System.ComponentModel.DataAnnotations offers a RangeAttribute that can be used to validate that a value is within a given range.  Silverlight 3’s SDK includes this assembly and .NET RIA Services and ASP.NET Dynamic Data use this too. Something that a few of us have stumbled on here internally is that the RangeAttribute... [Read More]

Warning: this post is almost a complete waste of time. Read at your own risk. Years ago, my team was working on a feature that required random passwords to be generated, hundreds at a time. While discussing different techniques for doing this, one of the guys suggested just using a... [Read More]

Glenn Block and I have been working together on the ViewModel pattern.  We’ve been trying to identify the biggest pain points associated with the pattern, with the goal of adding framework support to alleviate the pain.  Tonight, Glenn posted, “View Model” – the movie, cast your vote. I decided to... [Read More]

I’ve been doing some more batch file work recently.  I keep getting frustrated that batch files don’t have a way to send output to both the console and a file.  I decided to write a little console application to do this for me. This is largely untested – it’ll be... [Read More]

I am building an extensible application that can handle any kind of product data.  Back in February, I started looking into a Generic Data Model for Custom Product Types.  After getting some feedback from my blog, on StackOverflow, and having some conversations with a few people, here’s the schema that... [Read More]