WPF: Sorting GridView Columns by Clicking Headers
Recently, I was doing something in WPF where I had a table of data to output. According to my book, the ListView ships with a concrete ViewBase class, called GridView,...
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Achievement Unlocked: Be a Great Developer!
About a year ago, I was sitting in a pub with Steve and Rob. We were talking about this and that, when we came up with an idea. Now, I say “we”…but I...
.NET Demon from RedGate: continuous compilation
The guys at RedGate have just released a Beta of a new tool, an extension for Visual Studio called .NET Demon. Firstly, for everyone: it continuously compiles your code,...
Welcome to the Future: Code Reviews, Questions on Code etc
9am. Mary is writing code. So…uhhh, yep, that goes there, and then that value gets passed to here…and, oh? What’s that doing there? That doesn’t...
Top Tools for 2012
Everyone else does a ‘top tools’ list, so I thought I’d join in. Before I do though, I must defer to the most excellent Scott Hanselman’s 2011...
Monitor Performance of your Apps at run-time…with PerfMon!
Ben Day has a blog post on a really interesting idea: using Performance Monitor (perfmon) to monitor the performance of your applications at run-time. You can create...
Getting Last Known Reboot Time
This is more of an aide-memoir for me than anything else. To find out when a server was last rebooted: System Event Log, filter for EventID 6009 on Windows 2008 you can...
“86% of developers listen to music whilst coding” and other stats
Zend Technologies have just released their latest ‘Developer Pulse’ survey results. You can see the full report here, but it’s mostly PHP-based (as...
FTP folder upload via command line / macro madness & WinSCP
I was pair-programming today and we made a change to a fundamental data type which required all the web-services to be rebuilt and republished. We’d done this a...
Visual Studio New Class Template Modification
New Year is a good time for some introspection. I’ve been looking at how I can do things, and re-reading the most excellent book The Pragmatic Programmer: From...
About Me
Hi, I'm Tom. I'm a Microsoft 365 Developer & Architect. I empower developers, architects, and organizations to achive more with Microsoft 365 by creating applications and services with technologies like Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Bot Framework, Microsoft Copilot, Microsoft Graph, Adaptive Cards, and Office Add-Ins.
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