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We are hiring!

Posted on July 28, 2010 by Gabriel Schenker

We (TOPAZ Technologies Ltd.) are looking for a junior developer ideally having 1-2 years of experience. If you are eager to work in an agile environment together with a highly motivated team then do not hesitate to contact me. On … Continue reading →

Posted in developer, hiring, job | 7 Comments

Git and our friction points and beginners mistakes

Posted on June 18, 2010 by Gabriel Schenker

Introduction A couple of days ago I posted an article talking about our migration from SVN to Git. During our first handful of days working with Git our team found several friction points hindering our daily work flow and we … Continue reading →

Posted in Git, Workflow | 8 Comments

Migrating to Git

Posted on June 15, 2010 by Gabriel Schenker

This weekend our development team migrated to Git. As any other migration this migration introduced some friction at the very beginning. But all in all I think it went rather smooth. Disclaimer This post is mainly thought as a self … Continue reading →

Posted in Git, Workflow | 9 Comments

Working with code based templates in Silverlight

Posted on May 27, 2010 by Gabriel Schenker

Introduction In our Silverlight projects we are using the AgDataGrid of DevExpress to visualize data. I wrote some expressions that make it possible to use this data grid with Fluent Silverlight. During the writing of those expressions once again I … Continue reading →

Posted in fluent Silverlight, How To, Silverlight, Styles and Templates | 1 Comment

Creating a bootstrapper with dotNetInstaller

Posted on May 19, 2010 by Gabriel Schenker

Introduction In previous post I described how to create a Microsoft Installer package with the WIX framework and how to create managed custom actions for an installer created with WIX. We are distributing our products to clients having different environments. … Continue reading →

Posted in bootstrapper, How To, installation, WIX | 6 Comments

WIX and Custom Actions

Posted on May 18, 2010 by Gabriel Schenker

Introduction I write this blog-post mainly because I found it hard to get the necessary information about how to create custom actions for WIX. Documentation is sparse and/or incomplete as in many other OSS projects. In a previous blog post … Continue reading →

Posted in tutorial, WIX | 10 Comments

Fluent Silverlight – Binding control events to actions

Posted on January 27, 2010 by Gabriel Schenker

Please view the table of content of this series for reference. Introduction A typical Silverlight application (or any application with a GUI) contains elements or controls like command buttons , menu items, text boxes etc. The user of the application … Continue reading →

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Fluent Silverlight – Table of content

Posted on January 8, 2010 by Gabriel Schenker

In a series of posts I would like to introduce our Fluent Silverlight framework and discuss the important concepts behind it and describe some implementation details. This post will be updated continuously as I am adding new posts to the … Continue reading →

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Fluent Silverlight – static reflection

Posted on January 8, 2010 by Gabriel Schenker

Please view the table of content of this series for reference. In my last post about binding dependency properties of a Silverlight control to a view model I used LINQ expressions to define the binding. I have written in the … Continue reading →

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Fluent Silverlight – Binding dependency properties to model properties

Posted on January 7, 2010 by Gabriel Schenker

Please view the table of content of this series for reference. In my previous posts (here and here) I discussed how one can build a fluent API for the definition of objects. In the context of Fluent Silverlight these objects … Continue reading →

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