Based on Sam Holder’s answer at https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7388475/reading-int-values-from-sqldatareader/54296026, just contributed an extension method for fetching Int32 values via ADO.net’s SqlDataReader, without jumping through hoops (aka first fetch column ordinal [number] by name, then fetching the int value passing the column ...

If you use Joomla! (CMS / Content Management System), you could switch to the free OpenStreetMaps instead of the recently-turned-much-more-expensive Google Maps, thanks to the OSModul extension for Joomla!: https://extensions.joomla.org/profile/extension/maps-a-weather/maps-a-locations/osmodul/ At the bottom of this page there is an example that ...

it would be nice if C# supported syntax like: public static DependencyProperty Register(static DependencyProperty x, string name, Type propertyType, Type ownerType, FrameworkPropertyMetadata typeMetadata) that is static extension methods for classes, that can be invoked without a class instance (just with the class type), apart from normal ...

This is the complete list of Visual Studio 2015 Extensions I’m using currently: Tagged: Extensions, Visual Studio

This is my answer at: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/31552082/vsix-installer-signaturedescription-could-not-be-created-for-the-signature-algo/ to the question on why some extensions fail to install at RC (Release Candidate) versions of Visual Studio 2015, showing error “SignatureDescription could not be created for the signature algorithm ...

Copying here my comment at a discussion on the GraphX project: https://github.com/panthernet/GraphX/pull/15 in case it helps somebody in using MEF (Managed Extensibility Framework) in their software’s architecture ——– Using static classes instead of interfaces can mean though that you need to use reflection to call them (e.g. if ...

Seems StartsWith and EndsWith methods of String class in .NET are missing a version that accepts multiple (as an array) prefixes or suffixes respectively when testing the string. To achieve this I just added the following extension methods to StringExtensions class (of Utils.Extensions namespace) under Utils.Silverlight project at the ClipFlair ...

Just added the following extension methods to StringExtensions class (of Utils.Extensions namespace) under Utils.Silverlight project at the ClipFlair source code. public static string ReplacePrefix( this string s, string fromPrefix, string toPrefix, StringComparison comparisonType) { return (s.StartsWith(fromPrefix, comparisonType)) ? toPrefix + ...

Project Linker is a Visual Studio Extension that “helps to automatically create and maintain links from a source project to a target project to share code that is common to Silverlight and WPF”. In ClipFlair, where I have shared code between a Silverlight and a WPF project (I guess same would be for XNA projects [...]

With Silverlight using a cut-down .NET API, some decisions have been at least ackward, causing Silverlight code to be sometimes unnecesserily more complex than its WPF counterpart and WPF code needing several changes to get ported for Silverlight. In ClipFlair I’ve implemented a WPFCompatibility layer to ease compiling WPF code for Silverlight ...

At ClipFlair I’m using a modified version of FloatingWindow control, where I try to make the WPF and Silverlight flavours of the original control share as much code as possible (this is work in progress currently, hoping to eventually have the WPF and Silverlight projects both link to the same source files [this is currently [...]

I was hoping C# would someday add static extension support for constructors too (apart from classic methods), that would help a lot in source-level compatibility layers (for example at my WPF_Compatibility project for WPF syntax in Silverlight, which one can find under the ClipFlair source base). However, according to : ...

I’ve been looking into porting Kael Rowan’s ZoomableCanvas (related to ZUI code used in Code Canvas, Debugger Canvas etc. VisualStudio add-ons) from WPF to Silverlight. One of the issues I found was that Silverlight’s Rect class (I guess this is a case for .NET Compact Framework in general) doesn’t have a method to check if [...]

Για όσους δεν παρακολουθούν το LightSwitch Tip of the Day ενημερώνω ότι χθες δημοσίευσα στο Visual Studio Gallery ένα μικρο extension pack για το LightSwitch που λέγεται CLASS Extensions. Είναι free φυσικά και σύντομα θα υπάρξει δεύτερη έκδοση με διορθώσεις και προσθήκες.