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NLog and local application configuration

I firmly think one of the tools every developer should have and add to its applications is logging, you should be familiar with any logging framework (whatever you like) and use it, extensively. In my case I really like NLog, … Continue reading

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A week extending Blend–The first extension

I hope you enjoyed learning about MEF and started thinking about all the possibilities around it in your applications, awesome right?. Well, now that you know a little more about things like MEF catalogues and MEF exports we can freely … Continue reading

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A week extending Expression Blend–The basics

Expression Blend is an amazing piece of software. It is created with the same philosophy as awesome products like Visual Studio.That is, there is only a simple shell with common and very clear extensibility points and everything else (the designer, … Continue reading

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A week extending Blend–Introduction

Some of you already know I have this weird fascination about extending applications. In the past I’ve worked with many customer extending things like Sharepoint, Office, Visual Studio, Operating Systems functionality, that sort of things (yeah, I know, I’m a … Continue reading

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Sync Framework and Synchronizing two identical databases

I’ve spend the last 8 months working with a customer in a really huge solution involving the Microsoft Sync Framework. Today one of the developers approached to me and asked a very simple question: I created a local Sql Server … Continue reading

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