Articles by Ashish Kaila (Articles: 10, Technical Blogs: 17, Tip/Trick: 1)

Articles: 10, Technical Blogs: 17, Tip/Trick: 1

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WPF	Create Custom Windows in WPF with Ease 27 Dec 2010 Updated: 27 Dec 2010 Rating: 4.86/5 Votes: 14 Popularity: 5.42 Licence: CPOL Views: 161,051 Bookmarked: 59 Downloaded: 369 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Declaratively and visually create custom windows in WPF
	Localization Made Easy in WPF 17 Feb 2010 Updated: 17 Feb 2010 Rating: 2.33/5 Votes: 2 Popularity: 0.70 Licence: CPOL Views: 24,841 Bookmarked: 7 Downloaded: 331 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Easy way to localize your WPF app declaratively
	Building a Docking Window Management Solution in WPF 27 Dec 2010 Updated: 1 Jan 2011 Rating: 4.28/5 Votes: 25 Popularity: 5.90 Licence: CPOL Views: 187,825 Bookmarked: 83 Downloaded: 15,748 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. A docking window solution using WPF as part of Synergy toolkit
	Power of Templates in Control Development Within Windows Presentation Foundation 2 Aug 2010 Updated: 2 Aug 2010 Rating: 4.83/5 Votes: 4 Popularity: 2.91 Licence: CPOL Views: 23,241 Bookmarked: 15 Downloaded: 320 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Illustrates UI modelling in WPF, leveraging templates.
XAML	Automate your UI using Microsoft Automation Framework 1 Jan 2011 Updated: 1 Jan 2011 Rating: 4.93/5 Votes: 34 Popularity: 7.55 Licence: CPOL Views: 264,831 Bookmarked: 98 Downloaded: 9,401 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Learn how to leverage UI automation in testing your UI and also to support accessibility features
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	MixModes Synergy Toolkit for Windows Phone 7 30 Jan 2011 Updated: 30 Jan 2011 Rating: 4.56/5 Votes: 3 Popularity: 2.17 Licence: CPOL Views: 16,311 Bookmarked: 10 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Describes features in Synergy Toolkit for Windows Phone 7 Version 1.0
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C#	NetCase - Automated test case API using metadata programming in .NET 29 May 2005 Updated: 29 May 2005 Rating: 3.53/5 Votes: 6 Popularity: 2.75 Licence: Not specified Views: 30,660 Bookmarked: 9 Downloaded: 233 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. NetCase is an API for automation of test cases in .NET.
	Dependency Injection Frameworks - Part 1 - Introduction 12 Jun 2008 Updated: 12 Jun 2008 Rating: 4.65/5 Votes: 26 Popularity: 6.42 Licence: CPOL Views: 81,874 Bookmarked: 65 Downloaded: 630 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. An introduction to the dependency injection design pattern and frameworks, illustrated by a simple example.
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ASP.NET	ASP.NET Outlook Style Toolbar Control 10 Nov 2004 Updated: 10 Nov 2004 Rating: 4.53/5 Votes: 11 Popularity: 4.53 Licence: Not specified Views: 121,972 Bookmarked: 68 Downloaded: 1,826 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. An outlook style toolbar control in ASP.NET
XHTML	Simple and Practical Introduction to Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (AJAX) 20 Jul 2009 Updated: 20 Jul 2009 Rating: 4.81/5 Votes: 30 Popularity: 7.04 Licence: CPOL Views: 59,333 Bookmarked: 77 Downloaded: 536 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. A simple and practical introduction to Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (AJAX).

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	Easy Perforce Setup [Technical Blog] 31 Oct 2011 Updated: 31 Oct 2011 Rating: 0.00/5 Votes: 0 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 6,771 Bookmarked: 1 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. I hope this makes your Perforce setup experience smoother!
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	How to Make a Perfect Web 2.0 Close Button using Photoshop CS4 [Technical Blog] 31 Oct 2011 Updated: 31 Oct 2011 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 1 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 14,320 Bookmarked: 1 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. A perfect Web 2.0 close button using Photoshop CS4
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NoSQL	Setting Up MongoDB on OSX [Technical Blog] 31 Oct 2011 Updated: 31 Oct 2011 Rating: 0.00/5 Votes: 0 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 6,270 Bookmarked: 0 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. How to set up MongoDB on OSX
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WPF	Building a docking window management solution in WPF [Technical Blog] 27 Dec 2010 Updated: 27 Dec 2010 Rating: 4.50/5 Votes: 2 Popularity: 1.35 Licence: CPOL Views: 56,562 Bookmarked: 21 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. How to build a docking window management solution in WPF
	Create Custom Windows in WPF with Ease [Technical Blog] 28 Dec 2010 Updated: 28 Dec 2010 Rating: 4.50/5 Votes: 2 Popularity: 1.35 Licence: CPOL Views: 16,120 Bookmarked: 3 Downloaded: 52 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. How to create custom Windows in WPF with ease
	Introducing MixModes Synergy 2010 [Technical Blog] 31 Oct 2011 Updated: 31 Oct 2011 Rating: 0.00/5 Votes: 0 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 8,600 Bookmarked: 0 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Introducing MixModes Synergy 2010
	WPF Tips and Facts [Technical Blog] 31 Oct 2011 Updated: 31 Oct 2011 Rating: 0.00/5 Votes: 0 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 6,590 Bookmarked: 5 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Some useful WPF tips.
	Localization Made Easy In WPF [Technical Blog] 31 Oct 2011 Updated: 31 Oct 2011 Rating: 0.00/5 Votes: 0 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 7,130 Bookmarked: 2 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Localization in WPF applications
	Power of Templates in Control Development Within Windows Presentation Foundation [Technical Blog] 31 Oct 2011 Updated: 31 Oct 2011 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 1 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 8,540 Bookmarked: 4 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. In this tutorial, I will take a practical example of a card game and illustrate how to model a playing card in WPF and define templates for defining visual aspect of the card as per the sign and the value of the card.
	My Favorite WPF Book of All Times–WPF Control Development Unleashed [Technical Blog] 31 Oct 2011 Updated: 31 Oct 2011 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 1 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 9,660 Bookmarked: 1 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. WPF Control Development Unleashed - my favorite WPF book of all times
XAML	Dynamically Bind Value Converters to Elements in XAML [Technical Blog] 24 Dec 2010 Updated: 24 Dec 2010 Rating: 0.00/5 Votes: 0 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 17,321 Bookmarked: 1 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. How to dynamically bind value converters to elements in XAML
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	Expression Blend Cannot Open Your Custom Control in Designer? [Technical Blog] 31 Oct 2011 Updated: 31 Oct 2011 Rating: 0.00/5 Votes: 0 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 5,240 Bookmarked: 1 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Expression Blend and Visual Studio designer(s) have stringent conditions that a user control has to follow in order for its type to be even declared compatible for loading.
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Windows Phone 7	MixModes Synergy Toolkit for Windows Phone 7 [Technical Blog] 30 Jan 2011 Updated: 30 Jan 2011 Rating: 4.58/5 Votes: 4 Popularity: 2.76 Licence: CPOL Views: 13,401 Bookmarked: 4 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Synergy is a platform toolkit that unleashes the power of WPF, Silverlight and Windows Phone 7 platforms. In this blog I will discuss the Windows 7 phone part of this library and how it helps to somehow converge development practices to that of WPF and leverage data binding capabilities.
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C#	Dependency Injection Frameworks [Technical Blog] 31 Oct 2011 Updated: 31 Oct 2011 Rating: 0.00/5 Votes: 0 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 16,440 Bookmarked: 11 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. An introduction to Dependency Injection.
	Microsoft Sync Framework [Technical Blog] 31 Oct 2011 Updated: 31 Oct 2011 Rating: 4.77/5 Votes: 17 Popularity: 5.87 Licence: CPOL Views: 55,581 Bookmarked: 27 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. One of the most interesting problems in the distributed world is managing and synchronizing changes in data elements on various endpoints.
	Embed Resources in .NET Assemblies [Technical Blog] 6 Nov 2011 Updated: 6 Nov 2011 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 3 Popularity: 2.39 Licence: CPOL Views: 12,171 Bookmarked: 5 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. How to embed binary resources within .NET assembly and avoid file dependencies
XML	Simple & Practical Introduction to Asynchronous JavaScript And XML (AJAX) [Technical Blog] 31 Oct 2011 Updated: 31 Oct 2011 Rating: 0.00/5 Votes: 0 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 8,960 Bookmarked: 6 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Here is a simple and practical introduction to asynchronous JavaScript and XML.

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WPF	Virtual value converter - Dynamically bind value converters to elements in XAML [Tip/Trick] 23 Dec 2010 Updated: 24 Dec 2010 Rating: 0.00/5 Votes: 0 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 8,980 Bookmarked: 1 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Illustrates how to dynamically bind to value converters in XAML using normal Binding

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Ashish Kaila

Software Developer (Senior) MixModes Inc. | Research In Motion

Canada

Ashish worked for Microsoft for a number of years in Microsoft Visual Studio (Architect edition) and Windows Live division as a developer. Before that he was a developer consultant mainly involved in distributed service development / architecture. His main interests are distributed software architecture, patterns and practices and mobile device development.

Currently Ashish serves as a Technical Lead at RIM leading next generation BlackBerry media experience and also runs his own company MixModes Inc. specializing in .NET / WPF / Silverlight technologies. You can visit MixModes at http://mixmodes.com or follow it on Twitter @MixModes

In his free time he is an avid painter, hockey player and enjoys travelling. His blog is at: http://ashishkaila.serveblog.net

Articles by Ashish Kaila (Articles: 10, Technical Blogs: 17, Tip/Trick: 1)

Articles: 10, Technical Blogs: 17, Tip/Trick: 1

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