Daniel’s Model-based Engineering Insights

Windows Phone 7 Database

MS announced, that there will be no database available for 3rd party applications, like on windows mobile 6.5. Instead of using SqlServerCE the user shall use cloud computing or xml files to store data. So I searched for alternatives, and found a very pretty proof of...

Windows Phone 7 Developer Tools Beta

The developer Tool for Windows Phone reached beta-status. And Microsoft included into the 380 mb Setup Expression Blend 4 for Windows Phone. So far the good news. The bad news: several things have changed from CTP.April to beta - most of all: consolidation and...

ASP.NET MVC and a Generic jQuery Grid –jqTGrid Part 3

Please check out my previous posts (Part1 and Part2) if you haven’t read it yet. Today I want to show how we can create a generic "GridBaseController for our jqTGrid that we don’t have to implement the “DynamicGridData” controller method in every controller. For that...

LieberLieber AMUSE – Sneak Peek of Upcoming Features.

We are currently very busy in preparing the next Release of AMUSE - most of the features are allready completed so we compiled a little Video! Currently implemented new Features: smaller and faster Setup Single Step Simulation Sub and extended Diagrams will be opened...

ASP.NET MVC and a Generic jQuery Grid –jqTGrid Part 2

In my last post I was talking about my idea to use the jqGrid to create a grid based on the data model. In this post I want to take the existing jqTGrid and go one step further. - What if we want to hide a column? What about the column header text? The first step what...

ASP.NET MVC and a Generic jQuery Grid -jqTGrid

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

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...

Checking Silverlight Version

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

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 found the...

.net and click once and settings

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

“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

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 gerade Zeit...

System.Xml.Linq.XDocument

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\"?> <retval>...

Programming Silverlight for Windows Embedded CE from .NET

This is very very cool – I knew Andy had something in preparation as he mentioned it to me already on Teched in Berlin last November. Finally there is a way to build the Application logic with .Net and still use the Power of Silverlight on your CE 7 and CE 6.0R3...

Stand alone multiplatform Silverlight application

It is a real challenge to run Silverlight applications standalone and have a way to do interprocess communication with windows applications! For our ongoing challenge we got inspired by DesLighter from Blendables – after this I found a more generic recipe  Stand...

How to leverage Surface investments for Windows 7

My article yesterday caused a little bit of confusion so I will try to explain a little more in detail what options we have. In order to run Surface applications you have three basic options: A real Microsoft Surface Table A developer work seat with the tools provided...