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Author Archives: Marcus
Settings shortcuts for iOS
Now that i’m back on an iPhone, these settings shortcuts are quite handy – add icons for often-accessed settings to your home screen.
iTunes to Zune playlist converter app for Windows Phone 7
I moved from an iPhone to a WP7 device recently, and one of niggles in the move was getting my iTunes playlists imported into Zune. Doesn’t seem like there’s a simple way to accomplish this, so I created a small … Continue reading
Rx – System Time and Scheduler issues
I recently had an issue with time-dependent methods of Rx, which were adversely affected when a user changed their system clock. You can read up on the history on the Rx forums. In the older Rx v1.0.2787 (which my current … Continue reading
Avoiding memory leaks with easier disposal
One of the biggest causes of memory leaks in .NET applications (or any application), are event handlers remaining active beyond the lifetime of the parent object. Your object goes out of scope, but continues to listen for events on other … Continue reading
Dynamic Linq with Expression Trees
I recently came across a project requirement for the client to create custom validation rules for retrieving data from the SQL database. The rules needed be applied against any number of member applications, and can be altered by the client … Continue reading
Is Silverlight overtaking both Flex and AIR?
Reading the feature list of the upcoming Silverlight 4 release (now in beta), I am more than a bit impressed. Up to now, there has been a few glaring features by which Silverlight was trailing behind Flex – camera/mic input; … Continue reading
Silverlight tools for the Mac
Just reading about the efforts to produce an Eclipse-based Silverlight development platform for the Mac – quite cool. I have to think though, perhaps the effort would have been better spent creating a port of Blend for the Mac… it … Continue reading
ReSharper 5 – and I thought 4 was good
Reading this preliminary list of the upcoming features of ReSharper 5, it makes me wonder how any .NET developer could ever be without a tool like this. Among the favorites would have to be Project Refactorings, and Call/Value Tracking. Genius. … Continue reading
Creating a custom Silverlight 3 Smooth Streaming player
When it comes to video delivery, I come from a Flash background. I’ve worked on numerous streaming video projects over the years, all of which were created with Flash & Actionscript on the client side. Having been through the process … Continue reading
Visual Studio Silverlight/xaml bug
This one was driving me crazy for at least a few hours. On a fresh install of VS2008 & Silverlight 3 tools, there was no xaml code highlighting at all, no intellisense, nothing – just like any ordinary text file. … Continue reading
