Thread-safe enumeration in C#

I had a problem with the project I’m working on at work where on the base class I had a list which its child classes need to have access to in a read-only capacity but manipulation to the list itself is handled by the base class only. However, the standard C# List<T> and…

WPF — loading grab and grabbing cursors from resource

Of all the cursors that we come across on a daily basis, the grab

and grabbing

cursors are two notable absentees in the list of supported cursors in WPF/Silverlight.

.Net Tips — use a shared AssemblyInfo.cs for your solution

So often when you are working on a solution with multiple projects you will have to change the contents of the AssemblyInfo.cs file for each project so the DLLs show the correct company, trademark, and most importantly version…

WPF — how to bind ScaleTransform to Slider, percentage style!

Whilst working on an image view I needed the ability to bind the value of a Slider to a ScaleTransform as a percentage value and at the same time display the value of the slider in a label. So for a zoom range from 1% to…

Castle Windsor Tips — specifying generic types in config file

If you have an interface like this:

[code lang=”csharp”]
IDal
[/code]

AOP — Method execution time watcher with PostSharp

I found a nice usage of AOP the other day, using AOP to keep track of how long your method takes to execute and log a warning message if it takes longer than a threshold you supply. You can configure it to log execution times or only flag…