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shiftkey / gist:770803

Created January 8, 2011 12:45

Thought - Simpler XAML Markup

	# place to put click handlers
	@Code Application.Views.MainView
	# by default, textblocks use this style and do TextWrapping="Wrap"
	@Default TextBlock Style="{DefaultFontStyle}" Wrap
	# by default, Button uses this style
	@Default Button Style="{DefaultButtonStyle}"

	# tab indent represents child items
	PhoneApplicationPage
	Grid

shiftkey / WP7 - Memory Profiling Hijinks

Created February 4, 2011 01:50

Investigating memory usage of a trivial Panorama-based WP7 application.

	// Scenario:
	// Start with default WP7 Panorama application, two tabs each with listbox
	// Added child page with panorama control, two tabs each with listbox
	// Two ViewModels (Main and Child), each has a list of 270+ items
	// No relationship between the ViewModels. Lazy-loaded data in-memory

	Main - OnNavigatedTo - ApplicationCurrentMemoryUsage: 8036352
	Main - OnNavigatedTo - ApplicationPeakMemoryUsage: 8048640

	Main - Loaded - ApplicationCurrentMemoryUsage: 39870464

shiftkey / Memory Usage for WP7 App

Created February 5, 2011 03:37

A longer running test for navigating between two screens of a WP7 app

	Main - OnNavigatedTo - ApplicationCurrentMemoryUsage: 8036352
	Main - OnNavigatedTo - ApplicationPeakMemoryUsage: 8048640

	Main - Loaded - ApplicationCurrentMemoryUsage: 39862272
	Main - Loaded - ApplicationPeakMemoryUsage: 39899136

	Main - OnNavigatedFrom - ApplicationCurrentMemoryUsage: 51990528
	Main - OnNavigatedFrom - ApplicationPeakMemoryUsage: 52760576

	Child - OnNavigatedTo - ApplicationCurrentMemoryUsage: 51990528

shiftkey / Generic Parameters in IronRuby

Created March 22, 2011 14:10

	// here's the C# code we have to use

	namespace Application
	{
	public class Factory
	{
	public T Get<T>(string parameter) where T : Proxy
	{
	return default(T);
	}

shiftkey / ObservableCollection Overloads

Created April 19, 2011 11:18

Comparing the behaviour between IEnumerable<T> and List<T>

	public ObservableCollection(IEnumerable<T> collection)
	{
	this._monitor = new SimpleMonitor<T>();
	if (collection == null)
	{
	throw new ArgumentNullException("collection");
	}
	this.CopyFrom(collection);
	}

shiftkey / WAVEHDR

Created June 18, 2011 10:29

Example of a struct implemented as a class in C#

	// Example of a struct implementation for passing in information about a WAVE file
	// http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa446573.aspx

	/// <summary>
	/// This structure defines the header used to identify a waveform-audio buffer.
	/// typedef struct
	/// {
	/// LPSTR lpData;
	/// DWORD dwBufferLength;
	/// DWORD dwBytesRecorded;

shiftkey / SessionService.cs

Created July 4, 2011 05:20

Faking a service call using Caliburn Micro Coroutines

	using System;
	using System.ComponentModel.Composition;
	using System.Windows.Threading;
	using Caliburn.Micro;

	namespace CaliburnMicroSample.Services
	{
	[Export(typeof(ISessionService))]
	public class SessionService : ISessionService
	{

shiftkey / Program.cs

Created August 9, 2011 04:02

This is how you use TPL to crash your host process - don't ask me why you would use it in this way....

	static void Main(string[] args)
	{
	try
	{
	var factory = new TaskFactory();
	var task = factory.StartNew(() => { throw new Exception(); });
	task.Wait();
	}
	catch (Exception ex)
	{

shiftkey / gist:1161138

Created August 21, 2011 20:51

Some Tools

	Visual Studio 2010 SP1
	http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=23691

	Fiddler
	http://www.getfiddler.com/dl/Fiddler2BetaSetup.exe

	Silverlight Spy
	http://firstfloorsoftware.com/silverlightspy/download-silverlight-spy

	Expression Blend

shiftkey / gist:1178225

Created August 29, 2011 11:32

Enumerating Fun and Games in Ruby

	# all i wanted to do was this with what I thought was
	# an Enumerable set of posts using Jekyll

	{% for ps in site.posts.skip(3) %}
	<!-- partial view -->
	{% endfor %}

	# but i couldn't work out what type site.posts was at runtime
	# ( using .class didn't output anything
	# i stumbled (literally) across this alternate syntax which works

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