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By Ken Tucker August 25, 2013
This sample uses XAML and C# to create an analog clock in a windows store application. XAML allows you to vary the angle of lines when drawn on the screen. I used an ellipse as the background of the clock. We will draw 3 lines for the hour, seconds, and minute hand on an analog clock. A rotate transform turns a line into the second, minute and hour hand. The transform will draw the line from the center of a circle at the angle needed....
By Magnus (MM8) August 19, 2013
This article provides an example on how you can use a three-state Checkbox control to set the IsChecked property of several other related CheckBoxes in a data-bound ItemsControl, or any other control that derives from the ItemsControl such as the DataGrid, ListView or TreeView controls, in WPF using the MVVM pattern. By setting the IsThreeState property of a CheckBox control to true, the IsChecked property can also be set to...
By Ike Ugochuku August 17, 2013
I had to create 6 Sync rules each one with 100+ attribute flows. It would take me at least 2 dedicated workdays to do this repetitive task. My research revealed that the only means available to automate this task is to adapt the Migration deployment steps... FIM 2010 Configuration Migration Deployment Steps - Here is how I adapted these steps to accomplish this work in less than 20 minutes...
By pituach August 12, 2013
We need to restore a database with the original file size of 100 GB. Our disks on the target computer hold 80 GB. We know that the database can be shrank to less than 80 GB. The problem is that restore operation always restores the files to the same sizes they were before they were backed up. There is currently no build-in way to "restore with shrink". But… There is always a BUT. First option: using compressed folder & symbolic link...
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