecognized error
Introduction When using a named pipe binding for WCF services one may come across errors that denote the very promising “The pipe has ended” with seemlingy random errorcode. These errors can be quite...
View ArticleAnother ASP.NET Quicky: Ordering stylesheets in your theme
ASP.NET offers the possibility to use themes and I’m a big fan of that. It’s so much easier to switch the look of a website, just by changing the theme. Combine theming with masterpages and you will...
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