Category Archives: srt

Ribbon Tab Definition on UserControl

Posted on March 4, 2011 by Ben

We’ve been using the Ribbon control provided by Microsoft on a project I’ve been working on. We started with the WPF toolkit Ribbon but recently upgraded to the .Net 4.0 version. The 4.0 version is much better than the WPF … Continue reading →

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WPF – Combo Box SelectedItem Binding

Posted on February 23, 2011 by Ben

I recently was debugging a strange issue we were seeing with our combo boxes. When the data context changed, the combo box would lose the selected item and appear blank but the list of possible selections would be correct. I … Continue reading →

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The Software Industry is Lost

Posted on February 21, 2011 by Ben

Our industry is more than 50 years old and still trying to understand some fundamental questions. There have been many analogies and practices to describe how software should be built, yet we still do not have definitive answers to questions … Continue reading →

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CodeMash 2011

Posted on February 11, 2011 by Ben

It has been about a month since CodeMash has passed – there was good content and good discussions. Exactly what I hope to get out of CodeMash. I continue to think about some of the ideas and discussions; I have … Continue reading →

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WPF LL: TextBoxes that just keep growing

Posted on May 24, 2010 by Ben

This problem was probably discovered accidentally and shows me once again how important it is to have non-technical and new people testing your programs. The problem encountered was that the TextBoxes on one of our Windows would just keep expanding … Continue reading →

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