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WPF Quick Tip: How to get WPF Window client area size
Sunday, September 20, 2009 12:18 AM

This time my quick tip will be not about the Silverlight, but about WPF. When you have WPF window, the runtime size of it could be discovered by ActualWidth/ActualHeight properties. In most cases this is enough. But what about the case, when you need... Read More...

by DevCorner

Filed under: WPF, .NET 3.0, .NET, c#, .NET 3.5, DEV, Csharp, Size, Win32 API, .NET 4.0, Windows

Silverlight Quick Tip: How to Perform a Hit Test
Tuesday, August 11, 2009 2:54 AM

In some cases, especially when developing rich UI application developer need to identify which control were clicked or under mouse pointer at some point of time or just under some coordinate at the UI. For those purposes Silverlight provides “FindElementsInHostCoordinates... Read More...

by DevCorner

Filed under: .NET 3.0, .NET, Silverlight, c#, Silverlight 2, DEV, Silverlight 3, Hit Test, Csharp

MVVM – Philosophy and Case Studies - Introduction
Tuesday, July 07, 2009 10:49 PM

There’s been a lot of talk lately about MVVM (Model-View-ViewModel) in the WPF and Silverlight space. Recently, Ward Bell had an interesting post on the subject where he digs into some of the patterns he is using to support his MVVM triads. The... Read More...

by .NET & Funky Fresh : WPF/e

Filed under: WPF/E, WPF, .NET 3.0, Silverlight, .NET 3.5, databinding, MVVM, UI Architecture

Caliburn Moved and Documentation Added!
Tuesday, October 21, 2008 11:23 PM

Caliburn has a new home on CodePlex .  You can find it at http://www.codeplex.com/caliburn .  Additionally, I have added a full set of documentation that is available online .  The documentation loosely follows the samples I have created... Read More...

by .NET & Funky Fresh : WPF/e

Filed under: WPF/E, WPF, .NET 3.0, XAML, Silverlight, .NET 3.5, Caliburn, databinding

Caliburn Alpha for WPF AND Silverlight is Here!
Sunday, October 12, 2008 10:03 PM

Caliburn is a framework designed to aid in the development of WPF and Silverlight applications. It implements a variety of UI patterns that are geared towards solving problems encountered in real-world scenarios. It's goals are: Support building WPF... Read More...

by .NET & Funky Fresh : WPF/e

Filed under: WPF/E, WPF, .NET 3.0, XAML, Silverlight, RIA, Caliburn, Featured

Caliburn Progress
Thursday, September 18, 2008 3:25 PM

Some of you may be wondering about the status of Caliburn.  I'm presently working on the new version and am having great success making it compatible with both WPF and Silverlight.  It hasn't been easy, but it is going to work. ... Read More...

by .NET & Funky Fresh : WPF/e

Filed under: WPF/E, WPF, .NET 3.0, XAML, Silverlight, RIA, .NET 3.5, Caliburn, Featured

What's Up With Caliburn?
Tuesday, June 24, 2008 1:19 PM

After asking some questions of the community and doing some thinking, I've finally devised a plan of action for Caliburn: I'm going to freeze the current source code where it's at.  Anyone who is using it can be assured that it's... Read More...

by .NET & Funky Fresh : WPF/e

Filed under: WPF/E, WPF, .NET 3.0, XAML, Silverlight, RIA, .NET 3.5, Caliburn, Featured

Prism and Caliburn's Future
Friday, June 06, 2008 9:24 AM

First I'd like to say that I'm stoked about the work the Prism team has been doing.  I have to admit that when they started out in January to deliver a set of guidance for building composite WPF applications, I was skeptical.  ... Read More...

by .NET & Funky Fresh : WPF/e

Filed under: WPF/E, WPF, .NET 3.0, XAML, Silverlight, .NET 3.5, Caliburn, Featured

Caliburn Tutorial Part 2
Thursday, June 05, 2008 10:42 AM

Hadi has just posted part 2 of his tutorial on building composite applications with Caliburn. In this post he covers basic usage of the EventBroker, ActionMessages and shows one way of putting the pieces together by using the PresenterHost control. Great... Read More...

by .NET & Funky Fresh : WPF/e

Filed under: WPF/E, WPF, .NET 3.0, XAML, Silverlight, .NET 3.5, Caliburn, databinding, Tutorial

Off to the Printers!
Wednesday, June 04, 2008 4:13 PM

The WPF book Christopher and I wrote earlier this year is finally off to the printers! It's 480 pages of full color goodness. We were pretty excited to have the opportunity to talk about things like SoC/SRP, DI, MVP, etc within the context of building... Read More...

by .NET & Funky Fresh : WPF/e

Filed under: WPF/E, WPF, .NET 3.0, XAML, Silverlight, Animation, 3D, .NET 3.5, Caliburn, databinding, Control Templates

Caliburn Feature Profile
Tuesday, May 27, 2008 9:34 AM

I've just put together a document briefly describing the current set of features that Caliburn supports.  I've added it to the official documentation and copied it below.  If you are new to Caliburn, this should give you a good idea... Read More...

by .NET & Funky Fresh : WPF/e

Filed under: WPF/E, WPF, .NET 3.0, XAML, Silverlight, .NET 3.5, Caliburn, databinding, Featured

.NET 3.0 Crash Course - Part 8: WPF Conclusion
Tuesday, January 30, 2007 8:31 PM

Before we move on to WF I want to mention a few more WPF resources and give some other directions for you to pursue in your learning of this pillar. With the release of .NET 3.0 in December, there has been a lot more activity on the web. Here are a few... Read More...

by .NET & Funky Fresh : WPF/e

Filed under: WPF/E, WPF, .NET 3.0