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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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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 distinct color scheme for each application. That...
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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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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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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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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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There are several major architectural approaches used in building user interfaces. MVC, MVP and MVVM seam to be the most popular of the bunch. From among them, MVVM has risen to the top of the stack for WPF and Silverlight developers. Even ignoring the question “Why use separated presentation at...
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I’ve put a ton of work into this release and I think we are finally almost ready for RTW! You can get the new RC2 bits here . Please download them, try them and help me squash any final bugs that may remain. Below is a list of things that have changed since RC1, its quite significant: Added the...
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On Friday I published the Release Candidate for Caliburn. You can get it here . I’m hoping to only do bug fixes and a few minor changes between now and release. There have been quite a few important changes since the Beta: Refactored assemblies for greater ease of use. Implemented an Application...
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Recently Glenn Block asked some questions of the community concerning what support Microsoft should offer for the MVVM design pattern in WPF/Silverlight. I’d like to answer that question here, but in a round-about manner. I’m going to use this as an opportunity to talk about the origins of...