Archive for July, 2010

Detecting connection in Blackberry

Posted: 29th July 2010 by thegrayzone in Development
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This post is in response to an e-mail I received from Joerg. He was asking if I knew how to automatically switch on/off Bluetooth when a Blackberry is connected to an in-car charger. I’m not sure if there has been a change in the most recent API but when I tried something similar using v4.5.0 [...]

I’ve recently been using the Silverlight Report Viewer from Perpetuum Software. It’s the only real tool for viewing report services reports in Silverlight. The Problem Their start up example stores the report URL and data source credentials inside the web.config file. I wanted to encrypt these for added security and I also had to supply [...]

Background worker, passing and returning multiple parameters

Posted: 19th July 2010 by thegrayzone in Development
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I had a long running method that I decided to use the BackgroundWorker class to process. This process that the BackgroundWorker was running required multiple parameters to be passed to it, and it also returned multiple parameters back in the Completed method. Rather than create a custom object like I had done in the past [...]