Just a quick post today on the subject of null. Checking for null in the bane of many programming languages. And while there are some clever techniques and design patterns that can help minimise the need to do this, it’s inevitable that you’ll end up needing to check for null. Read more…
Just a quick post this time: I had a need to be able to reposition a WPF window when I click and dragged on a particular UIElement. The aim was to recreate the behaviour of clicking and dragging on a standard Windows title bar (in my case, I was implementing Read more…
I was intrigued by a post on Stack Overflow today where a developer was asking how to convert the current time to Eorzea Time, a fictional timebase used in Final Fantasy XIV’s persistent game world. I’ve never played FFXIV – and probably never will, but I was intrigued by the Read more…
If you’re new to the async and await keywords in C# and .NET, then it’s likely you will eventually stumble across this deadlock scenario, which is difficult to debug if you’re not familiar with how async and await work under the hood. Consider this example asynchronous method that fetches some Read more…
If you’re using the MVVMLight toolkit within your WPF project, you may have come across this error message if you’re using the SimpleIoC container to help provide design-time data when working in Blend for Visual Studio: Typically within your ViewModelLocator, you would have some code like this: Where the highlighted line Read more…