White Christmas
Just a couple of photos from the last few days. It’s been a while since we had a white Christmas.
Happy Christmas everyone!
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WPF: Drag Parent Window Behaviour
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
C#: Convert the current time to FFXIV's Eorzea Time
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
C# async-await: Common Deadlock Scenario
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
MVVMLight SimpleIoC: Design-time Error
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: /// <