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AWDNUG August 2010
After a month off in July, the Albury/Wodonga .NET User Group met again last night. Numbers, as usual, were down, but it was an enjoyable meeting. Nathan demonstrated SpecFlow , a behaviour-driven development framework for .NET, in which you write your “specifications” as “features” and “scenarios” in...
Halfwit Hits Version 1!
Last night I released version 1.0.0.0 of Halfwit, my streamlined Twitter client. As of version 1, Halfwit requires the .NET 4 Client Profile , but if you don’t have it it will be downloaded and installed at the same time. The only new feature in v1 is URL shortening, and at this point it’s still something...
Give WPF’s DatePicker some Keyboard Love
I’ve just started using the DatePicker control from the WPF Toolkit for .NET 3.5 SP1 . DatePicker is built into .NET 4, but for reasons I’ve already explained , we’re stuck on 3.5 for the time being. Anyway, the DatePicker is a simple enough control. It has a TextBox where you can type in a date, and...
Creating a WPF Style in Code
The other day I was designing a page in WPF, and wanted to show or hide a TextBlock depending on whether one date was after another. Both dates were stored in properties on the DataContext of the page, so theoretically I could have gotten to either of them via a binding. I have an “AtLeastConverter”...
AWDNUG June 2010
Last night at the June meeting of the Albury/Wondonga .NET User Group we covered OData . I spent a few minutes going back over some ground we’d covered last month on Entity Framework, then walked through the steps covered by Scott Hanselman in this great blog post where he creates an OData service from...
DDD Melbourne 2010
On Saturday, Andrew and I attended the inaugural DDD Melbourne (that’s "Developer Developer Developer Melbourne") "community conference" at Docklands in Melbourne. Big props to Alex Mackey and Malcolm Sheridan , as well as all the other organizers and sponsors, for what turned...
Username Auto-complete in Halfwit
A couple of nights ago I finally started working on username auto-complete in Halfwit . What’s username auto-complete? That’s the feature whereby you type an “@” sign, and then as you type extra characters, Halfwit looks up your text in the list of recently-seen users and fills in the name for you. Here...
Saved Searches in Halfwit
Build 57 of my Twitter client Halfwit is now available, with a bunch of new features since I last blogged about it. The one I’ve added tonight is the ability to talk to Twitter to save common searches. When you visit the Search page, Halfwit will ask Twitter for a list of saved searches and populate...
Immutability in C# 5?
On the latest episode of .NET Rocks , Carl and Richard spoke to Anders about the new release of .NET and C# and what the future might hold. Predictably, Anders revealed that parallelism will be a focus on C# 5, with language enhancements to make use of things like Parallel Linq. One of the things he...
Windows Mobile development in Visual Studio 2010
So Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4 have been released, and they’re awesome. I’ve been using VS2010 since beta 2, and it’s a big step up from 2008 when it comes to the code-editing and designing experience. Which is sad, because I can’t use it. You see, Microsoft have recently announced Windows Phone 7...