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As helpful as it was, WinRT lacks the ability to supply a string format, although it appears as though WPF still supports it in .NET 4.5. String format is extremely useful, allowing you to provide a format pattern in your Xaml and not have to jump through hoops.

I love Caliburn.Micro. It's a great library that adds a ton of ease to developing WP7 and WPF applications. It has treated me exceptionally well. Today, I found an issue.

A random Twitterizer developer that emailed me was attempting to pull data for multiple users all in background threads, but noticed that his requests started to be rejected by Twitter. I proposed that it was possibly a spam countermeasure by the Twitter API, and that he needed to throttle his requests. He had no idea how to do that. Seeing an excellent challenge, I jumped into Visual Studio and created the following console application.

Last night I was playing around and ended up creating a new project to the small collection of example applications for the Twitterizer library. I ended up working around a complaint that a lot of desktop application developers have about implementing OAuth: PIN-Based authentication.

It was pushed on me this week to modify a windows forms application I have been working on so that a DataGridView control was sortable. Since i’m a web guy, this turned out to be quite a challenge. There didn’t seem to be an immediately clear way to go through with this, short of dumping my data set (a generic List) into a dataset.