I think all Resharper users are familiar with snippets. Resharper's snippet basically generates a piece of code, which can be easily customised on the fly. All you have to do is to press TAB, and you can change names of auto-generated variables etc. Today, I decided to write my own snippet, which would make writing unit tests easier. In general, all my unit test methods looks like this

In the company I’m currently working for, it is a common practice to use Devexpress XtraReports to create all kind of reports. Usually these reports are embedded into html page and used along with DevexpressReportViewer. However, lately I have been asked to open a report as a PDF file, without putting a viewer into a html page.

It is a common practice to validate function arguments before running actual code. Usually validation looks like that:

I’ve been working with ASP .NET combined with Extjs for about half a year. All this time for debugging I’ve been using Firebug in Firefox, or Developer Tools in Chrome. Although both of these tools are great, I decided to try to use build in WebStorm debugger. According to documentation this debugger should work with Firefox as well as with Chrome. However I’ve only managed to run it correctly with Firefox. In order to start debugging session, we have to make some preparation. Let’s choose option Debug... from Run menu

Recently I’ve encountered annoying problem with Extjs grid. After hiding columns with long wrapped text, height of rows was dramatically increased. Here are some screens presenting this particular situation. Grid with all columns shown

In this post I will present a simple plugin to Ext.panel.Grid which displays validation errors on a grid. The validation mechanism is based on the model validation - useful feature of Extjs framework. Let’s start from creating a simple model:

A couple of weeks ago I wrote a post about creating a mutiselectable datepicker. The idea of creating this component was to use the object inheritance. Today, I would like to show how to create a multiselectable datepicker as a plugin to Ext.date.Picker. The code responsible for selecting dates is almost the same, the only thing which must be changed is the component initialization and access to the datepicker component. In order to make a plugin to any Ext.Component class, you must implement the init method which takes as argument a reference to the component - so let’s change the existing code to meet this requirement. We need to rename initComponent function to init. In addition to, we should delete the extend property from our code. After these changes the init function looks like this:

Today, I would like to present my concept of making skinnable application in Windows Phone 7.1. Making a skinnable application in Windows Phone might be a little bit tricky. Unfortunately, WP7 doesn’t support DynamicResource keyword which is a basic tool for making skins in WPF. In order to overcome this inconvenience I decided to write a SkinManager for WindowsPhone.