Elevate added to the NuGet gallery

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…

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Multiple View Models implies multiple DataContexts

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…

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Samples from Monday’s Webcast

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…

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Yet another reader question

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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Data Binding with immutable Types?

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…

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Of DataBinding and Value Types

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…

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A Reader Question on DataBinding

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…

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Question from a reader about DataBindings

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…

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DataBinding and Custom Collections

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 …

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How to format data in the Data Grid

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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