Articles by PeteBarber (Articles: 6, Technical Blogs: 31)

Articles: 6, Technical Blogs: 31

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Desktop Programming
WPF	Graph Tree Custom Layout Style for WPF TreeView Control 23 May 2011 Updated: 23 May 2011 Rating: 4.86/5 Votes: 22 Popularity: 6.52 Licence: CPOL Views: 77,085 Bookmarked: 52 Downloaded: 3,492 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Shows how to use a WPF TreeView control to draw a graph style hierarchy with connecting lines.
	Exploring the use of Dependency Properties in User Controls 11 Jul 2011 Updated: 11 Jul 2011 Rating: 4.44/5 Votes: 12 Popularity: 4.62 Licence: CPOL Views: 113,229 Bookmarked: 24 Downloaded: 2,959 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. This article shows how to access WPF Dependency Properties used to form a User Control.
	A Simple WPF ComobBox based Brush Selector Control 18 Jul 2011 Updated: 18 Jul 2011 Rating: 4.33/5 Votes: 3 Popularity: 2.07 Licence: CPOL Views: 27,112 Bookmarked: 8 Downloaded: 863 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. This shows a couple of techniques using WPF to create a control to select a SolidColorBrush via a ComboBox and compares and contrasts them.
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C#	A C#/.NET Attributes Based Command Line Argument Parser 10 Jan 2012 Updated: 10 Jan 2012 Rating: 4.96/5 Votes: 9 Popularity: 4.73 Licence: CPOL Views: 43,124 Bookmarked: 37 Downloaded: 1,595 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. This article introduces an easy to use attribute/reflection based library for seamlessly parsing command line arguments for applications.
	C#/.NET Network File System (NFS) Server 3 Jan 2012 Updated: 3 Jan 2012 Rating: 4.86/5 Votes: 11 Popularity: 4.86 Licence: CPOL Views: 77,600 Bookmarked: 29 Downloaded: 3,210 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. A basic implementation of an NFS server in C#.
Objective C	Subclassing Objective-C classes in Swift and the perils of Initializers 9 Jun 2014 Updated: 9 Jun 2014 Rating: 4.22/5 Votes: 6 Popularity: 3.28 Licence: CPOL Views: 38,681 Bookmarked: 4 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. As a way to learn Swift I decided to have a play with Sprite Kit. One of the first things I did was to create a subclass of SKSpriteNode. This has a very handy initializer:init(imageNamed name: string) (in Swift)-(instanceType)initWithImageNamed:(NString*)name (in Objective-C)I then derived from thi

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	The Perils of Debugging with Return Statements in Languages Without Semi-colon Statement Terminators, i.e., Swift [Technical Blog] 26 Jan 2016 Updated: 26 Jan 2016 Rating: 0.00/5 Votes: 0 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 2,810 Bookmarked: 2 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. The perils of debugging with return statements in languages without semi-colon statement terminators, i.e. Swift
	Debugging AWS Lambda Functions Locally using VS Code and lambda-local [Technical Blog] 3 Jan 2017 Updated: 3 Jan 2017 Rating: 0.00/5 Votes: 0 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 14,921 Bookmarked: 2 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. How to debug AWS lambda functions locally using VS code and lambda-local
	When a Swift Immutable Collection Isn't Or Is At Least Immutable-ish [Technical Blog] 24 Feb 2015 Updated: 24 Feb 2015 Rating: 0.00/5 Votes: 0 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 4,491 Bookmarked: 0 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. When a Swift immutable collection isn't or is at least immutable-ish
	Git Remote Repos with OneDrive [Technical Blog] 23 Dec 2015 Updated: 23 Dec 2015 Rating: 4.50/5 Votes: 4 Popularity: 2.71 Licence: CPOL Views: 22,118 Bookmarked: 7 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Git Remote Repos with OneDrive
	Swift's defer Statement is Funkier Than I Thought [Technical Blog] 2 Feb 2016 Updated: 2 Feb 2016 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 1 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 6,490 Bookmarked: 1 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Swift's defer statement is funkier than I thought
	Keyboard configuration for Windows' developers on OS X (& also IntelliJ) [Technical Blog] 5 Jan 2014 Updated: 5 Jan 2014 Rating: 4.00/5 Votes: 1 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 6,990 Bookmarked: 0 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Recently I've been doing some ActionScript programming. Rather than target a Flash Player app. I've been using ActionScript in combination with Adobe AIR in order to create an iOS app.
	A slight enhancement on Developing tvOS Apps with Swift [Technical Blog] 11 Sep 2015 Updated: 11 Sep 2015 Rating: 0.00/5 Votes: 0 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 3,230 Bookmarked: 0 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Apple announced tvOS yesterday. Downloading Xcode 7.1 Beta comes with the SDK and simulator for tvOS apps.
	OAuth Authentication on tvOS [Technical Blog] 19 Jan 2016 Updated: 19 Jan 2016 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 1 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 8,191 Bookmarked: 0 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. OAuth Authentication on tvOS
Database Development
SQL Server	Generating a SQL Server CE Database Schema from a SQL Server Database using Entity Framework [Technical Blog] 28 Jun 2012 Updated: 28 Jun 2012 Rating: 3.00/5 Votes: 2 Popularity: 0.90 Licence: CPOL Views: 22,651 Bookmarked: 5 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. How to generate a SQL Server CE database schema from a SQL Server database using Entity Framework
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ATL	Unit Testing When the Success Case is Compilation Failure (with C++) [Technical Blog] 17 Apr 2012 Updated: 17 Apr 2012 Rating: 0.00/5 Votes: 0 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 7,321 Bookmarked: 1 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. The prescribed solution to this problem is to not place the COM types directly into the STL container but instead wrap them with the ATL CAdapt class.
Cocoa	Optional Chaining with Dictionaries (in Swift) [Technical Blog] 28 Jan 2015 Updated: 28 Jan 2015 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 1 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 9,780 Bookmarked: 0 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Optional Chaining with Dictionaries (in Swift)
XAML	Getting WPF SizeChanged Events at Start-up when Using MVVM and DataContext [Technical Blog] 12 Jun 2011 Updated: 12 Jun 2011 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 2 Popularity: 1.51 Licence: CPOL Views: 27,701 Bookmarked: 0 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. It is critically important to make sure that a View's DataContext is properly created and attached before the underlying Window is displayed, otherwise initial events will be missed.
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Testing	Unit Testing with Mocha, a Local Instance of dynamoDB & Promises [Technical Blog] 2 Sep 2017 Updated: 2 Sep 2017 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 1 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 7,911 Bookmarked: 1 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Unit testing with Mocha, a local instance of dynamoDB and promises
Mobile Apps
iOS	Resizable UIWindow on iOS [Technical Blog] 3 Jan 2018 Updated: 3 Jan 2018 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 1 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 5,432 Bookmarked: 1 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Resizable UIWindow on iOS
Windows Mobile	Using NUnit and Entity Framework DbContext to Programmatically Create SQL Server CE Databases and Specify the Database Directory [Technical Blog] 3 Apr 2012 Updated: 3 Apr 2012 Rating: 0.00/5 Votes: 0 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 13,963 Bookmarked: 0 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. How to use NUnit and Entity Framework DbContext to programmatically create SQL Server CE databases and specify the database directory.
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	Integration Testing with NUnit and Entity Framework [Technical Blog] 3 Aug 2012 Updated: 3 Aug 2012 Rating: 4.33/5 Votes: 2 Popularity: 1.30 Licence: CPOL Views: 33,715 Bookmarked: 14 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Integration Testing with NUnit and Entity Framework
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Windows	Unit Testing C# Custom Attributes with NUnit Part 4 [Technical Blog] 18 Aug 2011 Updated: 18 Aug 2011 Rating: 0.00/5 Votes: 0 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 11,730 Bookmarked: 2 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Unit Testing C# Custom Attributes with NUnit
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ASP	Book Review: Swift Essentials [Technical Blog] 22 Feb 2015 Updated: 22 Feb 2015 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 1 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 8,341 Bookmarked: 0 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Book review: Swift Essentials
C#	Unit Testing C# Custom Attributes with NUnit - Part 2 [Technical Blog] 27 Jul 2011 Updated: 27 Jul 2011 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 2 Popularity: 1.51 Licence: CPOL Views: 12,270 Bookmarked: 3 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Unit Testing C# Custom Attributes with NUnit
	Unit Testing C# Custom Attributes with NUnit - Part 3 [Technical Blog] 27 Jul 2011 Updated: 27 Jul 2011 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 2 Popularity: 1.51 Licence: CPOL Views: 17,601 Bookmarked: 3 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Unit Testing C# Custom Attributes with NUnit
	Evolution of C# Enumerators [Technical Blog] 24 May 2011 Updated: 24 May 2011 Rating: 0.00/5 Votes: 0 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 14,591 Bookmarked: 4 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Evolution of C# enumerators
	Using IntelliJ, Adobe ActionScript and AIR SDK to Create & Package iOS 7 Apps [Technical Blog] 30 Dec 2013 Updated: 30 Dec 2013 Rating: 4.80/5 Votes: 2 Popularity: 1.44 Licence: CPOL Views: 10,511 Bookmarked: 1 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Using IntelliJ, Adobe ActionScript and AIR SDK to create & package iOS 7 apps
	Drawing into bitmaps and saving as a PNG in Swift on OS X [Technical Blog] 4 May 2015 Updated: 4 May 2015 Rating: 4.00/5 Votes: 1 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 15,590 Bookmarked: 3 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Drawing into bitmaps and saving as a PNG in Swift on OS X
	Unit Testing C# Custom Attributes with NUnit [Technical Blog] 25 Jul 2011 Updated: 25 Jul 2011 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 1 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 42,058 Bookmarked: 6 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. A simple generic way to test Custom Attributes with NUnit.
C++	Obtaining the size of a C++ array using templates and other techniques (from C++11) - Part 2 [Technical Blog] 6 Dec 2011 Updated: 6 Dec 2011 Rating: 4.80/5 Votes: 9 Popularity: 4.58 Licence: CPOL Views: 36,914 Bookmarked: 15 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. How to obtain the size of a C++ array using templates and other techniques.
	Capturing lvalue references in C++11 lambdas [Technical Blog] 15 Aug 2013 Updated: 15 Aug 2013 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 1 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 8,990 Bookmarked: 1 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Capturing lvalue references in C++11 lambdas.
	Fluent Functors [Technical Blog] 22 May 2011 Updated: 22 May 2011 Rating: 0.00/5 Votes: 0 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 9,640 Bookmarked: 2 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. I've been learning about BOOST Spirit; a C++ expression based compiler generator. One of the examples is for a Roman Numeral parser. This contained the following interesting code for pre-loading a symbol table...
	Obtaining the size of a C++ array using templates and other techniques (from C++11) - Part 1 [Technical Blog] 22 Nov 2011 Updated: 22 Nov 2011 Rating: 0.00/5 Votes: 0 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 17,403 Bookmarked: 2 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Recently I was helping somebody debug an issue around the use of swprintf_s. The issue turned out to an Obi-Wan (off by one) error. I don't tend use the likes of printf() very much instead preferring to use a std::stringstream if I need to format into a string.I'd assumed that the Microsoft's secu
Objective C	Resolving Strong References Between Swift and Objective-C Classes - Using Unowned and Weak References from Swift to Objective-C Classes [Technical Blog] 30 Jun 2014 Updated: 30 Jun 2014 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 1 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 15,231 Bookmarked: 1 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. How to resolve strong references between Swift and Objective-C classes - using unowned and weak references from Swift to Objective-C classes
SQL	Specifying the Directory to Create SQL CE Databases When Using Entity Framework [Technical Blog] 7 Aug 2012 Updated: 7 Aug 2012 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 1 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 17,821 Bookmarked: 6 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Specifying the directory to create SQL CE databases when using Entity Framework
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	XCode 5 Versus XCode 6 Default Generated Game (Sprite Kit) Project and Scene Sizes [Technical Blog] 16 Jun 2014 Updated: 16 Jun 2014 Rating: 0.00/5 Votes: 0 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 11,630 Bookmarked: 0 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. XCode 5 Versus XCode 6 Default Generated Game (Sprite Kit) Project and Scene Sizes

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PeteBarber

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My day job is mostly working in C++ with a bit of C#. I write a fair amount of command line based tools and really wish they could have a GUI front-end to them hence why I spend my spare time working with WPF.

I started a blog few years back but didn't do a lot with it. I've started describing some of the interesting programming things I come across on it. Please take a look.

Articles by PeteBarber (Articles: 6, Technical Blogs: 31)

Articles: 6, Technical Blogs: 31

Average article rating: 4.61

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