Entity Framework migrations is indeed a great feature. It makes you don’t need to worry about the database schema updates almost at all. There are however few things you must know to properly understand and use EF migrations. This post describes few of those things.
By Mirek on (tags: Entity Framework, migrations, categories: architecture, tools, code)DataGrid control in WPF is a rich table structured control, which is perfect for displaying any kind of data in table like format. The one think about DataGrid it always lack, is a possibility to easily change the order of rows. It is not even about drag and drop of rows and items from and into the DataGrid , but simply rearrange existing rows in DataGrid control. It this post I will present you my solution for this problem, which additionally sticks to MvvM pattern perfectly.
By Mirek on (tags: Attached property, DataGrid, WPF, categories: code)In Web Api 2.0 and MVC5 you can only pass: int, bool, double etc.., TimeSpan, DateTime, Guid, decimal, and string values in URI. For any complex type having lists or other complex object within you have to pass serialized JSON/XML in the request body. But what If we want use such complex type from URI? Then read on…
By Piotr on (tags: automapper, mvc, Web API, categories: code)Long story short – mvc does not handle custom error pages in a way that could be described as ‘even close to correct’. But if you need to fulfill a requirement, you start hacking.
By eidias on (tags: mvc, categories: code, web)Nested foreach loops is something that I have always felt uncomfortable with. Recently I have found out more elegant and in some cases even more efficient, replacement for nested double foreach loop.
By Mirek on (tags: c#, Join, categories: code)A time ago I wrote about using collection views in WPF to achieve different looks at the same source collection. By creating different instances of ListCollectionView we could have the collection displayed in different sorting, ordering and grouping shape. Unfortunately there is small trap when using collection views.
By Mirek on (tags: CollectionView, memory leak, WPF, categories: code)Recently I’ve found out that we can easily cause a memory leaks in our .net application by improper usage of the dependency injection container Autofac.
By Mirek on (tags: Autofac, IDisposable, memory leak, categories: code)Recently I found out that my attached property, which I am using to modify the dependency property of one of my controls, causes a memory leak.
By Mirek on (tags: memory leak, WPF, categories: code)Until recently, creating a custom window style in Windows Presentation Foundation was quite a challenging task. You had to implement the window’s behavior from scratch. Resizing, moving and all other typically window related functionality had to be reinvented and reimplemented just because you wanted the window header bar to look different.
By Mirek on (tags: style, WindowChrome, WPF, categories: code)Have you ever had a problem that your multithreaded application lost a culture context ? Have you found a good solution for this?
By Mirek on (tags: CultureInfo, localization, thread, categories: code)