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Yearly Archives: 2009

Silverlight 3 ElementName DataBinding Problem

By Damien White | Published: November 19, 2009

I’ve been using Silverlight 3 heavily for the past few months, and during that time have discovered many things to love and hate.  One problem I faced with Silverlight 3 (that I should have blogged about earlier) is something I think many developers may have faced.  In the application I’ve been working on, we’ve broken [...]

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Book Review – Manning The Art of Unit Testing

By Damien White | Published: September 30, 2009

To some, “unit testing” is a four letter word.  While it’s unfortunate, the feeling is justified by poor experiences, lack of knowledge, and so on.  Personally, I’ve had mixed experiences with unit tests.  I’m sure many of you have encountered similar situations.  After reading The Art of Unit Testing by Roy Osherove, I feel far [...]

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Silverlight 3 NavigationCacheMode To The Rescue

By Damien White | Published: September 22, 2009

I’ve been lucky enough to work on a new project for a client involving Silverlight 3 and the Silverlight Virtual Earth CTP.  One reoccurring issue that keeps coming up is performance, and I’m always looking for ways to balance functionality with speed.  In the app we are loading up a Virtual Earth map and populating [...]

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ASP.NET 4.0 AJAX Issues

By Damien White | Published: August 27, 2009

I’ve been using ASP.NET AJAX 4.0 quite a bit lately in ASP.NET 3.5 applications.  I encountered two issues tonight, and I hope this post saves someone some grief. The first problem has to do with referencing the ASP.NET AJAX 4.0 library within an ASP.NET 3.5 application, and the second was a surprising data binding issue [...]

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ASP.NET AJAX 4.0 and the ScriptManager Control

By Damien White | Published: June 1, 2009

I have been using ASP.NET AJAX 4.0 quite a bit lately, as I’m sure most of you are aware from my recent posts.  In those posts, I used standard HTML script references to show that ASP.NET AJAX is not reliant upon ASP.NET.  I realize that many of you are in fact using ASP.NET, and today [...]

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