I was at work today and had to deal with obtaining the values from some anonomous types that I was using in some WPF databinding, and although I knew I could do it with reflection, I thought someone else may have already done something, and low and behold I found something pretty cool. I found […]
I am pleased to announce that my GeoPlaces scooped the codeproject C# article of the month in April 2009.
I have not written an article in a while, which is a bit out of character for me, but there is a good reason, I have been plotting and scheming about possibly writing a book, and it […]
Yesterday I was lucky enough to be at the free MVVM training courses that Karl Shifflett and Jaime Rodriguez were running in London. The boys did a fantastic job in my opinion, despite them being asked some pretty hair questions. They covered loads of stuff, of particular merit were:
DataContext inheritance
Attached behaviours
Design time data
Services
MVVM frameworks
I have […]
This weekend I was going to finally write up all my pains and worries and problems solved in a neat MVVM mini framework, and was really looking forward to it, and then I opened my email, and there was one from Lester. It seems that Microsoft have finally created a Visual Studio template to get […]
In my last post I showed you how to execute ViewModel ICommand(s) from FrameworkElement using the new Blend 3 Behaviours Dll. Well this time I want to show you how to run a ViewModel ICommand from any FrameworkElement without the use of the Blend 3 Behaviours Dll.
I should state that this post was inspired by […]
As part of the new Blend3 release, there is a new Dll called “Microsoft.Expression.Interactivity.dll”. This Dll is a pretty cool thing, as it formalises a pattern that many WPF developers have probably already used, in their own manner. It basically formalises the “Attached Behaviour” pattern, which was possible prior to this Dll being available by […]
A couple of posts ago I showed you all how to use CodeDom/CompilerServices and LINQ to create a dynamically created dll. A few people stated that this should have been in a new AppDomain (and it was already this way at work), so I have updated the example post to show you how to create […]
I promised one of my WPF Disciples buddies (Bill Kempf) a while back that I would look into using his excellent WPF MVVM framework Oynx in a codeproject demo article. I am pleased to announce that I have now finished this article and it is available over at www.codeproject.com. Simply follow this link
http://www.codeproject.com/KB/WPF/WPFOynxApp.aspx
Here is a […]
yesterday I posted a blog stating that the WPF Disciples would all be working on bringing their combined best practices together to form an exemplar reference application for the community. Work has started on this and there is already a fair bit of interest on this.
You can check it out over at our codeplex page […]
A while back I wrote a post about using the Mediator pattern, to allow ViewModels to communicate with each other easily and simply.
Now lately the wpf disciples have been talking about this pattern a lot. Josh Smith has written a better version that is more memory safe than my orginal version. You can read about […]
At work at the moment I am working on a way way cool customisable search that basically allows user to pick source entities and related entities and then pick what fields they would like to show, this is similar to Microsoft’s CRM Dynamics product, which allows very very sophisticated searches to be produces, by the […]
Recently someone left me the following message on my new article (http://www.codeproject.com/KB/smart/GeoPlaces.aspx)
Hi Sacha,
I’m sure this has been said before but you really should write a book imho.
I’d buy it …
I’m not going to vote a 5 because I’d rather vote with my cash frankly!!
Oh, alright then …
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Gold Star
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Seriously, write a book, but don’t do […]
Jaime Rodriguez and Karl Shifflett recently sent me an email stating that they would be in London to teach how to use WPF to create Line of Business applications…for free!
Karl and Jaime are both fellow wpfdisciples, both of whom I am lucky enough to know. These 2 guys really know WPF and what it takes […]
I have just released a new article over at www.codeproject.com whch uses the following technologies
WCF : RESTful WCF (PUT/GET)
WCF : Hosting RESTful WCF service
ADO .NET ENtity Framework Models
WPF : MVVM
WPF : Mediator pattern
WPF : Embedded Virtual Earth 3D
I am way proud of this article it has worked out very well, and you can read more […]
A while ago now I published my last article on LINQ/WPF goodness, which was a fully searchable working media library written using some pretty cool stuff. This article scooped the highly prized www.codeproject.com best C# article for Feb 2009 and also best overall article, and to top that it has also won the 1st price […]
A while back I published a post about creating a friction enabled scrolling canvas in WPF (the old post can be found at http://sachabarber.net/?p=225), which I thought was way cool. It turns out that I was not the only one that thought this, and one of my WPF Buddies and fellow WPF Disciples Jeremiah Morrill thought […]
I just got an email from Chris Maunder today to tell me that my Sonic article (http://www.codeproject.com/KB/smart/Sonic.aspx) has won the 2 following awards, that’s 2 awards
Best C# article of February 2009
Best overall article of February 2009
Excellent today winning articles, tomorrow the world. Muah Ha Ha
Too be honest I was very pleased with Sonic, so I […]
Microsoft recently released Silverlight 3 BETA, you can get a good run down of what is new over at
Tim Heuers blog
It looks pretty awseome actually. I may even have to hang up my WPF gloves for a while to have a play with it.
And here is another link
http://www.silverlightshow.net/items/What-s-New-in-Silverlight-3.aspx
About 1 year ago a good friend of mine Marlon Grech wrote a lovely article on MVC + M. You can read all about Marlons great article over at http://marlongrech.wordpress.com/2008/03/20/more-than-just-mvc-for-wpf/
Essentially what Marlon did was create a message system to allow disparate MVC classes to communicate with each other. The original code by Marlon was […]
A while back (can’t remember exactly when) I started saying I was going to write a bit about RESTFul WCF, you can see my 1st post at http://sachabarber.net/?p=460. In that post I mentioned that I would probably do the following:
The schedule of posts is probably going to be something like this
The new RESTful WCF attributes […]
