SharePoint 2010: Reasons to use the new UI 17 Dec 2011 | 11:00 am

There are a lot of reasons to upgrade from SharePoint 2007 to SharePoint 2010. There are also a lot of reasons to upgrade to the new 2010 look and feel. But it’s not a requirement, and, in fact, can p...

SharePoint 2007 to SharePoint 2010 Upgrade Resources 15 Dec 2011 | 08:51 am

I’m currently involved in a project whose purpose is to upgrade an existing SharePoint 2007 server farm to SharePoint 2010. In order to help facilitate my part of the project, I’m going to use this po...

Silverlight class library not included in .XAP 11 Jul 2011 | 08:51 am

This is something I'm sure I ran into before, but it still bit me the other day. Hopefully by writing this down here it won't get me again. The problem is this: A Silverlight class library whose name...

A basic Silverlight project using the MVVM design pattern 21 May 2011 | 01:07 am

MVVM Reference 18 May 2011 | 02:15 am

I've compiled a short list of articles and posts on MVVM that I've found especially useful. I'll likely expand this as I continue to work through the pattern and explore some of the variou...

Change is good 7 May 2011 | 02:04 am

Something our former CEO often said as he was announcing the latest round of executive and organizational changes is that in order to stay ahead of the competition you have to change. If you have to c...

Windows 7 Explorer Navigation Pane Options 21 Dec 2010 | 02:25 am

I've been dealing with the most annoying thing since installing Windows 7: when in Explorer and drilling down into folders either via the Favorites section or the right-side file/folder viewing pa...

The Visual Studio WPF designer does not support abstract classes 30 Oct 2010 | 07:49 am

You might want to derive your own custom control class not from UserControl but instead from an abstract class that then inherits from UserControl. This works fine in code such that your hierarchy loo...

Interface vs. Virtual vs. Abstract 14 Aug 2010 | 10:48 am

Sometimes I like to take a step back and look a little harder at something I use almost every day without ever really thinking about it. Take virtual functions, for example, which I was using in C++ l...

SQL Server 2008 Express Silent Command-Line Install 29 Jul 2010 | 11:28 am

I have a need to perform a silent, command-line install of SQL Server 2008 Express as a pre-requisite for a server application. While there's an extensive listing of all the many options available for...