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Category Archives: Technical
Easier Async for Silverlight Apps using MVVM
It makes sense to execute long-running tasks on a background thread, in order to keep the UI responsive by not tying up the main thread. However, as is the case with other UI frameworks such as Windows Forms or WPF, … Continue reading
Tackling the Problem of Modal Dialogs in MVVM
One of the first issues you’ll run into when wading into the waters of MVVM is how to display model dialogs to the user while executing code in the view-model. Popping up a dialog, such as a MessageBox or a … Continue reading
Type-Safe Two-Way Data Binding with INotifyPropertyChanged
Anyone who’s developed a UI application using Windows Forms, WPF or Silverlight is probably aware that you have to implement the INotifyPropertyChanged interface to get two-way data binding between UI elements and an underlying data source. The problem is that … Continue reading
Simple MVVM Toolkit Improvements: Documentation, Features, Sample Apps
I’ve released a new version of my Simple MVVM Toolkit for Silverlight that has improved documentation, a bunch of new features and additional sample applications. The emphasis of the toolkit is simplicity – not in the sense that it’s rinky-dink … Continue reading
MVVM: Simple is Beautiful
It’s been a few weeks since I published the Simple MVVM Toolkit for Silverlight on CodePlex. Since that time I’ve fleshed out the documentation, which includes installation instructions and a programming reference. I’ve also published an update that includes some … Continue reading
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Here are some places where you can follow what I’m doing: Twitter: http://twitter.com/tonysneed Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/anthony.sneed I’ve started a Facebook group for people using MVVM with Silverlight: http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_181987988497920 You-tube: http://www.youtube.com/tonyzuzana In particular, check out the snowball fight where I get … Continue reading
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WCF RIA Services Talk
At 6 pm on Thursday January 13th, 2011, I’ll be presenting a talk on WCF RIA Services at the Dallas .NET Developer Group. Go here to register: http://ddnug20110113.eventbrite.com Turbocharge Silverlight Development with WCF RIA Services Writing a full-fledged Rich Internet … Continue reading
Life Just Got Easier: Simple MVVM Toolkit for Silverlight
If you’ve made a decision to start using the Model-View-ViewModel pattern (abbreviated as MVVM) for Silverlight development, you’re faced with a rather steep learning curve and a scarcity of of accepted standards and best practices. I’ve read no less than … Continue reading
Automatically Upgrading to Visual Studio 2010
I’ve had the need recently to convert a large number of projects from Visual Studio 2008 to Visual Studio 2010. I was not able to find a tool out there that does this automatically, so I wrote one. The key … Continue reading
Understanding WCF RIA Services
When I first looked at WCF RIA Services, I have to admit I was a bit mystified at what I was seeing. Compared to a traditional n-tier application, where there is a clean separation and only contract and schema are … Continue reading
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