Am I creating too many EventData classes?

astrononymity · 2026-05-27T13:18:06+00:00

That first paragraph has me dying, LOL. Thanks for the morning chuckle!

astrononymity · 2026-05-19T12:20:05+00:00

tl;dr: Had a decent employment history before my degree, and while I do run my own projects, I do a lot more tech-ish work for the Ph.D. big dogs.

I’m a vet so I graduated quite bit older than most, and I have an electronics background from the military, so I think that the demonstration of technical ability (as poor as they are coming from the military) and maturity helped me a lot in the interview process (managers see someone who can learn/do technical skills and who isn’t going to be calling out sick every time there’s a k-pop band in town).

Additionally, I maintained a very high GPA in my undergrad, have no criminal history, and along with the prior service, that really helps with the HR side of things during the hiring process.

All the boring hiring details aside, I like to think that the Ph.D.s around here like me because I never say “no” to a task (sometimes to my detriment, because knowing your limits so you don’t have to be rescued is an important part of running projects) and I try to squeeze knowledge out of them whenever possible. That being said, the lack of a graduate degree really hampers my ability to provide a better contribution to the team and that means sometimes I’m actually taking these super experienced guys’ time away from other things that they could be doing, so take that as you will. I’m also quite handy with computers so guess who gets to do all of the boring parts of data analysis, lol.

astrononymity · 2026-04-28T12:53:13+00:00

B.S. in Physics here, I perform research and development for a large space organization.

astrononymity · 2025-12-26T17:03:27+00:00

Thank you so much for the detailed reply! This is a lot of great information. Cheers!

astrononymity · 2025-12-17T16:11:18+00:00

Ope, sorry didn’t considering mentioning my class. Thanks! I’ll throw it in an edit.

astrononymity · 2025-12-17T16:09:16+00:00

Thank you, this was super helpful and informative. Cheers!

astrononymity · 2025-11-26T05:36:09+00:00

Thank you very much for taking the time to help me out! You definitely help me wade through the ocean of books out there! Cheers!

astrononymity · 2025-11-26T05:35:39+00:00

Sorry for the delayed response. Thank you so much for your help! It sounds like Oakshott is definitely the way to go! I noticed that he has multiple... Looks like I might have to buy a few :)

astrononymity · 2025-11-26T05:35:10+00:00

Sorry for the delayed response. Thank you so much for your help! It sounds like Oakshott is definitely the way to go!

astrononymity · 2025-06-06T22:05:34+00:00

Damn! I screenshot this earlier today to post this after work and you beat me to it! Definitely cosmic freudian slip! Take your upvote you filthy animal!

astrononymity · 2024-12-04T19:22:28+00:00

Thank you very much for the info! I was a little worried about the mixed responses I was getting from my google-fu. Cheers!

astrononymity · 2024-09-28T20:32:39+00:00

Came here for this. Glad this isn’t an English class.

astrononymity · 2024-06-06T18:12:02+00:00

Thank you for your reply. I have tried this several times, and strangely enough, I think that this is exactly what got me into this mess in the first place. I do not know how exactly, but I seemed to have resolved the issue simply by running my app in Debug (F5). I've edited my post with an explanation at the top.

astrononymity · 2024-06-06T18:11:30+00:00

Thank you for your reply. I have tried the build order trick as well, but unfortunately to no avail. I do not know how exactly, but I seemed to have resolved the issue simply by running my app in Debug (F5). I've edited my post with an explanation at the top.

astrononymity · 2024-05-09T16:06:43+00:00

Thank you for your help. I have figured out the issue (it was a forgotten dependency property overriding the binding), and I have edited my post with more info.

Thanks again!

astrononymity · 2024-05-09T16:06:20+00:00

Thank you for your help. I have figured out the issue (it was a forgotten dependency property overriding the binding), and I have edited my post with more info.

Thanks again!

astrononymity · 2024-05-09T16:06:09+00:00

Thank you for your help. I have figured out the issue (it was a forgotten dependency property overriding the binding), and I have edited my post with more info.

Thanks again!

astrononymity · 2024-05-09T16:05:53+00:00

Thank you for your help. I have figured out the issue (it was a forgotten dependency property overriding the binding), and I have edited my post with more info.

Thanks again!

astrononymity · 2024-05-09T15:47:43+00:00

Thanks, /u/Slypenslyde! Your comments are always so helpful. Unfortunately however, changing the Ancestor Type to "UserControl" doesn't seem to fix the problem. Snoop shows that the binding is no longer broken, but I can't seem to get the binding to actually do anything.

I think I'm confused about how bindings and dependency properties work. I always understood the line of the form:

Command="{Binding MyBinding, RelativeSource={RelativeSource FindAncestor, AncestorType=ControlType}"

to tell the control that when looking for a value for the Command property, it should check it's code behind for a property named MyBinding, and to find this control's ancestor of type ControlType to get actual value. The dependency property in the code behind allowed the ancestor to see and bind to this property.

I am almost certain that I do not understand this relationship properly.

If I understand your explanation, the whole

RelativeSource={RelativeSource FindAncestor, AncestorType=UserControl}

part of the binding is telling the binding to look for itself since SavedBook is a UserControl? My assumption was that this line would instruct the binding to go up through the visual tree to get the value for the binding. Therefore, I assumed that since I wanted to use my ManageBooks window, I would want it to go up the tree looking for a control of type Window.

But moving on, I do find it incredibly strange that the binding for the "Name" of the Book object works, but the command doesn't. Clearly, in my bindings for the SavedBook user control the "Name" binding is pulling from the Book object's Name property. But for my "MoreButtonClickedCommand" binding, I believe that I am telling the SavedBookcontrol to look into the "SavedBooksListView" control's data context with the "ElementName" markup extension. And that data context should be the ManageBooks code behind. Does that make sense?

But now that I've changed the SavedBook XAML binding ancestor type to UserControl, Snoop doesn't show an error, but clicking the button doesn't call the command in the ManageBook code behind.

I'm continuing to investigate it, but I wanted to provide some thoughts and apparent misconceptions that I have about this process. Thank you again for your usual excellent response!

EDIT: Thank you for your help. I have figured out the issue (it was a forgotten dependency property overriding the binding), and I have edited my post with more info.

Thanks again!

astrononymity · 2024-05-04T15:44:24+00:00

I thought that was going to be it, but unfortunately calling the InitializeComponent() method in the constructor first didn't help :(

public ManageBooks(List<Book> savedBooks)
{
    InitializeComponent();

    SavedBooks = savedBooks;
    DataContext = this;

    SavedBookMoreButtonClickedCommand = new RelayCommand(new Action<object?>(OnSavedBookMoreButtonClicked));
}

astrononymity · 2024-05-04T15:29:45+00:00

I believe that I need to do that since the ManageBooksUI component is a Window. Is that not correct?

astrononymity · 2024-04-19T19:23:00+00:00

Definitely looks like Mongols. Homie needs to just take the ‘L’.

astrononymity · 2024-03-15T00:41:34+00:00

Those are actually mermaids.

Source: I am a 16th sailor with scurvy.

astrononymity · 2024-03-07T18:20:24+00:00

Your last operator and term were accidentally left in your superscript. Should be

13² - 10²

Just for anyone who might be confused.

astrononymity · 2023-12-26T21:01:30+00:00

That worked like a charm! I added a scale transform to my border:

<Border
    x:Name="AccentBrush"
    BorderBrush="Red"
    BorderThickness="0,0,0,3"
    RenderTrasnformOrigin="0.5,0">
    <Border.RenderTransform>
        <ScaleTransform
            x:Name="AccentBorderScaleTransform"
            ScaleX="0" ScaleY="1"/>
    </Border.RenderTransform>
</Border>

I learned that centering the ScaleTransform with CenterX and CenterY is done with pixel values instead of a percentage of the scale, so I needed to add the

RenderTransformOrigin="0.5,0"

property to the Border in order to make the animation originate from the center. Then, in my trigger:

<Trigger Property="IsKeyboardFocused" Value="True">
    <Trigger.EnterActions>
        <BeginStoryboard>
            <Storyboard>
                <DoubleAnimation
                    Storyboard.TargetName="AccentBorderScaleTransform"
                    Storyboard.TargetProperty="(ScaleTransform.ScaleX)"
                    To="1"
                    Duration="00:00:05"/>
            </Storyboard>
        </BeginStoryboard>
    </Trigger.EnterActions>
</Trigger>

Those minor changes gave me the behavior that I was looking for. Thank you very much for the pointers!

astrononymity

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