Using InputBindings with the MVVM pattern

If you develop WPF applications according to the Model-View-ViewModel pattern, you may have faced this issue : in XAML, how to bind a key or mouse gesture to a ViewModel command ? The obvious and intuitive approach would be this one :    Unfortunately, this code doesn’t

Download Crysis 2 Demo Free For PC And Xbox 360

EA and Crytek have released the Crysis 2 demo for PC users as a free download. The Xbox 360 demo released on February 1st has also been improved and the new version is available for download now at the Xbox Live Marketplace. Without any further introduction, you can download Crysis 2 Demo for PC here or here.Download Crysis 2 Demo free for Xbox 360 here.The Crysis 2 Demo for PC consists of two

WPF XAML Browser Applications Overview

XAML browser applications (XBAPs) combines features of both Web applications and rich-client applications. Like Web applications, XBAPs can be deployed to a Web server and started from Internet Explorer or Firefox. Like rich-client applications, XBAPs can take advantage of the capabilities of WPF. Developing XBAPs is also similar to rich-client development. This topic provides a simple,

WPFwiki

AboutThis site was created as a community resource for developers working with Windows Presentation Foundation. The idea for this site started back in 2003, when the lead developers of the Xceed DataGrid for WPF were beginning to dabble with WPF. Every question that seemed of common interest was noted and, as each answer was found, the question and answer was added to a database. In March 2007,

DesignData MVVM support in Blend, VS2010 and WPF/Silverlight

When developing a solution using WPF or Silverlight, there are normally designers working in Blend and developers working with them in Visual Studio 2010. Often it is impractical for designers to use data from live systems (e.g. they don’t want to install SQL etc.) but they need data to flesh out the user interface so that they can style it and edit templates. For example a ListBox with no data

How To Build Log4cxx In Visual Studio 2010

Daniel mentioned how he managed to build log4cxx in Visual Studio. However, he did not provide more details. So this blog post serves as a detailed explanation.http://old.nabble.com/Unable-to-build-with-VS2010-td28519743.html We are going to follow the steps here, http://logging.apache.org/log4cxx/building/vstudio.html. However, we must make changes to adapt to Visual Studio 2010.

How to increment version information after each build in Visual C++

You can write a program to modify the resource compiler (.rc) file instead of using the steps described here. However, the RC file is under the control of Visual C++. Visual C++ modifies the RC file while saving, and this may affect the version resource. The approach described in this section can be applied to any Visual C++ project. This example uses a Microsoft Foundation Classes project.

Silverlight Behaviors, Triggers and Actions

My recent new love when doing Silverlight Development is Expression Blend’s Interactivity API that gives you some really neat support for attaching behaviors, triggers and actions to your elements, which in turn lets you structure your code better and allows you to reuse it more often (It boggles my mind why these are not part of core Silverlight). You can download the Expression Blend SDK for

TellFi Helps Small Businesses Sound Professional on the Phone

TellFi launched today a simple Web-based virtual phone system for small businesses. The company helps freelancers and independent shops give off an aura of professionalism with functions like automated extensions and voicemail that would usually require installation by an IT person. TellFi co-founder Conor Lee pitched NetworkEffect, “Just like individuals, small businesses are ditching landlines

My 10 UNIX Command Line Mistakes

Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new. -- Albert Einstein.Here are a few mistakes that I made while working at UNIX prompt. Some mistakes caused me a good amount of downtime. Most of these mistakes are from my early days as a UNIX admin. userdel CommandThe file /etc/deluser.conf was configured to remove the home directory (it was done by previous sys admin and it was my