Today, I’d like to present another real-life example for aspect-oriented programming and post-build reflection. The problem to be solved in a nutshell could be described as follows: How to store date / time values including timezone offset efficiently in an…
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The short story: I recently received a bug ticket stating that records in a many-to-many relationship table in our SQLite database are not deleted when deleting one of the base objects. My first assumption was that this problem occurs due…
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Since I stumbled upon it in a current project, a follow-up to the recent blog article about image scaling in Store Apps: The above-mentioned blog post describes how to ensure that an image is scaled down if it does not…
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Nearly two years ago, I explained how to force WPF to cache images while loading, in order to not lock the underlying image file while being displayed. Now I’ve stumbled across a similar problem in Windows Store Apps: When populating…
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The short story: In some of my ViewModels, I’m not able to subscribe to ReactiveUI Commands although all other Reactive-specific code works, while in others the .Subscribe(…) method works properly. The long story: The context: An MVVM project based on…
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Images displayed within a Windows Store App are generally cached, in order to reduce data transfer (in case of online images) and rendering effort. This caching is done automatically by the framework, which is a good thing as developers need…
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The short story: ReSharper’s unit test tools are there to make a developer’s life easier by decorating test cases with matching icons and providing shortcuts to commonly used functions. In some cases, however, they are just misleading… The long story:…
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Even after having been around for several years by now, the Windows Store Platform (and its WinRT and UWP programming frameworks) is still not as complete and comfortable to use as the WPF and Silverlight platforms. One of the numerous…
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Let’s enhance our Validation Behavior to make it ready for use in real-life applications! Styling: The first thing we should get rid of is the fixed color values defined within the behavior’s TextChanged event handler method. Instead, we can define…
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In this blog post, I’d like to propose a solution to the missing data format validation in Store Apps, as discussed in part #1. In order to build a reusable solution that can be referenced by any TextBox control, we’re…
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