Blogs by Mike Gold

I just ran into an interesting Silverlight 4 bug. If you have a set of radio buttons with a groupname and a completely different set of radio buttons with the same group name in a different part of the tree, they are treated as one group

LINQ provides a quick and easy way to generate a histogram from your data. Here's how

I found this on one of the Microsoft Forums. There is no event handler directly on the scrollviewer to detect if a scrollbar has changed, so you need to get at the internal scrollbar. here's how.

The Single Responsibility Principle may be one of the most important design concepts in programming. This blog illustrates how Microsoft broke this pattern in MFC, and how they later redeemed themselves in .NET

I am currently involved in a project of migrating a C# data layer to java in order to run on LINUX. Here are my thoughts on the activity.

One of the things that is so powerful about the whole LINQ infrastructure is you can add any filter, mapping, or list operator you can think of. Here is an example.

Although not necessarily intuitive, the easiest way to add padding to a button in a stackpanel is through Margins.

Silverlight doesn't have a DataTemplateSelector like WPF. Here is a way to make a ValueConverter do the same thing.

PRISM provides a mechanism for bringing event handling directly into your view model called the DelegateCommand. The delegate command can be used with XAML buttons to pass your data context into your view model upon clicking the button by the user

A RadTreeView is a Telerik control that allows you to display and select from a hierarchal list. Telerik pays close attention to allowing the user to bind their controls to a ViewModel and having it function correctly. The following demonstrates how you can bind an IsSelected property in your view model to a selection in your RadTreeView using the ContainerBindingCollection

Just spent about an hour reading blogs and trying to figure out how to bind to attached property. In my many trial and error approaches, I finally came upon one that works, although it seems more like there is a bug in Silverlight 3.

LINQ gives us a lot of flexibility on how we evaluate collections. Here is in example of two ways to use a predicate on a collection.

I just went through the challenge of positioning a Silverlight Popup control relative to an existing control. Here is how I finally solved it.

After hunting the web, I found a combination of solutions that work well for an extension that just takes a comparison operator to get your distinct values. Here is my solution.

The following example, illustrated in Silverlight, shows you how to sort a list box through a bound ViewModel Property Collection

Every once in a while you are posed with an interesting puzzle. Someone needed a dictionary reversed and this sounded just like the thing I would enjoy tackling with LINQ.

You can extend the jquery object yourself with the extend method and then use those methods you created as if it were any other jquery object.

As I continue in my adventure of product support, I have come across some more anti-patterns that I would like to share with the community at large.

LINQ is a powerful tool for converting arrays to different types. Here's how to do it.

One of the limitations of the controller I had been struggling with was how to pass JSON back to the controller inside of MVC. Here is how.

C# Corner is gauging interest in a community driven book for Microsoft's latest Silverlight 2.0 beta technology. If you are interested in writing (or even reading this book) please comment below.

FilterExpression is a property of the SqlDataSource that allows you to filter data in the GridView quickly. Unfortunatley it doesn't maintain its value very well on post backs. The code below will show you how to remedy this problem

this blog tells you how to access a DropDownList control programmatically in the RowDataBound event handler which occurs for each row as its bound to the database.