June 2008 Entries

Dispose of a WPF UserControl (ish)

I've been playing with WPF a little bit, and quite frankly got a bit stuck, (Meh! Who'd have thought). The problem is as follows: I create a UserControl - we'll call it 'MyUserControl' (wouldn't want to break traditions now would we). In said user control I have a button, that when pressed will fire off a new thread. This new thread will (say) poll a file / service - whatever - every 10 seconds or so, and update a Label accordingly. When I close the app, if the app is polling, then the app won't ......
Posted On Monday, June 23, 2008 4:21 PM | Comments (14)

RoundedButton Button Style (WPF)

So far, I have only one style which I'm currently using on all my buttons, and to be honest, I'm still working on it, but it's been in a pretty stable state of development for a while now, so I thought I'd share it. Let me introduce you to the imaginatively titled: RoundedButton. The above picture shows 3 buttons, the first (top-most) is the bog standard WPF button, no styles applied. <Button Height="30" Width="100" Margin="20">Normal Button</Button> The second two are RoundedButton styled, ......
Posted On Friday, June 20, 2008 11:27 AM | Comments (14)

Branching

(First Second post here, be fair, (harsh if you must)) I've developed in 3 main situations, University, Personally and Professionally, which I believe is probably similar for most developers. I'll freely admit that for my personal projects I've rarely (if ever) utilised source control solutions, *even* though I know that there are plenty of free solutions available. It's just never been an issue (though I am going to rethink that). University taught me squat all about how to use source control, I ......
Posted On Tuesday, June 17, 2008 12:11 PM | Comments (0)

New Home...

First post to the 'geekswithblogs' home... just looking for a way to shunt my current wordpress stuff over here (converting their own 'WordpressML' to BlogML) then we'll be cooking with gas... I've found some tools for doing it, so hopefully I can get that working and see where we end up! May even write about that experience.. The world (as they say) is my oyster ......
Posted On Thursday, June 12, 2008 10:42 AM | Comments (6)