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We have a 3-4 month contract position open for a Windows GUI Developer in our group at Calabasas, California: 2+ years experience developing C++/C# Windows thick-client applications Expert in GUI development on Windows Expert in Object Oriented Analysis and Design (OOA/OOD) Deep understanding of client-server software development Experience in multithreading, and thread synchronization Excellent communication skills (written and verbal) Highly organized and detail oriented BSCS/BSEE or equivalent If you are interested, contact me. The position is available now.

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I have been playing with JetBrains ReSharper(version 4.1) and DevExpress CodeRush + Refactor! Pro (version 3.2.2) lately. I wanted to decide on which one to go with. Here are some notes - R# = ReSharper CodeRush = CodeRush + Refactor! Pro R# seems to be better for refactoring, because it does not assume that I follow a rigid work flow when writing code. For example, I don’t always decide on the class hierarchies upfront. I do discover them as I write code. So, when I discover that I need to extract a base class from the class I am working on, I can do so with R#. I couldn’t find a way to do extract a base/super class with CodeRush. In R#, I can create an overloaded constructor using “Change Signature” refactoring (Ctrl+R, S). I couldn’t find a way to do this in CodeRush. CodeRush does allow me to create overloaded methods. However, comparisons that only focus on how many refactorings each tool can do are not very important to me. After all, it should be easy for the individual missing refactorings to be implemented in the subsequent releases of these tools. I want to know which one is a better investment in the long run. The investment is not just a couple of hundred dollars, it is going to be an investment of time too. ...

DbUpdater (version 1.3 onwards) can be used with sqlite3. Review the files included in DbUpdater-sqlite3.zip 1. DbUpdater.exe.config must be modified. Note changes to the following keys - exe-file, exe-args, dialect, driver_class, connetion_string. 2. SchemaVersion.hbm.xml must be modified. The ‘class’ attributes value for the ‘generator’ of ‘id’ must be changed to ‘identity’. No other changes are needed here. 3. \SqlScripts\schema-version-table.sql is modified. Note that the datatypes of all columns are changed to TEXT, except for SchemaChangeId, which is changed to integer primary key. integer primary key is used for auto-incremented columns in sqlite. 4. \SqlScripts\baseline.sql is modified. Note the use of current_timestamp function. The actual sql syntax in this file must conform to sqlite dialect. 5. All other .sql scripts in \SqlScripts directory are also modified to conform to sqlite dialect. ...

By popular demand, DbUpdater is now up on the sourceforge. Latest download (v1.2) is now available from there.

We have a position open for a 6 month internship in our group in Calabasas, CA. We do cutting edge Network Performance Analysis work. A candidate with C#/C++/C background on Windows/Linux is preferred. If you are interested, contact me. The position is available now.

I am not just being philosophical here. In WPF, ControlTemplates allow you to transform a control’s appearance. This is not the same as applying stylesheets. This is an entirely new level of customization. What you see in the screenshot below looks like a Dial but is actually a simple ProgressBar control wearing a “Dial” template. The Dial template was created using Microsoft Expression Blend . Include the ControlTemplate as a Window.Resource and then assign it to ProgressBar element’s Template attribute : ...

SharpDevelop3.0 uses MSBuild. Including PostSharp in your build process is transparent if you are doing a global install using PostSharp installer. If you are doing a per-project installation using “Binary - No Installer”download, you will need to import the PostSharp targets into your .csproj file - True C:\code\PostSharp-1.0.8.316-Binary\ For more details, read the install instructions included in the PostSharp download and under-the-hood-of-msbuild-integration. To use local PostSharp binaries (relative to your project) , modify your .csproj file as follows - ...

In my previous post : WPF-LINQ To SQL Sample, I had to resort to modifying .dbml file to get the images stored as varbinary into the WPF ListView control. I had to change the Type of image fields to System.Byte[], instead of using System.Data.Linq.Binary. A better way to do this is to use a custom converter. WPF allows you to specify custom converter as part of the Binding in .xaml, like this - ...

This exercise in binding a WPF ListView control with LINQ to SQL was a lot of fun ! The following image shows data from AdventureWorks sample database displayed in the ListView control. The end result is very admirable, even in this very basic demo. Feeling a complete sense of freedom is unavoidable when working with WPF. This sample demonstrates : LINQ to SQL mapping. WPF ListView Control DataBinding. Displaying images stored in database as varbinary in WPF control. The sample code can be downloaded here : WPF-LINQ to SQL Sample License : Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.