Attention: We are retiring the ASP.NET Community Blogs. Learn more >

Contents tagged with C#

  • Silverlight Tips & Tricks: Make Silverlight DataGrid be more MVVM friendly =)

    Today one guy from our dev team met some problems with binding of datagrid selected items. Because of SelectedItems is readonly property, we cannot create two way binding for it. After a short discussion we decided to create DataGridSelectedChanged command behavior which will inform our model about selected rows. (We are using microsoft p&p prism commands api).

  • 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:

  • 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).