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Weblog Posts in June 2009

Changing Configuration Settings in a Desktop Client Application
June 28, 2009 @ 10:28 pm

Got a question in response to a Localization article today that asked how to store requested culture settings. In the article I recommend that easiest and most reliable way to switch cultures is to assign the culture when the application runs and allow the user to change cultures somewhere in the UI. When the culture is changed it’s up to the application to decide how to handle the actual culture...

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How do ASP.NET Application_ Events Work
June 18, 2009 @ 9:03 pm

Most of us have used ASP.NET global.asax Application_ EventName handlers, but do you know how it is that these events are actually fired automatically by ASP.NET even when you add additional events by name? In this post my curiosity got away from me and I took a look under the covers to see what ASP.NET is doing to hook up these method to HttpModule events.

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WPF Bindings and CurrentCulture Formatting
June 14, 2009 @ 11:55 am

WPF doesn't apply the CurrentCulture to bindings by default, which is a little... unexpected to say the least. As it turns out there's an easy solution to this problem, but it does require using code to apply the culture specifically in every document.

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Getting the App’s Startup Assembly in WPF Designer?
June 09, 2009 @ 11:04 am

I've run into a vexing problem with a Markup Extension for localization. In this extension I have the need to get a reference to the parent application (the WPF EXE basically) inside the WPF designer/Blend. Due to the runtime environment of the designer I've not been able to make this work short of running the markup extension in the same assembly as the main application.

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Resx and BAML Resources in WPF
June 04, 2009 @ 4:19 am

Resource loading in WPF applications that mix BAML and Resx resources can be very confusing as BAML resources require that all BAML resources are stored in external satellite assemblies.

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