Preface The Do’s + Don’ts of the Advertising SDK say “DO plan for times when no ads are available.” The links of that item leads to the ErrorCode enumeration and a rudimentarily error handling sample, writing text to debug output. In this post, I will show an error handling where …
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Preface No, this is not the first sample to be found in the internet on this topic. Anyway, I decided to add another one because the two I was looking at (see links below) gave good ideas, but did not satisfied me at all. Changes to App.xaml.cs To begin, new …
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Preface According to the documentation, AdControls are hosted in a WebView control. For some reasons I was not able to figure out, WebView controls do not slide in when a page loads (or pop in, whatever the correct wording is). This means that your AdControl will not slide in neither. …
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Preface The Microsoft Advertising SDK for Windows 8 allows developers to show ads in their apps. When you look at the walkthrough for putting ads in an app using XAML/C#, you can see that you have to set the ApplicationId and AdUnitId property of each AdControl control in your app. …
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Preface I know, the concept of app.config files is not part of Windows Store App development. The docs and postings say that one should use local or roaming settings. But I needed something to pass environment depending initial data to the app. One scenario I can think of is the …
My latest application required a RadGridView having a dynamic number of columns. And therefor, the binding of the data an event handler needed to by managed during runtime as well. Not really in issue: handle the RowLoaded event, iterate over the cells of the row passed by the event arguments, …
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I like Silverlight, Telerik’s GridView control and the ability to create the columns of a grid dynamically. Recently, I had to build up a grid during runtime. The number of columns and the header text is unknown at design time (read it from the database), but nothing to worry about. …
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Private accessors are really helpful for extensive unit testing. But they do have their limitations. I wrote a generic protected method having a declaration like this: protected ReturnType MyMethod<T>(OneClass, DateTime, DateTime, Func<OtherClass, T>, out List<T>); Calling this method via an accessor in my unit test, I ran into an exception …
From what I learned, printing in Silverlight (4) is straight forward: Create a control and print it. I used this pattern in a Silverlight application I built. Because I had to implement some multipage- and list handling, I created user controls that I added into a stack panel of the …
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Having generics in .NET is a great thing. I already loved template classes in C++, missed them in .NET 1.x, and was happy to get a (little bit restricted) kind of templates in .NET 2.0. Building a Silverlight application, I felt the need to create a generic UserControl base class. …
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