Now’s the time for you to take part in the decision for the agenda of DDD day 4 — voting opened today. Click here to vote for your favorite sessions!

I was just going to start submitting sessions for DDD 4 and I found a new restriction in place: DDD 4 speaker submission is only open to UK residents. As you may or may not know, I do live in the UK, so this doesn’t shut me out or anything — I just happen to find it a pretty rude decision, considering that speakers from other countries have been allowed to take part in previous DDD events, and they did so on their own expense. What do you think? I can come up with a few ideas about the rea …

DeveloperDeveloperDeveloper day 4 has just been announced, and it is already possible to submit sessions. I’m a little pressed for time right now, but I’ll certainly submit a number of sessions later.

Here’s one thing I have never really understood, apparently… all the time I’ve been using .NET, I’ve been working around this problem somehow. I hope somebody will be able to enlighten me, or maybe we can save the world together by finding a proper approach to this problem. The issue is something that I’m sure most people will have encountered if they program for .NET and they ever use threads — it’s well-known and -documented. Consider the following piece of code:

public partial  ...

I stumbled upon this yesterday. If an external class needs to be referenced in a XAML file, a namespace must be mapped for it, so the compiler knows where to find that class. For example, I had a DataTemplate for a specific type in my file:

<DataTemplate DataType="{x:Type arbitraryName:Klasse}">
  <StackPanel Orientation="Horizontal">
    <TextBlock Text="{Binding Path=Name}" />
    <TextBlock Text=", Jahrgang " />
    <TextBlock Text="{Binding Path=Anfangsjahr}" />
  </StackPanel>
</Da ...

I’m going to be a speaker at Basta! in Germany, talking about the role of the model in Developer Express’ eXpressApp Framework generated applications. XAF is obviously our implementation of the general idea, but this is not supposed to be a sales pitch — the idea is generally usable, whether you like XAF or not. I got some very positive feedback about this after doing a similar thing at DDD day 3 a few weeks back. Developer Express will also be exhibiting there, so this is the perfect time to …

Much sooner than Basta! (which I just blogged about) is the NRW 06 event in Duesseldorf, Germany. I’m going to be there as well, to do a talk about some of what Developer Express does, and to talk and demo to attendees directly. I’m looking forward to seeing you there!

The new version 1.2.3.2 is available for download from the Electric Editing page now.

Please don’t download this version if you’re still using CodeRush 1.X — the download is only for the new CodeRush 2.0 release!

While I do recommend that CodeRush (or DXCore) 2.0 users upgrade to this new release, I have only made a few minor changes for compatibility reasons. I don’t really expect any problems if you stay on the last version of ElectricEditing — but please, if you find interesting bugs …