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Manning has something called MEAP (Manning Early Access Programme), where they make available unedited drafts of chapters for people who apply for MEAP. It’s not free, but they usually give one free MEAP chapter. My book’s chapter 1 is now available for free from the Manning MEAP page for my book (other MEAP chapters are [...]

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Here’s an article I wrote for The Code Project that shows how you can drag and drop a virtual file (one that does not physically exist on disk) from your app into Windows Explorer. It’s useful for scenarios like extracting a file from an archive or where the source file is on a remote machine. [...]

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The Government of Kerala (my state in India) has passed a ruling that public schools in the state will base their computer curriculum entirely on Linux. Initially the idea was to give schools the option to choose between Microsoft and Linux, but later this was narrowed down to limiting any Microsoft related topics to that [...]

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I was using ShowDialog to show a Xaml window and was surprised to find that it wasn’t easy to get it to center on the calling Window. Setting the WindowStartupLocation property to CenterOwner did not seem to have much effect. That’s when I realized that the Owner has to be explicitly set. Now, I was [...]

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