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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 open call for presentations this year and the community...
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Christopher Bennage
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Christopher Bennage
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01-08-2010
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Filed under: WPF, Game Development, fun, XNA, Software Architecture, web, Silverlight, MVC, Presentations, UI, UI Patterns, XAML, UX, Caliburn, viewmodel, mvvm
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It’s shameless, I know. But, please vote for my sessions at Mix :) The voting tool can be accessed here: http://visitmix.com/opencallvote/ Below are titles, descriptions and links to where you can vote for each of my submissions. Votes must be submitted by Friday, January 15, 2010.* Title : Build...
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In the last par t I showed a very basic view model. I needed something in order to give those new to the concept of MVVM a concrete example. However, there are several aspects of that example that left me feeling uncomfortable; not to mention the myriad questions that seemed to arise in my mind about...
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Over the next several months I am going to be releasing various starter kits/samples for Caliburn. Each sample will demonstrate a different application style. I’ve factored each sample so that it has a reusable mini-framework, allowing developers to easily take the shell and start plugging in their...
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If you are building an OOB application with Silverlight that relies on web services, you may have some interesting challenges on you hands. You probably want to have some fallback for certain operations when the network is down. You can do some fun stuff with caches and message queuing, but...
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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 demonstrate the built-in conventions-based binding...
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You can check it out immediately at http://silverlight.net/getstarted/silverlight-4-beta Here's a couple of other links to help you get started as well: http://wildermuth.com/2009/11/18/Silverlight_4_Beta_Announced! http://johnpapa.net/silverlight/silverlight-4-beta-announced-at-pdc09-great-learning...
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I’ve blogged previously about the MVVM pattern, but so far I have managed to escape without showing any code ;) Before diving in deeper, I would like to stop and show what it takes to do a very simple implementation of this pattern on top of naked WPF (that’s plain WPF without any cool frameworks...
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Hooray!!! I finally released Caliburn v1 to RTW and got the official site launched ! This has been a long time coming and I could not have done it without the generous help and support of the .NET community, family and friends. Many individuals contributed by finding bugs, submitting patches, recommending...
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.NET & Funky Fresh
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Rob Eisenberg
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10-26-2009
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Filed under: WPF, Xaml, databinding, WPF/e, .NET 3.5, Caliburn, Featured, Silverlight, DSL, RIA, MVVM, UI Architecture
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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 some of our Caliburn magic obscuring this. However...
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Justin Angel (who is undoubtedly a Silverlight Rock Star) decided to stir things up a bit on Twitter the other night. I was compelled to echo Ward Bell’s response that value converters can play legitimate role in the UI. Justin asked me to defend my position; a reasonable request. Now, I know...
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We’ve been working on a Silverlight project that could be classified as a Line Of Business application (whatever that means). There have been a few places where we need to allow users to save files. First, I thought I might give you a peek as to how we do this with Caliburn . Imagine that we are displaying...
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We need to contract a designer for our current project. I’m looking for one of those mythical beasts that has: some real graphics design skill understands (or at least cares about) usability works with Silverlight There is also a strong preference for someone in the NYC/NJ area. If you are interested...
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Today I’ve made the RC3 of Caliburn v1 available. I’m going to let it sit for a couple of weeks, then I will RTW. Please take time to update your code to this new version and post any bugs to the codeplex site . Any bugs not found in the next couple of weeks will have to be fixed in v2. Below...
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Everywhere I look I find WPF/Silverlight developers who believe a very popular myth: You cannot update a ViewModel or an ObservableCollection from a non-UI thread. Like most myths, there is an element of truth here. But not understanding that truth can lead you to some very elaborate solutions. Here’s...