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Most of our WPF projects end up with a lot of xaml resources. I do my best to try to keep them organized and easy to navigate. In many ways though, I am still learning . I often have a resource dictionary containing all of my default styles for a given application. When I collapse everything, the nodes...
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The Caliburn.Testability assembly contains various classes related to unit testing a UI. You can use the BindingValidator to validate data bindings on DependencyObjects, DataTemplates and Styles. The easiest way to access this functionality is through the static Validator class. It has several...
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Updated 11/07/2008 I recently ran into an interesting situation. I had an ObservableCollection bound to my UI in WPF, and I needed to updated this collection on something other than the UI thread. In other words, I was adding items to a UI-bound collection on a different thread, which triggered the change...
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Caliburn has a new home on CodePlex . You can find it at http://www.codeplex.com/caliburn . Additionally, I have added a full set of documentation that is available online . The documentation loosely follows the samples I have created for the framework which can be found in the 'samples'...
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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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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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Table of Contents Application Architecture I'm going to back up and bit discuss my overall approach to structuring this WPF project. So far the solution consists of four projects: ChumChase is the actual WPF project. FriendFeed is the official .NET api I downloaded from here , and patched so that...
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Table of Contents So let's get back to this whole building a WPF application thing. A number of things went down since my last post: I was out sick with a stomach bug for few days, my infant son caught the same bug and subsequently we spent a few days in the hospital (he's fine now, it was nothing...
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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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Table of Contents I actually meant to say in my last post that I had investigated the API options for FriendFeed and they have a C# wrapper already available here . It's packaged up in a single download with its Python and PHP counterparts. Unfortunately, it has compilation errors. I fixed the errors...
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Table of Contents In a rather indirect way, I was inspired by a commenter on one of Scott Hanselman's posts to begin a series that walks through building a WPF application from start to finish. We did this for four different applications in our book , but those where targeted to demonstrate particular...
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This is a somewhat made-up scenario based on a recent project. My client has not given me permission to discuss the specifics of the application (yet), so I apologize for keeping it vague. I hope you don't give up before the payoff. The Problem Imagine an application, where a user can create "styles"...
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This is partially a follow-up to my last post contrasting control templates and styles. Like I mentioned before I've been working on an application that has required a custom theme. In addition to styling the standard controls like text boxes and expanders, we've had to create a number of custom...
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We've had a few projects that involved custom styling for many of the standard controls. At first, I found myself swimming in a sea of XAML and rather double-minded about where to put things. Now, an approach has begun to coalesce for me. When it comes to customizing the look of controls, there are...
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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...