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    The Object Relational “Impedance Mismatch”

    Now I know that most of you are familiar with this “as old as the world” problem, so to ease the uprising tension I will not go into the theoretical and architectural kind of stuff. Rather I want to remind to all of us why the (O)bject (R)elational mapping software domain exists nowadays. In general there are few major obstacles to overcome when designing an efficient N-Tier application. The persistence storage of a modern application is usually a RDBMS. These kinds of systems store information in a highly efficient way and allow fast retrieval, information queries and scalability, and all that...
    May 27, 2021 5 min read
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    Visual Studio Tip: Spice Up the IDE

    Developing .NET applications is fun stuff. However, if you're like me sometimes using the same tools every day can get a little boring. That's why I often like to spice things up by changing the look of my IDE. Lucky for us, Visual Studio makes it easy to change the look of your development environment in just a few clicks. By heading to Tools | Import and Export Settings... you can export and save a backup of your current settings (a recommended practice before trying out any new settings) or import new settings from a file. These settings are saved in...
    May 27, 2021 2 min read
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    Wrapping a .NET user control as an ActiveX

    Before even asking why one should do anything like this, let me clarify that this is a good technique to spice up a bit your VB6 application. Now I know this is not cutting edge but still it is important to a lot of people (as I found out already). So let’s start then... Create a new solution that includes a Windows Forms application (to test easily the functionality provided by the user control). Then add a library project that will wrap our user control. What is demonstrated by this example is a very simple example that includes a label, and a...
    May 27, 2021 4 min read
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    Visual Studio Tooltips unplugged: How to use multiple monitors with Visual Studio efficiently

    It is no urban legend that having more monitors results in greater productivity, and most of all tremendous increase in developer’s comfort. Even the Myth Busters (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MythBusters) dudes know that. So imagine that your group’s budget allows installing a brand new (say 22 inches) TFT display as your second, or even better you already have the setup. What are your options with VS 2005/2008 for efficient management of the screen estate to bust productivity? Better code access You can vertically split the Visual Studio screen estate in two, and position the divider down the center of the two monitors. This can be done...
    May 27, 2021 1 min read
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    Showing "tooltips" for list items in RadComboBox

    There are two ways of doing this: The first approach is to assign directly the text to be displayed to every ComboBoxItem. This is done through the API or through the design time. You must assign the required text to every item’s ToolTipText.     The second approach is to handle the ToolTipTextNeeded event where custom logic can be applied: private voidTestComboBox1_Load(objectsender, EventArgs e) {     ComboPopupForm parent = this.radComboBox1.ComboBoxElement.ListBoxElement.ElementTree.Control asComboPopupForm;     if(parent != null)     {         parent.ToolTipTextNeeded += newTelerik.WinControls.ToolTipTextNeededEventHandler(radComboBox1_ToolTipTextNeeded);     } } Add...
    May 27, 2021 1 min read