Articles by Sandrino Di Mattia (Articles: 12, Tip/Trick: 1)

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Win32	The 'dynamic' keyword for higher productivity: Windows Firewall API example 20 May 2010 Updated: 23 May 2010 Rating: 4.78/5 Votes: 12 Popularity: 4.98 Licence: Ms-PL Views: 23,273 Bookmarked: 9 Downloaded: 338 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. This dynamic keyword can be put to good use when doing COM. And in turn, you could be more productive when you need to complete tasks regarding the Windows API (that expose COM functionality).
WPF	A Guide to Cleaner XAML with Custom Namespaces and Prefixes (WPF/Silverlight) 22 Sep 2010 Updated: 22 Sep 2010 Rating: 4.76/5 Votes: 35 Popularity: 7.36 Licence: Ms-PL Views: 98,396 Bookmarked: 48 Downloaded: 894 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Clean up and manage your XAML references. This can be done using custom namespaces (scheme URLs) and custom prefixes.
	SelectedValuesListBox - A ListBox that implements more than one SelectedValue (SelectedValues) 20 Aug 2009 Updated: 20 Aug 2009 Rating: 4.10/5 Votes: 5 Popularity: 2.87 Licence: CPOL Views: 27,060 Bookmarked: 11 Downloaded: 382 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Using this, you could set the selection of a ListBox containing languages by binding it to a list of Guids.
	Filtering the WPF DataGrid automatically via the header (inline filtering) 25 Aug 2009 Updated: 25 Aug 2009 Rating: 4.81/5 Votes: 35 Popularity: 7.17 Licence: CPOL Views: 228,977 Bookmarked: 73 Downloaded: 10,683 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. This will help you create a grid that has inline filtering like you see in DevExpress / Telerik.
	Automatically validating business entities in WPF using custom binding and attributes 21 Aug 2009 Updated: 21 Aug 2009 Rating: 4.75/5 Votes: 17 Popularity: 5.59 Licence: CPOL Views: 70,506 Bookmarked: 40 Downloaded: 1,385 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Validate your business entities in a maintainable way.
	Almost-automatic INotifyPropertyChanged, automatic IsDirty, and automatic ChangeTracking 26 Aug 2009 Updated: 26 Aug 2009 Rating: 4.42/5 Votes: 13 Popularity: 4.77 Licence: Ms-PL Views: 70,604 Bookmarked: 32 Downloaded: 796 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. A refactor friendly implementation of INotifyProperty changed, without using Reflection.
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Windows 7	Installing SharePoint Server 2010 on Windows 7 x64 20 Nov 2009 Updated: 20 Nov 2009 Rating: 4.34/5 Votes: 27 Popularity: 6.07 Licence: Ms-PL Views: 218,814 Bookmarked: 29 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. A small guide to installing SP2010 on your client OS
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C#	Controlling and Viewing the ScrollBar Positions of your Silverlight DataGrid 13 Sep 2010 Updated: 14 Sep 2010 Rating: 4.80/5 Votes: 9 Popularity: 4.58 Licence: Ms-PL Views: 67,066 Bookmarked: 11 Downloaded: 1,425 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. If you take a look at the Silverlight DataGrid, you'll see that you can't control scrolling by default. This could be a hurdle if you're working with data driven applications. What if you want to preserve the scroll position after you reload the DataGrid?
	Making WCF RIA Services work in a DMZ/Multitier architecture using Application Request Routing 1 Sep 2010 Updated: 13 Sep 2010 Rating: 4.72/5 Votes: 13 Popularity: 5.26 Licence: Ms-PL Views: 44,722 Bookmarked: 40 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. A guide to creating secure Silverlight + WCF RIA Services applications for the enterprise! This is done using Application Request Routing (turning IIS in a reverse proxy).
	Consuming Google (Reader) with .NET: Part 1 - Authentication 6 Jul 2010 Updated: 6 Jul 2010 Rating: 4.55/5 Votes: 7 Popularity: 3.84 Licence: Ms-PL Views: 31,570 Bookmarked: 39 Downloaded: 553 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. What I would like to do in the following articles is connect to and consume Google services (with a focus on Google Reader) using .NET.
	Consuming Google (Reader) with .NET: Part 2 - Google Reader using .NET 12 Jul 2010 Updated: 12 Jul 2010 Rating: 4.55/5 Votes: 7 Popularity: 3.84 Licence: Ms-PL Views: 26,412 Bookmarked: 20 Downloaded: 585 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. An implementation of Google Reader in .NET
	Unit Testing your App.config and ConfigurationSection using NUnit, Ninject and TestDriven.NET 10 Apr 2010 Updated: 10 Apr 2010 Rating: 4.81/5 Votes: 9 Popularity: 4.59 Licence: Ms-PL Views: 59,211 Bookmarked: 32 Downloaded: 416 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. The title says it all...

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Download and rename scripts for SharePoint Connections 2010 videos [Tip/Trick]

10 Apr 2010 Updated: 10 Apr 2010 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 2 Popularity: 1.51

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Based on the scripts I recently used to download all the MIX presentations (http://live.visitmix.com/Videos), I created the following 2 scripts:SPC2010_Download.batSPC2010_Rename.batDownload the scripts: SPC2010.zip (3,15 kb)Download cURL:...

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Sandrino Di Mattia

Technical Lead RealDolmen

Belgium

I'm a Technical Consultant at RealDolmen, one of the largest players on the Belgian IT market: http://www.realdolmen.com

All posts also appear on my blogs: http://blog.sandrinodimattia.net and http://blog.fabriccontroller.net