Derik Whittaker

TypeScript references not being created correctly during drag-n-drop

One of the viewers of my Html for the XAML developer course over on Pluralsight sent me a question regarding the ability to drag and drop a d.ts file onto a TypeScript file and have the reference added correctly. He said that when he dropped the d.ts...

Published 05-13-2013 6:49 AM by Derik Whittaker

Filed under: Typescript

Typescript Bundler Issue - Not transforming to JavaScript

Today one of the viewers of my Pluralsight course was having issues and I was trying to help him via email, but to no avail. I asked him to send me his project so I could take a look myself. I ran the project and sure enough things were odd. I looked...

Published 05-11-2013 1:42 PM by Derik Whittaker

Filed under: Typescript

Putting the Dynamic back into TypeScript

One of the really powerful features that TypeScript brings to the JavaScript world is some Static Typing, even if it is only at code/compile time. With TypeScript I can say that an object is of a certain type which implies there are only a limited...

Published 05-08-2013 5:56 AM by Derik Whittaker

Filed under: JavaScript, Typescript

My first Pluralsight course (HTML for the XAML Developer) as gone live

For the past 2 months I have been working on my first Pluralsight course , and it has finally gone LIVE. I had a great time building this course and I hope it shows. In fact I enjoyed it so much I am currently working on my 2nd course. This...

Published 05-06-2013 6:08 AM by Derik Whittaker

Filed under: Pluralsight

Inheritance issue w/ Typescript (JavaScript) and MVC Bundling Ordering

Today I extended one of our classes to use inheritance via Typescript (love that). When I refreshed the page I received an error here When I dropped to the Chrome debugger and outputted both the values for both ‘d’ and ‘b’ I was...

Published 04-30-2013 8:08 AM by Derik Whittaker

Filed under: .Net, ASP.Net MVC, JavaScript, Typescript

Knockout Click binding and the ‘this’ context

When using Knockout JS wiring to the click binding is cake and simply just works. Or does it? Per the documentation there are multiple ways to wire the click binding within your html. Assume you have a method such as (the code below is TypeScript...

Published 04-29-2013 8:05 AM by Derik Whittaker

Filed under: Typescript, Knockout.js

Validating all observables w/ Knockout validation and Typescript

Knockout js is an awesome MVVM framework for HTML/Javascript development and there is an extension library which performs data validation called Knockout.Validation which is an equally awesome library. Today when doing some coding I needed to validate...

Published 04-21-2013 5:52 AM by Derik Whittaker

Filed under: JavaScript, Typescript, Knockout.js

Typescript, jQuery and the ‘this’ context causing issues

Today I was in the middle of porting some raw javascript over to TypeScript as well as moving inline javascript into separate classes. In the middle of doing this I started to run into some really odd stuff. Namely, the ‘this’ context in one...

Published 04-12-2013 10:36 AM by Derik Whittaker

Filed under: jQuery, Typescript

Moving a TFS Git Repository to Github

We gave using the git support in TFS the old college try but the friction and issues were just too much so we decided to move our repository over to github. I am not going to go over our issues w/ TFS git here, but I am thinking of creating a separate...

Published 04-09-2013 6:16 AM by Derik Whittaker

Filed under: GitHub, Git

Using Entity Framework Profiler to find Undisposed Object Context’s

If you are using Entity Framework, or any other ORM for that matter you need to head over to Hibernating Rhinos and buy a copy of Entity Framework Profiler, the license will pay for itself in no time flat. When using any ORM, but in our case EF it is...

Published 03-29-2013 8:17 AM by Derik Whittaker

Filed under: Entity Framework

Windows 8 Development w/ C# and XAML – Video Shoot

A while back I was commissioned to do a video series for Pearson Education. This series will be available on their site as well as on Safari online in the near future. One of the unique things Pearson does for their videos is video headshots of you introducing...

Published 03-22-2013 7:06 AM by Derik Whittaker

Filed under: XAML, WinRT, Windows 8

Deploying Database Projects with psake

Recently I joined a project that was using a Sql Server Database Project to manage their DB scheme and so far it is pretty cool. This project type like others has a deploy/publish option which will allow you to publish your changes to a target database...

Published 03-19-2013 5:32 AM by Derik Whittaker

Filed under: PSake, Powershell

Where to put custom Knockout Binding Implementations

The other day I was creating my first Knockout Custom Binding which was pretty straight forward. But I was a bit stumped as to what was the ‘best’ practice for where to put this custom binding. Of course I did not want to put it in my view...

Published 03-17-2013 6:10 AM by Derik Whittaker

0 to 60 with Web API Slide Deck from Columbia Enterprise Guild

The other night I had the opportunity to head down to Columiba SC to speak at their Enterprise Guild about Web API. First I would like to thank everyone who showed up, I had a great time and I hope everyone found the information useful. Below is the content...

Published 03-15-2013 4:34 AM by Derik Whittaker

Filed under: asp.net, Speaking, WebApi

Working on my first Pluralsight course – Html for the XAML Developer

It’s official, I have been commissioned to author my first Pluralsight course and I am pretty excited. My first course is going to be ‘Html for the XAML Developer’. The objective for this course is to walk a XAML developer (Sliverlight...

Published 03-08-2013 5:27 AM by Derik Whittaker

Filed under: ASP.Net MVC, XAML, Pluralsight

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