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CodeMonkeyIsPerson2: Deserialising a JSON formatted string to a dynamic object in C# Metro Style Apps
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A blog touching on topics such as technical code solutions (or problems) and software development processes. Thursday, June 21, 2012. Deserialising a JSON formatted string to a dynamic object in C# Metro Style Apps. So, what to do? JsonObject jsonObject = JsonObject.Parse(jsonString); string myStringProperty = jsonObject["myStringPropertyName"].GetString(); double myDoubleProperty = jsonObject["myDoublePropertyName"].GetNumber();. There are different methods you call depending on the type of the value yo...
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CodeMonkeyIsPerson2: October 2010
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A blog touching on topics such as technical code solutions (or problems) and software development processes. Thursday, October 14, 2010. Cool Visual Studio 2010 Extensions. Came across the PowerCommands extension for VS2010. Does some cool stuff, like. Giving you a shortcut to reopen recently closed documents (and an optional windows displaying a list of recently closed documents). Adds a command to open the containing folder of an item clicked on in the solution explorer. Copy and paste references.
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CodeMonkeyIsPerson2: May 2012
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A blog touching on topics such as technical code solutions (or problems) and software development processes. Tuesday, May 15, 2012. How to determine the username of the logged on user in Windows 8 Metro Style apps. There are 2 options available here, depending on what you would like to achieve. If you need to do authorization or log a user in using a web service, you may need to know the logged in user's username. This can be found in the UserInformation object, like so:. Posted by Hannes Nel. When creat...
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CodeMonkeyIsPerson2: June 2012
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A blog touching on topics such as technical code solutions (or problems) and software development processes. Thursday, June 28, 2012. Reading file content using DataReader.ReadBytes in Metro apps. The Windows.Storage.Streams.DataReader.ReadBytes. Method stupidly breaks with the convention of the other methods on the DataReader object, by requiring you to pass in a variable to populate, instead of instantiating a new variable and returning it. Looking at the declaration of this method:. I found myself loo...
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CodeMonkeyIsPerson2: February 2012
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A blog touching on topics such as technical code solutions (or problems) and software development processes. Wednesday, February 15, 2012. T-SQL for killing active connections to your database. Here is some handy t-sql for killing active connections to your database. Replace 'DB NAME' with the name of your database. 0 BEGIN EXEC(@spidstr) SELECT @ConnKilled = COUNT(1) FROM master.sysprocesses WHERE dbid=db id(@DBName) END. Posted by Hannes Nel. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). View my complete profile.
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CodeMonkeyIsPerson2: November 2009
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A blog touching on topics such as technical code solutions (or problems) and software development processes. Sunday, November 8, 2009. A view of the modern Business Analyst. This then leads us to the question: What is a good BA? It’s a very difficult thing to quantify, because quite often, we don’t really understand what we expect from our BA. Represent the combined knowledge of the business unit in documentation so it may be encapsulate in software systems. When a BA strives to attain this goal, it make...
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CodeMonkeyIsPerson2: February 2013
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A blog touching on topics such as technical code solutions (or problems) and software development processes. Sunday, February 17, 2013. Work for Intergen and Microsoft at NRF 2013. I recently finished up a post about some work our company did for Microsoft at the 2013 NRF show. It was a fascinating project, and I was compelled to write a bit more about it on the company blog. Read all about it here, and also watch the youtube video. Posted by Hannes Nel. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).
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CodeMonkeyIsPerson2: Work for Intergen and Microsoft at NRF 2013
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A blog touching on topics such as technical code solutions (or problems) and software development processes. Sunday, February 17, 2013. Work for Intergen and Microsoft at NRF 2013. I recently finished up a post about some work our company did for Microsoft at the 2013 NRF show. It was a fascinating project, and I was compelled to write a bit more about it on the company blog. Read all about it here, and also watch the youtube video. Posted by Hannes Nel. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
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CodeMonkeyIsPerson2: Reading file content using DataReader.ReadBytes in Metro apps
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A blog touching on topics such as technical code solutions (or problems) and software development processes. Thursday, June 28, 2012. Reading file content using DataReader.ReadBytes in Metro apps. The Windows.Storage.Streams.DataReader.ReadBytes. Method stupidly breaks with the convention of the other methods on the DataReader object, by requiring you to pass in a variable to populate, instead of instantiating a new variable and returning it. Looking at the declaration of this method:. View my complete p...
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CodeMonkeyIsPerson2: August 2013
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A blog touching on topics such as technical code solutions (or problems) and software development processes. Wednesday, August 21, 2013. The following link should actually be an embedded twitter feed using their timeline widget. Sadly, so far, it is not. Checking the network traffic just reveals an error from their service stating that it "Unable to load timeline", with a status of 503. Gah. Posted by Hannes Nel. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). View my complete profile. 31 The Problem Team Member.