In 2012 while working at eFront, I was in charge of the development of some Microsoft Office addin projects. At that time, we leveraged the COM/VSTO technologies to craft these extensions. The next year, I heard about this new generation...

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Keluro uses extensively DocumentDB for data persistence. However, it’s extensive scaling capabilities come with a price. Indeed with your queries or your commands you may exceed the amout of request unit you are granted. In that case you will received...

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This post follows a question that I asked on stackoverflow several months ago. I did not receive a satisfactory answer at that time. I will expose the solution that we found at Keluro for this problem.

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One of the great advantage of the MVVM pattern is that it allows you to test the Graphic User Interface logic of the application through the view models. The latter ones are in charge of ‘presenting’ the data to your...

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This second post of the “WPF must have” series deals with Resharper and its ability to find binding errors in XAML.

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This is the first post of a series in three parts where I will discuss what are the “must have” of any of my WPF/MVVM projects. This one is about dealing with design time data with the framework MVVM light. The sample...

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In this post I will describe a solution for easy localized strings management in XAML or C#. Precisely, we will use the usual recommended material for manipulating localized strings in .NET: resx files and the ResourceManager class. However, for XAML...

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In this post we will describe how to create a searchable list with WPF following MVVM principles. To this aim we will use a WPF ListView to display the searched items and a TextBox to enter the text used for the search. Most...

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For my build tasks I have been using MSBuild for a while. I found out that it is fine to use it for standard build tasks such as invoking msbuild.exe itself. However, when it comes to really custom actions it...

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I recently had a discussion with a friend about the Model-View-ViewModel pattern (MVVM) for UI apps and the fact that it allows unit testing where you would not have thought it possible in the first place, for example, logic involved...

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My current task at work is the development of an excel addin. This addin is developed in C# .NET and is based on the Excel Interop assemblies, we also use Excel DNA for the packaging and the User Defined functions. While developing...

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