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Silverlight 4 Multi-Binding Converter Enhancement

By Damien White | Published: September 15, 2011

We have been using Colin Eberhardt’s MultiBinding Converter for Silverlight for quite a while now. It was great until we realized a problem.  When the MultiBinding Converter was off screen (hidden), it would throw a binding error stating that it couldn’t convert null to whatever (in our case it was an integer in one converter [...]

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Silverlight 4 Drop-Down Problems in Popup

By Damien White | Published: September 12, 2011

Are you running Silverlight and using a Popup and a “drop-down” control like a ComboBox (or DatePicker, TimePicker, etc) as a child? You may be seeing some odd behavior when you expand the ComboBox. The “drop-down bit” ends up positioned from the left of your screen, not where it is supposed to be positioned.  Hmmm. [...]

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Behavior Driven Development (BDD) with Cucumber and ASP.NET MVC

By Damien White | Published: June 10, 2010

So as I’m sure you have guessed by my last bunch of posts, I’ve been hooked on Ruby and Rails development.  The more I use it, the more I love it.  I felt I was loving it a bit too much, so decided to divert my attention back to ASP.NET MVC for a while.  While [...]

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Book Review – Wrox Professional ASP.NET MVC 1.0

By Damien White | Published: May 17, 2009

Working primarily on web applications, I’ve focused most of my time on ASP.NET Web Forms since the very early betas.  Web Forms were truly a great revolution in the web world.  Once I saw the functionality when it first came out (when I was using ::shudder::  “classic” ASP), I couldn’t wait to start using it.  [...]

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My Wrox Blox Books – Now on Amazon!

By Damien White | Published: January 30, 2009

I just happen to be browsing Amazon today and noticed that my Wrox Blox books are available for purchase on Amazon.com.  Pretty cool stuff!  They were listed up there before, but weren’t available directly through Amazon until now.  For a full description and the table of contents of each, just click on the Amazon links [...]

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