Category Archives: .NET

Creating a strongly typed reactive wrapper to INotifyPropertyChanged

Practical Ugliness INotifyPropertyChanged is a great, built-in, way for property change notification to work in the WPF/Silverlight world. Attempting to use it from staticly typed code, however, gets messy: Things get even worse when we try to make this reactive: … Continue reading

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WPF/E December CTP

The boys over at Microsoft have finally released a CTP of WPF/E. You can also download the client for both Windows and Mac There is also a Learn WPF/E page up that acts as an intro FAQ, but then links … Continue reading

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XPath Test Utility

I’m working on a project that requires large XML documents and complex XPath queries. When I looked around online, I couldn’t find any decent .NET oriented XPath test utilities. And so, I wrote this. XPathTest.exe is a command line utility … Continue reading

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Looking at CardSpaces

I’ve started looking at CardSpaces. It’s pretty cool; it enables us to get rid of usernames/passwords without Microsoft owning your data (like passport). It’s a completely open standard that anyone can implement, and there are already examples in PHP and … Continue reading

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