High Speed Internet

The first time I connected to internet was some 9 years back, I got my own internet connection around 8 years back, and at that point of time I used to get 56 Kbps speed, and today I have a 512 Kbps line.

Is this speed enough for me? Hell no.. why not? because even today I can’t watch my videos directly off the web. Although I can watch low quality videos online, but now I want HD quality. I wonder if I will ever be satisfied with my connection.

WPF Converter values

I posted this at stackoverflow : http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3204422/wpf-corelating-multibindings-and-converters-values

The problem was how do you handle indexes when your converter value array is of large size. I thought over it and come up with this:

https://www.assembla.com/code/TechnologyAndMe/subversion/nodes/ConverterValues
(Download complete source using a SVN client from http://subversion.assembla.com/svn/TechnologyAndMe/ConverterValues/)

So now all you have to do is :

Here Prop1,Prop2,Prop3 are the actual values that you want to pass to the converter, Value1, Value2, Value3 are just ids for Properties below them. Now in the converter, just use my BoundValues class and accessing the properties become as easy as saying :

public object Convert(object[] values, Type targetType, object parameter, CultureInfo culture)
{
 var boundValues = new BoundValues(values);

 return string.Format("{0} {1} {2}", 
  boundValues["Value1"], boundValues["Value2"], boundValues["Value3"]);
}

Where BoundValues["Value1"] returns value of Prop1, so now I no longer have to worry about managing the sequence of bindings in my XAML.