Marcelo's WebLog
Improving the world one entity at a time (now tweeting on @mlrdev)
SQL Server 2005 SP2 available today
Go get all the goodies at...
Author: Marcelo Lopez Ruiz - MSFT Date: 02/19/2007
Entity Data Model post on the ADO.NET team blog
You can find the first part of what promises to be a very educational series over here:...
Author: Marcelo Lopez Ruiz - MSFT Date: 02/02/2007
Quick online spell checker with WPF
You can use the spell-checking functionality provided by the RichTextBox to quickly correct those...
Author: Marcelo Lopez Ruiz - MSFT Date: 02/01/2007
Turning the pages with WPF
Wicked cool application at https://www.bl.uk/. The application allows you look at two notebooks from...
Author: Marcelo Lopez Ruiz - MSFT Date: 01/30/2007
Using System.Diagnostics.Process to look for NGEN'ed images
Just like System.Diagnostics.Stopwatch is fabulously useful for a quick and dirty test that you can...
Author: Marcelo Lopez Ruiz - MSFT Date: 01/24/2007
XAML snippet to trigger WPF installation on IE7
This is probably my blog post with the most acronyms in it. In any case, on to the contents. If a...
Author: Marcelo Lopez Ruiz - MSFT Date: 01/22/2007
Where did my database go?
After creating a database with a CREATE DATABASE statement without specifying any files, you may...
Author: Marcelo Lopez Ruiz - MSFT Date: 01/19/2007
Hot Off the Press - a glimpse to what's ahead
I always find that looking at the Hot Off the Press page on www.microsoft.com/mspress always...
Author: Marcelo Lopez Ruiz - MSFT Date: 01/18/2007
Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Compact Edition available now!
You can get to the download and a bunch of information at...
Author: Marcelo Lopez Ruiz - MSFT Date: 01/15/2007
STDEV? STEDEVP!
Color-coding in SMSS just got me here... I needed to write STDEVP, but as soon as STDEV turned the...
Author: Marcelo Lopez Ruiz - MSFT Date: 12/17/2006
Fun with System.IO.Directory.Delete
So, here's a small gotcha I ran into while using this API not too long ago....
Author: Marcelo Lopez Ruiz - MSFT Date: 12/14/2006
Dealing with renamed/localized user/group names with managed code
If you are a regular reader of Michael Kaplan (I know I am), you might have run across his What's in...
Author: Marcelo Lopez Ruiz - MSFT Date: 12/05/2006
Transfer data to an Excel workbook programmatically
Just today I came across this excellent Knowledge Base article: How to transfer data to an Excel...
Author: Marcelo Lopez Ruiz - MSFT Date: 11/30/2006
Drag & Drop with attached properties? Must see to believe!
Pavan has a post about a framework to implement drag & drop with attached properties in Windows...
Author: Marcelo Lopez Ruiz - MSFT Date: 11/15/2006
Character matching
For some background on this, let me refer you to Michael Kaplan's excellent post at...
Author: Marcelo Lopez Ruiz - MSFT Date: 11/09/2006
GiveFeedback event in Windows Presentation Foundation Drag/Drop
Although the documentation may not make it clear, GiveFeedback is an event that happens on the...
Author: Marcelo Lopez Ruiz - MSFT Date: 10/30/2006
Mary Jo Foley interviews Jim Allchin
Jim talks about the importance of componentization, why Windows XP SP2 was a service pack, and other...
Author: Marcelo Lopez Ruiz - MSFT Date: 10/27/2006
WPF DragDrop sample and Viewbox - beware...
In a post a few months ago, I included a sample that showed how to use an adorner to display a...
Author: Marcelo Lopez Ruiz - MSFT Date: 10/19/2006
Sergey Melnik's papers and ADO.NET Entities
In case you have never seen this page before, you can find Segey's page on Microsoft Research at...
Author: Marcelo Lopez Ruiz - MSFT Date: 09/30/2006
Hello, Entities!
This is fresh off the press - I've recently accepted a new challenge in the group working on ADO.NET...
Author: Marcelo Lopez Ruiz - MSFT Date: 09/01/2006
Tracing from background threads
In my last post I introduced a TextBoxBaseTraceListener class that looked like this. public class...
Author: Marcelo Lopez Ruiz - MSFT Date: 07/12/2006
Virtualizing a Data Object (redux)
In the past (Virtualizing a Data Object), I've talked about virtualizing a data object on the...
Author: Marcelo Lopez Ruiz - MSFT Date: 07/11/2006
Drag and drop project files
Every now and then, I get a request for putting all the sample code together for the drag and drop...
Author: Marcelo Lopez Ruiz - MSFT Date: 05/15/2006
Derek starts blogging about WPF Annotations
Annotations are very, very cool. I think the support for documents in WPF rocks, and annotations is...
Author: Marcelo Lopez Ruiz - MSFT Date: 03/10/2006
VB.Net Logical Operations and drag/drop flags
Recently I got some email about how some of the VB.Net code I posted on the drag/drop series should...
Author: Marcelo Lopez Ruiz - MSFT Date: 03/10/2006
Good test site
There aren't as many online resources about testing as there are for development, that's for sure....
Author: Marcelo Lopez Ruiz - MSFT Date: 03/10/2006
WPF drag/drop - it's all about the data
Dragging UIElements around is all good n' nice, but applications are often interested in the data...
Author: Marcelo Lopez Ruiz - MSFT Date: 03/09/2006
Data Binding rocks - and so does this blog
It's about time I linked to Beatriz' blog. There is just so much goodness on it....
Author: Marcelo Lopez Ruiz - MSFT Date: 03/07/2006
DataObject-based drag+drop+preview
Using a DataObjectI've blogged about data objects in the past (here and here for example). You can...
Author: Marcelo Lopez Ruiz - MSFT Date: 03/06/2006
Build your own cursor
Senkwe has posted a bit of code over here with a creative way to achieve a similar effect to the...
Author: Marcelo Lopez Ruiz - MSFT Date: 03/06/2006
Showing drag/drop feedback on the WPF adorner layer
Why adorners?In the last sample, I showed how to allow the users to drag and drop shapes in a...
Author: Marcelo Lopez Ruiz - MSFT Date: 03/03/2006
Dragging WPF elements
This is the first in a series of post exploring that beloved UI gesture: dragging and dropping...
Author: Marcelo Lopez Ruiz - MSFT Date: 03/02/2006
WPF Stability
It's been a while since my last post, but I've been busy with a new charter: ensure that Windows...
Author: Marcelo Lopez Ruiz - MSFT Date: 01/09/2006
Free Visual Studio Express
I'm sure everyone has blogged about this already, but this is so exciting I can't help myself. I...
Author: Marcelo Lopez Ruiz - MSFT Date: 11/10/2005
Check out the new fontblog post
If you read text (hehe), you owe it to yourself to take a look at some of the things that font...
Author: Marcelo Lopez Ruiz - MSFT Date: 10/26/2005
Virtualizing a Data Object
This is going to be a long post, so get yourself some coffee or your development beverage of choice...
Author: Marcelo Lopez Ruiz - MSFT Date: 09/26/2005
New Forum for Windows Presentation Foundation
We loooves the community. The MSDN forum at...
Author: Marcelo Lopez Ruiz - MSFT Date: 09/22/2005
Spell checking in Windows Presentation Foundation
One of the features that impressed PDC attendees was the built-in spell checker in Windows...
Author: Marcelo Lopez Ruiz - MSFT Date: 09/21/2005
Back from the PDC
The PDC has come and gone, and good time was had by all. The atmosphere was super-charged, there was...
Author: Marcelo Lopez Ruiz - MSFT Date: 09/19/2005
Finally, off to the PDC tomorrow
Will catch a flight pretty early in the morning... Zzzz.... Lots of great people to meet, lots of...
Author: Marcelo Lopez Ruiz - MSFT Date: 09/12/2005
Performance Price Payment
High-level languages and declarative models make it less obvious what performance costs come with...
Author: Marcelo Lopez Ruiz - MSFT Date: 09/11/2005
Embarrassing feedback management
Apparently, something in the way I have the feedback on my blog configured changed sometime after my...
Author: Marcelo Lopez Ruiz - MSFT Date: 09/11/2005
Lester starts blogging
Lester Lobo from the Avalon team (also known as Windows Presentation Foundation) has started...
Author: Marcelo Lopez Ruiz - MSFT Date: 09/05/2005
Diversity at Microsoft
Here at Microsoft you hear a lot of talk about diversity. You can get some kind of fluffy idea of...
Author: Marcelo Lopez Ruiz - MSFT Date: 09/02/2005
Performance at the PDC
Yes, the content of the PDC will be great and varied and wonderful... One topic in particular that...
Author: Marcelo Lopez Ruiz - MSFT Date: 09/01/2005
Code post hiatus
These days I'm awfully busy with work for the upcoming PDC. All I can say is: it's going to be good...
Author: Marcelo Lopez Ruiz - MSFT Date: 08/22/2005
Wonderfully Wireless
Today I was pleasantly surprised when I got this popup message a bit after logging into my computer...
Author: Marcelo Lopez Ruiz - MSFT Date: 08/10/2005
Missing Multiline?
Developers used to working with the System.Windows.Form.TextBox control will be familiar with the...
Author: Marcelo Lopez Ruiz - MSFT Date: 08/09/2005
Watching Westworld, Windows Vista
So, I've finished watching Westworld, again. With robots, action, and that grainy old-movie look,...
Author: Marcelo Lopez Ruiz - MSFT Date: 08/06/2005