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What JavaScript taught me about C# – Understanding ‘Access to modified closure’ 9 May 2012 | 03:04 pm
Background If you’ve spent any time writing C# using a copy of ReSharper you will have come across the phrase ‘Access to modified closure’. It’s a well known warning and there are plenty of StackOver...
Doing indecent things with Mono.Cecil - An alternative to ILMerge for WPF 5 Apr 2012 | 05:20 pm
Background ILMerge is a great tool for merging .NET assemblies, when we want to deploy an application as a single executable file we can merge in the dependencies and we’re good to go. Unfortunately...
Multiple login pages with ASP.NET MVC 20 Mar 2012 | 12:44 pm
I’m working on a multi-tenant web application where I need to have several different login forms for different types of users. For example for Admins, Affiliates, Customers etc. The problem This cau...
DIY PCB Drill Press for $15 (sort of) 20 Feb 2012 | 07:43 pm
I’ve recently been working on producing my own PCBs at home and ran into the problem of how to reliably and accurately drill the holes I needed. I had a quick search to see how other people were atta...
Power Management in C# – Stop the system or display from sleeping 18 Feb 2012 | 04:23 pm
In a desktop application I’m working on there are a number of long running batch processes that can be run by the user. This caused problems when the user kicked off a batch process and then walked aw...
Dirty Checking your Silverlight and WPF data entry forms 11 Jul 2010 | 08:36 pm
Let’s just dive right in and have a demo to see what we’re trying to accomplish. Below is a Silverlight application with some interesting behaviour, if you start changing any data the application will...
Bidirectional Integrity: IEnumerable and read only Entity properties 12 Mar 2010 | 03:18 pm
Jimmy Bogard over at LosTechies has a great little series of posts going ahead at the moment on “strengthening your domain”. For the time constrained amongst us, I’ll quickly summarise his points so y...
Silverlight 4 COM Automation – Taking photos with a DSLR using Windows Image Acquisition 23 Dec 2009 | 12:01 am
Note: This code was written using the PDC09 Beta and may not work without modification on future builds! Silverlight 4 brings a lot to the table and in my opinion is the most exciting looking release...
A Frosty First Post 19 Dec 2009 | 04:23 am
So to christen my new home I though I would post a few photos of what I woke up to this morning in deepest Buckinghamshire in the south of England!
