Category Archive: C#

Aug
11

Using Style & Triggers For Complex Interactivity

Many times I try to take as much of the presentation logic out of the viewmodel as possible.  While using a MVVM pattern, sometimes it’s easy to be lazy and create boolean or visibility properties to handle logic on the front-end.  This week I’m showing a quick way to abstract that logic to the view …

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Jan
22

Lambda What? Lambda Who?

I promise this is a short post.  I have recently fallen in love with LINQ, but more recently I have grown to appreciate Lambda expressions.  I don’t know if this is because I find them simple to read, or because I once took a class as an undergraduate student where we built a modern language …

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Jan
20

Utility Extension Methods [Part 2]

I rather enjoy this theme.  I find extension methods very useful when you have to repeat the same short group of code again & again.  Here a few other extension methods that I find handy.

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Jan
15

Utility Extension Methods

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I realize that every time I post code, although I’m still a rookie in this sport, I’m putting my neck out there for some serious criticism.  But, that’s the only way to have fun in the dev world.  Ever since the introduction of Extension Methods in C# 3.0, I find myself writing a lot of …

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Jan
12

LINQ Musings

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I was recently reading Justin Etheredge’s blog and he had a really cool post about working on a simple LINQ algorithm to make it run faster http://www.codethinked.com/post/2010/01/10/The-TekPub-LINQ-Challenge-Part-2-Faster-Algorithms.aspx.

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