With Expression Blend it's quite easy to style your own custom ScrollBar to get the look you want.

Steve was in Cambridge 2 weeks ago teaching a TestComplete class and while he was sightseeing with the rest of the class attendees, they insisted to take his picture with this sign :)

 

Good job Steve!

Need to capture popups or tooltips in your screen shots? It's easy with the Windows Vista Snipping Tool.

In my previous blog about dependency properties, I detailed a helper class that you can add to any non-DependencyObject class to give you access to dependency properties in that class. To start off with, we need to add a couple of new static functions to our helper class to handle adding bindings with converters.

Continuous Integration in a nutshell. A brief overview of the what, why and how of CI.

Writing code that builds SQL is a powerful technique, but it can also be risky. Failing to implement these techniques could leave your database open to attack by SQL injection. Read on to learn how to secure dynamic SQL from SQL injection vulnerability.

Windows Presentation Foundation provides a simple way to validate user input on your data-bound controls, and it's completely customizable, too. By writing a custom class deriving from ValidationRule, and adding an error template to our control, we can have consistent UI notification of invalid input according to our specific needs.

Lino Tadros, President and CEO of Falafel Software, has been invited to speak at the DevReach conference in Sofia, Bulgaria

When your WPF project gets large with a well structured class diagram, you may run into a case where you need to add a dependency property to a class that it is not convenient to inherit from a dependency object. In that case you need a little help from a helper class. I recently ran into this little problem and came up with this class.