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C# Extension Methods

Posted on 16/04/2008 by Robert Hill

Just a quick post.. thought I’d share a neat way of handling some legacy date nastyness from an oracle DB that I’m having to interface with. DateTime’s on this monstrosity of the 90’s are stored as the typical Unix Epoch … Continue reading →

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WPF Bitmap Effects Revisited

Posted on 27/03/2008 by Robert Hill

Technorati Tags: WPF,BitmapEffect,Greyscale Ok, so the first pass was ok (apart from the messed up file uploads 🙁 thanks alot WLW! ) but there are still a few minor niggles. Firstly was the whole com registration deal. Whilst its not … Continue reading →

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Greyscale Bitmap Effect for WPF

Posted on 21/03/2008 by Robert Hill

Technorati Tags: WPF,Greyscale,BitmapEffect   [ please see the THIS post about single assembly effects ] Whilst trawling the MSDN forums looking for a solution to a problem i was having (completely unrelated to bitmap effects – i’m easily distracted 😉 … Continue reading →

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An evening with Derren Brown, and the Agile Manifesto

Posted on 19/03/2008 by Robert Hill

What a show. The man is simply amazing, magic or psychology, it doesn’t really matter, the end result is both stunning and completely mystifying. Some of the show was obvious trickery like the levitating spirit table), but in my opinion … Continue reading →

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DataTemplate Triggers with animations in WPF

Posted on 02/03/2008 by Robert Hill

Technorati Tags: WPF,DataTrigger,Storyboard,Problem I’ve just had the displeasure of burning quite a few hours on a stupid problem with starting animations from a control template using data binding and datatriggers in WPF. I’ve solved it eventually but only after wasting … Continue reading →

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Word Binary formats Vs WordprocessingML

Posted on 20/02/2008 by Robert Hill

I noticed today that Joel Spolsky had written an entry about how complicated the Word binary formats are now that Microsoft has finally released the full binary file formats. He notes that the spec is a whopping 349 pages, and … Continue reading →

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Incremental searching using LINQ to XML

Posted on 11/02/2008 by Robert Hill

I have a requirement in the current project to provide a method of converting a title entered in an edit box, into a corresponding code number. The current customers implementation is page based (web style) where you enter words, and … Continue reading →

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Cloverfield!

Posted on 01/02/2008 by Robert Hill

Wow, what a film. JJ Abrams – the boy done good. To do this film justice you need to see it on a screen as large as possible, but more importantly, the sound system needs to be capable of shaking … Continue reading →

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600 lines really is a luxury!

Posted on 31/01/2008 by Robert Hill

I’ve seen a couple of posts , the first by Jeff Atwood about what can you build in  600 lines of code and a response from Charles Petzold commenting that 600 lines is a luxury. Heh. 600 Lines. That really … Continue reading →

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Microsoft LIVE! Maps, WPF and Winforms.

Posted on 30/01/2008 by Robert Hill

I was having a deep discussion with a friend the other day, about how WPF and Winforms controls can’t overlap on the same surface. It’s not really a big limitation, since WPF is so rich you’d never need a Winform … Continue reading →

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