This post is a follow up to the original post “Deploying SQL CompactDB on Vista“. The reason for this continued post is that when the time came for deploing my particular application utilizing SQL CompactDB I ran into some additional problems – which has not been covered in my first post. The scenario in my [...]

This post is a follow up to my initial post on much the same topic – “Charts: Creating custom style for LineDataPoint”. The reason for this new post was that after the last post I needed to create a new chart with multiple lines, on these lines I wanted a custom DataPoint style – and different [...]

If you have ever created a Silverlight application to displaying statistics, you will know of the charting functionality in Silverlight – or rather the Silverlight Toolkit from Codeplex . You will also know that there is tons of things that can be changed through styles and more, this post will explain how to change the [...]

This article covers the topic of uploading files from a client to server (in a WCF RIA Services enabled Silverlight application). In this example it is described how to upload files in ‘chuncks’ and how to store them in a SQL database. Also for good measure I have added a progress bar seeing that that [...]

For a little project I was working on a few weeks ago, I had to be able to read the content from a single cell in an Excel file. This is properly easiest done by using the Microsoft Excel Object Library, however for my project it was a requirement that the oledb api was used instead.  In this [...]

As they say on their web page http://www.varnish-cache.org/: Varnish is a state-of-the-art, high-performance HTTP accelerator This small guide is about installing and configuring Varnish cache, if you do not know what Varnish is used for here is the short description taken from wikipedia. Varnish is an HTTP accelerator designed for content-heavy dynamic web sites. In [...]

The default Silverlight loading screen can quickly become a little boring and conservative, so here is a small guide for the people that wishes to add a custom loading screen (og splash screen if you will). When you create a Silverlight Application using Visual Studio, you will get two projects – lets say you create a Silverlight [...]

During the creation of a smaller application I found myself in need of a custom color picker, I wanted something in the same style as can be found in the ComponentOne toolkit. To accomplish this I created a class extending the System.Windows.Controls.Button class, the file called ColorPicker.cs is shown below: public class ColorPicker : Button [...]

Recently I have been working on an application that stores user specific data using a local database (SQL Server Compact 3.5). However when I came to deployment it turned out that the application works fine on Windows XP machines, however when being deployed on Windows Vista machines – the program would crash whenever it tried to [...]

When you are creating a Setup Project you would almost always want to include a method for uninstalling the application. On this topic the Setup Project Wizard in Visual Studio is not entirely as helpful as it could have been, therefor I have a few solutions – that might be of help to you.  The way of the bat! Many [...]