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MVVM Study Part 4: Naked WPF
Friday, November 13, 2009 10:47 AM
I’ve blogged previously about the MVVM pattern, but so far I have managed to escape without showing any code ;) Before diving in deeper, I would like to stop and show what it takes to do a very simple implementation of this pattern on top of naked... Read More...
Silverlight Tip: Enumerating embedded resources
Thursday, November 12, 2009 9:28 PM
Today I’ve got a “Call for Help” from one of Silverlight MVPs – Bill Reiss . The mail said: “I would like to enumerate all items that were marked as Content or Resource in the main XAP file. If I can’t do both I’d settle for one. Any sample code for this... Read More...
Caliburn v1 RTW for WPF, Silverlight 2.0 and 3.0!
Monday, October 26, 2009 1:06 PM
Hooray!!! I finally released Caliburn v1 to RTW and got the official site launched ! This has been a long time coming and I could not have done it without the generous help and support of the .NET community, family and friends. Many individuals contributed... Read More...
Silverlight Quick Tip: How to get localized resources from RESX file in code behind
Wednesday, October 21, 2009 1:06 AM
It looks like I’m using too much resources and localizing too much applications lately :) This time I’ll show how to use localized resources from the RESX files. Here I already explained how to create the RESX files for Silverlight (by the way the article... Read More...
Silverlight Quick Tip: ChildWindow Title Customization
Thursday, September 24, 2009 3:03 AM
Today I discovered nice feature of ChildWindow control in Silverlight 3. I was at client’s location and been asked about the ChildWindow title customization with an icon. I had to admit, that I never tried to put something different than text and immediately... Read More...
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...
Caliburn RC3
Thursday, September 10, 2009 3:42 PM
Today I’ve made the RC3 of Caliburn v1 available. I’m going to let it sit for a couple of weeks, then I will RTW. Please take time to update your code to this new version and post any bugs to the codeplex site . Any bugs not found in the next... Read More...
Silverlight Quick Tip: Dynamically Displaying Class Fields/Properties
Thursday, August 13, 2009 1:21 AM
In one of my projects I had to create something like Visual Studio property window, for data set of different controls/data classes. Those controls/classes are still under development and I needed the way to display/change values of those properties dynamically... Read More...
Caliburn v1 Release Candidate 2 is Available!
Saturday, July 25, 2009 4:27 PM
I’ve put a ton of work into this release and I think we are finally almost ready for RTW! You can get the new RC2 bits here . Please download them, try them and help me squash any final bugs that may remain. Below is a list of things that have changed... Read More...
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...
Caliburn v1 Release Candidate
Saturday, June 13, 2009 12:19 AM
On Friday I published the Release Candidate for Caliburn. You can get it here . I’m hoping to only do bug fixes and a few minor changes between now and release. There have been quite a few important changes since the Beta: Refactored assemblies... Read More...
MVVM and The Origins of Caliburn
Monday, May 18, 2009 10:51 AM
Recently Glenn Block asked some questions of the community concerning what support Microsoft should offer for the MVVM design pattern in WPF/Silverlight. I’d like to answer that question here, but in a round-about manner. I’m going to use... Read More...
Some new in-mix downloads
Friday, March 20, 2009 10:19 AM
There are some very cool downloads suddenly appear on MSDN download site due to all new technologies, presented at Mix ‘09. So let’s start Silverlight 3 SDK beta 1 If you do not want to install full SDK, you can install only runtime for Windows or Mac... Read More...
The Caliburn Beta is Live
Thursday, February 26, 2009 9:15 PM
Today is a long awaited day for me.  Caliburn is now in official Beta.   There have been many bug fixes and a ton of new features since the Alpha release last October.  We’ve also been dogfooding it on several projects, one of which is... Read More...
WPF Line-Of-Business labs and Silverlight vs. Flash
Wednesday, February 18, 2009 5:27 AM
Small update today (mostly interesting links)… During my last “Smart Client” session I was asked about WPF LOB application development labs. So, there are two full labs, I noticed about: Southridge, which comes from Redmond team Order Manager, which comes... Read More...
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