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The type initializer for +’System.Windows.PresentationSource’ threw an exception.

April 13, 2015 brianseekford Leave a comment

I had an issue with a 3rd party control. I couldn’t blame them too much since the issue only happened…

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Posted in: WPF Filed under: 2013, C#, crash, error, hosted, MFC, PresentationSource, visual studio, wpf, wrapper

How to display a different value in a WPF combobox based on selection

March 18, 2015 brianseekford Leave a comment

I couldn’t figure out a great way to title this post. Anyway, the issue I had was having a (none)…

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Posted in: WPF Filed under: blank, ComboBox, none, wpf

FIX: TabControl in WPF Shows wrong tab if Active Tab is Invisible

March 6, 2015 brianseekford Leave a comment

You want to dynamically show or hide tabs in WPF. Say, some only show up if a certain option is…

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Posted in: .NET Development, C#, WPF Filed under: active tab, collapsed, hidden, selecteditem, stupid wpf, tabcontrol, visibility, wpf

How to center or right align the Header in the WPF RadGridView by Telerik?

November 20, 2014 brianseekford Leave a comment

Telerik is not the best at providing documentation on how to do things, so I figured I would write some…

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Posted in: WPF Filed under: Alignment, center, header, i like turtles, radgridview, Telerik, wpf

How to run a batch file with administrator priveleges with automatic elevation

November 19, 2014 brianseekford Leave a comment

Do you have build scripts that require you run commands elevated. Do you forget to click run as admin then…

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Posted in: .NET Development, C#, IT Knowledge Filed under: administrator, automatic elevation, batch, build as a boss, msbuild, runas admin

WPF Validation Errors not showing on initial load of control or window

August 7, 2014 brianseekford Leave a comment

I was setting validation errors on the initial load of my view model, and to my annoyance the window would…

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Posted in: .NET Development, C#, WPF Filed under: binding, C#, error, fail, load, not working, red, Validation, wpf

How to access legacy forms checkboxes and ActiveX checkboxes in Word using C#!

February 27, 2014 brianseekford 1 Comment

Apparently, doing this simple task is not well documented. None of my searches lead to anything useful, so here is…

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Posted in: .NET Development, C#, Office Development

How to unshelve a shelveset from one branch into another branch!

September 17, 2013 brianseekford Leave a comment

I was doing a lot of work in our Main branch for a new version of our software. Lo and…

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Posted in: .NET Development, C# Filed under: branch, shelf, shelveset, TFS, unshelve

Speed up WPF XAML Editor in Visual Studio 2012

August 15, 2013 brianseekford Leave a comment

Tired of the stupid XAML editor being so slow. Mine freezes, locks up and is otherwise unruly. I didn’t seem…

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Posted in: WPF Filed under: buggy, crash, designer, flow, hate and spite, kill, wpf

How to add a picture to a worksheet in Word and Excel using VSTO with c# and autosize

August 7, 2013 brianseekford Leave a comment

Here is a really simple example of adding a picture without really needing to know the dimensions of the image.…

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Posted in: Office Filed under: AddPicture, AutoSize, Excel, Picture, Scale, VSTO, word

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