Writing multi-threaded code is hard.  Very hard.  Writing multi-threaded UI code is even harder.  Much harder.  See, user interface components are generally not thread safe.  You can't modify properti

Avoid control inheritance. I knew this rule.  I've read it several times from many different sources.  I've even given this advice to others.  However, I'm also guilty of forgetting this rule. Recentl

These are now available, and there's much new in here. I'm going to provide some links to the pertinent stuff. VS 2008 Service Pack 1: Executable: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=122094 (Dire

I'm not sure how useful this is, but it's a fun little thought experiment at the very least.  The goal here is to randomize the order of an IEnumerable<T> via an extension method.  It's actually a rat

Oh wow!  This is one I've been wanting almost since the day I started learning WPF.  It seemed like such a huge thing missing from WPF.  How in the heck do you manage to make an attached read-only dep