Shimmy on .NET

Tip: VB's 'My' namespace for Silverlight by Shimmy

Silverlight lacks the My namespace, but for those who are addicted to the My keyword, it can still be achieved manually. Open windows explorer and navigate to your project Add a new file MyExtension.vb to this folder (location and filename are optional) Include it in your project Add the below content to it Although the Info , Computer , and many other features are missing from the Silverlight runtime, you could use alternatives from System.Reflection etc. Here is a MyExtension.vb sample, you can...

TIP: Have the 'SILVERLIGHT' processor directive appear in intellisense in the ASP.NET host project (VB.NET) by Shimmy

Nothing special anyway, but I thought let's write it down briefly. In Silverlight solutions, especially when RIA Services is enabled, it's pretty common to use the SILVERLIGHT processor directive in the shared code and other. So the SILVERLIGHT directive is known in the Silverlight project, but in the ASP.NET there it doesn't appear in the intellisense, and since this is always valid, it's kinda error-prone when there is no intellisense support. To enable the intellisense simply open...

RequiredAttribute that validates collection fields by Shimmy

The System.ComponentModel.DataAnnotations namespace includes great classes for all that concerns validation and UI matters, for every .NET technology, especially ASP.NET MVC and Silverlight RIA Services . I think that the most used class of this namespace is the RequiredAttribute , that validates a field against nullity, or that a string should not be empty or whitespace. Today I created a class that has a List<T> (same applies to arrays, collections etc.) property, and I wondered if the RequiredAttribute...