Musings by Generator

PRISM Tutorials

Andrew Shough — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 06:57:00 +0000

I recently worked on a Silverlight project that used the PRISM framework, and discovered that, while there are numerous resources out there on how to use it, I had to trawl through search results, various blogs, and help files to find the information I needed on doing various things with PRISM & Unity. Which brings [...]

Asynchronous Tasks in Silverlight

Andrew Shough — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 15:04:04 +0000

Anyone who has developed in Silverlight knows that you can’t block the UI, silverlight actually throws an exception if you block the UI. So most tasks need to be done asynchronously, but for some strange reason I can’t find this type of functionality built into the silverlight framework, one would think that Microsoft would supply [...]

Custom Columns for the DataGrid in Silverlight

Andrew Shough — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 09:18:32 +0000

We are developing a silverlight front-end for a client, and hit a problem where we didn’t want to specify the columns or write custom converters to get the text descriptions from lists for ID’s etc. We just wanted to say to the grid, here is your data, now bind. So a custom columns class was [...]

Aspect Orientated Programming with PostSharp.

Andrew Shough — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 12:20:17 +0000

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Best Coding Practices – Naming Conventions

Andrew Shough — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 09:06:59 +0000

There are a lot of people who say that you must follow a traditional pattern or a notation like Hungarian notation, but I feel it is rather better to establish a naming convention within your project and stick to it, of course, it should be documented somewhere as well.

Mac or PC ?

Andrew Shough — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 07:17:41 +0000

My laptop, which is about six years old, has finally given up on life and the battery is dead. I have tried to get a new battery but as I suspected there are none available in South Africa nor do they make them any more......

Basic rules for driving in Gauteng

Andrew Shough — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 10:49:51 +0000

Since we will be having a whole lot of international tourists in Gauteng for the Soccer World Cup this year, here is some basic rules for driving on the roads in Gauteng: Indicating will give away your next move. A real Gauteng driver never uses them. Under no circumstance should you leave a safe distance [...]

The price of a break

Andrew Shough — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 06:44:06 +0000

My girlfriend and I are in desperate need of a romantic break or weekend away ! So I have been looking around trying to find somewhere for us to go, a close by place not further than 3 hours away. So I am restricted in as far as Dullstroom, Northern Drakensburg, The Waterberg. I have [...]

Time Break Down of Modern Web Design

Andrew Shough — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 15:01:58 +0000

My Exquisite Valentines Dinner.

Andrew Shough — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 13:35:41 +0000

I just had to share this with everyone. My girlfriend decided she wanted to cook dinner for me for V-Day, and since she is working today, she did it all last night. I know she can cook very well, but she really out did herself last night, I am sure this is down to all [...]