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Morgan ( a double ex-colleague of mine and all round genius ) has got an interesting blog post over here on how he finds it painful to implement commands in WPF application and a possible way around some of that pain via custom type descriptors. I spotted this via Sam’s response over here on Functional...
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Earlier in the year I dropped in to see some former colleagues of mine who are working on a new product/service called KoodibooK at their software company in Bath (UK). KoodibooK is a product that allows you to build up a set of photographs into a book, publish that book to an online store and then buy...
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Karl has what looks like a fantastic extension to the XAML editor in VS2010 here .
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I copied this idea from Eric (and Mike ) and thought I’d try and drill out my own set of “top 5” blog posts for 2009 as it draws to a close. Here’s the top 5 most viewed blog posts that I wrote this year; Silverlight & WPF Control Browser A quick look at Silverlight 3- Data Validation A quick look...
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Great post from Pete over here about Silverlight/WPF convergence; “The Future of Client App Dev: WPF and Silverlight Convergence” It’s funny as someone asked me just yesterday what my view was about Silverlight/WPF post-PDC and in the light of Silverlight 4 and I expressed pretty much the same view as...
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It looks like I’ve struck Gold and managed to get myself lined up to help out at PDC09 on the pre-conference workshop; Getting the Most out of Silverlight 3 “Come learn how the robust features of Silverlight 3 help developers to create innovative, compelling cross-platform Internet applications...
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At the recent Silverlight 3 UK launch I got a chance to catch up with Ian Ellison-Taylor who’s Microsoft’s General Manager for Presentation Platform and Tools. As usual at Microsoft, I had to ask for a translation around what that job title means and, in simple words, Ian owns; WPF and Silverlight which...
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Just a quick plug – I’ll be doing some sessions on Silverlight 3 at MIX Essentials in Dublin on the 24th June. Click the picture above to jump to the site where you can register. It’s an all day event with 2 tracks running concurrently and I like the strap-line that says “ Completely Free” :-) Maybe...
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Following on from this post . As expected, porting my Utilities library to WPF wasn’t too difficult. It was a matter of creating a WPFUtilities class library, adding the existing source from Utilities as linked code files and then referencing PresentationCore and PresentationFramework and hitting...
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Following on from my previous post it’s time to run up the app ( it’s not exactly a visual feast :-) ) and experiment a little with it. I can log in as my user ursula ; and she’s presented with “the UI” ( the graph should probably be hidden for users that are not in the...
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Following up on this post I thought the first control I’d build would be a graph control so I just referenced the Silverlight Toolkit for its graphs and very quickly had; <UserControl x:Class="SilverlightApplication6.Controls.ChartDisplayControl" xmlns=" http://schemas.microsoft...
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Following up on this previous post I wanted to start building out some classes that managed data for me “in front” of the services I’d built. I figured that I needed data for my chart, data for my products and reference data and so I sketched out a “DataModel” class; public...
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Following up from this post , I set about building some services to power my application’s data requirements. These aren’t perfect by any means but they’re enough for a sample application to get going with. Working from the sketch of how the services need to look given at the end of...
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I wanted to try and follow up on this idea of the XAML Continuum and the basic example that I did with Silverlight and WPF versions of the Pong game by doing something that looked a bit more like a business application. I figured that I’d take my trusty Northwind database and build some kind of...
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Wintellect have published this whitepaper on CodePlex on the differences between WPF and Silverlight. I haven’t read it all myself yet as it’s reasonably meaty but from what I’ve seen it’s a very valuable resource to have to hand if you’re working with both environments. Some of the items in the paper...