by: Saurabh Nandu on: 16-May-2013 in: Programming A client we recently worked for had a ClickOnce WPF application developed by some other team who could not figure out how to use the Code Signing certificate from GoDaddy with ClickOnce. Unless the ClickOnce deployment is correctly signed Windows 8 Smart Screen Filter will not let the user install the application in Windows 8. In older versions of Windows, unsigned deployments show a Unverified Publisher message and discourage the users from installing your application. This application was meant to be distributed over the internet and it meant doom for the client who had invested so much in getting the application built, but was being stopped from rollout due to this issue. We were able to resolve the issue for the client with a bumpy ride. This blog post tries to describe the process that worked for us, hopefully it will serve as a guidance to all those who are hitting against a brick wall trying to resolve this issue with very little guidance from GoDaddy documentation.
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by: Saurabh Nandu on: 29-Mar-2013 in: Programming Recently, we were working on a client project where the client required multiple Windows Based Client Applications to be able to work offline and synchronize with the master MS SQL Database (hosted on the internet), when internet connection is available. We faced several challenges in building this application and I thought it would be a good idea to blog the solution we created for the client. In this post we have tried to build upon the samples provided by Microsoft but explain the whole process so that its easier for others to understand and implement this platform. This blog post does not try to explain in detail how sync framework works, but tries to explain the deployment and creation of WCF based web service to sync between server and clients over the internet.
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by: Nilesh Anchan on: 23-Mar-2013 in: Programming Recently I found myself in need of uncheck my selected Radio Button in WPF (Windows Presentation Framework). Unfortunately Radio Button has an unchecked event but it doesn’t fire. I thought of implementing uncheck onClick event, but even in this case it always givesChecked valuetrue after clicking on Radio Button. I started searching for examples in internet, but didn’t find an appropriate way to achieve this. One way I thought of styling the Checkbox to look like a Radio Button, but doing so is also had few issues. Then I thought of extending the Radio Button and use Dependency Property to achieve the same. This article describes the implementation of the Radio Button that supports uncheck and the way you can use it in your own applications. You can find the full implementation ofRadioButtonExtensionclass in the attached demo.
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