Articles by Pete O'Hanlon (Articles: 45, Project: 1, Technical Blogs: 46, Tip/Tricks: 6)

Articles: 45, Project: 1, Technical Blogs: 46, Tip/Tricks: 6

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.NET
	Keeping It Regular 4 Apr 2011 Updated: 4 Apr 2011 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 2 Popularity: 1.51 Licence: CPOL Views: 11,494 Bookmarked: 2 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Adding Regular Expression functionality in your TextBox
	I’m Leading a Parallel Life 28 Jun 2009 Updated: 28 Jun 2009 Rating: 4.90/5 Votes: 6 Popularity: 3.81 Licence: CPOL Views: 19,191 Bookmarked: 21 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Axum is designed for applications that require parallel task execution. As it is designed to create parallel applications, the language offers first class constructs for achieving parallelisation.
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	A Coder Interview With Pete O'Hanlon 19 Oct 2011 Updated: 19 Oct 2011 Rating: 4.97/5 Votes: 42 Popularity: 8.06 Licence: CPOL Views: 63,273 Bookmarked: 11 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Welcome to our continuing series of Code Project interviews in which we talk to developers about their backgrounds, projects, interests and pet peeves. In this installment we track down Code Project member Pete O'Hanlon.
	Going Solo - First Steps in Building a Successful Company (Part III) 16 Apr 2008 Updated: 16 Apr 2008 Rating: 4.89/5 Votes: 30 Popularity: 7.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 55,857 Bookmarked: 26 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. So you want to go it alone? Things to think about when running your company.
Cloud
	Going Solo – First Steps in Building a Successful Company (Part IIA) - A slight divergence 28 Mar 2008 Updated: 28 Mar 2008 Rating: 4.81/5 Votes: 31 Popularity: 7.04 Licence: CPOL Views: 92,606 Bookmarked: 63 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. So you want to go it alone? Things to think about when running your company.
CodeProject
	Looking back at the first 10 million members (Part Two) 14 Aug 2013 Updated: 15 Aug 2013 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 8 Popularity: 4.52 Licence: CPOL Views: 22,400 Bookmarked: 2 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. In honour of the 10 million member milestone, CodeProject members Pete O'Hanlon and Ranjan.D reflect back on their time as part of the developer community..
Database Development
SQL Server	Improving the performance of queries using SQL Server: Part 1 11 Jan 2007 Updated: 11 Jan 2007 Rating: 3.36/5 Votes: 26 Popularity: 4.76 Licence: CPOL Views: 77,106 Bookmarked: 53 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. The first in a series of articles on prioritizing and improving query performance in SQL Server.
	Improving the performance of queries using SQL Server: Part 2 3 May 2007 Updated: 3 May 2007 Rating: 4.59/5 Votes: 26 Popularity: 6.26 Licence: CPOL Views: 116,376 Bookmarked: 68 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. These articles are on prioritizing and improving query performance in SQL Server.
Desktop Programming
WPF	SongBird - a Twitter Hybrid Smart Client 18 Jun 2009 Updated: 18 Jun 2009 Rating: 4.97/5 Votes: 40 Popularity: 7.67 Licence: CPOL Views: 114,616 Bookmarked: 84 Downloaded: 1,155 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Using the WCF RESTful services to create a Twitter hybrid Smart Client.
	Binding Passwords 10 Jun 2009 Updated: 29 Jun 2009 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 10 Popularity: 4.52 Licence: CPOL Views: 69,893 Bookmarked: 13 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Binding passwords
	Please Select Your Collection 21 May 2009 Updated: 29 Jun 2009 Rating: 4.67/5 Votes: 5 Popularity: 3.26 Licence: CPOL Views: 24,681 Bookmarked: 14 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. A fairly common scenario that I've received various bits of email about as WPF is becoming more and more popular with developers
	Easy Help with WPF 1 May 2009 Updated: 1 May 2009 Rating: 4.88/5 Votes: 11 Popularity: 5.08 Licence: CPOL Views: 47,543 Bookmarked: 33 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Adding simple HelpProvider functionality to your WPF applications couldn't be easier.
	Bare Metal MVVM - Where the Code Meets the Road - Part 1 29 Dec 2016 Updated: 29 Dec 2016 Rating: 4.98/5 Votes: 34 Popularity: 7.50 Licence: CPOL Views: 32,467 Bookmarked: 46 Downloaded: 263 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. This series of articles covers MVVM from the absolute beginning; no frameworks and no helpers, we're going to learn MVVM from the nuts and bolts.
	Bare Metal MVVM - Where the Code Meets the Road - Part 2 5 Jan 2017 Updated: 5 Jan 2017 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 11 Popularity: 5.21 Licence: CPOL Views: 18,931 Bookmarked: 22 Downloaded: 169 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Learning MVVM from the nuts and bolts
	Bare Metal MVVM - Where the Code Meets the Road - Part 3 23 Feb 2017 Updated: 23 Feb 2017 Rating: 4.87/5 Votes: 16 Popularity: 5.87 Licence: CPOL Views: 17,205 Bookmarked: 16 Downloaded: 131 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Templates and how we can use them to support developing MVVM applications
XAML	Understanding WPF via ASP.NET 22 May 2008 Updated: 22 May 2008 Rating: 4.87/5 Votes: 47 Popularity: 7.96 Licence: CPOL Views: 163,374 Bookmarked: 78 Downloaded: 2,483 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Shows how certain WPF concepts can be easily understood via ASP.NET.
Hosted Services
AWS	Creating a Service Virtualization Capability from Scratch (Part 1) 24 Oct 2023 Updated: 24 Oct 2023 Rating: 4.50/5 Votes: 4 Popularity: 2.71 Licence: CPOL Views: 4,802 Bookmarked: 4 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. A case study in building a cloud tool to perform service virtualization using LocalStack (AWS), minimal APIs, and Terraform
	Creating a Service Virtualization Capability from Scratch (Part 2) 24 Oct 2023 Updated: 24 Oct 2023 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 1 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 4,811 Bookmarked: 1 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. A case study in building a cloud tool to perform service virtualization using LocalStack (AWS), minimal APIs, and Terraform
Internet of Things
Wearables	Grinding my Gears - Being the coolest server dude/dudette around 6 Jun 2014 Updated: 6 Jun 2014 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 17 Popularity: 6.15 Licence: CPOL Views: 32,603 Bookmarked: 13 Downloaded: 142 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. An introduction into how to be the coolest dev in your block, writing wearable code
Metro-design
	The Fake Project - Redesigning Code Project Part 1 14 Sep 2012 Updated: 17 Sep 2012 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 21 Popularity: 6.61 Licence: CPOL Views: 51,929 Bookmarked: 17 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. The Fake Project - The first two days of a Code Project redesign.
Mobile Apps
Windows Phone 7	Peeling the Mango - Win Phone 7 Programming from the Ground Up (Part 1) 14 Jul 2011 Updated: 14 Jul 2011 Rating: 4.95/5 Votes: 71 Popularity: 9.16 Licence: CPOL Views: 187,722 Bookmarked: 122 Downloaded: 511 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Learning how to program Windows Phone 7 from the very beginning
Operating Systems
Windows	Some guidelines for posting questions in the forums 4 May 2007 Updated: 1 Jun 2007 Rating: 4.90/5 Votes: 105 Popularity: 9.72 Licence: CPOL Views: 383,594 Bookmarked: 42 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. A guide to getting along nicely in the forums
Programming Languages
C#	CodeStash - a journey into the dark side of Visual Studio, or how I lost my hair 20 Mar 2012 Updated: 20 Mar 2012 Rating: 4.93/5 Votes: 76 Popularity: 9.28 Licence: CPOL Views: 235,037 Bookmarked: 115 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. A look into the CodeStash Visual Studio Extension.
	Silverlight OverrideCursor 16 Apr 2009 Updated: 16 Apr 2009 Rating: 4.80/5 Votes: 2 Popularity: 1.44 Licence: CPOL Views: 23,384 Bookmarked: 1 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. One of the really great things you can do with WPF is use Mouse.OverrideCursor to set the cursor for the entire application
	It’s not that hard to add the missing bits to Silverlight 19 Jul 2009 Updated: 21 Mar 2014 Rating: 4.14/5 Votes: 9 Popularity: 3.95 Licence: MIT Views: 29,161 Bookmarked: 12 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Adding some missing bits to Silverlight.
	The EventPool Revisited 2 Aug 2007 Updated: 28 Mar 2008 Rating: 4.81/5 Votes: 15 Popularity: 5.19 Licence: CPOL Views: 62,472 Bookmarked: 52 Downloaded: 304 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Easily manage .NET events using attributes, enumerations and generics
	Automatically Enable/Disable Items with IExtenderProvider 18 Aug 2006 Updated: 18 Aug 2006 Rating: 4.33/5 Votes: 18 Popularity: 5.09 Licence: CPOL Views: 39,891 Bookmarked: 25 Downloaded: 292 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Using Extender Provider to add properties to enable/disable items based on common classifications using IExtenderProvider
	Excelsior! Building Applications Without a Safety Net - Part 1 11 May 2021 Updated: 11 May 2021 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 4 Popularity: 3.01 Licence: CPOL Views: 7,630 Bookmarked: 10 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. First part of a series of articles where we build an application showing the entire thought process when writing it
	Excelsior! Building Applications Without a Safety Net - Part 0 11 May 2021 Updated: 11 May 2021 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 9 Popularity: 4.77 Licence: CPOL Views: 7,675 Bookmarked: 11 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Introduction to a series of articles where we build an application showing the entire thought process when writing it
	Excelsior! Building Applications Without a Safety Net - Part 2 13 May 2021 Updated: 13 May 2021 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 6 Popularity: 3.89 Licence: CPOL Views: 5,324 Bookmarked: 5 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Second part of a series of articles where we build an application showing the entire thought process when writing it
	Excelsior! Building Applications Without a Safety Net - Part 3 20 May 2021 Updated: 20 May 2021 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 5 Popularity: 3.49 Licence: CPOL Views: 6,130 Bookmarked: 4 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Third part of a series of articles where we build an application showing the entire thought process when writing it
C# 4.0	Introducing Code Contracts 22 Aug 2010 Updated: 25 Aug 2010 Rating: 4.95/5 Votes: 83 Popularity: 9.51 Licence: CPOL Views: 245,847 Bookmarked: 186 Downloaded: 714 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Using Code Contracts to make elegant code
	Introducing Code Contracts - Part 2 25 Aug 2010 Updated: 25 Aug 2010 Rating: 4.89/5 Votes: 27 Popularity: 7.01 Licence: CPOL Views: 79,187 Bookmarked: 72 Downloaded: 269 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Using Code Contracts to make elegant code
	Low impact images 21 May 2010 Updated: 8 Jun 2010 Rating: 4.89/5 Votes: 44 Popularity: 7.94 Licence: CPOL Views: 81,870 Bookmarked: 57 Downloaded: 892 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. This article describes one way of dealing with the thorny issue of image lifetime in applications.
C# 5.0	The Code Project API - Part 2 - Getting Some REST 6 May 2015 Updated: 6 May 2015 Rating: 4.97/5 Votes: 23 Popularity: 6.77 Licence: CPOL Views: 37,336 Bookmarked: 25 Downloaded: 560 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. In this article, we're going to extend the work done in Part 1 and start reading in from the REST API.
C# 9.0	Excelsior! Building Applications Without a Safety Net - Part 4 2 Aug 2021 Updated: 2 Aug 2021 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 1 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 5,613 Bookmarked: 3 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Fourth part of a series of articles where we build an application showing the entire thought process when writing it
Javascript	A Whistle-stop Tour of jQuery 22 Dec 2010 Updated: 22 Dec 2010 Rating: 4.95/5 Votes: 71 Popularity: 9.13 Licence: CPOL Views: 208,480 Bookmarked: 81 Downloaded: 481 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. A rapid introduction to jQuery and the power of the almighty $
Typescript	Extending Visual Studio Code - The Universally Identifiable Way 4 Apr 2023 Updated: 4 Apr 2023 Rating: 0.00/5 Votes: 0 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 3,772 Bookmarked: 2 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Process to create a Visual Studio Code extension that interacts with the editor window
Ultrabook
	Haswell – Intel SDP Unit (Software Developer Preview) – 1st impressions 7 Aug 2013 Updated: 7 Aug 2013 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 1 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 10,611 Bookmarked: 1 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Haswell – Intel SDP Unit (Software Developer Preview) – 1st impressions
	Haswell – Intel SDP Unit (Software Developer Preview) – The Keyboard fights back 30 Aug 2013 Updated: 30 Aug 2013 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 1 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 6,670 Bookmarked: 1 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Haswell – Intel SDP Unit (Software Developer Preview) – The Keyboard fights back
	Haswell – Intel SDP Unit (Software Developer Preview) – a death in the family 16 Oct 2013 Updated: 16 Oct 2013 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 2 Popularity: 1.51 Licence: CPOL Views: 9,340 Bookmarked: 0 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Haswell – Intel SDP Unit (Software Developer Preview) – a death in the family
Web Development
ASP.NET	CodeStash - A useful (hopefully) tool for devs II 20 Mar 2012 Updated: 21 Mar 2012 Rating: 4.84/5 Votes: 39 Popularity: 7.70 Licence: CPOL Views: 128,543 Bookmarked: 56 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. A distributed codesnippet storage tool : Part II
	CodeStash - A useful (hopefully) tool for devs 20 Mar 2012 Updated: 15 May 2012 Rating: 4.98/5 Votes: 83 Popularity: 9.54 Licence: CPOL Views: 445,560 Bookmarked: 169 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. A distributed code-snippet storage tool.
	A Naive String Comparer 17 Apr 2008 Updated: 6 May 2008 Rating: 4.63/5 Votes: 18 Popularity: 5.31 Licence: CPOL Views: 42,037 Bookmarked: 17 Downloaded: 222 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. A class to perform a "naive" comparison of two chunks of text to see if they look to be the same.
HTML	The CodeProject API - Part 1 29 Apr 2015 Updated: 29 Apr 2015 Rating: 4.99/5 Votes: 52 Popularity: 8.52 Licence: CPOL Views: 65,235 Bookmarked: 67 Downloaded: 691 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. In this article, we're going to look at how we can start building a client side CodeProject API that's suitable for all C# developments.

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	Getting a RealSense of My Status [Technical Blog] 14 Apr 2014 Updated: 14 Apr 2014 Rating: 0.00/5 Votes: 0 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 7,270 Bookmarked: 2 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Getting a RealSense of my status
	FluentRealSense – The First Steps to a Simpler RealSense [Technical Blog] 9 Mar 2018 Updated: 9 Mar 2018 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 2 Popularity: 1.51 Licence: CPOL Views: 12,933 Bookmarked: 0 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Those who know me are aware that I have a long term association (nay, let’s say it for what it is, love affair) with the RealSense platforms from Intel.
	Scratching That Old Itch [Technical Blog] 11 Feb 2011 Updated: 11 Feb 2011 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 1 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 7,830 Bookmarked: 2 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. How to create a watermarked textbox.
	MoXAML goes MefXAML [Technical Blog] 6 Sep 2011 Updated: 6 Sep 2011 Rating: 0.00/5 Votes: 0 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 10,971 Bookmarked: 1 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. MoXAML Power Toys gets that MEF injection to make it plugin based.
	Haswell – Intel SDP Unit (Software Developer Preview) – 1st impressions [Technical Blog] 7 Aug 2013 Updated: 7 Aug 2013 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 3 Popularity: 2.39 Licence: CPOL Views: 7,290 Bookmarked: 0 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Haswell – Intel SDP Unit (Software Developer Preview) – 1st impressions
	This is me kissing MVPship goodbye forever [Technical Blog] 7 Mar 2011 Updated: 7 Mar 2011 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 1 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 13,032 Bookmarked: 0 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Kissing MVPship goodbye forever
	Losing your identity [Technical Blog] 13 May 2011 Updated: 13 May 2011 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 3 Popularity: 2.39 Licence: CPOL Views: 10,187 Bookmarked: 2 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Recently I’ve had time to revisit the question of identity columns (or sequences if you like). A client had come up with a screen that they really wanted us to incorporate in to their application, and the design of it had been done by some of their business analysts.
	Ultimate Coder – Ma il Mio Mistero è Chiuso In Me [Technical Blog] 12 Mar 2013 Updated: 12 Mar 2013 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 1 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 15,334 Bookmarked: 0 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Ultimate coder
	Haswell – Intel SDP Unit (Software Developer Preview) – The Keyboard fights back [Technical Blog] 29 Aug 2013 Updated: 29 Aug 2013 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 1 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 10,751 Bookmarked: 0 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Haswell – Intel SDP Unit (Software Developer Preview) – The keyboard fights back
Desktop Programming
WPF	Getting control of your numbers [Technical Blog] 1 Apr 2011 Updated: 1 Apr 2011 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 2 Popularity: 1.51 Licence: CPOL Views: 14,782 Bookmarked: 6 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. A simple mechanism to limit the input of data to a TextBox so that it only accepted the relevant numeric amount.
	Binding to a single object [Technical Blog] 16 Apr 2009 Updated: 16 Apr 2009 Rating: 4.38/5 Votes: 4 Popularity: 2.63 Licence: CPOL Views: 37,361 Bookmarked: 9 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. A sample of the WPF databinding infrastructure.
	Fun with Fonts [Technical Blog] 16 Apr 2009 Updated: 16 Apr 2009 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 5 Popularity: 3.49 Licence: CPOL Views: 30,416 Bookmarked: 13 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. How to have fun with fonts in WPF
	Textbox Drag/Drop in WPF [Technical Blog] 28 Sep 2009 Updated: 28 Sep 2009 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 13 Popularity: 5.57 Licence: CPOL Views: 84,813 Bookmarked: 13 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Textbox Drag/Drop in WPF
	Logging Display and WPF [Technical Blog] 12 Oct 2009 Updated: 12 Oct 2009 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 7 Popularity: 4.23 Licence: CPOL Views: 50,409 Bookmarked: 18 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Logging display and WPF
	Undoing MVVM [Technical Blog] 1 Feb 2010 Updated: 1 Feb 2010 Rating: 4.92/5 Votes: 6 Popularity: 3.83 Licence: CPOL Views: 24,546 Bookmarked: 21 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Providing Undo/Redo across VMs (part 1 - simple properties)
	Sensing the Future with WPF [Technical Blog] 2 Jan 2015 Updated: 2 Jan 2015 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 3 Popularity: 2.39 Licence: CPOL Views: 10,601 Bookmarked: 1 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Sensing the future with WPF
Game Development
Unreal	Unreal 5 Blueprints (Hello World) [Technical Blog] 28 Jun 2022 Updated: 28 Jun 2022 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 4 Popularity: 3.01 Licence: CPOL Views: 9,963 Bookmarked: 8 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Epic Games recently released Unreal Engine 5 and I thought it was time that I wrote a series about using Blueprints to show the power of UE5.
Haswell
	Haswell – Intel SDP Unit (Software Developer Preview) – a death in the family [Technical Blog] 16 Oct 2013 Updated: 16 Oct 2013 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 2 Popularity: 1.51 Licence: CPOL Views: 7,950 Bookmarked: 0 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. I’m delighted with the help and support that I’ve had from Intel.
Mobile Apps
	Solving the RealSense Platform Conundrum [Technical Blog] 5 Feb 2016 Updated: 5 Feb 2016 Rating: 4.64/5 Votes: 3 Popularity: 2.21 Licence: CPOL Views: 6,453 Bookmarked: 2 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Solving the RealSense Platform Conundrum
Operating Systems
Windows	So Where Do We Go From Here? [Technical Blog] 4 Jun 2011 Updated: 4 Jun 2011 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 2 Popularity: 1.51 Licence: CPOL Views: 14,960 Bookmarked: 3 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Well, Microsoft has finally unveiled what is commonly known as Windows 8. The Metro UI represents a dramatic step forward for Windows applications.
Programming Languages
C#	I love behaving [Technical Blog] 8 Jun 2010 Updated: 8 Jun 2010 Rating: 4.91/5 Votes: 5 Popularity: 3.43 Licence: CPOL Views: 17,282 Bookmarked: 5 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Using Attached Behaviors to modify the behaviour of a TextBox
	Draggable PushPins [Technical Blog] 10 Oct 2010 Updated: 10 Oct 2010 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 5 Popularity: 3.49 Licence: CPOL Views: 21,686 Bookmarked: 8 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Draggable PushPins
	Silverlight charts, and reaching my inner child [Technical Blog] 30 Jul 2009 Updated: 30 Jul 2009 Rating: 4.67/5 Votes: 4 Popularity: 2.81 Licence: CPOL Views: 20,466 Bookmarked: 8 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Silverlight charts, and reaching my inner child
	Where Did My StartupPath Go? [Technical Blog] 16 Apr 2009 Updated: 16 Apr 2009 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 3 Popularity: 2.39 Licence: CPOL Views: 23,400 Bookmarked: 13 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Where did my StartupPath go?
	Adding to MoXAML [Technical Blog] 13 Sep 2011 Updated: 13 Sep 2011 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 2 Popularity: 1.51 Licence: CPOL Views: 11,692 Bookmarked: 1 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. How I coded the Scrubber command that’s available in the new version.
	Keeping It Focused [Technical Blog] 8 Jul 2012 Updated: 9 Jul 2012 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 3 Popularity: 2.39 Licence: CPOL Views: 8,752 Bookmarked: 7 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. The solution to a problem that was posted on CodeProject
	Ultimate Coder – Week 2: Blog posting [Technical Blog] 26 Feb 2013 Updated: 26 Feb 2013 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 1 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 9,461 Bookmarked: 3 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. This is a copy of the post I made on the Intel site here. For the duration of the contest, I am posting a weekly blog digest of my progress with using the Perceptual Computing items. The first weeks post is really a scene setter where I explain how I got to this point, and [...]
	Ultimate Coder – The Pursuit of Bacon [Technical Blog] 19 Mar 2013 Updated: 19 Mar 2013 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 1 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 8,821 Bookmarked: 3 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. This is a copy of the post I made on the Intel site here. For the duration of the contest, I am posting a weekly blog digest of my progress with using the Perceptual Computing items. This weeks post shows how Huda has evolved from the application that was created at the end of the fourth week. [...]
	You See, You Don’t Always Need Code Behind [Technical Blog] 8 Jun 2011 Updated: 8 Jun 2011 Rating: 4.80/5 Votes: 4 Popularity: 2.89 Licence: CPOL Views: 16,452 Bookmarked: 3 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. In this post, I’m going to demonstrate a simple technique to add resize and close functionality to window buttons when you want to custom draw your window chrome without having to add code behind the window.
C# 4.0	Faster faster loops [Technical Blog] 3 May 2010 Updated: 3 May 2010 Rating: 4.85/5 Votes: 8 Popularity: 4.38 Licence: CPOL Views: 14,252 Bookmarked: 18 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Using the Task Parallel Library in .NET 4.0
C++	Action Based ViewModel and Model Validation [Technical Blog] 16 Apr 2009 Updated: 16 Apr 2009 Rating: 4.55/5 Votes: 4 Popularity: 2.74 Licence: CPOL Views: 18,254 Bookmarked: 11 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Action based ViewModel and Model Validation
Javascript	Of Mice and Men and Computed Observables. Oh My. [Technical Blog] 23 Nov 2012 Updated: 23 Nov 2012 Rating: 4.50/5 Votes: 2 Popularity: 1.35 Licence: CPOL Views: 8,444 Bookmarked: 3 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Of mice and men and computer observables. Oh my
Typescript	100 Days of TypeScript (Day 7) [Technical Blog] 17 Feb 2022 Updated: 17 Feb 2022 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 1 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 3,301 Bookmarked: 6 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. What is an array and how to use it to manage multiple items
	100 Days of TypeScript (Day 1) [Technical Blog] 25 Oct 2021 Updated: 25 Oct 2021 Rating: 4.26/5 Votes: 9 Popularity: 4.06 Licence: CPOL Views: 12,294 Bookmarked: 17 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Getting started with TypeScript
	100 Days of TypeScript (Day 2) [Technical Blog] 27 Oct 2021 Updated: 27 Oct 2021 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 3 Popularity: 2.39 Licence: CPOL Views: 6,480 Bookmarked: 10 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Creating the first TypeScript class
	100 Days of TypeScript (Day 3) [Technical Blog] 28 Oct 2021 Updated: 28 Oct 2021 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 3 Popularity: 2.39 Licence: CPOL Views: 5,040 Bookmarked: 6 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. More in-depth look at classes, how to add our own constructors and change whether or not code outside our class can see our fields
	100 Days of TypeScript (Day 4) [Technical Blog] 30 Oct 2021 Updated: 30 Oct 2021 Rating: 3.67/5 Votes: 2 Popularity: 1.10 Licence: CPOL Views: 4,990 Bookmarked: 6 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. An introduction to interface in TypeScript
	100 Days of TypeScript (Day 5) [Technical Blog] 1 Nov 2021 Updated: 1 Nov 2021 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 4 Popularity: 3.01 Licence: CPOL Views: 4,921 Bookmarked: 4 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. How to use interfaces to set up types so they have certain behaviors
	100 Days of TypeScript (Day 6) [Technical Blog] 7 Nov 2021 Updated: 7 Nov 2021 Rating: 4.55/5 Votes: 3 Popularity: 2.17 Licence: CPOL Views: 3,360 Bookmarked: 6 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. How to implement interfaces in TypeScript, inherit from classes and a whole lot more.
	100 Days of TypeScript (Day 8) [Technical Blog] 26 Apr 2022 Updated: 26 Apr 2022 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 1 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 4,730 Bookmarked: 6 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. A simple web-based calculator shows how to let TypeScript interact with contents of a web page
	100 Days of TypeScript (Day 9) [Technical Blog] 26 May 2022 Updated: 26 May 2022 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 4 Popularity: 3.01 Licence: CPOL Views: 4,553 Bookmarked: 2 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. App to retrieve Intraday trading prices for Microsoft and display them
	100 Days of TypeScript (Day 10) [Technical Blog] 9 Jun 2022 Updated: 9 Jun 2022 Rating: 4.00/5 Votes: 1 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 5,201 Bookmarked: 4 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. In the previous article, I started describing how I had built a more complex TypeScript web application that retrieves data from a separate API and displays the data in a relatively visually pleasing manner.
	100 Days of TypeScript (Day 7) [Technical Blog] 25 Feb 2023 Updated: 25 Feb 2023 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 2 Popularity: 1.51 Licence: CPOL Views: 9,563 Bookmarked: 4 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. How to use arrays to manage multiple items
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	Altering My Perception [Technical Blog] 13 Feb 2013 Updated: 13 Feb 2013 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 1 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 5,292 Bookmarked: 0 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Altering my perception
	Ultimate Coder: Going Perceptual – Week 1 Blog Posting. [Technical Blog] 19 Feb 2013 Updated: 19 Feb 2013 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 1 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 5,690 Bookmarked: 3 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. A weekly blog digest of my progress with using the Perceptual Computing items.
	Ultimate Coder – Week 3: Blog Posting [Technical Blog] 4 Mar 2013 Updated: 4 Mar 2013 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 1 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 8,270 Bookmarked: 1 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. This week's post shows how Huda has evolved from the application that was created at the end of the first week.

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Desktop Programming
WPF	MVVM Friendly DataTemplate switching [Tip/Trick] 14 Jun 2011 Updated: 29 Jul 2013 Rating: 4.94/5 Votes: 16 Popularity: 5.81 Licence: CPOL Views: 49,555 Bookmarked: 22 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Switching data templates entirely in XAML.
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Unit Testing	Unit testing imports in MEF - Loving that lazy interface [Tip/Trick] 9 Dec 2013 Updated: 9 Dec 2013 Rating: 4.88/5 Votes: 6 Popularity: 3.80 Licence: CPOL Views: 25,614 Bookmarked: 9 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. While we are all familiar with testing standard interface implementations, actually testing Lazy imports can be trickier if you don't follow this trick.
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Regular Expressions	Don't count spaces when counting words. [Tip/Trick] 17 Mar 2010 Updated: 17 Oct 2011 Rating: 4.86/5 Votes: 24 Popularity: 6.62 Licence: CPOL Views: 81,041 Bookmarked: 20 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Over the last couple of days I've seen numerous examples of people posting about how to count words in a sentence. Disturbingly, these postings recommend suggest counting the number of spaces in the sentence and use that as the basis of a word count.You may be asking why this is a problem. Well,...
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	Creating MSBuild projects from .sln files. [Tip/Trick] 6 Apr 2011 Updated: 6 Apr 2011 Rating: 4.92/5 Votes: 16 Popularity: 5.93 Licence: CPOL Views: 95,030 Bookmarked: 25 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. If you want to create MSBuild files, and only have Visual Studio solutions, take heart - there is a trick that will help you out.
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C#	Let's Get Implicit With Our Tests [Tip/Trick] 20 Jan 2017 Updated: 20 Jan 2017 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 9 Popularity: 4.77 Licence: CPOL Views: 17,070 Bookmarked: 7 Downloaded: 27 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Using the implicit operator and fluent APIs to simplify building tests
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Blazor	Templated Data container with Razor [Tip/Trick] 26 Jun 2023 Updated: 26 Jun 2023 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 10 Popularity: 5.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 9,131 Bookmarked: 7 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Rather than littering a razor component with @if (a == b) logic to show items, use render fragments to make a declarative component

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C#	Easy HttpClient Testing with Goldlight.HttpClientTestSupport [Project] 21 Aug 2023 Updated: 21 Aug 2023 Rating: 4.90/5 Votes: 5 Popularity: 3.43 Licence: MIT Views: 15,044 Bookmarked: 7 Downloaded: 61 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Easy way to test HttpClient with Goldlight.HttpClientTestSupport

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