Christopher Bennage

What is Functional Programming?

Disclaimer: I’m still pretty green with functional programming. This is me working out my own understanding. Wikipedia defines Functional Programming (FP) this way: “functional programming is a programming paradigm that treats computations as the evaluation...

Published 09-06-2010 11:49 PM by Christopher Bennage

Filed under: functional programming, F#

PowerShell, GAC, and build servers

I’m still a Powershell n00b, so take my advice cum granis salis. No GacUtil Please My situation was that I needed some 3rd party assemblies installed in the GAC on a build server. There was a little bit of churn on the assemblies, so it wasn’t just an...

Published 08-25-2010 8:04 PM by Christopher Bennage

Filed under: Continuous Integration, PowerShell

d:DesignInstance in Blend 4

Let’s walk through an example of using d:DesignInstance for improving the design-time experience in Blend. For background, see my last post on the topic. I’m going to be using the ContactManager sample from the Caliburn trunk. You can access the source...

Published 03-29-2010 4:12 PM by Christopher Bennage

Filed under: WPF, Silverlight, data binding, UI, XAML, Blend

Exploring Design-Time Data in Blend 4

I’ve gleaned most of what I have learned about this topic from Unni , Karl , and Jack . I recommend checking out their posts for additional information. d:DataContext The d:DataContext attribute allows you to establish a data context that is only for...

Published 03-26-2010 4:26 PM by Christopher Bennage

Filed under: WPF, Silverlight, data binding, UI, XAML, mvvm, Blend

Silverlight Challenge: Creating a DependencyProperty

The following code throws an exception. Can you spot the bug? public class MyControl : Control { public static DependencyProperty MyPropertyProperty = DependencyProperty.Register( "MyProperty", typeof (double), typeof (MyControl), new PropertyMetadata...

Published 03-09-2010 3:36 PM by Christopher Bennage

Filed under: Silverlight, Challenge

1 Simple Step for Commanding in Silverlight

Silverlight 4 is now supporting the commanding that we’ve come to love from WPF. Commanding was a foundational feature for MVVM. It’s what enabled us to bind to methods on our view models. John Papa has an excellent introductory post on using commands...

Published 03-03-2010 11:24 AM by Christopher Bennage

Filed under: WPF, Silverlight, Caliburn, mvvm

XAML Attributes on Separate Lines

Buried deep within the options for Visual Studio is a little switch that places your XAML attributes on separate lines. For example, instead of looking like this: <TextBlock Text="Some Text" Margin="10 0" Grid.Column="1"...

Published 02-24-2010 5:41 PM by Christopher Bennage

Filed under: source control, XAML

Alabama Code Camp in Mobile

I’ll be at the Alabama Code Camp this weekend in Mobile, AL, along our very own Alan Northam . Like all code camps, this is a free event. If you are anywhere in the area I recommend attending. The schedule is posted on the site and there are a lot of...

Published 01-22-2010 11:24 AM by Christopher Bennage

Filed under: source control, Game Development, XNA, Silverlight, Presentations, SilverSprite

Silverlight Breakpoints Not Being Hit

Just a quick and simple reminder. If you run into the case where you are not hitting breakpoints in your Silverlight code, take a look at the properties of your hosting web project (if applicable). On the Web tab, under Debuggers is a set of checkboxes...

Published 01-17-2010 3:55 PM by Christopher Bennage

Filed under: Silverlight, Tips & Tricks, Visual Studio

Visions of Software Development or Can’t We Just All Get Along?

I’m currently reading Thomas Sowell’s A Conflict of Visions: Ideological Origins of Political Struggles . As the title suggests, it deals with certain fundamental differences in the way we see the world and how that affects our political views. Don’t...

Published 01-12-2010 6:38 AM by Christopher Bennage

Filed under: Reflection, Agile, ALT.NET, Opinion

Things I’d Like To Present

In case you are not familiar with MIX , it is a conference from Microsoft focusing on the collaboration of design and development. Admittedly, the sessions tend to favor the developer, but there is always excellent design and UX content. There was an...

Published 01-08-2010 6:32 AM by Christopher Bennage

Filed under: WPF, Game Development, fun, XNA, Software Architecture, web, Silverlight, MVC, Presentations, UI, UI Patterns, XAML, UX, Caliburn, viewmodel, mvvm

It’s Easy to Forget

I’m a big fan of Linq. The more I learn about functional programming, the more I love (and use) Linq. However with any higher level abstraction there is the possibility of the mysterious inner workings differing from your intuitive expectations. (This...

Published 12-31-2009 2:32 PM by Christopher Bennage

Filed under: NHibernate, Linq

Comparing Resource Dictionaries in Unit Tests

Working on the ÜberProf has presented some interesting scenarios. As you might have picked up from Ayende’s blog, the vast majority of the source is shared between all the products. This is especially true in the UI layer. Now, Ayende wanted to have a...

Published 12-22-2009 11:37 AM by Christopher Bennage

Filed under: WPF, UI, XAML, uberprof

Caliburn Hello World

A friend recently complained to me that he had a hard time putting together a Hello World application using Caliburn. Here’s a simple step-by-step guide to getting a very simple Caliburn application up and running with the 1.0 release. The goal is to...

Published 11-22-2009 11:32 AM by Christopher Bennage

Filed under: Silverlight, XAML, Caliburn, viewmodel, mvvm

More On Caliburn & Silverlight’s SaveFileDialog

I was a bit hasty in my earlier post when I called the SaveFileDialog inadequate. One complaint I was going to make was simply a matter of my ignorance. It had to do with the dialog thinking that it was not initiated by the user . In particular, it was...

Published 10-06-2009 5:20 PM by Christopher Bennage

Filed under: Silverlight, Caliburn

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