Articles by mrjvdveen (Articles: 22, Technical Blogs: 18)

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	Code Generation is a Basic Developer Skill 21 Jul 2011 Updated: 21 Jul 2011 Rating: 4.00/5 Votes: 2 Popularity: 1.20 Licence: CPOL Views: 7,610 Bookmarked: 1 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Code generation is a basic developer skill
	Bigger Is Not Always Better: Communication Breakdown 5 Aug 2011 Updated: 5 Aug 2011 Rating: 0.00/5 Votes: 0 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 11,010 Bookmarked: 0 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Bigger is not always better... communication breakdown
Desktop Programming
WPF	Changing Column Collations Through C# and ADO.NET 28 Sep 2009 Updated: 28 Sep 2009 Rating: 0.00/5 Votes: 0 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 18,850 Bookmarked: 2 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. How to change column collations through C# and ADO.NET
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	“A Developer Is Only As Good As His Tools” 10 May 2011 Updated: 4 Jul 2011 Rating: 4.79/5 Votes: 28 Popularity: 6.78 Licence: CPOL Views: 48,127 Bookmarked: 37 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. In this post I’d like to share some tools with you, that I think may be of use for any developer.
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ChromeOS	Adventures While Building a Silverlight Enterprise Application: Part #21 8 Sep 2009 Updated: 8 Sep 2009 Rating: 0.00/5 Votes: 0 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 11,010 Bookmarked: 6 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Why and how we chose Silverlight and how we (or at least I) learned to use the Silverlight technology
Windows	Testing Silverlight 2 Code with Silverlight 3 and Moving to Silverlight 3 18 Aug 2009 Updated: 21 Oct 2009 Rating: 0.00/5 Votes: 0 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 10,770 Bookmarked: 3 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. This article describes my experience with upgrading to Silverlight 3 and the steps taken to ensure our code would work.
	Why You Want Code Reviews 14 Sep 2009 Updated: 4 Oct 2009 Rating: 4.57/5 Votes: 7 Popularity: 3.86 Licence: CPOL Views: 19,811 Bookmarked: 13 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. This post discusses why you want code reviews
Productivity Apps and Services
Microsoft Office	Ole and Accessing Files Embedded in Access - Part #2 18 Aug 2009 Updated: 18 Aug 2009 Rating: 0.00/5 Votes: 0 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 12,880 Bookmarked: 4 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Ole and accessing file embedded in Access
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C#	Adventures While Building a Silverlight Enterprise Application - Part #20 1 Sep 2009 Updated: 1 Sep 2009 Rating: 0.00/5 Votes: 0 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 7,881 Bookmarked: 0 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Some of the less technical (a.k.a functional) stuff around code generation, especially when using XAML, it being in either Silverlight or WPF
	Adventures While Building a Silverlight Enterprise Application - Part #24 7 Oct 2009 Updated: 7 Oct 2009 Rating: 0.00/5 Votes: 0 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 8,310 Bookmarked: 0 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Adventures while building a Silverlight Enterprise application
	Adventures While Building a Silverlight Enterprise Application - Part #26 26 Oct 2009 Updated: 26 Oct 2009 Rating: 0.00/5 Votes: 0 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 7,910 Bookmarked: 0 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. A more generic solution to databind to some primitive type variables like a bool or a string
	Adventures While Building a Silverlight Enterprise Application - Part #38 16 Nov 2010 Updated: 16 Nov 2010 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 1 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 9,380 Bookmarked: 0 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. A problem most of us will encounter while building a Line Of Business application in Silverlight - it involves UI paradigms combined with the asynchronous communication model
	Trivialities About Nullable Types 12 Aug 2011 Updated: 12 Aug 2011 Rating: 0.00/5 Votes: 0 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 12,231 Bookmarked: 1 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Trivialities about nullable types
	Dependency Properties and Collections Combined with XAML 18 Aug 2009 Updated: 16 Aug 2011 Rating: 2.40/5 Votes: 5 Popularity: 1.68 Licence: CPOL Views: 40,105 Bookmarked: 3 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Describes a problem with using a collection type in a dependency property where the default value can't be null
XML	Adventures While Building a Silverlight Enterprise Application - Part #25 8 Oct 2009 Updated: 8 Oct 2009 Rating: 0.00/5 Votes: 0 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 9,011 Bookmarked: 0 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Adventures while building a Silverlight Enterprise Application - Part #25
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	Adventures while Building a Silverlight Enterprise Application - Part #29 19 Nov 2009 Updated: 19 Nov 2009 Rating: 0.00/5 Votes: 0 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 7,790 Bookmarked: 0 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Adventures while building a Silverlight Enterprise application
	Adventures While Building a Silverlight Enterprise Application - Part #35 9 Aug 2010 Updated: 9 Aug 2010 Rating: 0.00/5 Votes: 0 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 8,480 Bookmarked: 2 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Something I ran into while doing rework on our framework - it involves the order in which code gets executed when using events and such
	Adventures While Building a Silverlight Enterprise Application - Part #34 18 Nov 2010 Updated: 18 Nov 2010 Rating: 0.00/5 Votes: 0 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 7,210 Bookmarked: 0 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Analyzing performance in a Silverlight Line Of Business application, including multiple service layers
	Adventures while Building a Silverlight Enterprise Application - Part #41 21 Feb 2011 Updated: 21 Feb 2011 Rating: 0.00/5 Votes: 0 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 8,240 Bookmarked: 1 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. In this post, we dive into this tiny change that caused a weird bug in the WCF communication between our Silverlight client and one of our web services.
	Moving from Silverlight to MVC3 20 Sep 2011 Updated: 20 Sep 2011 Rating: 0.00/5 Votes: 0 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 23,701 Bookmarked: 3 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Why we felt the need to abandon our Silverlight development in favor of MVC3
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CSS	Parsing CSS for Analysis 31 Oct 2011 Updated: 31 Oct 2011 Rating: 0.00/5 Votes: 0 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 9,430 Bookmarked: 2 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Parsing CSS so we can use the result for analysis
HTML	Adventures While Building a Silverlight Enterprise Application - Part #4 18 Aug 2009 Updated: 18 Aug 2009 Rating: 0.00/5 Votes: 0 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 12,061 Bookmarked: 2 Downloaded: 20 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Adventures while building a Silverlight Enterprise application

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	Adventures while building a Silverlight Enterprise application part #31 [Technical Blog] 7 Jan 2010 Updated: 7 Jan 2010 Rating: 0.00/5 Votes: 0 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 7,550 Bookmarked: 0 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Today we want to look at an example I ran into where taking the time to think of good names for everything in your code can save the day.
	Adventures while building a Silverlight Enterprise application part #12 [Technical Blog] 18 Aug 2009 Updated: 18 Aug 2009 Rating: 0.00/5 Votes: 0 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 8,680 Bookmarked: 1 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. In this episode we have a closer look at the behavior of the Silverlight 2 DataGrid and especially when databinding and in relation to selecting items.One of the UI elements that we have in our application is that whenever you select an item in DataGrid A, this updates DataGrid B.
	Adventures while building a Silverlight Enterprise application part #11 [Technical Blog] 18 Aug 2009 Updated: 18 Aug 2009 Rating: 0.00/5 Votes: 0 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 6,920 Bookmarked: 0 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Wow, it's been a while. I've been on a holiday and right after that I became ill. Now that I'm back, some things have changed in the team (people leaving or getting different assignments, etc.).
	Adventures while building a Silverlight Enterprise application part #10 [Technical Blog] 18 Aug 2009 Updated: 18 Aug 2009 Rating: 0.00/5 Votes: 0 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 9,060 Bookmarked: 0 Downloaded: 3 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Yeah! It's part 10 of my Adventure series. Sorry, I'm not giving a party or anything, but it feels like a milestone to me.In this episode we are going to look at an issue I ran into with WCF and Silverlight 2 when using a specific structure in the datacontract.
	Adventures while building a Silverlight Enterprise application part #6 [Technical Blog] 18 Aug 2009 Updated: 18 Aug 2009 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 1 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 13,600 Bookmarked: 1 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Last time in this series we discussed projects and how to setup your large application. One point that dictates project layout in our application is the fact that we load XAP files as needed. Recently I've had some interesting insights from our functional specialist.
Desktop Programming
WPF	Using code to find out if your Silverlight/WPF styles are used [Technical Blog] 17 Sep 2009 Updated: 17 Sep 2009 Rating: 4.20/5 Votes: 2 Popularity: 1.26 Licence: CPOL Views: 11,250 Bookmarked: 1 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. I needed to check the available style keys in our main app.xaml file and see which ones are no longer needed. As there are currently 66 style keys in that file and it's growing, I didn't feel much for taking each key and searching through our source code to find out. Time to build a small tool.
Entity Framework
	Adventures while building a Silverlight Enterprise application - Part #37 [Technical Blog] 15 Oct 2010 Updated: 15 Oct 2010 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 1 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 8,780 Bookmarked: 2 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Adventures while building a Silverlight Enterprise application
	Adventures while building a Silverlight Enterprise application - Part #39 [Technical Blog] 9 Dec 2010 Updated: 9 Dec 2010 Rating: 0.00/5 Votes: 0 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 7,510 Bookmarked: 1 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. In this post, we look at an issue we had while implementing a specific form of data entry for our application. Basically there was an oversight in our reasoning about CRUD operations that needed fixing. It also shows the power of GUIDs.
	Adventures while building a Silverlight Enterprise application part #40 [Technical Blog] 6 Jan 2011 Updated: 6 Jan 2011 Rating: 0.00/5 Votes: 0 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 5,640 Bookmarked: 0 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. As we are close to releasing our first version and we will have some time on our hands to do clean up on our sources, today we want to look at some of the things we would like to do in order to improve our codebase.
	Getting inspiriation to solve problems [Technical Blog] 20 Aug 2009 Updated: 17 Sep 2009 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 1 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 10,720 Bookmarked: 8 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. This time I would like to share an experience with you that I had trying to get inspiration to solve issues more effectively.
	Adventures while building a Silverlight Enterprise application part #9 [Technical Blog] 18 Aug 2009 Updated: 18 Aug 2009 Rating: 0.00/5 Votes: 0 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 7,890 Bookmarked: 0 Downloaded: 16 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Well, here we are again, already for part #9 of our series on using Silverlight in an Enterprise application.
	Adventures while building a Silverlight Enterprise application part #8 [Technical Blog] 18 Aug 2009 Updated: 18 Aug 2009 Rating: 0.00/5 Votes: 0 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 6,860 Bookmarked: 0 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Well, it's been a while again. Sorry about that, but it's been really hectic around here.At the moment we are digging into the back end of our application. You may remember from previous episodes that we use WCF services in our back end.
	Pimpin' the Blog [Technical Blog] 20 Aug 2009 Updated: 20 Aug 2009 Rating: 0.00/5 Votes: 0 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 9,990 Bookmarked: 1 Downloaded: 14 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. In this article I will describe to you why I want to change my blog, what I'm trying to achieve, how I plan to do that and whats in it all for you.Why?After writing only a few articles in Blogger and reading up on how to build a usable blog, I knew that at some point I would have to replace Blo
Mobile Apps
Windows Phone 7	MIX10 Keynote: Silverlight and Windows Phone 7 [Technical Blog] 16 Mar 2010 Updated: 16 Mar 2010 Rating: 0.00/5 Votes: 0 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 8,120 Bookmarked: 3 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. MIX10 Keynote: Silverlight and Windows Phone 7
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C#	Binding to ComboBox.SelectedItem through a custom dependency property [Technical Blog] 18 Aug 2009 Updated: 21 Oct 2009 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 1 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 44,693 Bookmarked: 9 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Today we are looking into databinding to the ComboBox.SelectedItem property through a custom dependency property in a UserControl.
	Pimpin' the blog part #3 [Technical Blog] 21 Aug 2009 Updated: 21 Aug 2009 Rating: 0.00/5 Votes: 0 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 7,140 Bookmarked: 1 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Today we'll look at how I've built my own RSS feed in ASP.NET 3.5 using Linq2SQL.
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	Adventures while building a Silverlight Enterprise application - Part #33 [Technical Blog] 25 May 2010 Updated: 25 May 2010 Rating: 0.00/5 Votes: 0 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 6,220 Bookmarked: 1 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. In this post, I want to look back and reflect. We've run into some issues with our project, so it seems like a good moment to learn some stuff from what we have and have not done.
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	Microsoft introduces LightSwitch: Game changer or gadget showoff? [Technical Blog] 19 Aug 2010 Updated: 24 Aug 2010 Rating: 4.11/5 Votes: 6 Popularity: 3.20 Licence: CPOL Views: 14,950 Bookmarked: 0 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. A discussion about LightSwitch

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mrjvdveen

Software Developer (Senior) KnowledgePlaza

Netherlands

Since early 2001 I've been working full time as a software developer and since 2004 I've been working mostly with Microsoft technology.
I started out as a product developer, but after a few years I switched to a project company where my roles ranged from developer up to consultant and from team lead and coach to manager.
Eventually I switched jobs and focused on the consultant part and then I got back to building a product once again. Now I work in a job where I get to do both.

Articles by mrjvdveen (Articles: 22, Technical Blogs: 18)

Articles: 22, Technical Blogs: 18

Average article rating: 4.15

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Desktop Programming

Entity Framework

Operating Systems

Productivity Apps and Services

Programming Languages

Silverlight

Web Development