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Dare To Dream Different Contest
Rainer's Blog By Rainer Stropek on2009-08-21 12:18:25Z
Yesterday we hat the phone conference with the judges for our contribution in the final round of Microsoft's worldwide Dare To Dream Different Contest.
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C# Introduction Training
Rainer's Blog By Rainer Stropek on2009-05-31 14:07:59Z
Beside my work as a developer at software architects I regularaly do trainings for people who want to learn how to program with C#, WPF, Silverlight, SQL Server or Linq. In this blog I want to post some interesting resources on the web that I often refer to in my C# courses.
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Upgrade to Silverlight Beta 2
Rainer's BlogSilverlightBy Rainer Stropek on2008-09-09 10:25:56Z
I am currently working on the upgrade of a Silverlight 2.0 Beta 1 application to Beta 2. In this process I stumbled over strange behavior of Storyboard.SetTargetProperty.
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Increase Size of Virtual Harddisk File (VHD)
Rainer's Blog By Rainer Stropek on2008-04-13 14:43:38Z
I am currently preparing a Virtual PC image for a presentation. Unfortunately the virtual harddisk file (VHD) was too small. I had to increase the size. Here is a way that worked for me.
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XAML and WPF Samples
Karin's BlogWPFBy Karin Huber on4/9/2008 1:54 PM
Some people who have bought our book "WPF und XAML Programmierhandbuch" reported some problems with the attached cd. For this reason we offer all the samples of the book for download.
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Caching Dynamically Generated Images
Karin's BlogASP.NETBy Karin Huber on4/9/2008 12:15 PM
When I published my article about caching images in ASP.NET I got some questions if it is possible to do this with dynamically generated images. The answer is yes. In the following sample I will show how it works.
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Resources on Linq
Rainer's Blog By Rainer Stropek on2008-04-09 11:32:53Z
Currently I do a lot of work with Linq (e.g. C# workshop in Frankfurt in April). In this blog I want to mention some resources I found very useful to enhance knowledge about the new data access technology and about the underlying new features of C# 3.0.
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Data Binding With Glyphs in Silverlight 2.0 Beta 1
Rainer's BlogSilverlightBy Rainer Stropek on2008-03-22 11:13:30Z
If you want to use embedded fonts in Silverlight 2.0 applications you can use the Glyphs object. However, if you want to use data binding in conjunction with Glyphs you will face problems.
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Another Silverlight 2.0 Animation Issue
Rainer's BlogSilverlightBy Rainer Stropek on2008-03-16 13:27:06Z
I found another issue with Silverlight 2.0 animations. Probably a bug in Beta 1.
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Silverlight 2.0 - Bug with Data Binding?
Rainer's BlogSilverlightBy Rainer Stropek on2008-03-16 13:02:33Z
Playing around with Silverlight 2.0 I came across a strange behavior concerning data binding. Is this a bug or a feature?
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Silverlight 2.0 - Tip for Creating Animations in Code
Rainer's BlogSilverlightBy Rainer Stropek on2008-03-16 13:02:05Z
For more than one hour I have tried to create a Silverlight animation in code. Now I recognized that in Silverlight you must not create and begin animation in code in a page's constructor.
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Call a method using reflection
Rainer's Blog By Rainer Stropek on2008-02-01 16:37:33Z
I have been asked how you can call a method given its name in a string variable using reflection. Here is a code sample showing how to do it.
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Off-The-Shelf vs. Individual - What's The Difference?
Rainer's BlogSoftware RequirementsBy rainer on2008-01-15 22:47:10Z
Today I had a discussion with a friend who runs a software company focussing on development of custom software just like I do in my other job at cubido. We talked about advancing project results to off-the-shelf software products. But what makes the difference between software developed for an individual customer and off-the-shelf products?
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