Author Archives: Tony Sneed

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Sr. Software Solutions Architect, Hilti Global Application Software

Screencast: Real-World MVVM with WCF RIA Services

Posted on April 28, 2011 by Tony Sneed

Great news! I have just published an online tutorial and screencast for using the Simple MVVM Toolkit to build Real-World MVVM Apps with WCF RIA Services. Screencast Part 1 Streaming (watch now) or Download (offline for pc or mobile device) … Continue reading →

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Simple MVVM Toolkit versus MVVM Light Toolkit

Posted on April 23, 2011 by Tony Sneed

Now that I’ve released Simple MVVM Toolkit version 2, people are starting to ask how it stacks up against some of the other MVVM Toolkits out there. (MVVM, which stands for Model-View-ViewModel, is a UI design pattern that provides better … Continue reading →

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WCF RIA Services Webinar

Posted on April 20, 2011 by Tony Sneed

I’m performing a free webinar today for DevelopMentor: Turbocharge Silverlight Development w/WCF RIA Services.  It’s taking place today, Wed April 20, 2011, at 3 pm pst, 11 pm bst.  Here’s the description: Writing a full-fledged Rich Internet Application presents a … Continue reading →

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Screencast for Getting Started with Simple Mvvm Toolkit

Posted on April 18, 2011 by Tony Sneed

I have just published the very first screencast for the Simple Mvvm Toolkit.  It shows you how to install the toolkit and use a Visual Studio project template to create a Silverlight MVVM app in just a few minutes. You’ll … Continue reading →

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Simple Mvvm Toolkit Version 2.0: Better and Even Easier to Use

Posted on April 13, 2011 by Tony Sneed

I have just released version 2.0 of the Simple Mvvm Toolkit on CodePlex, NuGet and the Visual Studio Extensions Gallery. Now all you have to do to get it is open Visual Studio and select Extensions Manager from the Tool … Continue reading →

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Stay Up-to-date on Tony’s World

Posted on March 31, 2011 by Tony Sneed

I just upgraded the sidebar on my blog to include a Subscribe widget, which you can click to get email notifications whenever new posts or comments appear on my blog.  In addition to showing a tag cloud, recent posts and … Continue reading →

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Building a Leak-Proof Eventing Model

Posted on March 22, 2011 by Tony Sneed

One of the main features of the .NET Framework is to provide automatic memory management via garbage collection.  You might think this would solve the problem of memory leaks in managed applications, but the effectiveness of the garbage collector can … Continue reading →

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Simple MVVM Toolkit: Ready for RIA Services

Posted on March 12, 2011 by Tony Sneed

Part of Microsoft’s Silverlight strategy is to position it as a platform for building rich line of business applications.  One reason for this is the deployment story: in or out of the browser on Windows, Mac or Linux.  Another is … Continue reading →

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Simple MVVM Toolkit: Unit Testing with Dependency Injection and MEF

Posted on March 8, 2011 by Tony Sneed

One of the main benefits of using the MVVM (Model, View, ViewModel) design pattern is to support better testability.  Having to click through screens to test an application can be tedious and time-consuming, and it may not provide good code … Continue reading →

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Climb Onboard on the MVVM Message Bus

Posted on March 3, 2011 by Tony Sneed

In a previous post I blogged on various ways to tackle the problem of showing dialogs in an MVVM application. There I advocated using events as a communication mechanism.  The ViewModel fires an event; the View can subscribe to the … Continue reading →

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