Here is a shorthand way for converting a list of strings defined as follows: List<string> strings = new List<string> [...]

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    Title Of Each Article Video Included With Each Post Part 1 Introduction To RIA Services In Silverlight (This Article) 7 Minutes Part 2 Basic RIA Services And DataGrid With  VS 2010 Tooling 14 Minutes Part 3 Adding A DataGrid With Connect The Dots DataBinding in VS [...]

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      Title Of Each Article Video Included With Each Post Part 1 Introduction To RIA Services In Silverlight (This Article) 7 Minutes Part 2 Basic RIA Services And DataGrid With  VS 2010 Tooling 14 Minutes Part 3 Adding A DataGrid With Connect The Dots DataBinding in VS [...]

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  Title Of Each Article Video Included With Each Post Part 1 Introduction To RIA Services In Silverlight (This Article) 7 Minutes Part 2 Basic RIA Services And DataGrid With  VS 2010 Tooling 14 Minutes Part [...]

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  The problem is that I’m trying to keep track of the exact URL a person selects including the request parameter.  That is, I have a URLs that can be played as follows: http://video.peterkellner.net/TestPage.html?src=P1_Intro.wmv http://video.peterkellner.net/TestPage.html?src=P2_BasicRIANoTooling.wmv   I’ve actually got 7 videos that I want people to be able to play.  [...]

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      Title Of Each Article Video Included With Each Post Part 1 Introduction To RIA Services In Silverlight (This Article) 7 Minutes Part 2 Basic RIA Services And DataGrid With  VS 2010 Tooling 14 Minutes Part 3 Adding A DataGrid With Connect The Dots DataBinding in VS [...]

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  This series of video presentations goes through the process of building a Speaker and Sessions Viewer for Silicon Valley Code Camp’s data using PDC09 presentation here and am very thankful for the help.  I’m personally very excited about the opportunities Silverlight 4.0, RIA Services, I’m back and very excited.  [...]

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  So, if you are like me, it’s easy to make mistakes on whether to use && or || when combining variables on if statements.  I hate to just start nesting if statements because the code gets bulky, but if not, I have to think three times about whether I got it right. [...]

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  We are in the process of “speeding up” our http://atashbahar.com/post/Combine-minify-compress-JavaScript-files-to-load-ASPNET-pages-faster.aspx and it’s working well for us.  This project does a nice job of calling a minifier, gzipping and caching. Hoe this helps!

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  Just a quick post in case anyone is wasting 10 minutes figuring out how to do this.  For me, this came up because in encoding) So, in my C# code, here is what you need to convert to the Linq.Binary:Linq.Binary carrierMatrix = new ASCIIEncoding().GetBytes(myString);And, to go back from Linq.Binary:string carrierMatrixString = [...]

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  For the past couple years, I’ve used a product called FinalBuilder from subversion into that directory All My Visual Studio Solutions are built All the config files (web.config,app.config, etc.) are updated with appropriate parameters (connection strings, etc.) The Web Site is copied to the [...]

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  Microsoft’s big developer conference (PDC Dynamic Data Feature built into asp.net.  Basically, what Dynamic Data gives you in a nut shell is the ability to easily make web apps easier for showing all kind of different data types. For example, if you happen to have a picture stored with each user’s profile, [...]

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  In my last post, I found a use for inverting if statements.  That is, I postulated that it is better to have an explicit else when it’s impossible for that code to be executed.  The argument for just falling through the loop with no else is that why have unnecessary code.  [...]

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  Well, now I know.  Here is an example of some code I just wrote: if (doDeficitCalc) { throw new ApplicationException("Need to implement deficit weight rating"); } else { [...]

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  Several years ago, I was invited to a special showing of what was going to be the new SqlServer 2008 database in San Francisco.  I had expected a sales demo but was hugely surprised by the quality of the presenter and his deep understanding of issues facing real developers like us.  Over the [...]

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  This is just going to be a short post, but I bet it’s something I do a large number of times so I thought I’d blog it.  Say you get back from something like a web service an array of objects. In my case this:cmRateResult[] cmRateResults = TransiteUtils.MakeRateRequest(_cmRateRequest); .csharpcode, .csharpcode pre { font-size: small; color: black; font-family: consolas, “Courier [...]

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  I often speak very highly of Group By,

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  So, I’m really enjoying using LINQ and specifically

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  So, you have an enum defined as follows: public enum CompanyAddressType { Unknown = 0, Primary = 1, Warehouse = 2, [...]

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