Google Group’s new design
I don’t like the new layout at Google Groups. Here’s why:
Odd Silverlight Chart bug when printing
I came across the strangest bug in Silverlight to date. I had been using the Chart component from Silverlight Toolkit, and under particular conditions, specifically: Use Silverlight 4 Navigate to a page containing the chart Print the chart by pulling it out of the visual tree, and putting it back again Navigate back Navigate to [...]
Custom Windows 8 controls with HTML + JS
One of my pet peeves about developing on the .NET platform prior to Silverlight 5 was the difficulty in binding to data where the schema is not known at compile time. Since then, we have ICustomTypeProvider which can direct the data binding machinery to bind to dictionaries or any custom data structure. Unfortunately, ICustomTypeProvider is [...]
Task-related types not found. Are you missing a reference to AsyncCtpLibrary.dll?
I added AsyncCTP_Silverlight.dll to one of my solutions and I couldn’t build it, as the IDE kept erroring with the following message: “Task-related types not found. Are you missing a reference to AsyncCtpLibrary.dll?” The solution, as it turns out is in this post …try deleting the suo file for the solution…