Category Archives: Technical

WCF RIA Services Webinar

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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Using Open Source? Get NuGet.

My friend and fellow DevelopMentor instructor, Michael Kennedy, just turned me on to the NuGet Package Manager, a very cool way to install and use open source software right from within Visual Studio.  Let’s say you use one or more … Continue reading

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Simple MVVM Toolkit: Feature Rich with WPF and WP7 Support

I’ve rounded out the feature set of my Simple MVVM Toolkit to include a Message Bus (also known as an event aggregator or mediator) for loosely coupled communication among view-models and to support MEF (Managed Extensibility Framework0 for dependency injection … Continue reading

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