Contents tagged with .NET
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MS Prism remote module loading tips
1. Share styles between modules.
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Little trick with partial classes.
If you have ever look at silverlight control toolkit source you may be found that all visual states and visual state groups are stored as constants in one internal static class called visualstates.
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Silverlight Tip : How to set web page title.
If you have more than one page in your silverlight application it would be great if you will change a web page title when you switch between them.
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ADO.NET Entity framework navigation property trap.
Navigation properties (EntityCollection or EntityReference) of entity object can be automatically loaded without calling their Load method because of they can be already loaded to ObjectStateManager before.
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Enum in ADO.NET Entity Framework v1
There is no direct support for enum type in ado.net entity framework v1. But it is rather easy to solve this problem.
All u need to do is to create int property with private getter and setter and then add public property to your partial class, which type is enum:
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Simple database fixture.
Very often we need to write tests which interact with the database. I found that many people are still doing complex clean up manipulation in tear down method. But in most cases it is useless work. All you need to perform clean up of database after each test is to use TransactionScope. This process is so simple that it is hard to believe that it works. The main idea is to create TransactionScope object in SetUp mehod (Constructor in xUnit) and dispose it in TearDown method (Dispose in xUnit).