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I’ve ran into the issue of Silverlight displaying large elements incorrectly in version 3. After reporting the issue on the official Silverlight forums it’s turned out that it’s a known issue that Silverlight renders elements larger than 32K incorrectly.
After Silverlight 4 released I was hoping that this issue is fixed. However, I was disappointed to [...]

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Silverlight bug when drawing large paths

Monday, November 9th, 2009

I’m working on creating a zoom effect for a Silverlight Path object. This effect is easy to implement: I just have to apply a ScaleTransform and and a TranslateTransform within a TransformGroup for the Path (scale it up and move it on the screen where the user clicked to zoom). However when reaching a certain [...]

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ASP.NET server side element names changed?

Wednesday, March 4th, 2009

As far as I’ve known if the ClientID of a server control looked someting like this:
ctl00_WebPartManager1_184c801b_7c67_4967_be37_3ab10406f967_ctl00_linkVote1
.
Then the name sent on postback (which identified the control on the server side) was:
ctl00$WebPartManager1$184c801b$7c67$4967$be37$3ab10406f967$ctl00$linkVote1
.
But since some time the _ to $ conversion is not true any more. Instead the _ signs are randomly replaced by dollar signs. Recently the [...]

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TFS - deleting old workspaces

Monday, January 12th, 2009

I use Visual Studio 2008 on a daily basis however for some older projects I have to work with VS 2005. Recently our company has set a new Team Foundation Server in use and all active projects have been migrated there. In VS 2008 everything worked just fine.
However when trying to re-map a project to [...]

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