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September 2007 - Developer Support

Power Toys for .NET Compact Framework 3.5 CTP released

September 12, 2007 Sep 12, 2007 09/12/07
Andrew Arnott
The .NET Compact Framework team just released the Consumer Technology Preview (CTP) of the Power Toys for .NET Compact Framework 3.5.  These Power Toys are tools to help you build, debug and optimizie your NetCF 3.5 applications.  My personal favorite is the NetCF ServiceModel Metadata Tool (NetCFSvcUtil.exe) which allows NetCF ...

Where are the InfoCard sites?

September 6, 2007 Sep 6, 2007 09/6/07
Andrew Arnott
InfoCard is the greatest invention since the web browser!  In my opinion anyway.  If you don't agree or you haven't heard of InfoCard, please read from the www.identityblog.com, and in particular the post on the Laws of Identity.  It's really quite impressive what engineering problems InfoCard has been able to solve. I'm just...

How to find the focused ListBoxItem in WPF

September 5, 2007 Sep 5, 2007 09/5/07
Andrew Arnott
One would expect that the WPF ListBox control would have some kind of FocusedIndex property to find out which item has the keyboard focus (and that dashed border around it) -- but it's not there.  It seems the workaround requires a few lines of code, which I present here. ListBox.SelectionMode = Single In a ListBox's default mode ...