Articles by Daniel Vaughan (Articles: 47, Technical Blogs: 17, Tip/Tricks: 7)

Articles: 47, Technical Blogs: 17, Tip/Tricks: 7

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	A Coder Interview With Daniel Vaughan 28 Sep 2011 Updated: 28 Sep 2011 Rating: 4.88/5 Votes: 31 Popularity: 7.28 Licence: CPOL Views: 56,363 Bookmarked: 13 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Welcome to our continuing series of Code Project interviews in which we talk to developers about their backgrounds, projects, interests and pet peeves. In this installment we track down Code Project member Daniel Vaughan.
CodeProject
	Looking back at the first 10 million members (Part Six) 23 Aug 2013 Updated: 23 Aug 2013 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 7 Popularity: 4.23 Licence: CPOL Views: 23,770 Bookmarked: 6 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. In honour of the 10 million member milestone, CodeProject members Sacha Barber and Daniel Vaughan reflect back on their time as part of the developer community.
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Virtual Machine	Building a Windows Phone 7 Puzzle Game 24 Mar 2010 Updated: 23 Jul 2010 Rating: 4.99/5 Votes: 88 Popularity: 9.70 Licence: CPOL Views: 210,348 Bookmarked: 186 Downloaded: 6,820 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Get a head start with the new Windows Phone 7 developer tools. Learn how to create a Sokoban game in Silverlight for the WP7 platform.
Desktop Programming
Universal Windows Platform	Creating a Settings Screen for UWP with Codon 29 Mar 2019 Updated: 29 Mar 2019 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 4 Popularity: 3.01 Licence: CPOL Views: 6,413 Bookmarked: 3 Downloaded: 64 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Create a dynamic settings screen for your UWP app. Add a setting with a single line of code.
	UWP Alien Sokoban - Part 1 13 Oct 2016 Updated: 13 Oct 2016 Rating: 4.95/5 Votes: 12 Popularity: 5.34 Licence: BSD Views: 29,601 Bookmarked: 18 Downloaded: 336 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. A fun UWP implementation of the game Sokoban, demonstrating some new features of XAML and C# 6.0. Part 1
	UWP Alien Sokoban - Part 2 18 Oct 2016 Updated: 18 Oct 2016 Rating: 4.98/5 Votes: 15 Popularity: 5.86 Licence: CPOL Views: 15,843 Bookmarked: 10 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. A fun UWP implementation of the game Sokoban, demonstrating some new features of XAML and C# 6.0. Part 2
	UWP Alien Sokoban - Part 3 26 Oct 2016 Updated: 26 Oct 2016 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 7 Popularity: 4.23 Licence: CPOL Views: 9,721 Bookmarked: 7 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. A fun UWP implementation of the game Sokoban, demonstrating some new features of XAML and C# 6.0. Part 3
	UWP Form Validation with Calcium 22 Jan 2017 Updated: 22 Jan 2017 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 6 Popularity: 3.89 Licence: CPOL Views: 14,423 Bookmarked: 3 Downloaded: 194 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Implementing synchronous and asynchronous form validation for XAML based apps.
Windows Forms	Clog: Client Logging, WPF Edition 1 Dec 2007 Updated: 25 Dec 2008 Rating: 4.51/5 Votes: 68 Popularity: 8.17 Licence: LGPL3 Views: 151,194 Bookmarked: 114 Downloaded: 958 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. A customizable log provider system that allows you to harness your existing logging system to log client side messages to your server using WCF. Includes WPF sample applications.
	Project Metadata Generation using T4 2 Sep 2009 Updated: 7 Nov 2009 Rating: 4.97/5 Votes: 45 Popularity: 8.01 Licence: BSD Views: 161,052 Bookmarked: 152 Downloaded: 1,461 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Generate project metadata with T4 and unburden yourself from string literals in XAML binding expressions and INotifyPropertyChanged event arguments.
WPF	Perceptor: An artificially intelligent guided navigation system for WPF 22 Mar 2009 Updated: 22 Mar 2009 Rating: 4.95/5 Votes: 126 Popularity: 10.30 Licence: LGPL3 Views: 168,949 Bookmarked: 217 Downloaded: 1,624 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Knowledge acquired by a neural network is used to predict the element to which a user may intend to navigate.
	Introducing the Model Thread View Thread Pattern 1 May 2010 Updated: 1 May 2010 Rating: 4.93/5 Votes: 69 Popularity: 9.04 Licence: BSD Views: 151,047 Bookmarked: 172 Downloaded: 861 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Reduce threading code, and increase UI responsiveness with a new pattern extending MVVM.
	Calcium: A modular application toolset leveraging PRISM – Part 1 31 May 2009 Updated: 1 Jun 2009 Rating: 4.93/5 Votes: 70 Popularity: 9.03 Licence: BSD Views: 241,925 Bookmarked: 208 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Calcium provides much of what one needs to rapidly build a multifaceted and sophisticated modular application. Includes a host of modules and services, and an infrastructure that is ready to use in your next application.
	Calcium: A modular application toolset leveraging PRISM – Part 3 21 Nov 2009 Updated: 21 Nov 2009 Rating: 4.96/5 Votes: 48 Popularity: 8.30 Licence: BSD Views: 109,122 Bookmarked: 92 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Introducing the Calcium SDK. Calcium provides much of what one needs to rapidly build a multifaceted and sophisticated modular application. Includes a host of modules and services, and an infrastructure that is ready to use in your next application.
	Calcium: A Modular Application Toolset Leveraging PRISM – Part 2 5 Jul 2009 Updated: 23 Nov 2009 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 47 Popularity: 8.22 Licence: BSD Views: 106,416 Bookmarked: 89 Downloaded: 2 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Calcium provides much of what one needs to rapidly build a multifaceted and sophisticated modular application. Includes a host of modules and services, and an infrastructure that is ready to use in your next application.
	WPF Alien Sokoban 1 Nov 2007 Updated: 16 Jun 2008 Rating: 4.88/5 Votes: 44 Popularity: 7.82 Licence: BSD Views: 122,473 Bookmarked: 78 Downloaded: 3,437 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. A fun implementation of the game Sokoban, written to showcase some features of WPF, C# 3.0, Expression Design, and Visual Studio 2008.
	Context Sensitive History. Part 1 of 2 24 Feb 2010 Updated: 24 Feb 2010 Rating: 4.98/5 Votes: 56 Popularity: 8.66 Licence: LGPL3 Views: 89,217 Bookmarked: 114 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. A Desktop and Silverlight user action management system, with undo, redo, and repeat. Allowing actions to be monitored, and grouped according to a context (such as a UI control), executed sequentially or in parallel, and even to be rolled back on failure.
	Context Sensitive History. Part 2 of 2 13 Mar 2010 Updated: 13 Mar 2010 Rating: 4.98/5 Votes: 42 Popularity: 7.74 Licence: BSD Views: 76,312 Bookmarked: 54 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. A Desktop and Silverlight user action management system, with undo, redo, and repeat; allowing actions to be monitored, and grouped according to a context (such as a UI control), executed sequentially or in parallel, and even to be rolled back on failure.
Mobile Apps
Android	Switching Xamarin.Android Resources at Build-Time 12 Nov 2016 Updated: 12 Nov 2016 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 3 Popularity: 2.39 Licence: CPOL Views: 11,135 Bookmarked: 2 Downloaded: 84 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Using resource switching to support multiple deployment scenarios in Xamarin.Android projects.
Xamarin	Introducing Calcium for Xamarin.Forms 15 Sep 2014 Updated: 15 Sep 2014 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 29 Popularity: 7.31 Licence: CPOL Views: 69,830 Bookmarked: 56 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Create best-in-breed cross-platform MVVM apps using Calcium for Xamarin.Forms.
	Using MVVM to create Tabbed Interfaces with Calcium for Xamarin Forms 17 Sep 2014 Updated: 17 Sep 2014 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 10 Popularity: 5.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 47,615 Bookmarked: 22 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Create a Xamarin Forms tabbed page or carousel page by binding to a collection of ViewModels; extending beyond the current capabilities of Xamarin Forms.
	Building Localizable Cross-Platform Apps with Xamarin Forms and Calcium 2 Oct 2014 Updated: 2 Oct 2014 Rating: 4.76/5 Votes: 8 Popularity: 4.30 Licence: CPOL Views: 27,830 Bookmarked: 15 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Leverage existing .resx files to localize Windows Phone, Android, and iOS apps in Xamarin.Forms.
	Creating a Cross-Platform Application Bar for Xamarin Forms with Calcium 7 Oct 2014 Updated: 7 Oct 2014 Rating: 4.94/5 Votes: 21 Popularity: 6.42 Licence: CPOL Views: 85,420 Bookmarked: 24 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Using Xamarin Forms platform specific rendering to create a cross-platform application bar.
	A Better Way to Share Image Assets in Xamarin Forms 13 Nov 2014 Updated: 13 Nov 2014 Rating: 4.97/5 Votes: 18 Popularity: 6.24 Licence: CPOL Views: 80,783 Bookmarked: 22 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Learn how to combine T4 and a custom markup extension to share and consume image files between projects.
	Building a Data-Binding Library for Xamarin.Android 10 Jan 2016 Updated: 10 Jan 2016 Rating: 4.88/5 Votes: 20 Popularity: 6.24 Licence: BSD Views: 44,195 Bookmarked: 13 Downloaded: 657 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. A powerful, yet light-weight, data-binding library for binding XML layout files in Xamarin.Android.
	Building a Puzzle Game with Xamarin Forms 25 Nov 2016 Updated: 25 Nov 2016 Rating: 4.89/5 Votes: 21 Popularity: 6.47 Licence: CPOL Views: 46,267 Bookmarked: 34 Downloaded: 1,640 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. A fun Xamarin Forms implementation of the game Sokoban, demonstrating how to port a UWP puzzle game to both Android and iOS while sharing nearly all code across platforms.
	Getting Started with Codon - Part 1 4 Apr 2017 Updated: 4 Apr 2017 Rating: 4.85/5 Votes: 16 Popularity: 5.70 Licence: CPOL Views: 17,271 Bookmarked: 9 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Codon is a zero-dependency cross-platform MVVM framework for creating UWP, WPF, and Xamarin based applications.
	Getting Started with Codon - Part 2 4 Apr 2017 Updated: 4 Apr 2017 Rating: 4.60/5 Votes: 5 Popularity: 3.22 Licence: CPOL Views: 8,481 Bookmarked: 1 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Storing and retrieving settings with the cross-platform Codon framework's settings service.
	Getting Started with Codon - Part 4 4 Apr 2017 Updated: 4 Apr 2017 Rating: 4.50/5 Votes: 4 Popularity: 2.71 Licence: CPOL Views: 8,610 Bookmarked: 1 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Navigating between pages using Codon's navigation service.
	Getting Started with Codon - Part 3 4 Apr 2017 Updated: 4 Apr 2017 Rating: 4.56/5 Votes: 4 Popularity: 2.74 Licence: CPOL Views: 8,260 Bookmarked: 1 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Using Codon's Messenger to pass messages between app components
	Async Commands with Codon FX 1 Apr 2018 Updated: 1 Apr 2018 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 3 Popularity: 2.39 Licence: CPOL Views: 7,100 Bookmarked: 5 Downloaded: 55 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Learn how to leverage the asynchronous ICommand implementation in Codon FX to support commands that kick-off long-running operations.
Programming Languages
C#	Property Change Notification using a Weak Referencing Strategy 29 Aug 2009 Updated: 29 Aug 2009 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 2 Popularity: 1.51 Licence: LGPL3 Views: 29,261 Bookmarked: 12 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Property Change Notification using a Weak Referencing Strategy
	A Location Agnostic Message Service 29 Aug 2009 Updated: 29 Aug 2009 Rating: 4.64/5 Votes: 5 Popularity: 3.24 Licence: LGPL3 Views: 13,031 Bookmarked: 2 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. A location agnostic message service
	App.Config Type String Verification with MSBuild 17 Oct 2009 Updated: 17 Oct 2009 Rating: 4.89/5 Votes: 15 Popularity: 5.61 Licence: Ms-PL Views: 48,862 Bookmarked: 28 Downloaded: 319 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. How to use an MSBuild custom task to provide compile time verification of string type names in app.config files.
	MetaGen: A Project metadata Generator for Visual Studio using T4 29 Aug 2009 Updated: 29 Aug 2009 Rating: 4.50/5 Votes: 3 Popularity: 2.15 Licence: LGPL3 Views: 19,021 Bookmarked: 6 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. I have used T4 to build a metadata generator for your Silverlight and Desktop CLR projects. It can be used as a replacement for static reflection (expression trees), reflection (walking the stack), and various other means for deriving the name of a property, method, or field.
C# 4.0	Synchronous Web Service Calls with Silverlight: Dispelling the async-only myth 16 Nov 2008 Updated: 16 Nov 2008 Rating: 4.95/5 Votes: 47 Popularity: 8.18 Licence: LGPL3 Views: 410,479 Bookmarked: 81 Downloaded: 3,974 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. In this article, we look at the asynchronous web service model in Silverlight, and how it can be augmented to allow synchronous web service calls. We also explore efficient channel caching, and asynchronous Silverlight Unit Tests.
C# 7.0	Invisible Ink 24 Aug 2017 Updated: 24 Aug 2017 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 10 Popularity: 5.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 14,337 Bookmarked: 11 Downloaded: 136 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Using steganography to conceal text within a document or watermark a code file, using a whitespace encoder. Hide text in plain sight!
Quantum Computing
	Quantum Computation Primer - Part 3 27 Jun 2019 Updated: 27 Jun 2019 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 5 Popularity: 3.49 Licence: CPOL Views: 8,526 Bookmarked: 8 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Part 3 in a series where you learn the fundamentals of quantum computation. In this part we see how to rotate and swap qubits, and we delve further into controlled gates.
	Quantum Computation Primer - Part 1 24 Jun 2019 Updated: 24 Jun 2019 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 27 Popularity: 7.16 Licence: CPOL Views: 37,053 Bookmarked: 26 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Learn the fundamentals of quantum computation. Understand Dirac notation and design and build quantum circuits.
	Quantum Computation Primer - Part 2 26 Jun 2019 Updated: 26 Jun 2019 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 12 Popularity: 5.40 Licence: CPOL Views: 19,178 Bookmarked: 9 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Learn the fundamentals of quantum computation. In this part we look at using gates to create quantum states.
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	Transparent WCF Channel Management with Unity 29 Aug 2009 Updated: 29 Aug 2009 Rating: 4.64/5 Votes: 5 Popularity: 3.24 Licence: LGPL3 Views: 25,430 Bookmarked: 3 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Transparent WCF Channel Management with Unity
Web Development
ASP.NET	URL Object Serialization: An Effortless Approach to User Account Confirmation 26 Jan 2008 Updated: 25 Jan 2008 Rating: 4.91/5 Votes: 42 Popularity: 7.70 Licence: LGPL3 Views: 167,120 Bookmarked: 89 Downloaded: 567 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. A URL Object Serialization component that provides compression and encryption of CLR objects, enabling embedding within URLs. Also includes a user account purging component that performs the periodic removal of unconfirmed user accounts, and a website that demonstrates the user account confirmation.
	Silverlight Alien Sokoban 11 Nov 2007 Updated: 11 Nov 2007 Rating: 4.88/5 Votes: 59 Popularity: 8.50 Licence: Not specified Views: 130,424 Bookmarked: 138 Downloaded: 998 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. A fun Silverlight implementation of the game Sokoban. Contrasting Silverlight 1.1 and WPF, while showcasing some new features of C# 3.0, Expression Design, Expression Blend, and Visual Studio 2008.
	Legion: Build your own virtual super computer with Silverlight 25 Dec 2007 Updated: 27 Oct 2008 Rating: 4.87/5 Votes: 138 Popularity: 10.34 Licence: LGPL3 Views: 405,092 Bookmarked: 335 Downloaded: 1,061 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Legion is a grid computing framework that uses the Silverlight CLR to execute user definable tasks. It provides grid-wide thread-safe operations for web clients. Client performance metrics, such as bandwidth and processor speed, may be used to tailor jobs. Also includes a WPF Manager application.
	Clog: Client Logging, Silverlight Edition 22 Nov 2007 Updated: 16 Apr 2009 Rating: 4.84/5 Votes: 55 Popularity: 8.23 Licence: CPOL Views: 268,819 Bookmarked: 112 Downloaded: 3,094 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. A customizable log provider system that allows you to harness your existing logging system to log client side messages to your server. Includes a Silverlight interface and Log Viewer.
	Amazon-esque Pager 21 Oct 2007 Updated: 29 Dec 2007 Rating: 4.86/5 Votes: 19 Popularity: 5.98 Licence: BSD Views: 83,196 Bookmarked: 59 Downloaded: 349 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Yet another list pager, but this one can use LinkButtons or simple Hyperlinks, provides scrolling within an ASP.NET AJAX UpdatePanel, and behaves similarly to the paging found on Amazon.com.
HTML	Authoring CodeProject Articles in Markdown 27 Aug 2017 Updated: 27 Aug 2017 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 14 Popularity: 5.73 Licence: CPOL Views: 11,941 Bookmarked: 12 Downloaded: 85 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Use, and learn how to build, a Markdown Monster add-in that outputs HTML compatible with CodeProject's article submission wizard.

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Universal Windows Platform	Using .resw files with UWP Compiled Bindings [Technical Blog] 1 Oct 2015 Updated: 1 Oct 2015 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 4 Popularity: 3.01 Licence: BSD Views: 16,671 Bookmarked: 5 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. IntroductionWith UWP and WinRT, Microsoft introduced a new means for localizability, which differs significantly from the method employed in Silverlight and .NET desktop apps.
	Automatically Incrementing the Package.appxmanifest Version Number [Technical Blog] 28 Aug 2015 Updated: 28 Aug 2015 Rating: 4.00/5 Votes: 1 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: BSD Views: 8,572 Bookmarked: 0 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. When submitting a UWP or WinRT app to the Windows Store, you must increase the Version number of the package or the submission will fail. It can be a chore to manually update the version number.
WPF	Enforcing Single Instance WPF Applications [Technical Blog] 1 Aug 2010 Updated: 1 Aug 2010 Rating: 4.07/5 Votes: 6 Popularity: 3.17 Licence: LGPL3 Views: 20,080 Bookmarked: 10 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. How to enforce single instance WPF applications
	Compile-Time Validation of Composite Object Data Binding Expressions [Technical Blog] 7 Nov 2009 Updated: 7 Nov 2009 Rating: 4.33/5 Votes: 2 Popularity: 1.30 Licence: LGPL3 Views: 11,050 Bookmarked: 2 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Prompted by a recent comment on the T4 Metadata Generation template article, which I released some weeks ago, I have implemented a new mechanism for concatenating property paths. This allows compile time validation of properties that exist on composite or nested members.
	Knockout Style Observables in XAML [Technical Blog] 17 Jul 2012 Updated: 17 Jul 2012 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 8 Popularity: 4.52 Licence: BSD Views: 18,372 Bookmarked: 11 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Implementing field level change notification in WPF, and how a Lambda Expression can be used to specify a composite property that raises change notifications automatically whenever an associated property changes.
XAML	Using T4 to Generate Pack URIs for XAML Files [Technical Blog] 25 Nov 2009 Updated: 25 Nov 2009 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 2 Popularity: 1.51 Licence: LGPL3 Views: 12,220 Bookmarked: 9 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. How to use T4 to generate Pack URIs for XAML files
Mobile Apps
Android	Generating Localized Resources in Mono for Android Using T4 [Technical Blog] 15 Apr 2013 Updated: 15 Apr 2013 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 1 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: BSD Views: 15,380 Bookmarked: 3 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Generating localized resources in Mono for Android using T4.
Windows Phone 7	Binding the WP7 ProgressIndicator in XAML [Technical Blog] 20 Jul 2011 Updated: 20 Jul 2011 Rating: 0.00/5 Votes: 0 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: LGPL3 Views: 16,431 Bookmarked: 2 Downloaded: 268 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. The custom ProgressIndicatorProxy provides a simple way to harness the new ProgressIndicator from your XAML.
	Loading Data when the User Scrolls to the End of a List in Windows Phone 7 [Technical Blog] 20 Jul 2011 Updated: 20 Jul 2011 Rating: 4.80/5 Votes: 4 Popularity: 2.89 Licence: LGPL3 Views: 35,900 Bookmarked: 8 Downloaded: 568 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Some really nice techniques for handling asynchronous network calls.
	Binding the WP7 ProgressIndicator in XAML [Technical Blog] 26 Aug 2011 Updated: 26 Aug 2011 Rating: 4.95/5 Votes: 5 Popularity: 3.46 Licence: LGPL3 Views: 23,860 Bookmarked: 4 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. The custom ProgressIndicatorProxy provides a simple way to harness the new ProgressIndicator from your XAML.
	Loading Data when the User Scrolls to the End of a List in Windows Phone 7 [Technical Blog] 24 Jan 2011 Updated: 24 Jan 2011 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 3 Popularity: 2.39 Licence: LGPL3 Views: 17,802 Bookmarked: 8 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. How to load data when the user scrolls to the end of a list in Windows Phone 7
	Using T4 to Generate Windows Phone WMAppManifest Files [Technical Blog] 7 Apr 2012 Updated: 8 Apr 2012 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 2 Popularity: 1.51 Licence: BSD Views: 14,880 Bookmarked: 1 Downloaded: 1 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. How to use T4 to generate Windows Phone WMAppManifest files
Multimedia
GDI	Banishing String Literals from XAML Resource References [Technical Blog] 3 Oct 2009 Updated: 3 Oct 2009 Rating: 4.50/5 Votes: 3 Popularity: 2.15 Licence: LGPL3 Views: 15,102 Bookmarked: 8 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Banishing String Literals from XAML Resource References
MVVM
	Synchronous Invocation of Delegates with the Silverlight Dispatcher [Technical Blog] 10 Jan 2010 Updated: 10 Jan 2010 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 3 Popularity: 2.39 Licence: LGPL3 Views: 24,490 Bookmarked: 7 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. In this post, I would like to briefly discuss the System.Windows.Threading.Dispatcher class, and the significant differences between its Silverlight and Desktop CLR implementations.
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C#	ReaderWriterSlimLock: Conquering Mismatched Enter and Exit Calls [Technical Blog] 14 Aug 2010 Updated: 26 Nov 2012 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 3 Popularity: 2.39 Licence: LGPL3 Views: 31,930 Bookmarked: 8 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. The ReaderWriterLockSlim class is used to protect a resource that is read by multiple threads and written to by one thread at a time.
	ViewModel Active Awareness in a Prism Based Application [Technical Blog] 5 Feb 2010 Updated: 5 Feb 2010 Rating: 4.78/5 Votes: 2 Popularity: 1.44 Licence: LGPL3 Views: 26,000 Bookmarked: 5 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. ViewModel Active awareness in a Prism based application
Javascript	Calling Web Services from Silverlight after the Browser has closed [Technical Blog] 19 Oct 2009 Updated: 19 Oct 2009 Rating: 4.90/5 Votes: 10 Popularity: 4.90 Licence: LGPL3 Views: 42,011 Bookmarked: 28 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. There are two things I wanted to look at. Firstly, I wanted to allow a web service to be called after the Silverlight application’s Exit event is raised. Secondly, I wanted to provide the Silverlight application with the opportunity to cancel, or at least interrupt the close window process.

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WPF	Calcium SDK: Replace IShell Implementation [Tip/Trick] 19 Feb 2010 Updated: 19 Feb 2010 Rating: 4.33/5 Votes: 3 Popularity: 2.07 Licence: CPOL Views: 9,680 Bookmarked: 2 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. When using the Calcium SDK[^]to replace the shell implementation entirely with your own implementation, use:void Application_Startup(object sender, StartupEventArgs e){ var container = new UnityContainer(); ServiceLocatorSingleton.Instance.InitializeServiceLocator(container); ...
	Displaying a Custom Dialog in WPF Before the Main Application Window is Shown [Tip/Trick] 23 Feb 2010 Updated: 27 Feb 2010 Rating: 4.83/5 Votes: 10 Popularity: 4.36 Licence: CPOL Views: 28,981 Bookmarked: 15 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. In a WPF application, the first window opened is deemed to be the main window. In order to prevent an application from closing when an initial dialog is closed, use the Application.Current.ShutdownMode property as demonstrated in the following example:protected override void...
	Detect Design Time Mode in WPF [Tip/Trick] 27 Feb 2010 Updated: 24 Mar 2010 Rating: 4.81/5 Votes: 14 Popularity: 5.36 Licence: CPOL Views: 60,036 Bookmarked: 7 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. In order to detect whether your application is executing as a result of being in a designer use the GetIsInDesignMode method of DesignerProperties as the following demonstrate.C#bool designTime = System.ComponentModel.DesignerProperties.GetIsInDesignMode( new...
General Programming
Regular Expressions	Regex to remove someone's overzealous use of regions. [Tip/Trick] 23 Nov 2009 Updated: 23 Nov 2009 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 12 Popularity: 5.40 Licence: CPOL Views: 27,494 Bookmarked: 7 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. A Visual Studio regex to remove someone's overzealous use of regions in VS. Find and replace: (^.\#region.$)\|(^.\#endregion.$) Remember to enable regular expressions in the Visual Studio find and replace dialog.
Mobile Apps
Windows Phone 7	Work-Around for DataContractJsonSerializer ArgumentNullExceptions [Tip/Trick] 24 Oct 2010 Updated: 24 Oct 2010 Rating: 4.25/5 Votes: 3 Popularity: 2.03 Licence: CPOL Views: 22,542 Bookmarked: 1 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Stop trailling nulls from preventing deserialization.
Silverlight
	Get the Silverlight Main Dispatcher before the RootVisual has been assigned [Tip/Trick] 27 Feb 2010 Updated: 27 Feb 2010 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 5 Popularity: 3.49 Licence: CPOL Views: 18,110 Bookmarked: 2 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Ordinarily the Application.Current.RootVisual.Dispatcher property is used to retrieve the System.Windows.Threading.Dispatcher for an application. Of course this won't work if performed before the RootVisual has been assigned. To get the Dispatcher for an application before the RootVisual has...
	Detect Design Time Mode in Silverlight [Tip/Trick] 27 Feb 2010 Updated: 27 Feb 2010 Rating: 4.00/5 Votes: 5 Popularity: 2.80 Licence: CPOL Views: 25,201 Bookmarked: 2 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. In order to detect whether your application is executing in a designer you can either use the GetIsInDesignMode method of DesignerProperties,or the Dependency Property metadata directly like so:C#:bool designTime = (bool)DesignerProperties.IsInDesignModeProperty.GetMetadata( ...

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Daniel Vaughan

Engineer Microsoft

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Daniel is a senior engineer in Technology and Research at the Office of the CTO at Microsoft, working on next generation systems.

Previously Daniel was a nine-time Microsoft MVP and co-founder of Outcoder, a Swiss software and consulting company.

Daniel is the author of Windows Phone 8 Unleashed and Windows Phone 7.5 Unleashed, both published by SAMS.

Daniel is the developer behind several acclaimed mobile apps including Surfy Browser for Android and Windows Phone. Daniel is the creator of a number of popular open-source projects, most notably Codon.

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Articles by Daniel Vaughan (Articles: 47, Technical Blogs: 17, Tip/Tricks: 7)

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