By: Bill Wagner Update: Jonathan Wanagel from the CodePlex team contacted me with a better download URL scheme. See below. The title says the big news: I added elevate to the NuGet gallery. Thanks to Phil Haack for helping me get started by writi…
Read more >> Elevate added to the NuGet gallery
By: Bill Wagner This is one of those small tips that took me way too long to find, and I figure if I needed to search that long to find the right answer, I might be able to help others by posting it here. One practice I usually use for WPF and Silverlight application…
Read more >> Multiple View Models implies multiple DataContexts
By: Bill Wagner Have been uploadedThe zip file below contains the samples from Monday's webcast, and an additional samples that adds the following (based on questions I received):The binding source is serializable. It simply saves to a hardcoded file, but you…
Read more >> Samples from Monday’s Webcast
By: Bill Wagner From an older article that is still online, comparing my approach to another author's.Yet another reader question (from an older article online at fawcette.com)I just read your VS Magazine article (see links below) regarding data-driven client vali…
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By: Bill Wagner It does work, if you are not changing the data. In fact, that's the preferred way if the user is not allowed to change the data.I received the following question (which does related to Effective C#). I thought the discussion was of general interest…
Read more >> Data Binding with immutable Types?
By: Bill Wagner Copies and boxes and performance, Oh My.This caught me and members of a client team recently, so I thought I would share it. In a Windows application, we created a simple value type to store a couple properties. Something like this:public struct Weathe…
Read more >> Of DataBinding and Value Types
By: Bill Wagner This one asks how to handle Properties of embedded objects.Question: Bill, After reading your paper on Visual Studio Magazine, I spent a few hours trying to bind to a subproperty and… I'm wondering if it is possible!I first coded a ContactLi…
Read more >> A Reader Question on DataBinding
By: Bill Wagner A few questions and some answers about how to best perform data binding when you create windows forms.Question: (or actually a few questions. Answers are inline)I'm an up-and-coming .net developer whose trying to implement databinding to business o…
Read more >> Question from a reader about DataBindings
By: Bill Wagner ITypedList and when to use it.Over the past two weeks, I’ve gotten two questions relating to Windows Forms Databinding and custom collections. In the first case, the developer had created a collection that held polymorphic items: public class …
Read more >> DataBinding and Custom Collections
By: Bill Wagner Question and answer on the DataGrid, Datasets.How do you format the information, and trap user interaction.Question:I have a question, do you happen to know how to format data as it is going into a datagrid from adataset and dataadapter? I want t…
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