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Regular Expressions and Special Characters in the Console.Writeline
In yesterday’s blog I stated something incorrectly and one of my many alert readers commented it on...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 06/30/2011
Thinking about Regular Expressions and Console.Writeline
Are you regular? Do you wonder about regular expressions? Let’s take a quick look at a...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 06/29/2011
Make an Image Button using XAML, it’s easy and FUN!
You can easily make an Image Button with a few lines of XAML. What a blast right? When your parents...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 06/27/2011
Other voices begin to speak about Apple’s OSX security vulnerabilities
CodeProject points to one blog post that covers many of the concerns about Apple’s approach to...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 06/27/2011
Tab control taken over by bacteria computer
Oh no. Looks like another overdose with that headline. Well before the overdose of chocolate chips...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 06/21/2011
Links to Virtualizing stackpanel and treeviews
Here are some links on the Virtualizing of Treeviews. This concept has been around since 2005,...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 06/21/2011
Drag and drop in WPF (and similar to Silverlight)
How do you do drag and drop in WPF? Likely you haven’t given it much thought, lately, drag and...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 06/20/2011
WTF: ApplicationCommands.NotACommand Property
Ok, this seems like the WTF Award for June: NotACommand, is it really useless? Ummm? In the...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 06/17/2011
Application Command List
Basically copied this from the link:...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 06/16/2011
Free Kinect SDK released today
Oh boy, Kinect SDK was released today. You probably heard about it from other sources, if you...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 06/16/2011
Enter a color in a textbox and change the color fill in a rectangle
Wow! This is exciting isn’t it? With just a few lines of XAML you can change the fill of a...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 06/15/2011
Deploying applications: Custom Actions
Many hobbyists, students and even professors don’t get an opportunity to implement deployment...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 06/15/2011
When to use ListChanged, CurrentChanged, CurrentItemChanged, or DataSourceChanged
ListChanged event procedure: The ListChanged event occurs when data in a list is: Modified Added...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 06/15/2011
What is, Why to use: The Manifest Generation and Editing Tool (Mage.exe) or MageUI.exe
The Manifest Generation and Editing Tool (Mage.exe) is a command-line tool that supports the...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 06/15/2011
Changing the color fill of an object using Binding and SelectedItem.Content in a combobox
Oh boy, thanks for making it to this blog. This entry is going to be a low number, so I...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 06/15/2011
Free, get ready for that interview: WPF with Data
Get ready for that interview or opportunity! Check out the videos at:...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 06/14/2011
Free learning material for Windows Presentation Foundation, Big improvements in the Framework 4.0 material
Wow! Previously the Windows Presentation Foundation was, to put it nicely, bad. Now to...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 06/12/2011
IValueConvertor versus IMultiValueConvertor, nothing free here
If IValueConvertor converts a single object, what the heck do you do with arrays of objects? ...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 06/10/2011
Free Tools: PowerCommand 10 for Visual Studio 2010
This is one of the amazing productivity tools that is the motivation to purchase Visual Studio...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 06/10/2011
Converting Data in Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF)
Implementing IValueConvertor has the member methods: Convert: Changes the input type to an output...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 06/10/2011
Free: Azure 30 day pass, please sign up, if you signed up using the other number, do it again with the new one. Free
My manager would really like for you to use this free Azure Account. Seriously. No...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 06/09/2011
XAML and SoundPlayer
Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) has 3 classes that allow you to use multimedia in your...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 06/08/2011
What you need to know about routed events in WPF (similar to Silverlight)
Events in WPF (and Silverlight) are dealt with differently, using “Routing Events”. Why?...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 06/07/2011
Apple demotes the laptop, desktop to a “device”, really?
Apple pronounces that your investment in learning how to customize your storage, use in the manner...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 06/07/2011
XAML: Property Value Precedence
Calvin Hobbes on Writing -- I used to hate writing assignments, but now I enjoy them. I realized...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 06/06/2011
Free Training kit for Sharepoint and Office365
If you want to tear it up and make some significant money as a consultant, then Office365 and...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 06/05/2011
Free Developer tool:
This product is awesome, I have used in my Windows Phone development and it is a big help. What is...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 06/04/2011
Why take computer science? Save lives and the world
Alfred Thompson has written a series of good articles about programming, and why to take the...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 06/04/2011
Getting prepared for the next thing
Let’s say that you might be interested in preparing for the future. Here is how I am preparing...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 06/03/2011
What does Package Verified mean in the WP7 submission process and other whinings
Ok, here is my guess as to what the term “package verification” means From:...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 05/28/2011
Free tool for Software Engineering: Guessimate
Guessimate? What is that? Guessimate, who names these things? Guesstimate is a programming model for...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 05/26/2011
Get started with Silverlight
Getting started with Silverlight, Silverlight 5.0 has just come out and it is way COOL!...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 05/26/2011
You can now use Visual Basic on Windows Phone 7 to do XNA development?
Visual Basic can now be used to develop on the Windows Phone 7! I wonder if Alfred Thompson...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 05/26/2011
Free XBox if you buy a Windows 7 Laptop?
Skipping over my usual blah Apple is not secure, blah blah, Chrome is the most insecure browser...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 05/25/2011
Protecting your Windows 7 machine from viruses and phishing
First off take a look at the following URL:...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 05/23/2011
HTML 5 in Expression 4 Web
I think the Expression Group is improving the learning experience,wow, in fact it has improved quite...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 05/23/2011
Mac Defender: The anatomy of a virus, discussion of the problems with the Mac OS X
The Mac defender is not the first Mac virus, early in 2006 the OSX/Leap-A or OSX/Oompa-A virus was...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 05/22/2011
ISEF: Intel sponsors AWESOME contest for Teen Age Inventors and Scientists worldwide
The Society for Science & the Public holds a number of Science Fairs through out the world and...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 05/22/2011
Mac virus reported, “Mac Protector”, but it isn’t the first time as is being reported
A modified version of the OSX/Leap-A or OSX/Oompa-A has hit the Mac operating system early in...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 05/21/2011
Privacy by design?
Ten Things you must do to protect privacy: Link: Ten Things You Must Do to Protect Privacy Collect...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 05/21/2011
HTML 5: Changes in the DOCTYPE, really starting at the top and beginning of HTML 5 HTML 5： 变化中的 DOCTYPE，真正从顶部开始，开始的 HTML 5
Oh you just know I will likely lose interest, see a bright shiny object or get another assignment...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 05/20/2011
Free HTML 5 tutorials (免费的 HTML 5 教程)
There are some excellent tutorials out there about HTML 5, but they seem to be fans of Chrome, which...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 05/19/2011
Microsoft research into sound and impact on music
To find out the latest on audio research at Microsoft (or the latest that can be discussed in...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 05/19/2011
Material needed for final in ASP.NET class
MSDNAA installation: Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate SQL 2008 R2 Access 2010 MS Project 2010 OneNote...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 05/18/2011
Drupal on https://nvs.nist.gov, Sharepoint Foundation is also “free”
Overview For the commenters that as that I use another keyword on https://nvs.nist.gov here are the...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 05/18/2011
IE10, Internet Explorer 10, yes that’s right Internet Explorer 10 news
Sometimes I am amazed at how stuff is developed all the time at Microsoft. It would be nice if...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 05/17/2011
IE 9 and IE 10 performance compared to other browser
Simply awful. Chrome now has 102 security vulnerabilities and now it fails the paintball test, and...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 05/17/2011
Drupal security compared to Sharepoint for the previous 3 months as of 5/16/2011, Drupal, not so good
Sharepoint over the past 3 months has had zero hack according to the https://nvd.nist.gov/, and...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 05/16/2011