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In the past few hours, I have been struggling with binding a List to a ListView. Seems straighforward, however I also wanted to use a custom control as the item, and not just the string representation of the item.

Silverlight 5 introduces several noteworthy features, and a new fonts rendering system is among them. This post will explain how to employ it to beautify your application typografy and how to apply them using Silverlight Toolkit themes.

Silverlight 5 is out, and, despite rumors about its upcoming dismissal by Microsoft, the new version is appealing. The new typographical improvements for example are a neat feature to have. So let's see how to migrate your project to the new framework.

Ever fought with this on IE7?

A quick tip for those scratching their heads with this error when debugging Silverlight in Internet Explorer (and possibly other browsers):

The breakpoint will not currently be hit. 
No symbols have been loaded for this document.

When this happens, it means that the browser is not loading the correct binary. It could mean several things.

1. The browser is using a cached and outdated version of your binary files. You just need to clear the browser's cache! Hint: Click on the Wheel icon in IE - Developer tools. In my experience, this is the most common situation.
2. You have multiple silverlight components on one page, or you are using multiple browser pages. This is more complicated. If you can, you should alway use one single window when debugging, so you may want to load your popups in the main window temporarily, to allow debugging.

The JetPack themes are a great resource for those of you who seek a quick and elegant way to make your Silverlight applications look good and consistent. This post explains how to apply them to your existing Silverlight 4 project.

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Buona lettura! Palantir

This little installment is about the configuration of MapServer to work properly on IIS. All the guides available focus on the installation along with Apache, but this is not always an option, especially on microsoft based production servers.

Se avete bisogno di fare dei test che richiedono l'uso di SSL, è possibile creare un certificato autofirmato (self-signed SSL certificate) per far funzionare il protocollo HTTPS. In IIS7 è un'operazione semplicissima. In IIS6, un po' meno. Ecco i passi:

La Nokia ha una bella serie di cellulari, ed una serie di software di supporto da far girare su PC o Mac. Purtroppo spesso capita che qualcosa non funzioni. A me capita praticamente sempre. L'ultima era il caricamento delle mappe italiane su un 5230 usando il Map Loader per il Mac.