RelativeSource Self

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Bottom is the new top

Wired UK says that Google is going to start pushing sites that have copyright infringement complaints to the bottom of the results. So when you search for a particular movie you'll get Netflix ahead of The Pirate Bay.

Won't this just make it easier to find pirated content by skipping to the last page of the Google results?

[bfranklin825]

Yoshi vs. Green Lantern - who will win?

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Sorting an IEnumerable List<of T> Randomly

To sort (or shuffle) a List<of T> randomly you can use the orderby clause and a new GUID as the sort operator:

List<String> myList = new List<String>(); var shufflelist = myList.OrderBy(a => Guid.NewGuid());

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XAML TwoWay Templatebinding

Template binding in Silverlight (and maybe WPF- I don't know) is set up to automatically default to a oneway binding, so this is oneway binding:

Text="{TemplateBinding Text}"

In order to bind a property from your viewmodel to something in your template and have it update both ways when it changes, you have to use the long form version of twoway binding, like so:

Text="{Binding Text, RelativeSource={RelativeSource TemplatedParent}, Mode=TwoWay}"