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Windows 8 Start Menu Toggle

Since getting my hands on Windows 8 this past week, I (like many others) have really grappled with the constant accidental returning to the metro tiles every time I try to search for something in the new neutered Start Menu that appears in the Developer’s Read More...
Posted Tuesday, September 20, 2011 3:16 PM by rrobinson | 0 Comments

How to Scale a jQuery Mobile Site for iOS

I was recently working on a jQuery Mobile application and everything looked great on my 21” touch monitor on several browsers, but when I deployed to the server and then hit the page on my iPhone , I ran into a few issues that I needed to work through Read More...
Posted Monday, July 25, 2011 2:45 PM by rrobinson | 1 Comments

How to Include and Deploy Data using a Visual Studio Database Project

I’m a big fan of Visual Studio’s Database Project and I’ve used them successfully in several client projects.  If you are not familiar with using the Database Project , I encourage you to give it a look.  It gives me a nice warm feeling to see Read More...
Posted Sunday, July 24, 2011 5:42 PM by rrobinson | 0 Comments

Portable and Efficient Generic Parser for CSV

I recently had some pretty ugly CSV files to parse and decided to have a quick look around to see if there were any libraries around that would handle the specifics of these particular CSV files without me having to write yet another CSV parsing class.  Read More...
Posted Sunday, July 10, 2011 11:13 PM by rrobinson | 0 Comments

Atlanta Code Camp Demos

Another fantastic Atlanta Code Camp !   Big kudos go out to the crew that threw this together this year in record time and did a fantastic job.  I heard nothing but positive comments from everyone that I talked with.  Big thank you Read More...
Posted Thursday, July 07, 2011 11:37 AM by rrobinson | 0 Comments

Moving further towards the Dark Side

I’ve been a proponent of dark coding environments for many moons, back to Turbo C++ and that blue .  In fact, my current Visual Studio template started way back in the first version of Visual Studio for .NET. I actually painstakingly hand-copied Read More...
Posted Tuesday, June 28, 2011 9:37 PM by rrobinson | 0 Comments

Atlanta Code Camp is open for Registration

Atlanta Code Camp has finally been confirmed for this year and will take place on Saturday. June 25, 2011 at Southern Tech in Marietta, GA.  I’ll be reprising my CodeStock talks on Intro to MEF with Silverlight and Intro to Jounce MVVM Framework Read More...
Posted Wednesday, June 15, 2011 12:21 PM by rrobinson | 0 Comments

Another Great CodeStock!

Once again, CodeStock was awesome and the CodeStock crew took care of everything and made it look easy!  All of the attendees that I had chance to speak with had nothing but good things to say.  Big thank you to the CodeStock sponsors, volunteers, Read More...
Posted Tuesday, June 07, 2011 12:40 AM by rrobinson | 0 Comments

Happy Beatles Day

In case you didn’t know, The Beatles re-masters are being released today (9/9/9). Even more exciting is the fact that you will be able to get all of them in mono and in stereo. So, you can hear them the way they were meant to be heard!! From my understanding, Read More...
Posted Wednesday, September 09, 2009 1:58 PM by rrobinson | 0 Comments
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Prism Presentation – Code and Slides

I recently had the pleasure of speaking at CodeStock 2009 and was very impressed with the conference overall. The folks behind this conference put in a lot of work and did a really great job. I got the chance to see some really good presentations as well. Read More...
Posted Wednesday, July 01, 2009 9:10 PM by rrobinson | 1 Comments
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Silverlight UI Rant #2 - ListBoxItem

Tonight's recipient of my UI Rant is the Silverlight 2 ListBox, or more specifically, the ListBoxItem.  A client recently asked me to provide an alternating row style like the DataGrid for the ListBox.  Now, if you've ever tried to add a border Read More...
Posted Thursday, February 12, 2009 9:29 PM by rrobinson | 1 Comments

Silverlight UI Rant #1

If you've used the the Silverlight 2 DataGrid, you've no doubt seen this: I really hate when this happens! I've seen several forum discussions where folks were looking to get rid of this nastiness, so I know I'm not the only one losing sleep over it. Read More...
Posted Friday, February 06, 2009 12:02 AM by rrobinson | 1 Comments

HtmlPage.PopupWindow vs. HtmlWindow.Navigate

I was recently looking at various ways of launching an external window from inside a Silverlight 2 application.  Dusting off your javascript brain cell, you'll recall that to open a popup dialog in "the old days", we'd use window.open() Read More...
Posted Wednesday, February 04, 2009 2:05 AM by rrobinson | 0 Comments
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Yngwie Malmsteen syndrome (Silverlight 2 Scroller revisited)

Earlier this month, I blogged about a Silverlight 2 Scroller control that I had labored over for the better part of a weekend. The entire time I was working on this Scroller, I had this small, dirty feeling that what I had created was somehow way more Read More...
Posted Thursday, January 22, 2009 4:26 PM by rrobinson | 3 Comments
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Silverlight System.ExecutionEngineException

Just a quick note that will hopefully save someone the pain that I just went through chasing yet another exception in Silverlight with nothing to go on from Visual Studio. (I really hope that there is some better feedback coming on Silverlight applications Read More...
Posted Thursday, January 15, 2009 6:29 PM by rrobinson | 1 Comments
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