TFS 2010 Work Item Seed: TFS Work Item system.id at a predefined number
This week my customer had a requirement to have all new work items created to have an ID greater than 40,000. They have another system that stores tickets and they don’t want any conflict. There have been a number of ways to achieve this through a database change, but it is not supported by Microsoft. […]
Silverlight 4, MVVM and Test-Driven Development
As part of his UK tour Microsoft’s Jesse Liberty will be talking in Edinburgh for an evening on Silverlight 4. [Register Now, there are some places left] The Talk MVVM and Silverlight to build test-driven programs Understanding Refactoring and Dependency Injection A Walk through of a non-trivial application The Speaker Jesse Liberty, Silverlight Geek, is […]
MVVM for Dummies
I think that I have found one of the best articles on MVVM that I have ever read: http://jmorrill.hjtcentral.com/Home/tabid/428/EntryId/432/MVVM-for-Tarded-Folks-Like-Me-or-MVVM-and-What-it-Means-to-Me.aspx This article sums up what is in MVVM and what is outside of MVVM. Note, when I and most other people say MVVM, they really mean MVVM, Commanding, Dependency Injection + any other Patterns you need […]
Wpf Scale Transform Behaviour
Although this post is called Scale Transform Behaviour you could use any transform / animation in its place. The purpose is to have a slider control in a menu be able to alter the scale of any number of controls within MVVM views. This behaviour allows you to add any Framework Elements to a list […]
Wpf Ninject Dojo: The Data Provider
You have probably heard me go on about Unity a couple of times: My.Unity.Resolve(Of Ninja) Unity and ASP.NET Creating a Data Access layer using Unity I have been using what is now unity since the good old days (sooo not true, WPF is the Windows Forms killer, and good riddance) of WindowsForms and CAB (Client […]
Wpf Drag & Drop behaviour
A colleague of mine was having a bit of trouble getting drag and drop working in a way that fitted well with the MVVM pattern. This is really quite simple once you have a certain level of understanding of Patterns, but is a complete nightmare if you do not. One of the founding principals of […]
Developer Day Scotland
The Developer Developer Developer event held at Glasgow Caledonian University (my University) yesterday was excellent. Kudos to Colin Angus Mackay and the other organisers for all of the effort they have put in once again. Everything you wanted to know about refactoring but were afraid to ask! I attended Gary Short‘s session on refactoring […]