Korayem/programming

From the page: "Between being extremely short handed at work, tech' reviewing a new book, a possible book proposal of my own, and an unsettled situation at work, I'm having a hard time finding time to create new content for the blog. So to bide time and fill a request for a rehash of some of my older posts, here's a "best of" compendium from the last year and a half. New stuff will appear soon-ish."

From the page: "Galleria is a javascript image gallery written in jQuery. It loads the images one by one from an unordered list and displays thumbnails when each image is loaded. It will create thumbnails for you if you choose so, scaled or unscaled, centered and cropped inside a fixed thumbnail box defined by CSS.

The core of Galleria lies in it's smart preloading behaviour, snappiness and the fresh absence of obtrusive design elements. Use it as a foundation for your custom styled image gallery. "

From the page: "This plugin integrates the Google Ajax Language API to jQuery. You can just call e.g. $('body').translate('en') but provides callbacks for each translated element too. Or you can pass an array to $.translate to get back a translated array. Currently you can only send at most 500 characters with the raw API per request but this plugin calls them consecutively. It also reduces the number of requests by concatenating elements and doesn't send unnecessary html markup still providing access to each element as they've got translated. It provides a similar function and method for language detection too. "

From the page: "For those that have read some of my other CodeProject.com articles, you will probably know that I am not shy about trying out new technologies. One good thing about that is that I generally share what I learn right here and this article is one of the hardest ones I've done, IMHO. This article is about how to create a peer-to-peer chat application using Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) and also how to make it look nice using Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF).

When I first started reading about WCF, the first place I looked was the MSDN WCF Samples (which I read a lot), but they weren't that great. I also found lots of chat apps based on the MSDN versions, which were no good, as they could not return the list of users within the chat application. I wanted to create a nice WPF styled app with the list of connected chatters. "

From the page: "This application is built on the WCF .NET Framework 3.0. It uses duplex communication and TCP binding (for some reasons that are discussed later in this article). It concentrates on handling and controlling a WCF service that has to make reliable sessions with many clients and keep those connections alive as long as possible.

The application UI is built on WPF .NET Framework 3.0, and here I have to say that I am not good in WPF, and I haven't used animations; I just wanted it to look better, so I chose WPF."

From the page: "Changing a LINQ expression dynamically (at runtime) depending on the userâ€s input is one of the problems that are often discussed in forums and blogs. I know at least three solutions proposed by Tomas Petricek tomasp.net/blog/linq-expand.aspx [tomasp.net/blog/linq-expand.aspx] ), Joe Albahari albahari.com/nutshell/predicatebuilder.html [albahari.com/nutshell/predicatebuilder.html] ) and implemented in the DynamicQuery MS sample. In this article I want to show how rewrite rules can be defined as lambda expressions and used to transform expressions (queries). This technique may provide the following benefits: "

From the page: "One of the challenges encountered by developers looking to get acquainted with LINQ to SQL, is how to use it with SQL Server Compact Edition (SSCE), version 3.5. We were told LINQ will work with SQL Server for now; with more providers on the way (possibly not until LINQ to Entities is released). However, if you try to drag some tables from a Compact Edition data connection onto a new LINQ to SQL designer canvas, you'll witness a nasty error dialog stating that the provider is not supported!"