Deploying SQL Server CE 4.0 privately
Thanks to Agile Tech The System.Data.SqlServerCe and other binaries were already included and copied locally, but SqlServerCe.Entity wasn’t present. To get this deployment to work, the following needed to be done: Make sure System.Data.SqlServerCe is referenced and set to “Copy local” in properties Include the 7 needed SqlCe assembiles from Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server Compact [...]
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 [...]