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I recently had to tweak my remote persistence server settings. I noticed that I had leaft the SyncHandler.HistoryLength at the default value of 10,000 items. This was overkill because my clients sync every 3 seconds. I thought maybe I should drop this down to about 100, that should be okay? Each client only does about one update every few minutes so I it should, right? Problem is not all of my users are people. One user is a messenger service which looks for unsent messages, sends them one at a time, marking each in turn as sent and updating the database. This gets run every five minutes so probably sends about fifty messages at the most, but what if someone decides to change it to ten minutes, or thirty? So maybe I should increase the HistoryLength to about 200? Then there is the other client, this one syncs with an external database. This could perform hundreds of updates every minute. If the messenger is set to run every thirty minutes...I'm not sure what a good History

List<Person> p = new List<Person>(); This works fine, but what about this? Type someType = typeof(Person); List<someType> p = new List<someType>(); Nope! But you can do this... Type genericType = typeof(List<>).MakeGenericType(someType); Why would I want to? Because I am creating a tool that generates plain old .NET objects from an EcoSpace's model, and I wanted to implement multi-role association ends as public List<Building> RoleName; rather than just public Building[] RoleName;

In a previous post I showed how to return a binary file from a controller action, well, this no longer works in release candidate 3 of the framework. Instead you have to create a new ActionResult descendant to do the job for you. This is how I did it.... return new BinaryResult(data, Path.GetFileName(productFileName)); and the class is implemented like so: public class BinaryResult : ActionResult { private string ClientFileName; private byte[] Data; private string VirtualFileName; public BinaryResult(string virtualFileName, string clientFileName) { if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(virtualFileName)) throw new ArgumentNullException("VirtualFileName"); if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(clientFileName)) throw new ArgumentNullException("ClientFileName"); ClientFileName = clientFileName; VirtualFileName = virtualFileName; } public BinaryResult(byte[] data, string clientFileName) { if (data == null) throw new ArgumentNullException(&q

I'm trying to upgrade from Preview 2 to Preview 3. I think the idea of having each action return an ActionResult was a good one, so far it has actually made my code slightly smaller. What I don't understand though is why Html.Select seems to have disappeared... Compilation Error Description: An error occurred during the compilation of a resource required to service this request. Please review the following specific error details and modify your source code appropriately. Compiler Error Message: CS1501: No overload for method 'Select' takes '5' arguments Source Error: Line 8: Product Line 9: Line 10: <%= Html.Select("SoftwareID", (object)ViewData["SoftwareList"], "Name", "ID", (object)ViewData["SoftwareID"]) %> Line 11: Line 12: When I go into the APX and type Html. there is no Select method listed along with

Although I have not (yet) needed this myself I can see myself needing it in the future and the question has been asked before. "Setting HasUserCode=True on a Child.Parent single role does what I want, but how do I handle the scenario where Parent.Children.Add(item) is called on a multirole?" By default you can’t, but with the addition of a single class and a small amount of tweaking you can get it to do what you want! Here is how to do it: 01: Mark Parent.Children’s association end with HasUserCode=True in the modeler and then generate code. 02: In the source code of your class (not within an ECO region) add the following   private EcoMultiAssociation<Child> m_Children; This is a class that does not yet exist, I will show the source code for it later. 02: In the source code locate the "Children" property and change it like so   public IEcoList<Child> Children   {     get     {       if (m_Children == null)       {         m_Children= new EcoMultiAssocia

I found this article on the web recently which shows how to use the Vista Aero theme on XP in your WPF apps. I found two things: 01: It is less complicated that the article states. 02: It is a bit different if you already have stuff in your app resources, such as styles or control templates etc. So here are my steps 01: Add PresentationFramework.Aero to your applications References list. It is listed in the [.NET] tab. 02: Edit your App.xaml and change it from this <Application.Resources>   <!-- Your stuff here --> </Application.Resources> to this <Application.Resources>   <ResourceDictionary>     <!-- Put your stuff here instead -->     <ResourceDictionary.MergedDictionaries>       <ResourceDictionary Source="/PresentationFramework.Aero;component/themes/aero.normalcolor.xaml"/>     </ResourceDictionary.MergedDictionaries>   </ResourceDictionary> </Application.Resources>

An app I am considering migrating to WPF uses a DevExpress grid to show a list of events, as I animate my composition I highlight the current event in the grid. Things I have learned about WPF: 01: You can create a data grid type view like so: <ListView Name="ListView">   <ListView.View>     <GridView AllowsColumnReorder="False">       <GridViewColumn DisplayMemberBinding="{Binding Path=Title}" Header="Title"/>       <GridViewColumn DisplayMemberBinding="{Binding Path=FirstName}" Header="FirstName"/>       <GridViewColumn DisplayMemberBinding="{Binding Path=LastName}" Header="LastName"/>     </GridView>   </ListView.View> </ListView> 02: Don’t put a ListView in a <StackPanel>! It renders all of the data at once. When you have 6K rows of data for example it takes about 1 second to select the next row. Instead you should put it in a grid <Gri