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MVVM is a topic that can easily take hours of discussion. Unfortunately, I only had less then one to talk about (at least some of) its goals, parts and possible implementations. Below is my slide deck: And the code: download The code is structured in a way that helps you see the changes in the code while...
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Another NTK has ended, and in my opinion, this year’s conference was one of the greatest and most enjoyable for the past few years. This is a list of sessions I had (alone or with co-speakers), along with the PowerPoint slide decks (all in Slovenian Language): Silverlight and MEF [The Photo Gallery application...
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My two-part article on rebuilding an existing Silverlight application to use MEF (Managed Extensibility Framework) for “selective composition” is now live on SilverlightShow.net ( part 1 , part 2 ). I took my Halloween Gallery application and made it pluggable so I can pull in different themes throughout...
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Following up on The ultimate hack for Silverlight in Blend post from Josh Smith, I tried to make Blend display pictures from the My Pictures folder right in my Silverlight application. Needless to say, it worked as advertised :) The ViewModel is set through d:DataContext: public class MainPageViewModel...
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A few of my Silverlight articles were published on the SilverlightShow site this past two months. The first one is an introduction to Silverlight/(WPF)/Blend behaviors, where I create a Silverlight Halloween Sound Player without writing a single line of code – the application is composed entirely in...
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With Halloween around the corner, it’s time for some scary photos… In this post I’ll explain how I built my demo application I showed at my Windows 7 Launch talk . Expression Blend 3 shipped with a few interesting samples, available for immediate use. One of them is called Wall3D (Silverlight 3) and...
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Windows 7 launch day was fun. I gave a talk on Expression tools (and related) – here’s the PowerPoint slide deck for those who asked for it: I used Expression Blend 3 to build a photo viewer application, which I’ll blog about later; key points here were designer-developer workflow + using sample data...
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Microsoft Expression Blend 3 je orodje, namenjeno oblikovalcem za gradnjo privlačnih namiznih (WPF) ali spletnih, Silverlight aplikacij . Ker je dokaj novo orodje, je na začetku potrebna dodatna krivulja učenja, da lahko začnemo graditi smiselne in bogate aplikacije. Dosti razvijalcev in oblikovalcem...
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Last night, while working on a sample Silverlight application with Blend, I asked myself – where’s the Use GPU Acceleration option? Sure you can set the parameter on a Silverlight object directly in HTML or enable it through Out-Of-Browser Settings in Visual Studio 2008, but how about Blend? The answer...
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Gradnja spletne strani je velika bolečina vsakega spletnega razvijalca. Primerjati vsebino in izrise spletne strani med brskalniki včasih zahteva dosti dela in truda (preverjanje CSS v enem brskalniku, različne resolucije, itd.) Microsoft se tega zaveda in je naredil tako imenovanem “ SuperPreview...
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Microsoft je predstavil Silverlight 3 in Expression 3, orodja za razvoj in oblikovanje privlačnih, bogatih spletnih aplikacij. Novi različici vključujeta vrsto novosti, s katerimi lahko razvijalci in oblikovalci svoje delo opravljajo hitreje, obenem pa imajo na voljo več svobode pri oblikovanju uporabniških...
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Behaviors are not new in WPF / Silverlight world; it’s a common way of extending visual element’s behavior through the power of attached properties and everybody probably used one of these at least once in their projects. Now, there’s new Behaviors in town… I first learned about the behaviors in this...
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Visual Studio 2008 introduced a lot of new features to support new technologies, adding some cool new designers to developer’s tool belt. On the other hand, support for some technologies was simply left out, leaving a some developers very unhappy. One of those was support for SQL Server 2005 BI projects...
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Did you know you can create cool looking splash screens for your WPF application right there with the Expression Designer ? Of course you did. Expression Designer provides you with all you need to create free-shaped, part-transparent, drop-shadowed graphics and I bet the the WPF splash screen support...
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Corrina Barber posted a cool looking new skin for Silverlight controls, which indeed looks perfect for giving your application a sketchy appearance when in early stages of development. However, if you don't find the green color she used sketchy enough, it doesn't get any easier to adjust it to...