Comments for a geek trapped in a cool guy's body http://www.ageektrapped.com/blog Trapped online since 2004 Sat, 06 Sep 2008 03:50:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/ Comment on The Missing .NET #7: Displaying Enums in WPF by Dew Drop - September 3, 2008 | Alvin Ashcraft's Morning Dew http://www.ageektrapped.com/blog/the-missing-net-7-displaying-enums-in-wpf/#comment-492 Dew Drop - September 3, 2008 | Alvin Ashcraft's Morning Dew Wed, 03 Sep 2008 13:08:30 +0000 http://www.ageektrapped.com/blog/the-missing-net-7-displaying-enums-in-wpf/#comment-492 [...] The Missing .NET #7: Displaying Enums in WPF (Jason Kemp) [...] [...] The Missing .NET #7: Displaying Enums in WPF (Jason Kemp) [...]

]]> Comment on Subtext to WordPress: Converting blog engines by Shiva http://www.ageektrapped.com/blog/subtext-to-wordpress-converting-blog-engines/#comment-486 Shiva Fri, 29 Aug 2008 15:51:25 +0000 http://www.jasonkemp.ca/blog/subtext-to-wordpress-converting-blog-engines/#comment-486 Jason, You are being "too kind" to SubText. I am currently on Subtext too and migrating to WordPress because of several reasons, some of which you have already stated. SubText was a very poor port from Scott Water's .Text. The source code also seems poorly managed and the main "evangelist" and owner for Subtext, Phil, seems to have moved on to Microsoft and the Project is facing neglect. I have evaluated WordPress quite extensively before making the switch. One of the best things about Wordpress is that since it has such a large user base, the platform is tested and the code base is quite stable. Also, running on Apache makes the pages render in factions of seconds on shared hosting, compared to SubText or other .Net engines that have a longer cold startup time. Could you please give me more details on your URL rewriting / redirects ? Did you do a 301 redirect for all requests in old blog and then handle the actual forwarding in new WordPress blog ? Jason,

You are being “too kind” to SubText. I am currently on Subtext too and migrating to WordPress because of several reasons, some of which you have already stated.

SubText was a very poor port from Scott Water’s .Text. The source code also seems poorly managed and the main “evangelist” and owner for Subtext, Phil, seems to have moved on to Microsoft and the Project is facing neglect.

I have evaluated WordPress quite extensively before making the switch. One of the best things about Wordpress is that since it has such a large user base, the platform is tested and the code base is quite stable. Also, running on Apache makes the pages render in factions of seconds on shared hosting, compared to SubText or other .Net engines that have a longer cold startup time.

Could you please give me more details on your URL rewriting / redirects ? Did you do a 301 redirect for all requests in old blog and then handle the actual forwarding in new WordPress blog ?

]]> Comment on The Missing .NET #4: Cue Banner in WPF (I mean, Watermark in WPF) by Brian http://www.ageektrapped.com/blog/the-missing-net-4-cue-banner-in-wpf-i-mean-watermark-in-wpf/#comment-485 Brian Tue, 19 Aug 2008 15:11:23 +0000 http://www.ageektrapped.com/blog/the-missing-net-4-cue-banner-in-wpf-i-mean-watermark-in-wpf/#comment-485 Great code, I didn't even think about adding a cue like that. I did find a small problem though, if the cue's are displayed and the visiblity of the control changes, the cues can be left. To fix this I hooked up to the IsVisible property to the control so it would remove the cue if it was visible. Not sure if I fixed in the best manner, but it seems to work. private static void CueBannerPropertyChanged(DependencyObject d, DependencyPropertyChangedEventArgs e) { Control control = (Control) d; control.Loaded += control_Loaded; DependencyPropertyDescriptor isVisiblePropertyDescriptor = DependencyPropertyDescriptor.FromProperty(Control.IsVisibleProperty, d.GetType()); isVisiblePropertyDescriptor.AddValueChanged(d, control_IsVisibleChanged); .... private static void control_IsVisibleChanged(object sender, EventArgs e) { Control control = (Control) sender; if( !ShouldShowCueBanner(control) || !control.IsVisible ) RemoveCueBanner(control); } Great code, I didn’t even think about adding a cue like that. I did find a small problem though, if the cue’s are displayed and the visiblity of the control changes, the cues can be left. To fix this I hooked up to the IsVisible property to the control so it would remove the cue if it was visible. Not sure if I fixed in the best manner, but it seems to work.

private static void CueBannerPropertyChanged(DependencyObject d, DependencyPropertyChangedEventArgs e)
{
Control control = (Control) d;
control.Loaded += control_Loaded;
DependencyPropertyDescriptor isVisiblePropertyDescriptor = DependencyPropertyDescriptor.FromProperty(Control.IsVisibleProperty, d.GetType());
isVisiblePropertyDescriptor.AddValueChanged(d, control_IsVisibleChanged);

….

private static void control_IsVisibleChanged(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
Control control = (Control) sender;
if( !ShouldShowCueBanner(control) || !control.IsVisible )
RemoveCueBanner(control);
}

]]> Comment on Redoing the Options Dialog in BabySmash by John Rennemeyer http://www.ageektrapped.com/blog/redoing-the-options-dialog-in-babysmash/#comment-480 John Rennemeyer Wed, 13 Aug 2008 20:10:35 +0000 http://www.ageektrapped.com/blog/redoing-the-options-dialog-in-babysmash/#comment-480 For the property not getting changed until you lose focus, you should be able to add the following: UpdateSourceTrigger=PropertyChanged so you should have: I haven't tested this in your sample, but I am using this method when I'm binding a TextBox to a CLR object property and it works great. I hope this helps. John MuvEnum For the property not getting changed until you lose focus, you should be able to add the following:

UpdateSourceTrigger=PropertyChanged

so you should have:

I haven’t tested this in your sample, but I am using this method when I’m binding a TextBox to a CLR object property and it works great.

I hope this helps.

John
MuvEnum

]]> Comment on Subtext to WordPress: Converting blog engines by John http://www.ageektrapped.com/blog/subtext-to-wordpress-converting-blog-engines/#comment-474 John Fri, 08 Aug 2008 17:22:58 +0000 http://www.jasonkemp.ca/blog/subtext-to-wordpress-converting-blog-engines/#comment-474 Sorry for not getting back sooner. Now we have a commitment to make this move, so I need to finally take this on. the version of subtext is 1.94. It could be 1.95? The blogML export does not work either. The database has hundreds (maybe thousands) of records. Your post is very helpful, but the part you left out about the dirty details of how you were able to get the data out of the database and set up the table parameters for import is key to this. Any info would be very helpful. Sorry for not getting back sooner. Now we have a commitment to make this move, so I need to finally take this on. the version of subtext is 1.94. It could be 1.95? The blogML export does not work either. The database has hundreds (maybe thousands) of records.

Your post is very helpful, but the part you left out about the dirty details of how you were able to get the data out of the database and set up the table parameters for import is key to this. Any info would be very helpful.

]]> Comment on The WPF Application Class: Overview and Gotcha by Dew Drop - August 2, 2008 | Alvin Ashcraft's Morning Dew http://www.ageektrapped.com/blog/the-wpf-application-class-overview-and-gotcha/#comment-469 Dew Drop - August 2, 2008 | Alvin Ashcraft's Morning Dew Sat, 02 Aug 2008 13:47:25 +0000 http://www.ageektrapped.com/blog/the-wpf-application-class-overview-and-gotcha/#comment-469 [...] The WPF Application Class: Overview and Gotcha (Jason Kemp) [...] [...] The WPF Application Class: Overview and Gotcha (Jason Kemp) [...]

]]> Comment on Redoing the Options Dialog in BabySmash by Scott Hanselman's Computer Zen - Learning WPF with BabySmash - Customer Feedback and a WPF Font ComboBox http://www.ageektrapped.com/blog/redoing-the-options-dialog-in-babysmash/#comment-465 Scott Hanselman's Computer Zen - Learning WPF with BabySmash - Customer Feedback and a WPF Font ComboBox Fri, 18 Jul 2008 06:13:15 +0000 http://www.ageektrapped.com/blog/redoing-the-options-dialog-in-babysmash/#comment-465 [...] Settings for this project. Remember that I refactored the Options Dialog a few weeks back using Jason Kemp's code. This made it easy to just add one additional ComboBox. I'm getting good enough that I added the [...] [...] Settings for this project. Remember that I refactored the Options Dialog a few weeks back using Jason Kemp’s code. This made it easy to just add one additional ComboBox. I’m getting good enough that I added the [...]

]]> Comment on Redoing the Options Dialog in BabySmash by Jason Kemp http://www.ageektrapped.com/blog/redoing-the-options-dialog-in-babysmash/#comment-457 Jason Kemp Wed, 16 Jul 2008 01:14:09 +0000 http://www.ageektrapped.com/blog/redoing-the-options-dialog-in-babysmash/#comment-457 @Joe: Yes, you're right. That is something I neglected to mention. @Joe: Yes, you’re right. That is something I neglected to mention.

]]> Comment on Redoing the Options Dialog in BabySmash by Joe http://www.ageektrapped.com/blog/redoing-the-options-dialog-in-babysmash/#comment-455 Joe Tue, 15 Jul 2008 23:45:33 +0000 http://www.ageektrapped.com/blog/redoing-the-options-dialog-in-babysmash/#comment-455 Thanks for the great explanation but what happens when a user modifies one of these databound entries and then selects the Cancel button in the dialog? Wouldn't the programmer also need to do a Properties.Settings.Default.Reload(); in the OnCancel handler? Thanks for the great explanation but what happens when a user modifies one of these databound entries and then selects the Cancel button in the dialog?

Wouldn’t the programmer also need to do a Properties.Settings.Default.Reload(); in the OnCancel handler?

]]> Comment on Subtext to WordPress: Converting blog engines by Jason Kemp http://www.ageektrapped.com/blog/subtext-to-wordpress-converting-blog-engines/#comment-448 Jason Kemp Tue, 15 Jul 2008 01:14:16 +0000 http://www.jasonkemp.ca/blog/subtext-to-wordpress-converting-blog-engines/#comment-448 @John: You're the second person to ask within a week. That's enough inquiry around these parts to warrant a post. :) I'll follow up with one shortly. Incidentally, what version of Subtext are you using? @John: You’re the second person to ask within a week. That’s enough inquiry around these parts to warrant a post. :) I’ll follow up with one shortly.

Incidentally, what version of Subtext are you using?

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