Sergio Loscialo

Occasionally, you need a more robust solution to solve a problem. In my last post, I wrote about the horrors of this small code snippet: [code language="csharp"] public byte[] Serialize(object o) { using (var stream = new MemoryStream()) { MySerializer.Serialize(stream,...

Sometimes a little piece of seemingly innocuous code can cause a significant amount of trouble: [code language="csharp"] public byte[] Serialize(object o) { using (var stream = new MemoryStream()) { MySerializer.Serialize(stream, o); return stream.ToArray(); } } [/code] Doesn’t look like much,...

The GridView control is one of the most used layout controls within Windows 8 Store applications.  By using the Grid App project template with Visual Studio 2012, your first page will look similar to the following: While this looks great,...

Every once in a while there comes a need to provide a mechanism to uninstall your application programmatically.   For Silverlight Out-Of-Browser applications , there seemed to be no way to accomplish it.  Fortunately, there’s a work-around that trusted OOB applications...

Microsoft’s PivotViewer control is an amazing tool for visualizing data and creating a unique UI for your application.  The one issue everyone seems to have with it, however, is its lack of styling capability.  In fact, working with PivotViewer in...

Game Loops and Timer-Based Animations Previous Entries in Series Part 1 – Introduction and Game Layout My next short term goal was to get some of spheres to show and animate. And that was going to entail using HTML5’s new...

A few years ago I played a game on Facebook that had a simple premise, but became quite addictive for a while.  It consisted of progressing levels of spheres in which the player was tasked with exploding by initiating a...

Every now and then a question comes up concerning a missing DataContext.  The questions usually center around a ViewModel being set to a View properly, but then developer can not bind some command or property to a FrameworkElement.  And typically...

Throughout the short history of the MVVM design pattern, several methods have originated for populating Views with their ViewModels.  One of the most common methods is to use one of the frameworks (PRISM, MVVM Light, Jounce, among others).  Typically, the...

Using a memory profiling tool such as ANTS Memory Profiler from Red-Gate or MemProfiler from SciTech Software (I’m sure there others, but those were the only two I found that can profile a Silverlight Out-Of-Browser application) is a good idea. ...

The task facing us is simple.  In fact, it has been done before.  Many download management tools already have the ability to resume downloading a file if, for some reason, the process was interrupted.  There is no built-in facility for...

A question appeared on StackOverflow asking how to animate a property on multiple elements from one or more trigger mechanisms (i.e. a button click or list box selection).  The traditional approach (for brevity’s sake, I omitted the Xaml comprising the...