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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...

by .NET & Funky Fresh : Silverlight

Filed under: WPF, XAML, Silverlight, .NET 3.5, databinding, MVVM, UI Architecture

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...

by .NET & Funky Fresh : WPF/e

Filed under: WPF/E, WPF, XAML, Silverlight, RIA, .NET 3.5, Caliburn, databinding, Featured, MVVM, UI Architecture, DSL

MVVM Study Part 3 – Why?
Tuesday, September 01, 2009 4:39 PM

There are several major architectural approaches used in building user interfaces. MVC, MVP and MVVM seam to be the most popular of the bunch. From among them, MVVM has risen to the top of the stack for WPF and Silverlight developers. Even ignoring the... Read More...

by .NET & Funky Fresh : WPF/e

Filed under: WPF/E, WPF, XAML, Silverlight, RIA, databinding, Control Templates, MVVM, UI Architecture

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 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...

by .NET & Funky Fresh : WPF/e

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

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...

by .NET & Funky Fresh : WPF/e

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

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...

by .NET & Funky Fresh : WPF/e

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

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

Silverlight Problems That Affect Me
Saturday, July 26, 2008 6:58 PM

I've blogged previously about inconsistencies between SL 2 Beta 1 and WPF. In my previous post I mentioned a few critical things that I felt would make it hard for WPF developers to move code between the two platforms. Most of my complaints were not... Read More...

by .NET & Funky Fresh : WPF/e

Filed under: WPF/E, WPF, XAML, Silverlight, RIA, Caliburn, databinding, 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