This post will first explain the advantages you get from separating language and hard coded text from your application code and then show code examples in C# helping you getting started implementing language and text separating.
Lets have a look at the advantages:
When developing Windows Mobile applications in Visual Studio creating user controls or custom controls will often help you get a better application and decrease your development time. Often you will have problem using your user controls or custom controls in the Visual Studio designer. Forms using your controls will not show at all in the designer and sometimes Visual Studio will shut down because of this (happens often if you are referring to external .dll in the user control or custom control).
I will walk you through a simple example on how you can achieve this with out any problems at all.
When developing all kind of projects a good strategy for logging can save you a lot of time and frustration. Personally I am very found of using Apache log4net and this post will describe the most important features in log4net and how to implement and use this in a .Net Compact Framework project.
log4net can be configured with different appenders that logs to different sources (file, output window, smtp, server ++). You can also configure what kind of log levels will be written to the different appenders (info, debug, warn, error and fatal).
Displaying pingbacks to your post is a good thing because your readers often will find interesting and value added information in the post that links to your post. What I don’t like is when pingbacks get mixed with the comments to your post, I find that messy. Therefore I decided to separate the pingbacks from my comments and in this post I will show you how I did it.
I guess that some Wordpress themes already have this functionality, but mine did not so I decided to implement this by my self.
It is always a good thing to have as many readers as possible on your blog. To increase the number of readers it is important to make it easy for them to both follow your blog posts and share your posts on social networks.
I will show you how you very easy can add icons with links for rss feed, twitter, delicious, stumbleupon, technorati and digg.
I have been involved developing a C#.Net Compact Framework project were we are using Model-View-Presenter(MVP) pattern for quite a while now and I would like to share my experiences learned during this project with you.
First of all, using MVP in a Compact Framework project is done exactly the same way as you would do it for standard C#.Net (or any other programming language). For some reason (unknown to me) developers tend to skip using patterns in mobility projects. I guess they think that good architecture is not necessary in smaller projects, like mobility projects often are. Wrong! As a developer you should strive to achieve good architecture in your projects no matter what size or complexity they have. What pattern to choose is of course another discussion. We chose to base the project architecture on the MVP-pattern and succeeded doing so. Let me walk you through how we ended up using it.
A few days ago I wanted to create a fresher UI then what .NET Compact Framework offers out of the box. I wanted to create a gradient background for the screen and I wanted to have transparent labels on top of the background. In my opinion this is not much to ask for and I was a bit surprised that I actually had to do this myself.
Well after a few hours I made a gradient background and a transparent label. I will now step by step go through my solution.
