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Despite the fact that I have woefully neglected my incipient series on developing a WPF application with TDD (aka ChumChase ), like many others this week I've been taken by the Silverlight Lust. I decided to make a simple game, and settled on an Asteroids clone. I drew some inspiration and insight...
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Caliburn is a framework designed to aid in the development of WPF and Silverlight applications. It implements a variety of UI patterns that are geared towards solving problems encountered in real-world scenarios. It's goals are: Support building WPF/SL application that are TDD friendly. Implement...
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Details here . As far as I can tell from the docs, they removed a lot of things, made a bunch of things private or internal and changed the signatures of some things here and there. I can only hope that I don't have to do massive rewrites of all my Silverlight stuff. Does anyone from Microsoft want...
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Some of you may be wondering about the status of Caliburn. I'm presently working on the new version and am having great success making it compatible with both WPF and Silverlight. It hasn't been easy, but it is going to work. There's a lot of under-the-hood improvements...
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I've blogged previously about inconsistencies between SL 2 Beta 1 and WPF. In my previous post I mentioned a few critical things that I felt would make it hard for WPF developers to move code between the two platforms. Most of my complaints were not addressed in the updated Beta 2 of Silverlight...
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After asking some questions of the community and doing some thinking, I've finally devised a plan of action for Caliburn: I'm going to freeze the current source code where it's at. Anyone who is using it can be assured that it's not going anywhere. However, I will not be making...
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First I'd like to say that I'm stoked about the work the Prism team has been doing. I have to admit that when they started out in January to deliver a set of guidance for building composite WPF applications, I was skeptical. But they have come a great distance and I am truly...
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Hadi has just posted part 2 of his tutorial on building composite applications with Caliburn. In this post he covers basic usage of the EventBroker, ActionMessages and shows one way of putting the pieces together by using the PresenterHost control. Great job!
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The WPF book Christopher and I wrote earlier this year is finally off to the printers! It's 480 pages of full color goodness. We were pretty excited to have the opportunity to talk about things like SoC/SRP, DI, MVP, etc within the context of building some real applications. Below is the table of...
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Rob Eisenberg
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06-04-2008
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Filed under: WPF, .NET 3.0, Xaml, databinding, Control Templates, Animation, 3D, WPF/e, .NET 3.5, Caliburn, Silverlight
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I've just put together a document briefly describing the current set of features that Caliburn supports. I've added it to the official documentation and copied it below. If you are new to Caliburn, this should give you a good idea about what we've been up to. I say "we"...
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I have high hopes for Silverlight, but I just can't ignore the amazing stuff that is happening with Flash! Adobe just released the Beta 1 of Flash 10 which supports hardware accelerated 3D, shader effects and an advanced drawing api. Basically, all the stuff that is in the recent WPF SP1 Beta. Except...
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First, let me begin by saying that I'm a huge fan of Silverlight. I've been working with it since the Alpha 1.1 was released at Mix07. I've written thousands of lines of Silverlight 1.1 code for a personal project of mine that I hope to share in the not too distant future. ...
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Last week or so, I stumbled on to the site for the Visual Studio 2008 Demo Challenge . The gist of the contest is to make a video explaining why VS 2008 is great, and then win stuff. Your video is played backed in a Silverlight app that your host at silverlight.live.com. So I make a video, and I think...
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Despite the fact that I got off to a miserable start (walking along the Charles, rain soaked and a bit lost) today was a blast. I got to hear Rockford Lhotka (of CSLA fame) along with Anthony Handley describe their recent experiences with WPF. This was cool because they've been working on the same...
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The Silverlight is the great tool to do presentation layer for web applications. Things like diagrams, charts, schemas etc. I will stop myself here. There is a lot sources about where the Silverlight can be used so I will leave that to your imagination. I would like to show a short sample how to create...