Here is the missing jQuery 1.4.2 vsdoc file!

June 26, 2010 — Christopher Hujanen

UPDATE: With the release of v1.5.x of jQuery, Microsoft has updated the vsdoc files, so this post will probably no longer apply to you…

I’m a bit peeved that Microsoft has not published an official vsdoc file for jQuery version 1.4.2.  A while back, Scott Guthrie announced Microsoft would be supporting  jQuery so I expected they would keep up with new releases of jQuery.  I love Visual Studio’s IntelliSense feature and rely on it quite heavily.  And in order to get IntelliSense for jQuery functionality within Visual Studio, you need to have a companion *-vsdoc.js file that matches the version of  jQuery you are using.  Now I realize the changes between 1.4.1 and 1.4.2 are not that substantial, but come on… 1.4.2 has been released for several months already.  If you look at the website where you are supposed to download this file, you will see it is missing:

Microsoft's Ajax Content Delivery Network page

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Out with Clean Sources Plus, In with TreeTrim

May 8, 2009 — Christopher Hujanen

If you are a fan of CleanSourcesPlus to clean up your Visual Studio build files, but have either had problems with it in a “modern” OS like Vista :) or just don’t like the command prompt popping up, I have a suggestion:  check out TreeTrim from Steve Dunn.

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It adds a right click menu option to your selected folder in Windows Explorer to clean up your source code folder and it works quickly and silently.  By default it adds two menu choices:

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The Clean source code works “out of the box” but the second one to clean, zip and email a working copy needs to be configured via its XML configuration file.  If you are like me and don’t email source code, then you can modify your registry to change or remove the menu option.  The registry key is located here:

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\shell\Clean, zip, and email a working copy of source code

I just removed that menu option on my system but the utility has a plugin model which allows you to customize commands that match your workflow.  Kudos to Steve Dunn!

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Displaying a PDF file within a WPF application

April 6, 2009 — Christopher Hujanen

I had a need to view PDF files directly within a WPF application and Stackoverflow and Google did not provide much assistance, so I set out on my own to see what I could create.  It turns out, it is not that difficult.  The trick is to use the WinForms support in WPF ala the WindowsFormHost control.  The application is so simple, I built it start to finish in under 5 minutes and captured it in a screencast for you to check out.

WPF PDF viewer app

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WPF MVVM Video by Jason Dolinger

March 8, 2009 — Christopher Hujanen

I just happened upon a video put together by Jason Dolinger on the WPF MVVM (Model View ViewModel) pattern, which I found to be excellent.  In this 1.5 hour video he refactors a simple application using the pattern and does a great job describing the benefits as he goes along.  It is also interesting to see his use of Unity as well.  Here is a direct link to the video:

http://www.lab49.com/files/videos/Jason%20Dolinger%20MVVM.wmv

And here’s a link to a blog post about it with a link to the source code:

http://blog.lab49.com/archives/2650

Enjoy!

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Intro to WPF MVVM

February 15, 2009 — Christopher Hujanen

Last week, I gave a presentation at the Madison .NET User Group on an introduction to the up-and-coming Model-View-View Model (MVVM) pattern for WPF.

mvvm-overview

In the presentation, we made a very simple application that used the MVVM pattern.  I’ve posted the source code to this quick and dirty app here.  Note: this app takes several shortcuts and shouldn’t be used as an example of best practices, but we did build it in about 30 minutes.  :)

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Getting Started in WPF with IValueConverter

January 26, 2009 — Christopher Hujanen

For those of you looking to learn or hone your fundamental WPF skills, I thought you might find this video beneficial.  It’s a nice 11-12 minute video on what you can do with IValueConverter by the lovely Beth Massi.   The video goes through an example of IValueConverter in VB.NET, but they also have some C# code to download if you like.  Check it out:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vbasic/dd367843.aspx

The IValueConverter interface is very handy when you want to convert or format a given object to your specifications, and in Beth’s example she also displays how you can use it to verify and do type validation of user edited data.

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Visual Studio 2008 broken Intellisense when debugging C# code

January 11, 2009 — Christopher Hujanen

I was having an issue on my laptop where the Intellisense was broken when debugging C# code.  It is working for VB.NET code.  Here’s what it looks like for VB.NET when you start to type a variable name in the Watch window when in the debugger:

vb.net-intellisense-working

The problem is if I debug a C# project and try the same thing, I get nothing.  No Intellisense even using the Ctrl-Space keyboard shorcut.  Even the Immediate Window doesn’t work.

Since on my laptop I have ReSharper and a bunch of other add-ins installed, I chalked it up to some kind of conflict.  But today, I just rebuilt a desktop workstation and put a clean install of Visual Studio 2008 Team System with SP1 and nothing else installed.  Guess what… the problem still exists for me.  Some Google searches also didn’t help.  It doesn’t look like anyone else is having this issue, so I figured I better get a blog post about it in case you are in the same situation. I will update this post if I find a solution.

Please comment if you are having the same issue, or even better had the issue but found a fix!  :-)

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