Friday I only had a few hours to work on the port. I thought I might look into what it would take to add the main menu. It’s an important part of the shell that I completely skipped in my first pass. Unfortunately, there aren’t really any free or open source menu controls that I could find...
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Rob Eisenberg
on 03-29-2010
Filed under: .NET 3.0, Xaml, databinding, WPF/e, .NET 3.5, Caliburn, Featured, Silverlight, NHibernate, RIA, MVVM, UI Architecture, NHProf
This is a true story. It’s a story about porting a non-trivial WPF application, NHProf , to Silverlight 4. The story begins today with my first actual work on the porting process. Microsoft has been preaching how easy it is to move between these platforms. Are they telling the truth? I’ll...
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Rob Eisenberg
on 03-25-2010
Filed under: Xaml, databinding, Control Templates, WPF/e, .NET 3.5, Caliburn, Featured, Silverlight, NHibernate, MVVM, UI Architecture, NHProf
Yesterday I delivered my talk, “Build Your Own MVVM Framework,” at Mix. Thanks to all who came out to listen and allow me a short time to share some of my ideas. I’m very grateful to have had this opportunity. Thanks also to all who voted for the talk. If you were not able to make it...
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Rob Eisenberg
on 03-16-2010
Filed under: WPF, Xaml, databinding, WPF/e, .NET 3.5, Caliburn, Featured, Silverlight, RIA, MEF, MVVM, UI Architecture
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...
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...