Silverlight Toolbox GestureListener not working great when developing using Remote Desktop

The Silverlight for Windows Phone Toolkit is working fine in normal environments, great toolkit. However when I started developing WP7 apps in the living room and used a Remote Desktop connection to the development machine I encountered very bad gesture responses in the Windows 7 Emulator. The Flick gesture on the emulator screen didn't do anything (well about 1 out of 100). Doing it again 1 minute later on de development machine without RDS and it worked all the time. Other gestures worked fine. Maybe it's something with the mouse events?

The XAML code I used:

<toolkit:GestureService.GestureListener>
    <toolkit:GestureListener Flick="GestureListener_Flick">
    </toolkit:GestureListener>
</toolkit:GestureService.GestureListener>

Code behind:

   1: if (ViewModel.ViewModelLocator.MainStatic.TossCmd.CanExecute(e))

   2: {

   3:     ViewModel.ViewModelLocator.MainStatic.TossCmd.Execute(e);

   4: }

Setting a breakpoint on line 1 never kicked in.

Property Bag issues

This time a minor blog post. It’s more for myself so I don’t forget.

This time it’s about the property bag in various object in SharePoint 2010. The problem I came across was how to remove a property bag key-value. But lets start at the beginning.

1- Add an value to the property bag.

 

//set value on (a new) Property bag 
if (web.Properties.ContainsKey("ExpireOn"))   
{   
    web.Properties["ExpireOn"] = "some sting";   
}   
else   
{   
    web.Properties.Add("ExpireOn","some string");   
}
web.Properties.Update();

2- Remove an item from property bag

//Remove Property bag  
//Does not work 
////web.Properties.Remove("ExpireOn");  
////web.Properties.Update();  
            
//Does work  
web.Properties["ExpireOn"] = null;  
web.Properties.Update();

As you can see, using Remove doesn’t work. You should set the value to null, call Update() on properties to persist the change to the database. At this point the null-ed Property bag key-value will be removed from the collection.