July 2010 Blog Posts

  • Unsung heroes in .NET 4

    It’s been a while since I blogged as I’ve mainly been updating an existing application to use .NET 4, so there has not been anything of massive substance that has inspired me. However, I have been impressed by some of the lovely ‘simplifications’ introduced in this version of the framework. There is a wealth of new features in this version of the framework, ranging in size from major additions like MEF and EF4 through to seemingly minor items like Dynamic. Here are some of my favourites...

  • WPF RadGridView and RadContextMenu: Simplifying interaction in XAML

    We use RadGridView fairly extensively in one of our WPF application, so when it comes to making common changes to this control it saves a lot of time and effort if we can minimise the number of places we need to make such modifications....