ASP.NET MVC and a Generic jQuery Grid -jqTGrid

by | Jul 7, 2010 | General

If you searching the internet for jqGrid and ASP.NET MVC you will find many examples, but all of them always define the jqGrid columns – see for an example the blog post from Phil Haack. If you have a lot of jqGrids in your project you don’t want to define every...

Code Overload

by | Jul 7, 2010 | General

Maybe I should consider to rethinking my code style guidlines. As I opened my AMUSE project today I got the following message from Visual Studio (9.0). Never seen it bevor 😉 Just checked witch file was responsible for this,… seems like VS doesn’t like the embedded MDG...

Checking Silverlight Version

by | Jul 6, 2010 | General

We are currently working with Wix (Windows Installer XML) and  today we wanted to roll out a new software package with a prerequisite for Silverlight 3.0. I must say it’s pretty hard to find something on the web, on how to check installation or version of Silverlight...

Full screen for WM/CF

by | Jun 30, 2010 | General

Since I do some Compact Framework programming on the side. I ran into the problem on how to do full screen applications on WM. Due to our background as “third level developers” we got a pretty good framework for C# Compact Framework programming and there I...

.net and click once and settings

by | Jun 30, 2010 | General

For some applications this is a very useful technique to assure, the user runs the latest version. For some applications, you may experience difficulty with settings files. Settings files in that way, that users store local data in there, and that these changes are...

Mexico / Mäxchen / Meier

by | Jun 22, 2010 | General

“Thirsty” programmer are the worse and it’s even worse when you want to play a dice game without dices. Since none of us carries dices with them all the time (just in case we’r in the mood to play with some friends) I descided to make a new game. Because “we” don’t...

Drama am Handelskai

by | Jun 21, 2010 | General

Heute bekamen wir besuch von der Feuerwehr. Da quasi vor der Bürotüre (die Baustelle ums Eck) ein Gasflasche brannte. Bei dieser “kleinen” Aktion wurde auch gleich der Handelskai gesperrt, wie man auf den beiden Fotos eindrucksvoll sieht. Zum glück war es...

System.Xml.Linq.XDocument

by | Jun 14, 2010 | General

In Silverlight 3.0 XmlDocument is no more. Instead, we have to use XDocument, XElement, XAttribute from System.Xml.Linq namespace. It can be used in combination with linq, so here is how to parse a very simple xml-file: <?xml version=\”1.0\”?>...