For WPF, the ObservableCollection<(Of <(T>) makes it easy to create classes that are aware of changes, inserts, and deletions. This class automatically works with the UI to notify it of these changes.
You can use this class in the User Interface collection. The easiest way to use it is to create an instance of the ObservableCollection and pass your business layer class to the constructor.
Read more about this class at: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms668604.aspx
Ken
Well, the Microsoft PDC is mind blowing again! We can see the future unfolding in front of us. Here are some of the things that i am really excited about:
Surface. Wow. Microsoft has hit the future with Surface. Playing with the demos and real applications is mind blowing. Check out http://www.microsoft.com/surface/index.html for some ideas. Then go search YouTube for Surface. And don't expect to see Surface just on the coffee table. Wall displays, hand helds, more more more.
Cloud Stuff. All the buzz about the cloud stuff is cool. This is just laying the ground work for the future infrastructure we will need. the cloud will be great but it will take some time.
Windows 7. Windows keeps getting better and better. I have been a long time Vista user and with the next version its just moving rapidly ahead with the evolution of this awesome OS. I notice some blogs out there saying they hate it already. Fits with the political season where you hate something without knowing anything about it. Come on and lets see what's really cooking. No software gets perfect without improving it over time. I think we call that Agile now.
If you were in my Build / Deploy session and want the demos, please email them and i will send them along.
Thanks for all the lively discussion during the session.
The other week i rebuilt my machine with a new 320GB 7200 rpm drive.Easy upgrade steps:1) Acquire new drive2) Take out old drive and put in new drive3) Install Vista with SP14) Install apps (sql 2005, office 2007, vs 2005, vs 2008)5) Put old drive into external usb enclosure6) Plug external drive into machine7) drag and drop files from old drive onto new drive (do just before going to sleep)8) Enjoy new faster and bigger machine
I was surprised that this only took about 2-3 hours of my active time. I started it on a sat morning about 10 or so. Then during the day i just periodically fed it disks. Then started the file copy.
Moore's law and better software are now making even rebuilding a machine easier.
Vista's Easy Transfer is also very helpful for transfering settings and files when moving to another system.
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows-vista/features/easy-transfer.aspx
I love the new ads and its about time too.
Ah, the sky is falling. Spencer is writing on c#. Guess we all must make a living.
I have a winform app that i wrote for a client. It uses the background worker process to do its magic.
So far, so good. I wanted to put in a hold process in a loop so the loop would hold till the current background process finished. I tried putting a do nothing loop like so:
while (HoldExecute) { System.Threading.Thread.Sleep(1000); }
but the background thread never ran. Then i had a brainstorm. Good old doevents. Changed this to the following and voila it works:
Application.DoEvents(); while (HoldExecute) { Application.DoEvents(); System.Threading.Thread.Sleep(1000); }
now the app runs the outer loop (not shown) and when the background worker finsihes it sets the HoldExecute variable to false and the inner loop terminates.
This should work in vb too.
