AutoMapper’s ForMember
Calling AutoMapper’s ForMember has been bugging me lately with having to deal with its member configuration options like so: The member configuration options provides much more than just MapFrom but 99 times out of 100 I’m only dealing with MapFrom. What I’d really like is something like this: In looking around I did find http://trycatchfail.com/blog/post/A-More-Fluent-API-For-AutoMapper.aspx.…
System.Threading.Tasks and updating the UI thread
This is something that I couldn’t remember parts of earlier today so I figured I would add it to my “knowledge base”. I wanted to retrieve a TFS work item on a background thread in my ViewModel and have the UI update when complete. Specifically I wanted to retrieve the title of a TFS work…
Automating Quicken QIF Import
In my last post on receipt automation I rambled on about different things I was trying to automate and otherwise ease managing my finances digitally. One TODO item from that post was easing the process of importing transaction data in QIF format into Quicken. Quicken stopped supporting QIF import some time ago with a move…